Ingredients for Worship
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Prayers for Proper 22B
Job’s question is the most difficult part of faith. Why do bad things happen to good people? Job gets it. Job understands the frustration of not having an answer to this question. But, his wife interrupts. Curse God and die,… Continue reading
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Prayers for Proper 23B
I can’t think about this man’s question to Jesus about eternal life without thinking of this passage that I recently read in Cole Arthur Riley’s This Here Flesh: I was sitting in McDonald’s wot my first Bible-study leader when I… Continue reading
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Blessing What Goes Undone
There is a chaos that arrives at the end of summer and a new school year begins. Even when I didn’t have children of my own, it was in my body. I expected there to be a huge shift. I… Continue reading
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Let’s get cooking
Most people stumble over the words when it comes to prayer. They get nervous and maybe they should be nervous. It’s hard to say the real truth of the matter whether its in a small gathering around a dinner table… Continue reading
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Global Prayers and an Agape Feast for World Communion Sunday
We imagine our connection to the whole wide world on this particular Sunday where the table has no end. It reaches out of the sanctuary over the edge of town and across the borders of this nation. We share this… Continue reading
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Prayers for the Second Sunday of Easter
These prayers were written after searching long and hard for other prayers. I didn’t want to write my own. I wanted anyone else’s words to magnify my hopes for worship this Sunday but I just couldn’t find what I was… Continue reading
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Prayer Psalm for Trinity Sunday
In the United States, there will be a celebration of Memorial Day on the same weekend that the church calendar invites us to reflect on the Holy Trinity. Living overseas in Germany, watching and reading how my country of origin… Continue reading
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Resurrection Anytime for Easter Worship Celebrations Anywhere
Though we are long past the coronatide season of needing to worship anywhere but inside a church building, my family and I are living in Germany where we do not have a church. It’s not that there aren’t churches here.… Continue reading
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Psalm for the Second Sunday after Pentecost
In these early days of summer when school has not yet released, the church calendar is so often filled with all the celebrations. Pride. Graduations. Confirmation. Every Sunday it seems like there is a really good reason to have cake.… Continue reading
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One Worship Bulletin for the Whole Summer
When I was writing pandemic prayers, I thought to offered this blessing. I thought I did but I can’t find where I mentioned it even if I never offered a resource. That changes now because this is such an easy… Continue reading
Cooking with Elsa 