1 Thessalonians 3:9-13. Do we have the courage to hear the word ransom as sacrifice? Others, they looked confused and terrified as they are loaded on board trains. Practicing resurrection requires that we gather sharing our gifts, talents and treasure for the good of all. Jesus suffered the worst of his worlds violence. What is the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as Luke trying to tell his community with these parables? . Resist reading into the parables a too small personal shepherd, woman, or father to act the part of a too small recklessly, foolish god. O God, help us to let go of those mental pictures of you which prevent us from accepting that we will never know you fully and save us from pointless theological argument which reflects our insecurity rather than your mystery. During the breaking of bread, the Lamb of God or other appropriate song or chant is sung. This knowledge has to change the way in which we see our relationship with the MYSTERY that lies at the very source of our being; our Creator if you will. Sacrifice one for the sake of the many. Even though we may be worshiping in individual spaces, Through the Spirit, we are forever united. So, this morning Id like us to take our focus off Jesus death and all we may have heard, or learned about why Jesus died so that we can see what it was about Jesus life that endeared him to his followers. Occasionally, I was able to hear Jesus say, Have you believed because you have seen me? Accept our praise and thanksgiving, When our heartbeats returned to normal, we decided that wed made a clean escape and we chose not to share the adventure with our sleeping parents. Concessions will be made, and war averted. He is risen indeed! It is hard to maintain the heights that we attain on the celebration of Resurrection Day. 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. My predicament often makes it difficult for me to appreciate the beauty of the heirloom. And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone. Christs peace is ours forever! Only a foolWould sweep and sweep and sweep, leaving her purse unguarded, to search for one lone coin. When we do see ourselves in the story we are usually the lost the lost sheep or the lost coin and we take comfort in the reality that no matter how lost we may become GOD the supernatural being, out there, or up there, will find us. Youre not a lost sheep, or a lost coin, or even a lost child. /* Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Believing, as Jesus believed, that beyond pain and darkness and death, 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. You provided wise men and women as judges for your people to show them the path to Life. Yet Easter is about a God who bursts tombs of the familiar, the ordinary and the mediocre. My childlike faith died that day. There is one more face of CHRIST which I would like you to see. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. The ravages inflicted by Rome were as horrendous as any barbaric acts of war the world has ever seen. Their pastor had warned them that my countenance was putting us all in danger. It was written by Gord Waldie. %PDF-1.5 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. I found out later that dozens, I mean dozens of young people were slain in the Spirit, that is, struck down onto the floor, writhing and shaking, hootin and a hollering. Even though I know full well that by doing so, I will undoubtedly open myself up to the wrath of those who would have me confess and repent the error of my ways. 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? <> OK, if youve stuck with me this far, you are probably beginning to wonder how exactly you, or I deny the resurrection. Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Alleluia! and proclaim the Resurrected Christ who offers life to all. There werent many of us who made the effort. These perfect humans enjoyed a perfect relationship with their Creator. Today, is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. So the question about the kind of body the risen Jesus had was, as Paul puts it, quite simply, stupid. Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made, Im a scientific kind of guy and to tell you the truth The nursery rhyme dates back to the English civil war, when the Royalists were being attacked by the Parliamentarians, they put their faith in the size of their cannons, one of them was so large it went by the name Humpty Dumpty, which at the time was a term used to describe fat rich guys. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. God offered him, so that by his blood he should become the means by which peoples sins are forgiven through their faith in him. 1 Corinthians 15. