Glory to the Three-in-One: To the Father, and the Savior, who the victoryhas won;glory to the Holy Spirit, fount of loveand sanctity; alleluia, alleluia to the triune Majesty! I failed to capture the sunset. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ Liturgy Ideas. Like many professional wrestlers my career began when I was but a child. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow /* Resurrection is not about the physical resuscitation of a corpse. . In a world that so often denies or ignores the humanity-robbing effects of pain and suffering, Staying Human in Hard Times will invite you to process your grief, remember your essential humanness, and follow Christ into a renewed experience of abundant life. So that its not just the characters actions which are pointed to as the workings of DIVINITY, but the characters themselves are viewed as stand ins or symbols of GOD Himself or Herself. 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. Justice without which there can be no peace. The truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.. One: On this day, we embrace the grace which reaches from the tomb. Think for a moment. I only know that they appeared to follow in my footsteps in the snow as they ventured out to the place where the Cosmos had made itself known to me. Mark 10:35-45, Sermon: BAT KOL, the Daughter of a Sound Welling Up Within, Lent: Letting Go of our Tightly Held Piety to See Our Need of Confession, Wrestling With the Almighty: Locating Our Very Selves in the Sacred Story a sermon on Genesis 32:3-31, What Can We Learn from Jesus? None of us believe that we live in a three-tiered universe. Evening Prayer Service Bulletin which is to be printed double-sided. Weve heard these interpretations of Jesus life, death, and resurrection so many times that they have almost become indistinguishable from the idol that we have created to stand in for the Mystery that we call God. We remember that his disciples met him on the road. Take a few moments to walk across the sanctuary and have a word with someone about who Jesus was? Settle into your seat, close your eyes and imagine a place that brings you comfort and peace. }); Join thousands of others like you who are contributing their voice to Progressive Christianity and list your church, organization or yourself in our global directory. heaven and earth are full of your glory. Easter is the eternal moment that supersedes all time;the vision that puts into perspective all visionless living. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the world. After spending far too long cornered by Steve, who preached a gospel of not very good news, I was desperate to silence him, so, I reluctantly agreed to attend a Tuesday night youth service. We thank you, God, for the incredible gift of Jesus, the Word made flesh. What might we wealthy followers of Jesus be prepared to pay to serve the needs of those held captive to the financial empire of our time? Today, on this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, how many of us will satisfy ourselves with righteous indignation rather than sacrifice? They not yet but already here EMPIRE of DIVINITY is here in every stranger who welcomes a refugee, in every aid worker, doctor without borders, in every reckless fool who risks it all for the kind of justice which makes peace. Free from images and idols created by the inhabitants of a universe of misconceptions, we can abandon lives devoted to a god preoccupied with judging our journeys end, dispatching us to Heaven or Hell. Let it be so among us. Our continued evolution relies upon our ability to metanoia, to move beyond primitive ways of thinking. Apparently, my body language suggested that I was filled not with the SPIRIT but with Satan himself. Sign up for an account and get your newsletters right away! I found out later that dozens, I mean dozens of young people were slain in the Spirit, that is, struck down onto the floor, writhing and shaking, hootin and a hollering. }); Having the atonement become relatively powerless, because it doesn . For us and for our salvation He came down from heaven, Most of us have travelled far above the Earth, we have sailed through the clouds and we know that there is no heaven up there. 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. THEME The Connecting Solitude THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION The spiritual desert is not a foe to be conquered but an emptiness to be affirmed: for when we are full, we perceive nothing, but when we are empty we can receive everything. Thich Nhat Hanh. You responded with peace, forgiveness, and new life. The Apostle Paul wrote his first letter to the followers of Jesus Way in Corinth, about 20 years after Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried. Indeed, it can mean freedom to BE in ways which affirm REALITY, the REALITY we long to know, the ONE which IS BEYOND the BEYOND and BEYOND that Also, this LOVE which we call GOD. Somehow the Parliamentarians managed with their smaller cannons or battering rams to shatter the wall and the cannon, Humpty Dumpty came tumbling down, shattered, irreparable. Today, we, ourselves and our neighbours, no longer live captive to the contours of the very tiny universe in which our ancestors confined their thoughts. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. Jesus Now, Easter Day. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); We live a resurrection life. give you joy as you share the Easter faith. Let us do everything we can possibly do to challenge our own assumptions, to see beyond our own violent tendencies, our own selfish desires, and slowly, painfully slowly learn to love our enemies. of air water, food, shelter, or the chance to live. This story was written by the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as John some 70 years after Jesus death, some twenty years after the Jewish war with Rome in which the Empire destroyed the Temple, raised most of Jerusalem to the ground, and sent Jews and the followers of Jesus into exile. My rail-pass covered all of Scandinavia, which before I had the opportunity to ride the Scandinavian rails, I had only seen on distorted maps which made it look ever so small in comparison to Canadas vast land mass. It began to seem like the only way to get Crystals hand out was to break the family heirloom. God has sent me to proclaim liberty to those held captive, recovery of sight to those who are blind, and release to those in prison to proclaim the year of Gods favour. Rolling up the scroll, Jesus