Nov 18, 2013 | Advent, books, Christmas, Monday Muse
A bumper sticker with a prominent nativity image proclaims, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season,” raising its witness to a Good News that isn’t contingent upon wreaths and light displays and holiday sales. Yet even “Jesus is the Reason for the...
Nov 17, 2013 | mystery, prayer
Breathtaking God, Ever-Gracious God, you who call new worlds into being, you who make peace between the wolf and the lamb: You are wonderful … and you leave us wondering. O LORD, hear our prayer. We experience you in contradictions. You are the wild hope of our...
Nov 15, 2013 | justice, prayer-writing, scripture
Dear friends, prayer-writers, and sermonizers: The lectionary readings for this coming Sunday include Second Thessalonians 3:6-13, which says in summary: When we were with you…with toil and labor we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you....
Nov 11, 2013 | Monday Muse, music, worship
For those who love to worship God with voices and hands raised, stirred by contemporary rhythms and sentimental lyrics … who also love and hold fast to the theology of a gracious, inclusive God made known to us in the boundary-breaking life of Jesus …...
