LOVE and not violence. Believe it or not, my wrestling skills actually helped me rise to the level of a world champion wrestler. Only a fool Would fret about the loss of a small insignificant coin. What can progressive Christians say about the story of Easter? 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. This story provides the raw material for the idol that we have created to serve as our god. The Risen One comes with hands full of love. 3:6 No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. Because when you look at the shepherd, the woman, and the father in these parables, they come do come off as reckless fools, unless they are risking all that they have for the sake of something worth risking everything for. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of our God. It empowers us to hope in the coming resurrection and new life. Jeremiah 33:14-16. After the wind there was an earthquakebut YHWH was not in the earthquake. BAT KOL, the DAUGHTER OF A SOUND or as some translations put it the DAUGHTER OF A VOICE. He blessed it and broke it, and shared it with the disciples. The following liturgy was submitted by Rev. Anna and Steve were Pentecostals who were convinced that my slack Lutheran ways simply werent serious enough to earn me a coveted spot in the Heaven of their dreams. Whilst many were written for specific purposes or occasions, many are adaptable to suit others. He is risen indeed! Or better still, let me cling to the promise of a Saviour who will carry us out of this world and into the next, at no cost, free of charge because Jesus paid the ransom for my soul. We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known, One of the main attractions at Pachena Bay were the pods of whales that are attracted to the bay. 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. After what seemed like hours but was probably just a few minutes, the whales moved on and I was left to clumsily put words onto the depth of my experiences, in what the ancient Celts would call a Thin Place; a place where the lines between the ordinary and the sacred are thin, and we can see, feel, touch, hear the MYSTERY which lies at the very heart of reality. Turns out I was close. The endless loop projects many faces of CHRIST. Last week, I compiled a list of online video resources for worship. Then Grandma rubbed little Crystals back, held her close and gently, but firmly said: Let it go, child. View the full Transfiguration Worship Video below, Yes! God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all:everyone has sinned and is far away from Gods saving presence. But let me assure you that you are looking at someone who used to be a champion wrestler. He offered Divine Life to all people suffering under worldly forces of death. A reading from 1st Corinthians chapter 13: When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. We give thanks for Jesus of Nazareth who inspired us to put our hope and trust in the spirit of Life and Love moving in the depths of our being. Amen. Christianitys morbid preoccupation with Jesus violent death will not usher in the Kin-dom of DIVINITY which Jesus lived for. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I do know that the followers of Jesus held dear their vison of Jesus, in whom they saw the CHRIST. We proclaim and celebrate this Easter season because it links Jesus with all life, with transformation, and with possibility of life beyond our imagining. Easter is the season of stone rolling rolling away guilt, fear, hatred, monotony, lifelessness and blandness. When humankind struggles, we all struggle together. It was Solon's Feb. 1 post that drew the Facebook group's attention to the Washington resolution. If you have not donated yet, please do so today. TODAY! Vladimir Putin created in the image of the DIVINE. These days hikers on the Pacific Rim trail often begin or end their hike by camping at Pachena Bay. 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. Is the anonymous gospel-storyteller really saying that Jesus taught his followers to risk everything they have in order to find the one thing they have lost? Beautiful liturgy. I also want you to resist making the story all about you. Holy Scriptures about Communion. It was as if my body was teaming up with my mind to convince my spirit to abandon this peculiar excursion. Come then to the joyful feast of the Lord! 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. We do tend to point to those characters in order to personify the MYSTERY. Easter Sunrise We encourage you to celebrate the Resurrection with your family (and perhaps with neighbors, safely at a distance outdoors) by worshiping the Lord at sunrise using the liturgy below. One of the whales rose out of the water and as she came crashing down, I marveled at the magnificence of this beast. 2 0 obj who was compassionate and stood up for justice. 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). We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. This dear friends is what it means for you and me to sit at Jesus side. After the earthquake came a firebut YHWH was not in the fire. Not if it means risking all that we have for the sake of Jesus vision of peace through justice. by our lack of courage to say yes to the Voice within. There are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night, */ Surrounded by a treasured family heirloom, desperately clinging to a treasure. 