gave it back to the attendant and sat down. Amen. Frame 3: Stop and smell the roses everyday. A sacred offering of for the sake of life here on this our one and only planet, a planet capable of nourishing life for all of Earths inhabitants? As the night lengthened, Jesus took a simple portion of bread. Suddenly, in the tears of that little Ukrainian family, I began to see the tears of generations of weepers. The liturgy wasdeveloped for use during Lent. God has sent me to proclaim liberty to those held captive, recovery of sight to those who are blind, and release to those in prison to proclaim the year of Gods favour. Rolling up the scroll, Jesus gave it back to the attendant and sat down. So glad to hear that this liturgy is meaningful for you. If we take off our rose coloured glasses, and pick up a pair of lenses permeated with the desire to resist persecution, violence, and the forces of Empire, these parables have the potential to inspire the kind of passion necessary to recover the one thing which is lost, justice. Evolving beyond the myth that violence can solve our problems, or bring us peace, is vital. People: It is right for us to give thanks,It is our joy and peaceat all times and in all placesto give thanks to you, almighty, everlasting God,through Christ, our Lord. On this her Feast Day, let us commemorate Julian of Norwich, who is perhaps one of the greatest English Mystics. Repent from the Greek word metanoia to think new thoughts. Your email address will not be published. Remember how many times these parables must have been told before they were written down. I believe that the anonymous gospel-storyteller wrote his story the way that he wrote to address the fears of the people of his community. 3:6 No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. Crystal had always been told that one day the magnificent vase would be hers. Anna explained that unless, I was prepared to be born again, under the tutelage of her pastor, I would need to find someplace else to live. Thats the thing with stories, one story, if it is even remotely engaging, that one story will inevitably lead to many more stories. We give thanks for all the influences in our lives that have helped us see beyond the present and have called us to live in hope and trust whatever endings we have experienced. Nothing was said until dinner the next day, by which time Steve and Anna had been back to church twice. The hands are up like a shot. We are privileged. When we invite the earth-shattering spirit of Easter into our lives,our images of God recede into the background and we are left walking hand in hand with the unknowable. Let us be LOVE in the world. Easter communion liturgy, involving children Ana Gobledale, UK. Even though we may be worshiping in individual spaces, Through the Spirit, we are forever united. So, when you catch a glimpse of the REIGN of LOVE, celebrate and as you celebrate remember to invite others into the party. 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. How dare I flirt with new ways of understanding REALITY, new discoveries about the Cosmos, new theories about the nature of human consciousness? For GOD is not safely ensconced in the Heavens and we do not need saving from our own depravity by a human sacrifice because there simply is no Hell below us. Does attending worship make my heart dance? Office for Worship, Doctrine and Artistic Matters, Church of Scotland, 2017. God the Holy Spirit, who lled the disciples with the life of the risen Lord, empower you and ll you with Christ's peace. These tears will wash away our illusions of a quick fix and wipe away our delusions that by violently enforcing the status quo we can create peace. The eradication of poverty lies not in our efforts to escape the challenges of life in this world, here on this planet. I suspect that even offering all you have to a wastrel and a scoundrel is worth a shot if it means finding peace. Winter gives way to sprin In Jesus they saw CHRIST. Hosanna in the highest. Little did I know that in 1977 it would take me almost three days to travel the more than 1,000 km; a trip which included disembarking over and over again to lend a hand to the conductors as we worked together to clear the tracks of snow. Where, O death is your sting?. You responded with grace, humility, and welcome. Justice will exact our tears. Accept our praise and thanksgiving, For after the fire came a BAT KOL. Well, for now, we weep. Fosdick Dr. NW #80 Thats at least 20 years before the Gospel according to Mark, 30 to 40 years before the gospels according to Matthew and Luke and probably nearly 50 years before the Gospel according to John. I Do Deny the Resurrection! Communion is a ritual that draws us into a longing for God's justice to find its place on earth. We proclaim and celebrate this Easter season because it links Jesus with all life, with transformation, and with possibility of life beyond our imagining. Christ is risen! They all knew the dangers of traveling to Jerusalem. I dont know about you but when that giant phallic ship was trusting into the wild blue yonder, I became somewhat indignant. History should have taught us by now that that justice and not violence is the way to peace. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. The irony of having Pauls rhetoric used as a bludgeon by those who insist on a physical resuscitation of Jesus corpse, well the irony is lost on most Bible thumping fundamentalists who have engaged me with their own brand of humourless rhetoric. Such a strange dualism to entertain on the surface of a frozen lake, beneath a clear blue sky, staring out at a horizon, I have all too often entertained. Frame 13: I would rather have one rose and a kind word from a friend while I am here than a whole truckload when I am gone. These parables have an air of foolishness about them, if we see them as simple stories told by Jesus about the way a personified god loves us. Frame 5: God is everywhere, in all of creation. view on video. } Above the passage, Anna had written, The Gospel in a Nutshell. [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 try as we might we are in bondage to sin and we cannot free ourselves. Excuse me if I sound a little too indignant but jockeying for a seat during a global pandemic is more than a little tone deaf, when according to the United Nations, yet another 150 million or so people will be plunged into poverty this year, swelling the ranks of the global poor to over one and a half-billion people, over half of which are children. A momentary panic