We give thanks for the way he opened our minds and hearts to see and appreciate the intimate and never-ending connection between loving and the spirit of love. The magnitude of loss was positively unbearable. When we set aside the institutional narrative of atonement that the church has relied upon to interpret the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the idol that masquerades as god, the idol whose contours are reinforced in our worship services, by our hymns, prayers, creeds, choice of scriptures, and rituals, this idol begins to crumble. the Divine thrives in our world. But just when Alan was approaching the point of no return, I managed with a feat of superhuman strength to rise up, twist around and swing for all I was worth and connect with what I though must be my brothers chest. Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Do you still have a hold of that candy? Mmm humm. The unknown gospel-storyteller which we call Mark, captured something of the pathetic human condition of hubris when he wrote: James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus and said, Teacher we want you to grant our request. What is it? Jesus asked. To be ransomed from our very selves, ransomed from the fear which holds us captive to empires built on the backs of the poor. On this the Feast Day of Saint Francis, an evening prayer service with texts from St. Francis. Then he said to them, Today, in your hearing, this scripture passage is fulfilled., Words 2004 Hope Publishing Company; LiscenSing 1975, When It Comes to Resurrection, We Look For What We Have Been Conditioned to See! Easter communion liturgy, involving children Ana Gobledale, UK. If you look into the dust for long enough and contemplate its mystery, you shall find a resurrection. Nothing that exists is ever completely destroyed. If we look at the stories that have been told about Jesus, the stories that have contributed so much to the creation of the idol that masquerades as the Mystery we call God, we discover a narrative that seems preoccupied with Jesus death. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ This week, two events stand in stark contrast to one another. Amen. -Michael Morwood. Most Australian Anglicans use A Prayer Book for Australia (APBA) as the basis for our common prayer. I had been watching the media reports for days, not really believing that war was imminent. I was unbeatable. I know that we wont solve it in time to save Ukraine. Thanks be to all that is HOLY! Where truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground. My youth and inexperience allowed the more ornery side of my nature to come to the fore. But I refused to believe that it would go as far as war. Or are we afraid that stripped of the security which our wealth affords us, our privileged positions will disappear, and we too shall find ourselves dependent upon the goodness of others? We proclaim and celebrate this Easter season because it links Jesus with all life, with transformation, and with possibility of life beyond our imagining. When we forgo our obsession with Jesus death and open ourselves to the passions of Jesus life, we begin to see new ways to understand the new images of the HOLY ONE that Jesus encouraged his followers to see. *Leader: O sing unto the Lord, for he has done excellent things. But like the indignant disciples of old, do we actually see the role we are playing in this race to escape the limitations of our one and only planet? The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks. It wasnt until Christianity moved beyond Judaism that it came into direct conflict with the Greek understanding of reality, which insisted upon the dualism of body and soul. Our parents were sound asleep when the whales arrived. Yesterday, I travelled out onto the frozen surface of Lake Simcoe. For more information on the Commission, its mandate and membership, please click here. Alleluia! Resist with reckless abandon, our fear of the very passions which flow from the LOVE which is the MYSTERY which allures us onto the pathways of justice and peace. She went into her mothers study, holding in one hand a family treasure and her other hand couldnt be seen. Well, we never did manage to escape. Progressive Revival Easter Prayer By Paul Raushenbush Living and Reigning God We give you thanks on this Easter morning for the Resurrection of your son Jesus Christ! Neglecting the truth that choosing to follow Jesus results in a changed life. So, I invite you to see for yourselves. Traditional interpretations of the life of Jesus insist that Jesus sacrificed himself, took all our respective punishment onto his shoulders, died for us, upon a cross, so that our relationship to our creator could be restored. Thank you, God, for life in the Spirit of Jesus. We have technology and access to wisdom. Im pretty sure that the anonymous gospel-storyteller we call Mark had no idea that Jesus life and death would be portrayed by the powers of empire as a ransom to be paid to the very MYSTERY which Jesus insisted is LOVE. Im guessing that in vast majority of the interpretations of these parables, the shepherd, the woman, and the father are usually identified as a symbol for the MYSTERY which we call GOD. When humankind struggles, we all struggle together. Through this meal which has stood the test of time, we covenant to love you, God. Practicing resurrection begins when we huddle together refusing to let our fears entomb us. Crystal cried out, Mommy Im stuck. Do you grant permission to use (with credit) for worship? One morning when I was about 13 and my brother was 9 and a half, we were going at it, and to his credit my bother had me in an ingenious hold. Do this in remembrance of me. It began to seem like the only way to get Crystals hand out was to break the family heirloom. This dear friends is what it means for you and me to sit at Jesus side. Every time I do not serve my neighbour, every time I walk away from the poor. Now, the dingy wasnt totally inflated on account of the leak that it had sprung the day before. Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still He offered Divine Life to all people suffering under worldly forces of death. I am using it this Sunday and sharing your credit information! *People sing: ("Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain," stanza 3)"Alleluia!" Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. And there was no official campsite back then. Your email address will not be published. Think about it, Jeff Bezos net worth is estimated at just shy of 200 billion dollars. Amen. Leader: Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord has prepared this table for all who love him and trust in him alone for their salvation. Said the sons of Zebedee, See to it that we sit next to you, one at your right and one at your left, when you come into your glory! Jesus warned them, You do not know what you are asking. They were compiled over the years to complement the official resource, the Roman Missal. Now, talk of the mid-night sun always took me back to my childhood memories of my Dad reciting the Robert Service poem, the Cremation of Sam McGee. People: Almighty God, who through your Son overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life, grant that we who celebrate our Lord'sresurrection may arise from the death of our sin through the renewal of your Holy Spirit and may hear and obey your living Wordof truth;through Jesus Christ our Lord, who now lives and reigns with you and theHoly Spirit, one God forever. Last week, I compiled a list of online video resources for worship. When I arrived, the place was empty, and I thought I was going to make a clean get-away. I was lucky to get myself out of bed on a Sunday morning, while they seemed to be in church almost daily, sometimes several times a day. The people of Israel have abandoned your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death by the sword. Easter is the sky that encloses the broken egg. healing, overcoming divisions, welcoming all. These days they are called orcas. Prayer of Confession and Pardon for Easter. When I can bring myself to read these parables through the lenses of resistance, I can begin to tell these stories as a call to resist. Easter (250) Easter 2 Year A (102) Easter 2 Year B (114) Easter 2 Year C (122) Easter 3 Year A (49) Easter 3 Year B (29) Easter 3 Year C (50) Easter 4 Year A (120) to be for us the way, the truth, and the life. Its not all about you. May this Spirit help us to recognize the Christ-presence in our midst. What can Jesus teach us about God? Well, as time passed, the situation became more and more serious. Faced with the needs of so very many, what can I do? LOVE and not violence. I also want you to resist making the story all about you. Old and New Testament Canticles at Morning and Evening Prayer. Alas Paul, if youd been there when the Church was cutting up your letters to be delivered in snippets on Sunday mornings, I can only imagine what you might have said, when they decided to cut you off in mid-stream. It is right. Theres a story in the Hebrew Scriptures which resonates with me in light of some of my own experiences in Thin Places, in the presence of MYSTERY. Maybe if we are unwilling to fight, all we can do is join our tears to the tears of that little Ukrainian family. *The ThanksgivingLeader: Lift up your hearts. Imagine all the information you would miss if you simply focused upon Dr. Kings death. Crystal sobbed. What can Jesus teach us? and for the mystery of life beyond death. Our very freedom from ancient ways of knowing and being sets of a chain-reaction of freedom which can, if we let it, become Good News for the poor, as we finally begin to understand what Jesus knew all along, when Jesus insisted, I and the ABBA are ONE. For if Jesus and the ABBA are ONE, the Good News is that you and I and our neighbours, we are ONE with ABBA. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the rocks. Lectionary, study and worship resources from Faith Futures Jesus Then & Now. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); We share this bread and drink, as Jesus shared a Passover meal with his disciples, and we partake of it together as our pledge of openness to the Spirit of Love in our midst, and as our remembrance of Jesus who invited us to do even greater things than he did. Let me say it right up front: Yes, I do deny the resurrection! I deny the resurrection. MASS READINGS. We are not fallen creatures. I affirm the resurrection when I stand up for those who are forced to live on their knees,I affirm the resurrection when I speak for those who have had their tongues torn out,I affirm the resurrection, when I cry for those who have no more tears left to shed. May we ourselves cease to be the cause of suffering to each other. As the train finally pulled into Narvik, I couldnt quite believe my eyes. Vladimir Putin created in the image of the DIVINE. Just when I thought I had God under control the wild wind of the spirit blew me away. We have tasted your nourishing, nurturing presence; Gig Harbor, WA 98335 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ I thought, or hoped, sometimes even believed that the myth of redemptive violence could no longer tempt me. Another great reference and guide, if available to you, is The Worship Sourcebook, published by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.It's an excellent collection of prayers, texts, and litanies, with worship resources for every church season. that we may further your reign of peace and justice in every place. Resist reading into the parables a too small personal shepherd, woman, or father to act the part of a too small recklessly, foolish god. Where, O Death is your victory? Our friend, Dom Crossan makes the point that, it is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. I believe that in order to understand the power of this particular story of resurrection we must move beyond simplistic literal explanations and open ourselves to the more-than-literal symbolic dare I say it, spiritual understanding of resurrection. Im not sure how many whales entered the bay. Jesus suffered the worst of his worlds violence. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Spoken Word - Christmas Mini Movie. Lectionary Liturgies, Easter B, 2015, Thom M. Shuman, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Repent: Metanoia: to think new thoughts. Amen. towards ourselves and towards all living beings. Your email address will not be published. We can wrap our heads around GOD embodied in a shepherd, and even GOD embodied as the woman who losses her coin. Certainly, in the church the Bible is considered to be the supreme authority of the nature of God. - Trinity Sunday, Moon-Dancing Bears, Jesus and Nicodemus: a sermon on John 3:1-17. Instead, I was blessed by two, I dont know if they were my brothers or my sisters or one of each. Risen as he said! Children and youth might be used as servers and/or readers. Above the passage, Anna had written, The Gospel in a Nutshell. As a kid, this Canadian epic always sparked my imagination, as I dreamed of those, strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. for The Artic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold;The Northern Lights have seen queer sights and on and on it goes spinning a which always fills me with glee as I warm my soul by the heat of the cremation of Sam McGee, wondering about all the other strange things done in the mid-night sun. Carmel Lutheran Church, Portland, OR: Easter Morning: a service of the dawning of new light with Holy Communion. Christianitys utterly loveless atonement theories about substitution and payment, arguing down through the centuries about whether this ransom is paid to God or to the devil insult the very memory of the rabbi himself, whose death saves us not from the wrath of God, but rather from ourselves. While the first century story told by the anonymous gospel-storyteller we call Mark, sees the sons of Zebedee, jockeying for coveted seats at the right and left hand of Jesus, our 21st century story portray the contrasting circumstances of wannabe-astronauts blasting far above our planet with scarcely a thought for the 150 million or so who will slip into the depths of poverty before this year ends. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. For there is no division within the divine. May 23, 2022 | Father's Day, Mini-Movies. Click here to listen to a meditative sung liturgy inspired by Julians writings, Crystal was a little breathless from all the crying she had been doing and all she could manage was a whimpered, Mmm hummm. Honey, tell grandma the truth now. Living lives of reckless abandon is untenable. Amen. Easter is the eternal moment that supersedes all time;the vision that puts into perspective all visionless living. Long ago, when torture broke the remnant of his will, *Leader: Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, our risen Lord! *Leader: Grace be to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of kings on earth. The story begins with a familiar nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldnt put Humpty together again. McCourt asks his young students to tell him whats going on in this nursery rhyme. We remember that his disciples met him on the road. I suspect that even offering all you have to a wastrel and a scoundrel is worth a shot if it means finding peace. Office for Worship, Doctrine and Artistic Matters, Church of Scotland, 2017. Far too many progressives ready to rebuke you for not being progressive enough. View the full Transfiguration Worship Video below, Yes! None of us believe that we live in a three-tiered universe. Only a foolWould risk a reputation as a wise shepherd, a careful guardian of the known and secure, to seek one lone sheep. healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. Salvation is about making us whole, ONE with one another and ONE with the ONE who is as Jesus taught with his very life is the LOVE we call GOD. Our kinship warmed me as I imagined their delight at our Suns sensuous self-giving display as it set. