This week, we had our final look at change and transformation where we looked at one of the most dramatic change stories in the scriptures: the conversion of Paul: I realized that I forgot something on the sermon on Sunday – a very important piece in fact. It is the piece that ties the idea …
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What do the Road to Emmaus and Alexander Fleming have in common? Interesting question. This week we took a look at the story from Luke 24 and talked about how the most ordinary day marked the most extraordinary transformation of the life and teachings of Christ.
This week we looked at the very simple, yet very poignant story of the disciples fishing on the other side of the boat. We accompanied this story with 7 other stories of letting go, from modern day parables to real-life situations. Maybe, when we let go, something new and transformative can take its place.
This week – Easter! A huge thanks to StoryCorps which provided the beautiful story of resurrection.
We concluded our Lenten series on Psalms this Sunday with a Psalm that seems to fit the day – Palm Sunday. We unpacked the reading and singing if this song in relationship with the protest nature of the anti-triumphant entry. Our song this week to conclude the meditation was by Rend Collective:
This week our Psalms took a drastic turn from the ones of lament, to the one’s of thanksgiving and praise. Up first, Psalm 67, and with it, a reminder that we do not have a monopoly on experience: The video that ended our time of meditation was:
This past Sunday we took on one of the most difficult Psalms, and maybe even texts in all of scripture – Psalm 137. With a little bit of context and some help from a brave volunteer and world cup highlights we looked at the raw honesty of the Psalm. Here’s the sermon: We finished off …
Continue reading “Opinions Expressed: Sad, Then Mad – March 15, 2015”
This week we entered into the depths of the Psalms with a psalm of lament. Here we see the Psalmist find themselves increasingly naked in the sight of God where it is revealed that God is privy to the dark places too. The song to lead us out of meditation this week was by Leonard …
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In our second week of Lent, we took a look at Psalm 1. It is easy to get hung up on some of the language in the Psalms so we turned to an incredible poster and act of resistance by a group called the Beehive Collective: www.beehivecollective.org. In many ways it embodies the Psalm – …
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For Lent, we are reading the Psalms- a profound, though sometimes confusing book of songs and poetry written thousands of years ago. Week 1 we looked briefly at Psalm 68, but spent more time setting the stage for the Psalms and how to read them. Like psalmist who was expecting God to show up in the …
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