Aug 11, 2019 | confession, discipleship, faith, prayer
They died in faith without having received God’s promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. (Hebrews 11:13) What do we ask of you, O God, but faithfulness in presence and mercy from devouring powers? What do you ask of us, O God, but integrity in...
Apr 28, 2019 | confession, prayer
You who are our strength, you who are our salvation: We have known your presence and we have doubted it. We have known pain and we have known delight. We have known peace and we have known fear. Through it all, we confess: your steadfast love endures forever. You who...
Feb 3, 2019 | confession, prayer, Spirit
There are so many things to say, O Spirit — delight and thanksgiving and frustration and rage and heartbreak and hope — yet no words are adequate to express it all. Listen with us in the fullness of silence, we pray. For all that we know, for all that is...
Oct 7, 2018 | confession, prayer
It is too much, O God, even on the good days: too much to hold love and imagination, too much to hold injustice and despair. Will you hold us? Will you hold it all so that we can lay down everything we believed ourselves able to carry? Yours is time, O God our Call...
Aug 26, 2018 | confession, hope, prayer
O God, our Creator and our Sovereign, there is no God like you — not in heaven and certainly not on earth — no other god who keeps promises and is faithful in love. Our lives are before you, day by day, and our hearts are full of wonder as they strive to...
Jun 24, 2018 | confession, justice, prayer
We pray to the LORD, by whom life’s cornerstone was laid, for whom the heavens shout, and in whom justice is promised. For the overwhelmed to know hope, for the cowardly to know culpability, for the threatened to know sanctuary, we pray to the LORD. For those...