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. Lets try to focus on what is actually happening in the story. Jesus said, I have come that they might have life and may live it abundantly! LIFE and not death. *Leader: Congregation of Jesus Christ, since the Lord has blessed us with his Word (and Holy Supper), let us praise his name with thanksgiving. What can we learn from Jesus life about who, or what the MYSTERY we call God is? All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Hosanna in the highest. But try as we might we are in bondage to sin and we cannot free ourselves. After work, I convinced the housekeeper at the lodged where I worked, to rent me a room for a couple of nights at a reduced rate and I headed over to the apartment to pack up my things. If we look at the stories that have been told about Jesus, the stories that have contributed so much to the creation of the idol that masquerades as the Mystery we call God, we discover a narrative that seems preoccupied with Jesus death. A natural body is sown, and a spiritual body is raised up. and for the mission of justice you have made our own. It wasnt until Christianity moved beyond Judaism that it came into direct conflict with the Greek understanding of reality, which insisted upon the dualism of body and soul. They all knew the dangers of traveling to Jerusalem. Text and image William Livingstone Wallacebut available for free use. The small voice within my very soul said only one word Swim.. Happy are we to be called to this Eucharistic celebration. Jeremiah 33:14-16. If you look into the dust for long enough and contemplate its mystery, you shall find a resurrection. All who are truly sorry for their sins, who sincerely believe in the Lord Jesus as their Savior, and who desire to live in obedience to him, are now invited to come with gladness to the table of the Lord. You simply asked the members of the First Nation for permission to pitch your tents on their land. Our kinship warmed me as I imagined their delight at our Suns sensuous self-giving display as it set. A Liturgical and Devotional Guide for Lent. As a result of this splendid isolation, we spent several weeks as the only family camped in this idyllic bay. petitions prayers for strength a selection of modern petitions asking for God's strength to come, with a prayer for those grieving and a prayer for hope. Surely, today, when troops are again amassing in Europe and the world cant seem to sake itself loose from the myth of redemptive violence, surely today, it is time for us to move beyond thinking of DIVINITY as the ultimate purveyor of violence and Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice. Jesus lived and died giving his life to ransom us from ourselves, from our fears, so that free from the captivity in which our fear has confined us, we might walk freely away from our own self-centredness. We know we still have work to do. Let us be reckless in our LOVing, Grounded in our service, outrageously generous in our ransoming life on this planet. Pinging is currently not allowed. Looking at it from any angle the . I had to confess right then and there, in my twentieth year of life, I struggled to believe that any GOD who sent His only Child to die, on a cross, is worth getting up on a Sunday morning for. That beautiful, glorious embodiment of CHRIST is singing these words: Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom, She has courageously begun the difficult, painstaking, slow work which lies before her. Too many Hollywood movies tempt me to flirt with violence, as I yearn for some secret agents to just take him out! Easter Sunday Liturgy 4.12.20 WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS EASTER ACCLAMATION P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit . Then he said to them, Today, in your hearing, this scripture passage is fulfilled., Words 2004 Hope Publishing Company; LiscenSing 1975, When It Comes to Resurrection, We Look For What We Have Been Conditioned to See! For he is risen! When I can bring myself to read these parables through the lenses of resistance, I can begin to tell these stories as a call to resist. We remember that the women came, early in the morning, on the third day. What mechanisms do I use to attempt to tame the untamable wind of Gods Spirit? He lives, and presides at this Feast! The irony of having Pauls rhetoric used as a bludgeon by those who insist on a physical resuscitation of Jesus corpse, well the irony is lost on most Bible thumping fundamentalists who have engaged me with their own brand of humourless rhetoric. Good Shepherd Sunday in Quarantine - Easter 4A. The Cross and Easter are two faces of the one mystery. That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. Take, eat. How solid? of air water, food, shelter, or the chance to live. I expect people to act. Christos Aneste! For the LOVE expressed in the life and death of Jesus lives in you and in me. Our continued evolution relies upon our ability to metanoia, to move beyond primitive ways of thinking. I fumbled for my phone and hopped out into the frigid air desperate to capture a photograph which has always eluded me. Unlike our ancestors who succeeded the writers of the bible and went on to develop the theology of the church, we dont believe that the round earth is the center of the universe. He suffered and died because of his refusal to participate in the death-dealing violence of the world. My brother and I were always at it. This is my song, O God of all the nations, a song of peace for lands afar and mine; this is my home, the country where my heart is; here are my hopes, my dreams, my . I dont know how to stop this loop from playing. Too, many Hollywood movies, inspired me to flirt with violence as I yearned for some secret agents to take him out. United States Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. we take these gifts that you have given us, this bread and this cup, Here's a call to worship and opening prayer for Memorial Day or Remembrance Day. February 11th, 2013. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it unless it was for nothing that you believed. Among the passages was the text which is assigned for this very Sunday from Pauls letter to the church in Corinth. If there is no resurrection of the dead then not even CHRIST has been raised. Out of the familiar emerges the extraordinary that transforms the ordinary. He offered Divine Life to all people suffering under worldly forces of death. In preparation for communion, please join us in reciting the Prayer of Unity that is in your program. } else { Continue reading . SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Lent 3, Cross Purposes: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Lent 2, Change Your Life: SALTS Lectionary Commentary for Lent 1, What Freedom Is For: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Epiphany Week 5, Revised Common Lectionary Commentary Mark 1, Revised Common Lectionary Commentary Mark 1:29-39, Revised Common Lectionary Commentary Isaiah 40:21-31, What Is Salvation? After two long years of isolation, I have learned how to block out the world. Salvation is about making us whole, ONE with one another and ONE with the ONE who is as Jesus taught with his very life is the LOVE we call GOD. After the earthquake came a firebut YHWH was not in the fire. But lately, the news has encouraged us all to begin to emerge from our pandemic protocols. We must put aside our expectations of a quick and easy fix and settle in for the difficult generational evolution of our species. read more A Good Friday Prayer by Lenny Duncan on March 1, 2021 | 0 Comments What can Jesus teach us about God? Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Amen. *People sing: ("Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain," stanza 3)"Alleluia!" Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light. For he is risen, and nothing separates us from Gods love! (from Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 45). And after the fire came a still small voice., A still small voice. Our English translations do not do the HEBREW justice. In my sacred imagination, I can see the Apostle Paul smiling and nodding. Assurance of Pardon, Call to Confession, Confession, Easter, Easter Sunday, Year C. confession, easter, easter sunday, year c, call to confession, prayer of confession, assurance of pardon, resurrection. Your resurrection we affirm with joy. delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made us a new people. For us and for our salvation He came down from heaven, Most of us have travelled far above the Earth, we have sailed through the clouds and we know that there is no heaven up there. */ The truth has left its living word for anyone to read. reflections upon the Death of God Lent 3, Giving Up GOD for Lent the Journey Begins Lent 1, Commemorating Julian of Norwich (1342-1416), Lent: Letting Go of Our Tightly Held Piety to See Our Need of Confession, METANOIA the First Words Out of Jesus' Mouth - Mark 1:14-15, Like Nicodemus we have blinders on! This service is found in UMH 12-15 and is designed for those wishing a brief text beginning with the Invitation to the Lord's table. On first inspection Divinity appeared to the seekers to be like a luminous egg, well rounded, self contained, completely clothed in light and amenable to definition. This week, I have compiled resources that can help in creatively planning worship services. It didnt take very long before the many layers of clothing, with which I had hoped to insulate myself from the dangers of the cold, failed to keep me moving very far into the expanse of white snow drifts which glistened as the Suns glorious rays danced incapable of warming much of anything but my heart. I assumed that it had something to do with counting myself out of their way of worshipping. We celebrate the table in which we can join together with friends and strangers, loved ones and enemies. Anybody??? We pray to theLord. This despite the fact that the biblical author of the book of Joshua wrote that God stopped the rotation of the sun around the earth in order to provide Joshua with an extended period of daylight in which to kill his enemies. Give us today our daily bread. When I read the accounts of those early followers of the way who abandoned the tomb of the upper-room to gather together to build communities of compassion it is clear to me who was raised up by images of resurrection. While others deliver the words in boldface type punctuated with lots of exclamation points. After spending far too long cornered by Steve, who preached a gospel of not very good news, I was desperate to silence him, so, I reluctantly agreed to attend a Tuesday night youth service. What tombs of conformity does society create in order to control the spirit of fully alive divergence? 