Ingredients for Worship
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 11
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Vacation Bible School
It is Vacation Bible School week in our house which means there is a ton more screen time than usual as we share in learning about the light of the world. It’s a curricula entirely created by the staff and… Continue reading
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How Shall We Pray?
For the past several weeks, I’ve offered prayers as a gift to my colleagues in ministry who are serving faithfully during this pandemic. I’ve written liturgies following the Revised Common Lectionary that I have hoped were copied and pasted into… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Pentecost
At the end of the last week, I sat on a picnic blanket in my backyard with my two babies reading the Ascension from their new Sparkhouse Story Bible. (I discovered that Sparkhouse is offering… More Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for the Ascension
At the end of the last week, I sat on a picnic blanket in my backyard with my two babies reading the Ascension from their new Sparkhouse Story Bible. (I discovered that Sparkhouse is offering… More Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Easter 6A
When this all started, there were lots of reflections about God’s absence. It wasn’t my experience. I didn’t feel like God had given up or disappeared anymore than I felt like God had brought this pandemic upon the global community.… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Easter 5A
I join the circle of preachers who have expressed their familiarity with this text at the graveside. It’s the Gospel Lesson I always choose when the family doesn’t steer me in another direction, not because of the many mansions or… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Easter 4A
After I posted the prayers last week, I felt awkward. I wondered if these prayers could speak to such a broad audience. I wondered if it was even possible to capture the vastness of this pandemic into a few words.… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Easter 3A
Our whole lives have been interrupted. We are attempting now to live as people of the resurrection when death tolls continue to rise. Some states are lifting their orders for shelter in place. Businesses will reopen slowly. Some are even… Continue reading
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