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. The occupying Roman forces not only publicly executed their teacher as a warning to any of Jesus would be followers,The Roman Empire, crucified as many dissenters as they could catch. Weakness is sown, strength is raised up. Jean and I have studied the historical Jesus in depth and found him to be someone who had a powerful impact on the world because of his radical perception: He modeled for us how to live in the Truth and stand up for justice. If our hopes in Christ are limited to this life only, we are the most pitiful of all the human race. May we be transfigured by her courage to do our part to turn her mourning into dancing. The followers of Jesus were lifted up from a crouching or cowering position as they boldly proclaimed what they had learned from Jesus. Traditionally, the season of Lent is a time of repentance. Lutheran good order can and does ensure that such ecstatic behavior never happens in worship. She looked at the miserable look on her grand-daughters face, and she said, Crystal, sweetheart. We all must take care of ourselves. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. I suspect that most of us have heard these parables of loss so many times that it is the many and varied of interpretations of these parables, which tend to stick with us, rather than the details and circumstances under which these particular parables were born and raised. to give our thanks and praise. The truth has left its living word for anyone to read. and proclaim the Resurrected Christ who offers life to all. Killer whales. Do this in remembrance of me. Morning Prayer. He greets us with peace the world does not know, he give us peace the world cannot give. Our very own lifestyles, demand what they are selling. Our Hebrew storyteller paints such a vivid picture of the Thin Place in which Elijah stands. ProgressiveChristianity.org : Easter Prayer Easter Prayer Week of April 3, 2022 Christos Aneste! Risk it all for the sake of LOVE. Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus Christ spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry. Resist the distractions of all that we have, all our treasures, our land, our homes, all the trappings of the empires in which we are entangled. Only a fool would welcome home with joy and abandon a wayward child who had used, rejected, dishonoured, and then returned only to try to use them again. If ever we needed to be intentional about preserving and honouring our basic humanity and that of our neighbours, its now. Crystal sobbed. For years I reigned as the champion of our little world! 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. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 594.96 842.04] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Free from misguided struggles to appease the idol god of our design, we are free to see beyond our blind self-centered desire for a life beyond this life, free to see the face of DIVINITY in our neighbours face, free to see DIVINITY in the majesty of the Cosmos, and in the beauty of the Earth. 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 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 need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. May 23, 2022 | Father's Day, Uncategorized. For we have been blessed with the ability to grasp so many more details about the Cosmos in which we live and move and have our being, than our ancestors could ever have imagined. (I have searched for the source of this story, withoutsuccess. 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. How dare I flirt with new ways of understanding REALITY, new discoveries about the Cosmos, new theories about the nature of human consciousness? Father's Day Video "Foster Kid Father's Day". Pray deeply, reverently, and then fast-forward to the music. Apparently, some Lutherans are in this Pentecostal pastors opinion, a bit losey-goosey when it comes to atonement theories. Lets extend our hands over one another for a final blessing: May you have the power to live life fully. ELOHIM, the GOD who is the feminine plural of MAJESTY, said to Elijah: Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of YHWEH, for YAHWEH is about to pass by. Imagine the MYSTERY, which is the I AM, the very essence of BEING is about to pass by. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. 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. Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still Suddenly, in the tears of that little Ukrainian family, I began to see the tears of generations of weepers. We must put all our many blessings to use, to seek justice where-ever we can whenever we can.We cant do it all and we cant do it alone. But there were no tears to be seen. healing, overcoming divisions, welcoming all. And when she got stuck she did what all small children do, when they have gotten themselves into a situation that the cant get out of, little Crystal cried for help. This gospel was written some 70 years after the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. So, the next morning I rose early, and as the mist was rising over the water I paddled out toward the mouth of the bay and waited. Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. Tis the season of resurrection. If theres one thing Ive learned after nearly a quarter of a century of preaching on the subject of resurrection, its that when it comes to resurrection, we look for what we have been conditioned to see. What kind of body will they have? What a stupid question! My oh, my, oh my In my sacred imagination, I can see Paul sitting up from his letter writing and nodding as if to say, there that out to stop those endless arguments about the resuscitation of a corpse.. The SPIRIT of DIVINITY is within us! As a Pharisee, Paul believed in the resurrection of the dead and certainly he believed that Jesus had been raised from the dead. Remember those first gatherings of the people who followed Jesus teachings met in secret because they feared for their lives. His eyes are too beady. DONATE NOW! But if this MYSTERY really is BEYOND the BEYOND and BEYOND that also, and we are in GOD and GOD is in us, then every character in every parable you have ever heard is in GOD and GOD is in every character. God is with us! The eradication of poverty lies not in our efforts to escape the challenges of life in this world, here on this planet. Generations beyond any cameras reach, each with their own pain. Christ is risen. Let us be LOVE in our lives here and now so that peace can break out again, and again, and again. The magnitude of loss was positively unbearable. May this meal be blessed as we gather to celebrate together. Our kinship warmed me as I imagined their delight at our Suns sensuous self-giving display as it set. Jesus life reveals images of God that point far beyond the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, to the Ultimate MYSTERY that lies at the very heart of all reality. Amen. Continue reading . What can Jesus teach us about God? Then Grandma rubbed little Crystals back, held her close and gentle, but firmly said: Let it go, child. Im not so sure however, that Jesus response to his disciples indignation is all comforting. "Our Father". Through a simple meal of grain and grape, we, your children, unite. A small but secure fortune in hand. According to Paul, the earthly body; the physical body must die in order for the heavenly or the spiritual body to be born. I expect things to be resolved. Only a foolWould sweep and sweep and sweep, leaving her purse unguarded, to search for one lone coin. We must put aside our expectations of a quick and easy fix and settle in for the difficult generational evolution of our species. window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); The ravages inflicted by Rome were as horrendous as any barbaric acts of war the world has ever seen. "Ground Us and Grow Us in Love," rtf or pdf file of liturgy at Worship Ways. This, dear ones, is Good News indeed! Re-create us too, we pray, by your holy Word. To aid us on our journey, we have decided to radically alter the way we worship together. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. But I suspect that justice, the kind of justice which ensures that everyone has enough so that everyone can live in peace, is something worth leaving behind everything you have in order to pursue. We know that humans have been evolving over millennia. Frame 3: Stop and smell the roses everyday. This weeping CHRIST plays on an endless loop in my mind unravelling my carefully constructed images of the DIVINE MYSTERY which is the LOVE we have the audacity to call GOD. Occasionally, I was able to hear Jesus say, Have you believed because you have seen me? Center for Liturgy, St Louis University. There are flowers in the sanctuary during Lent! Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed, But when we begin to see the DIVINE MYSTERY, the CREATOR of the Cosmos, and try to imagine the ONE WHICH IS the GREAT I AM, WHO I AM, I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE, YAHWEHas so much more than a person, well the idea of a shepherd, or a woman, or even the father who loses his son, these mere personifications begin to lose their ability to symbolize the MYSTERY. The writings of the Apostle Paul contain the earliest writings that we have on the subject of the Resurrection. we invite your life to fill us; Continue reading . 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! Children and youth might be used as servers and/or readers. Resurrection is about seeing behind and beyond death, ugliness, injustice, pain and despair. Easter communion liturgy, involving children Ana Gobledale, UK. McCourt asks: Who says its an egg?, Of course, its an egg. Forget for a moment the layers of interpretations offered by generations of Jesus followers who have interpreted that little word ransom as some sort of cosmic escape clause offered by Jesus as a way out of the trials and tribulations of life on this planet. Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, Mass During the Day: O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten . Jesus was steadfastly committed to non-violent resistance to the abusive powers of empire. 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! Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. What tombs are there in the Church that exercise the same function? He urged them: Remember me. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ Many: On this day, we celebrate resurrection in our lives. It wasnt until that young Dad buried his face in his daughters chest that I recognized the face of CHRIST. We are gradually adding liturgies and liturgy ideas to our site. Let us affirm the resurrection by living as Jesus lived, embodying the LOVE which IS the DIVINE MYSTERY. Fosdick Dr. NW #80 Today, in the midst of colossal violence, it is long past time for us to see beyond our conditioning about what to believe about resurrection so that we can focus our attention on practicing resurrection. xMk@9JPvvg? Shalom dear ones. All rights reserved. We must be punished. View the full Worship Video for the Second Sunday of Easter below, CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD the Worship Bulletin. There is so much more we can do and offer our readership with your support! Why they decided to cut your off before you made your point, well thats a sermon for another day. But Alan and I, we knew exactly what they were, and they certainly werent beautiful orcas to us. Frame 1: We are about to enter a world of life-giving beauty. 