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Advent C. First Sunday of Advent. These perfect humans enjoyed a perfect relationship with their Creator. DONATE NOW! His Blue Origin may not be able to penetrate as deeply into space as Elon Musks Space Ex, but his thrusters are straining just enough to catch up with Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic. Perhaps Jesus sensed that even their anger was a type of jockeying for position, when he insisted that, Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest; whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all. The Third Sunday of Easter - April 18, 2021 Acts 3:12-19 Psalm 4 I John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 You can't manage or control a resurrection. We are blessed with riches beyond the wildest dreams of the generations who have gone before us. Try to hear the word ransom not with ears blocked by centuries of perverse theological atonement theories. Scholars tell us that the letter was written between the years 53 and 57. Youre not a lost sheep, or a lost coin, or even a lost child. But I can, even now hear these stories told to inspire resistance to the violence and injustice of empire, for the sake of justice and peace. Hosanna in the highest. This service is found in UMH 12-15 and is designed for those wishing a brief text beginning with the Invitation to the Lord's table. My first conscious memory of hearing the BAT KOL, the Daughter of a Sound, the still small voice of DIVINITY happened on a sojourn into a Thin Place during a summer camping trip when I was just 13. Entering the synagogue on the Sabbath, as was his habit, Jesus stood up to do the reading. 1 0 obj 4810 Pt. But if all you hear is, this reading, then surely, my denial of the resurrection numbers me among, as Paul would say, the most pitiful of all the human race., So, lets skip ahead to next weeks reading, when Paul makes his point. Abundant life, where everyone has enough to live fully, love extravagantly, and be all that they are created to be, this is the basileia ton THEON, the REIGN of DIVINITY, the Empire of the LOVE which is GOD. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); The Apostle Paul wrote: We who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. When followers of Jesus in the first century and in the twenty-first century talk about the resurrection of Christ, we are proclaiming that death did not have the last word in the Jesus story because his followers were raised up to be his body right here, right now. Resurrection is about seeing behind and beyond death, ugliness, injustice, pain and despair. When Grandma finally arrived, both Crystal and her mother were almost hysterical. Now greet each other with Easter peace! The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand. You are holy, O God of Life, and holy is Jesus Christ, your Son, the resurrected One. Youll find it in the first Book of Kings. After the earthquake came a firebut YHWH was not in the fire. Gig Harbor, WA 98335 Resist the empires to which we have lost the justice which has the power to create peace. By John van de Laar|2023-02-22T21:53:14+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|Categories: Daily Worship|, THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK When it comes to life, the Bible is clear that we can only be most fully alive when we are deeply and meaningfully connected with others. You are still in your sins, and those who have fallen asleep in Christ are the deadest of the dead. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words we would like to share a slideshow with you that gives life both visually and in its various messages. Lift up your hearts. Michael first walks the reader through the theological shifts that are necessitating changes to liturgical, group, and personal prayer and then demonstrates how these major shifts can be incorporated into a new template for meaningful . We celebrate the risen Christ in our midst. 2023 ProgressiveChristianity.org, A Joyful Path, Childrens Curriculum Sample Lessons for Years One, Two and Three, Find Faith Communities Using A Joyful Path, The Core Values of Progressive Christianity, Bishop Spong Newsletter Progressing Spirit, Advertising on ProgressiveChristianity.org. Christ is risen! To ask the question of whether the resurrection is true, and to mean by this that only a resurrected corpse constitutes such proof, is to impose the standards of the modern mind upon a pre-scientific culture of myth and magic. Theres nothing wrong with that. yet again to the Spirit raising. But she couldnt see it, so she reached in for her candy and thats when she got stuck and she couldnt get her hand back out. As we toasted ourselves by the fire, my mind wandered back to the Cremation of Sam McGee and I wondered, if Id ever learn what strange things are done beneath the mid-night sun. When you sow, you do not sow the full-blown plant but a kernel of wheat or some other grain. Metanoia is an invitation