Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Monday, December 05, 2005
Hi Everyone- despite the lack of posting on the weblog I do have a bunch of notes and such for this week's service at the flywheel. I will try and post them once they are in some sort of order that makes sense to people who don't live inside my head...there is probably enough for me come up with something but I am still interested in collaborating or at the very least getting feedback. I am still thinking about Steven's definition of what God's love isn't (people love, hippie love, possesion love, if I remember correctly) so I'd like that to be incorporated somehow. Is there sometime this week that might work for people to get together- maybe 8:30 or so on Wed.or Thurs. (if not please don't stress about it).
in Christ,
Leah
in Christ,
Leah
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Here's the notes from this Sunday (thanks Stephen). Something, I never noticed before is how all three of these images relate to the crucifixion: the coins which Judas received for betraying Jesus, the Passover Lamb, and Jesus' words from the cross, Father forgive them for they know not what they do.
PRODIGIGAL SON
-INTRO worship
Luke ch. 15 God’s love for a redeemed child
1. Metaphors,
One lost sheep, the Shepard
One lost coin, the Woman
Prodigal Son, his Father
Worship Intermission
2. Fleshing out Love, what is Agape?
John 3:16
1 John 3;2
Philip Yancy
Henry Nowen
Karl Barth
Worship Intermission
3. God’s love transforming us (tying it all together)
General Prayers from Audience
Passing of the Peace (incidental Music)
Communion
Final Worship
PRODIGIGAL SON
-INTRO worship
Luke ch. 15 God’s love for a redeemed child
1. Metaphors,
One lost sheep, the Shepard
One lost coin, the Woman
Prodigal Son, his Father
Worship Intermission
2. Fleshing out Love, what is Agape?
John 3:16
1 John 3;2
Philip Yancy
Henry Nowen
Karl Barth
Worship Intermission
3. God’s love transforming us (tying it all together)
General Prayers from Audience
Passing of the Peace (incidental Music)
Communion
Final Worship
Sunday, August 07, 2005
So this thing still exists. I thought maybe it would have dissapeared from neglect. It seems worth it to at least post some random thoughts about the summer so far. Someday I hope to write some sort of book about Jakob's Well but I know the tendency will be for me to fill it with the less then amazing details of my life rather then to go to level as to how God makes amazing things happen through and in these experiences. My task for tonight is to make a partial list of the things I want to write about, those things where I have felt the sweetness, the weirdness, the difficulty, the sabbath rest of God. Here are a few of them:
Russia- where I saw more Ikons in ten days then in my entire life. Including the very famous ones in the Tretyakov. This was a very spiritually charged time for me. (an awful lot is for me in life)
Randy the street preacher/ fransican/ health and wealth believer and all that entails.
Related to that Jim and Tommy and all the friends of Jesus living and dying on the streets of Northampton
Well that's alot right there.
Today was a good day. Scott played Keyboards at PVAG and then we went to the blueberry festival. The theme of the day both at PVAG and in general seemed to be the glory of creation. At the blueberry festival there was a woman who rehabilitates Raptors who gave an excellent presentation. People were so focused on what she was saying that it was almost like prayer. I believe it gave honor to the creator of those birds that a bunch of us sat in the blueberry fields on benches made of boards and buckets and made their acquaintance each with a distinct personality, or so it seemed. She took out a Golden Eagle and there was silence.
Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, "This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: 4 'You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you [a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' (Exodus 19)
An invitation to the people Israel extended to the Gentiles in a blueberry field on a green mountain through the new and everlasting covenant in his blood.
Russia- where I saw more Ikons in ten days then in my entire life. Including the very famous ones in the Tretyakov. This was a very spiritually charged time for me. (an awful lot is for me in life)
Randy the street preacher/ fransican/ health and wealth believer and all that entails.
Related to that Jim and Tommy and all the friends of Jesus living and dying on the streets of Northampton
Well that's alot right there.
Today was a good day. Scott played Keyboards at PVAG and then we went to the blueberry festival. The theme of the day both at PVAG and in general seemed to be the glory of creation. At the blueberry festival there was a woman who rehabilitates Raptors who gave an excellent presentation. People were so focused on what she was saying that it was almost like prayer. I believe it gave honor to the creator of those birds that a bunch of us sat in the blueberry fields on benches made of boards and buckets and made their acquaintance each with a distinct personality, or so it seemed. She took out a Golden Eagle and there was silence.
Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, "This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: 4 'You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you [a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' (Exodus 19)
An invitation to the people Israel extended to the Gentiles in a blueberry field on a green mountain through the new and everlasting covenant in his blood.
Friday, January 02, 2004
I got an email today telling me this weblog is listed on Blogs4God and was reminded I might actually post something. I had an okay advent though I became overwhelmed very early on by the stress. God has shown me a lot recently that my attitude towards money and possesions needs a lot of work. I also did not persevere as a I would have liked in a disciplined spiritual life. But Grace breaks in anyway. My inability to get through a Classic of Western Spirituality, or to get through the mall without becoming enthralled by capitalism doesn't change the fact that the indescribable gift of God in Human flesh is, so to speak, unreturnable. Towards the end I was reading St. Therese of the Child Jesus and Isaiah and that helped.
Friday, December 05, 2003
Some (very) random notes:
I have long suspected that advent calendars as a whole are being drained of their relationship to the church year. This was confirmed for me when I saw an ad for an advent calendar for pets in the New Yorker the other day.... That same dayI saw a bumper sticker I liked outside my church . From a distance it looked like you standard I heart NY, but underneath in small print it read "but Jerusalem is home." This was no doubt refering to Jerusalem the present city and may have socio-political connotations I don't want to get into. If you read it as heavenly/metaphorical Jerusalem, though, its a great way of expressing our longing for that promised new creation described in the less scary parts of Revelation 21:
1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
and there was no longer any sea.
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them.
They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
4He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has passed away."
Reading this now makes me wonder if I wasn't a little harsh in denying the pets their liturgical observance. After all creation as a whole suffers from the fall and will as a whole be created new. Let fido have his rawhide in the meantime.....
I have long suspected that advent calendars as a whole are being drained of their relationship to the church year. This was confirmed for me when I saw an ad for an advent calendar for pets in the New Yorker the other day.... That same dayI saw a bumper sticker I liked outside my church . From a distance it looked like you standard I heart NY, but underneath in small print it read "but Jerusalem is home." This was no doubt refering to Jerusalem the present city and may have socio-political connotations I don't want to get into. If you read it as heavenly/metaphorical Jerusalem, though, its a great way of expressing our longing for that promised new creation described in the less scary parts of Revelation 21:
1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
and there was no longer any sea.
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them.
They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
4He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has passed away."
Reading this now makes me wonder if I wasn't a little harsh in denying the pets their liturgical observance. After all creation as a whole suffers from the fall and will as a whole be created new. Let fido have his rawhide in the meantime.....