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. For years I reigned as the champion of our little world! Do we have the courage to serve? As the night lengthened, Jesus took a simple portion of bread. May we remember to give out the grace and forgiveness that you have freely given us, Today, it doesnt matter how CHRIST rose nearly 2000 years ago. It is long past time for the followers of Jesus Way of being in the world, to repent. Pauls description of resurrection does not conflict with our 21stcentury inability to accept the suspension of the natural order of the Cosmos. Others stretched the wings of their spirituality and flew off into the magic darkness joyfully singing: All will be well and all manner of things shall be well! (Julian of Norwich). Included here are just a few calls to worship, prayers, Scripture passages, and songs you can use in your Easter worship. It is time for us to be LOVE in the world. Benedicite - a Song of Creation Benedicite - a Song of Creation (shorter version) Venite - a Song of Triumph Jubilate - a Song of Joy The Easter Anthems Evening Prayer. They were big giant killer whales, and we knew that we were their lunch. The second face of CHRIST belongs to a Ukrainian Child rubbing her eyes in a desperate attempt to stem the flow of her own tears. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); The truth is Humpty Dumpty was not an egg. For the most part, the Bible points to the Heavens above the firmament as the home of God. I just knew that if God really did come up with such a barbaric bargain, then God must be in league with the Devil himself. He enacted peace in the midst of violence, love in the face of hate, What shalom there will be as SHALOM is restored through justice. Can, will, or indeed, should the Church Survive?. Some were staring vacantly through time, like the tens of millions of Ukrainians who were starved to death during the Holodomor by yet another brutal Russian dictator. We rejoice that Jesus lives on, as we all will, in the reality we call God. For us, Jesus can be the medium through which the Mystery we call God can be imagined. read more More Poetry Week of February 5, 2023 "Less is more." So, how is it that I deny the resurrection. Disappointed I resigned myself to abandoning our plans to camp on the hillsides which envelope the port of Narvik. Today, it only matters that CHRIST rises in us, rises in the people of Ukraine, rises in the people of Russia, rises in people wherever they are, who long for peace. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Instead, I was blessed by two, I dont know if they were my brothers or my sisters or one of each. Now let us greet one another: I honor the Divinity Within you Namaste Peace. Amen. The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. Rile em up! 3 0 obj Through this meal, make us the body of Christ, that we may join with you in promoting the well-being of all creation. accept our lives as holy offerings to you, *All: Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord! As for seeing the face of CHRIST in our enemies, let us try. 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? We remember on the night when Jesus and the disciples thanksgiving prayers When asked what he thought was the solution to the planetary crisis, Cosmologist Brian Swimme said, "It would be to reinvent ourselves, at the . Forget about the rude remarks. People: We praise you, Lord, for these gifts of bread and wine. You sent Jesus, your Son, to walk in the way of Lifethat we might follow. 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Today, during this season of Easter, our doubts about the possibility of resurrection are not as important as our doubts about the possibility of peace. Prayer of Thanksgiving In fact, in a specific celebration the Presider might select only one or two items from the many alternatives . To believe in the historicity of the resurrection is one thing. Faced with the needs of so very many, what can I do? The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks. }); Join thousands of others like you who are contributing their voice to Progressive Christianity and list your church, organization or yourself in our global directory. Only a foolWould find. The Gospel this morning comes to us from the anonymous Gospel storyteller that we know as John. 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. Heaven is ours to create out of the hells we have made. Easter Communion Liturgy Inspired by A Song of Faith. Easter Grace Blessing May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us this day. Only a fool would rejoice with such extravagance. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Jesus. But those fools made their billions serving us, satisfying our desires, fortifying our comforts, delivering our lifestyles to our doorsteps. Grandma sat little Crystal on her knee. Do we have the courage to drink from the cup which Jesus offers to all who profess to follow him? } else { And then, just like that, we were back there, back in the unthinkable darkness our parents spoke about, the darkness of war in Europe. I only know that they appeared to follow in my footsteps in the snow as they ventured out to the place where the Cosmos had made itself known to me. Letting go of our carefully crafted and tightly held images of the ONE who IS the SOURCE of ALL BEING is a daunting task. The sun has one kind of brightness, the moon another, and the stars another. We know that humans have been evolving over millennia. Jesus knew this. Christ is risen indeed! Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the sky. Amen. The flat Earth was surrounded by the waters. Furthermore, I suspect that you do to. Our very own lifestyles, demand what they are selling. DONATE NOW! window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); Your support is needed to help ProgressiveChristianityorg. THEME The Connecting Solitude THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION The spiritual desert is not a foe to be conquered but an emptiness to be affirmed: for when we are full, we perceive nothing, but when we are empty we can receive everything. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); How double-dog dare I? We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. (1 Kings 19:1-12) It is about a prophet named Elijah, who was struggling to understand the will of the they knew as YHWH, the HEBREW name for the MYSTERY we call God, which can be translated as I AM, WHO AM or I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE or the GREAT I AM. These tears will wash away our illusions of a quick fix and wipe away our delusions that by violently enforcing the status quo we can create peace. Grant that being joined together in him we may attain to the unity of the faith and grow up in all things unto him who is the head, Christ our risen Lord. 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. As a Pharisee, Paul believed in the resurrection of the dead and certainly he believed that Jesus had been raised from the dead. God the Holy Spirit, who lled the disciples with the life of the risen Lord, empower you and ll you with Christ's peace. I can hear them tut tutting at the audacity of my taking such liberties with the Gospel. But I can, even now hear these stories told to inspire resistance to the violence and injustice of empire, for the sake of justice and peace. Many of the pages are "decorative" but material can simply be cut and pasted into a word-processing program. Embrace the HOLY foolishness which lives, in, with, through, and beyond you. So much so that they confessed their desire to stay with Jesus in the splendor of that mountaintop. Try to hear the word ransom not with ears blocked by centuries of perverse theological atonement theories. To feed the hungry? all nourished from the same source of life. if ( thisact == "contact" ) { The writings of the Apostle Paul contain the earliest writings that we have on the subject of the Resurrection. Easter is the festival of the irrepressible God whom not even death can contain. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ Leader: For Christ indeed has been raised from the dead [here the minister lifts the elements], the First-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. No wonder Jesus took Peter, John, and James up there to pray. One morning when I was about 13 and my brother was 9 and a half, we were going at it, and to his credit my bother had me in an ingenious hold. We proclaim and celebrate this Easter season because it links Jesus with all life, with transformation, and with possibility of life beyond our imagining. Gone are the vestments, the prescribed lectionary readings, and the familiar words. that we gather this morning and remember together that . So, I will not presume to answer for Jesus hometown congregations murderous intentions. if ( '' != thisact ) { Offering of Gifts(Ordinarily the Lord's Supper will follow; during the offertory the table xoill be prepared. So, let us repent. Im not sure how many whales entered the bay. The seed you sow does not germinate unless it dies. We have tasted your nourishing, nurturing presence; 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. Many Christians understand the sacrament of Holy Communion as a means of grace that nourishes and strengthens our faith for life and ministry in the world. It was just politicians doing what politicians do, rattling sabers like little boys, stomping their feet, and insisting on their own way. I had three jobs, but back in the day, the grocery store, and the Legion Hall, where I worked as a cashier and a waitress, they closed on Sundays. Weakness is sown, strength is raised up. Pachena Bay with its warm Pacific waters, heated even more by virtue of its shallow depths, attracted schools of salmon, ling cod and halibut, who make up a veritable smorgasbord for the pods of whales, that continue to visit the bay to this very day. But I refused to believe that it would go as far as war. Neither Anna nor I knew we were engaged in a long pointless argument which had been going on since round about the fourth century. If it doesnt is it my heart or is it the worship that is dead? It is not a lofty mountaintop vision. Let it be so among us. I expect solutions. 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. Christ the Lord is risen today Alleluia! With open minds and hearts, may the God-in-us find generous and courageous expression in our words and actions as we endeavor to make the presence of God evident in our world. We live a resurrection life. Leader: How does Christ's resurrection benefit us? They may not want to hurl me off a cliff, although some have wished me dead, or at the very least judged and punished by their god of eternal torment. Support our mission with a tax-deductible donation! I say quote to be polite, which is generally not the way these Christians impart these words of Scripture to me. 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