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. Imagine if you will, trying to understand the life of Martin Luther King, or Mahatma Gandhi simply by focusing upon their death. We remember that the women came, early in the morning, on the third day. We believe that faith can move mountains, and that caterpillars can be transformed into butterflies. We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 4810 Pt. Amen. If you have already donated, thank you! %PDF-1.5 Thats when I heard the small voice. Many: On this day we shout, Christ is risen! We accept you into our bodies, into our lives. Some of the people remained in the fragmented remnants and developed compensating mantras. And so in this spirit of brightness and life, we celebrate. Reformed Worship 2023 by Worship Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church. <> Petes words remind me over and over, and over again that Jesus lived and died embodying the CHRIST which is the DIVINE LOVE which rises in with through and beyond you and I, again, and again, and again. Practicing resurrection begins when we huddle together refusing to let our fears entomb us. In the past few weeks, Ive been thinking a great deal about the systems of domination and the pain inflicted by the unjust empires of our world. Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made, and we bless the earth and all that fills it. May we ourselves cease to be the cause of suffering to each other. Are we prepared to make sacrifices in order to ransom those who suffer the indignities of the hell we have created here on Earth for the one and a half billion people held in the captivity of poverty? So, how is it that I deny the resurrection. So, let us repent. And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Now let us greet one another: I honor the Divinity Within you Namaste Peace. Crystal cried out, Mommy Im stuck. Faced with the needs of so very many, what can I do? Add to Bin. One: On this day, we embrace the grace which reaches from the tomb. 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. Pauls words were interpreted from the King James version of the bible to read like this: And now I want to remind you, my friends, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm. No sooner than I felt the freedom of union with the DIVINE, than it was time to seek the confines of my car to warm up. view on video. Posted by mictori in Church Life, Holidays, Liturgy, Pop, Communion, Communion Liturgy, Easter, Easter Communion, Easter Communion Liturgy, Easter Morning, Liturgy, non-violent Communion, progressive Christianity, Resurrection. Winter, with its cold and dark days has gone, just as Good Friday has passed to Easter and beyond. So, let me get to the point, so that those who like nothing better than to use the Bible to bludgeon anyone who dares to stray from their narrow understanding of the text, they can simply hit ALL CAPS in their keyboards, without having to read any further. Does attending worship make my heart dance? It is time for us to be LOVE in the world. 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. Try as I might, I could never convince either of them that I was saved by grace. We pray with faith and confidence. 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. I thought, or hoped, sometimes even believed that the myth of redemptive violence could no longer tempt me. These parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost sons, point us in a direction of a way of being in the world characterized by foolish and passionate abandon. Frame 17: Look for the resurrections in your life. While greasing her childs wrist like a cake pan, she asked the obvious mother question. How in the world did you do this, child? Crystal carefully explained that she had dropped candy down into the vase to see if she could still see it when it was at the very bottom. Our HEBREW ancestors, JESUS very own kin, understood the MYSTERY which we call GOD, as the verb TO BE, for this MYSTERY IS BEING itself. Let me attempt to be kinder than the Apostle, whose willingness to call his opponents stupid, I do not share. yet again to the Spirit raising. But for a brief time, our longing for Spring stirred expectations in us which heralded better times ahead. Offering of Gifts(Ordinarily the Lord's Supper will follow; during the offertory the table xoill be prepared. To experience the liveliness of the resurrection is something quite different. Here's a call to worship and opening prayer for Memorial Day or Remembrance Day. ELOHIM the MYSTERY which IS the god known by our ancestors as the GOD who IS the feminine plural of MAJESTY, the ONE Elijah knew as YHWH, the ONE who IS the verb TO BE, the I AM, this ONE comes to Elijah in the DAUGHTER OF A SOUND. 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. jQuery('#submit-action').click(); Certainly, in the church the Bible is considered to be the supreme authority of the nature of God. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote life. Jesus taught this. They all knew the dangers of traveling to Jerusalem. Easter Day: All Things Are Made New: a service of light with Holy Communion. 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