to think new thoughts. Thats why, as we explore the meaning of [], John van de Laar2023-02-22T21:50:58+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|0 Comments, John van de Laar2023-02-22T21:48:30+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|0 Comments, John van de Laar2023-02-22T21:46:03+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|0 Comments, By admin|2023-02-06T21:10:20+02:00Feb 6th, 2023|Categories: Lectionary Resources, Year A|, 02 April 2023 And so Holy Week begins! This piece of Scripture was followed by a passage from Pauls letter to the Romans, all of which was underlined in red: God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. Through this prayer, the people of God sanctify the day by continual praise of God and prayers of intercession for the needs of the world. As we prepare to eat the meal, let us share together the proclamation of our faith: It is a scary proposition for a pastor to venture out on a journey without the familiar trappings of familiar liturgy. Mishandling scripture to avoid traditional interpretations of it. In the Liturgy of the Hours, the Church fulfills Jesus' command to "pray always" (Luke 18:1; see also 1 Thessalonians 5:17). A Progressive Easter Liturgy - Rev Dr Lorraine Parkinson 2 Replies Easter Liturgy [Power Point images] Easter 2022 Quiet music PP The God of Easter - Introduction What on earth can we do with Easter? The apostle Paul, both a Jew and a Roman citizen, would have known from the perspective of both the conquer and the conquered the Roman motto, vini, vedi, vici I came, I saw, I conquered. The third face of CHRIST belongs to a Ukrainian Mother holding back her tears as she embraces her little family. If we begin with what is actually happening in these parables, we will have to confess that these parables of the lost and the found are simply outrageous. Or study cells, or living things, seek truth with open hand. The apostle Paul who was the first to write about Jesus, portrays Jesus as a doorway into the ultimate. The distortion of maps deceived me into believing that it would be a short trip from Bergen to Narvik. Father, Son, and Holy . She scooped the vase and her little girl up into her arms and carried them to the kitchen sink. The question of a physical body makes no sense to the ancients. [on the night before he died, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks to you, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: But Anna and Steve were always at it. The numbers, they are staggering. But we do know that whatever happened it transformed a people hiding from the endless violence into courageous followers of a Way of Being in the world which death could not destroy. Somehow, the flight of the billionaire Bezos phallic Blue Horizon thrusting its five privileged passengers across our screens will capture more attention from those of us who are wealthy enough to own screens, than the roughly one and a half billion men, women, and children who are consigned to live in poverty. I am tweaking this for this Sunday credit to your site will be given. And star differs from star in brightness. The eradication of poverty is the work of LOVE in the world, this world, here and now, on this wonderful bountiful planet, upon which there is already more than enough to nourish abundant life for all. Stephen Fearing /. I suspect that pulling brothers together who have genuine axes to grind is the kind of recklessness that is worth the risk, if those siblings can learn to work together to pursue justice. For the death of what it took me years to learn about, the death of atonement theories has given birth to the resurrection of DIVINITY, a DIVINITY liberated from ancient projections onto the DIVINE of the myth of redemptive violence. Helping you win loyal friends through your communications, All the stuff I should be writing down for a book someday, Soulful leadership in its many manifestations, A Liturgy for Easter Day (with HolyCommunion), Preaching Thomas on Low Sunday Some PossiblePathways, Reflection and Hymn: The Most DeliciousBread, Encampments: In Situ Poems and Found Devotions, This was the Original Episcopal Cafe site. It was barely nine oclock and the sun was already beginning to set. (LogOut/ Blessed is the one who comes in the name of our God. We love you, God, more than any chocolate, candy or toy. In a world that so often denies or ignores the humanity-robbing effects of pain and suffering, Irrepressible (Personal Spiritual Practice Guide PDF), More Than Words Living What We Pray (PDF), Living in the Promised Land: A Lent Journey (Year B) (PDF). Working, dancing, and church, a blessed trinity designed to secure passage back into my travels abroad. But as for our question about an actual physical body, Paul insists that this is simply a stupid question. % We have rested in the depth of your love; In his new book, Unbelievable, our friend, Jack Spong writes: The laws by which the world operates have not changed since the dawn of time, but the way human beings explain and understand those laws has changed dramatically over the centuries of human history. Jack has a way of reminding us of the obvious. Amen. Here at this table your promise of life is made tangible. 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