began to surface as my mind questioned the wisdom of standing on ice not knowing what lay below. But Jesus did not let them linger for very long. By the way, theres much more in Chapter 15 of Pauls letter to the followers of Jesus Way in Corinth. What do you know about the life of Jesus that sheds some light on who and what the MYSTERY that we call God is? There is real wisdom, Lord, in the adage. Support our mission with a tax-deductible donation! May our hearts be filled with wisdom and spirit so that we may listen to the Spirit, the Voice Within that always guides us toward our sacred self and what is best for us. Whether your interpretation of the resurrection is literal or metaphorical, Easter morning is always welcome. You can see it in the reckless passion of justice-seekers fighting for affordable housing, equitable healthcare, and food security. You see Paul was skilled in the ancient art of rhetoric and would recognize my own rhetoric for what it is. - Trinity Sunday, Moon-Dancing Bears, Jesus and Nicodemus: a sermon on John 3:1-17. When I arrived, the place was empty, and I thought I was going to make a clean get-away. Nor can I believe that Jesus saw YAHWEH, the GREAT I AM as a fool. 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Your email address will not be published. Well, like, this egg falls off the wall and if you study biology or physics, you know you can never put an egg back together again. 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. We all must take care of ourselves. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. OK, if youve stuck with me this far, you are probably beginning to wonder how exactly you, or I deny the resurrection. There are heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies. Not all bodies are the same. Why: This is an Evolutionary Moment. If there is no resurrection of the dead then not even CHRIST has been raised. Not if it means risking all that we have for the sake of Jesus vision of peace through justice. Lord, help us to make. What shalom there will be as SHALOM is restored through justice. I am after all just one person after all is said and done. It was as if my body was teaming up with my mind to convince my spirit to abandon this peculiar excursion. The question of a physical body makes no sense to the ancients. The writings of the Apostle Paul contain the earliest writings that we have on the subject of the Resurrection. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Strip away our biased convictions so that through our selfless giving we can gaze clearly on your vision for our lives. The story I want to tell you comes from the Irish author Frank McCourts autobiography entitled Tis. read more A Good Friday Prayer by Lenny Duncan on March 1, 2021 | 0 Comments 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. Your support is needed to help ProgressiveChristianityorg. It didnt take very long for me to realize that I was in the presence of something much larger than myself. Easter 3A in Quarantine: God Sightings. Steve and Anna were very quiet on the ride home. Gone are the vestments, the prescribed lectionary readings, and the familiar words. REPENT God Loses His Home. So, this morning Id like us to take our focus off Jesus death and all we may have heard, or learned about why Jesus died so that we can see what it was about Jesus life that endeared him to his followers. She used warm soapy water to try to loosen the toddlers hand, which was stuck all right. She looked at the miserable look on her grand-daughters face, and she said, Crystal, sweetheart. Alleluia! Lectionary, study and worship resources from Faith Futures Jesus Then & Now. The Timeless Psalms: Psalm 148, Easter 5C, Joan Stott, prayers and meditations based on lectionary Psalms, 2016. May we ourselves cease to be the cause of suffering to each other. Michelle L. Torigian. The injustice of it all explodes into our living rooms day after day. }); But lets just leave Humpty Dumpty up there on the wall for a while, and shift our focus to todays story, from the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as John. 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. And he took a cup, and when he had given . 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. It was so good to be there, where they could see in Jesus the face of CHRIST. The writers of our creeds firmly established that God lived in heaven. Only a foolWould find. Moments when as Paul would say, we put away childish things. Moments in which the Christian short-hand explanation of Jesus death has died in you. Surrounded by a treasured family heirloom, desperately clinging to a treasure. There we stood, we three kindred creatures, waving together as ONE, held in a vast Cosmos touched by the MYSTERY which is the LOVE which permeates ALL that IS, including us, for we are ONE, ONE with DIVINITY. A Prayer for Sad Days of the Pandemic. We give thanks and rejoice that Jesus so clearly and courageously linked our loving and our dying with living on in God. 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13. Easter is the sky that encloses the broken egg. It wasnt until that young Dad buried his face in his daughters chest that I recognized the face of CHRIST. Many: On this day we shout, Christ is risen! We are free to live in the abundance of life here and now, in a Cosmos permeated by the DIVINE MYSTERY which is LOVE. For all who are striving to form new governments, for thepeople of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine: that God will enlighten and inspiretheir leaders to build structures that will respect rights, promote life andhealth and establish educational and economic opportunities. 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. All tears are part of the river of life. Here at this table your promise of life is made tangible. (LogOut/ jQuery.noConflict(); Easter Grace Blessing May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us this day. 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. When the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, he unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of our God is upon me: because the Most High has anointed me to bring Good News to those who are poor. He lives, and presides at this Feast! Through a simple meal of grain and grape, we, your children, unite. If ever we needed to be intentional about preserving and honouring our basic humanity and that of our neighbours, its now. My brother didnt stand a chance. 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