Offering Meditation for Pentecost 16B 2009
Let us share the life God has shared with us by giving us his only son through the offering as tokens of our appreciation.
Anything goes in this catagory as long as it is not ethically, racially, or sexually exploitive.
It Takes a Community –Instead of a Village
People, who live in communities, where they share their lives with one another, tend to have common experiences. They tell each other about these experiences all the time.
Responsive Call to Worship and Invocation for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost B 2009
We bring all of our troubles and conflicts before our Lord.
Lamenting a World that Could Be
Over the years, I have heard many lament the loss of values that the present world has. I have heard teachers complain about the lack of discipline among the children in their classes. I have heard grandparents worry about the indifference to Christian values in their grandchildren. I have listened to husbands and wives complain about the loss of love in their marriages. I have heard church members complain about the lack of loyalty to God that seems prevalent in our society. All these things and more add up to the urgency of our need for God's Church.
Greed and Gluttony
In most cases in our world, there are barely enough resources to sustain the world’s population even if evenly divided. This principle holds true for all resources required for survival – not just food. Notice the word ‘survival’ instead of ‘comfortable and healthy life.’
Do not Pass Me By
Sometimes, in the desolate moments of life, we find ourselves wondering where God is and why there is no intersession.
Revenge ≠ Justice
Perhaps the question is, “How does a society reconcile the damage done to it by those who wrong others? Can a wrong be righted? Is there a way a perpetrator can “payback” a victim? These questions and struggles to answer them have been a part of human society since the beginning of written history, yet no one seems to have found a perfect answer.
In Search of the City of God: Reflection on Psalm 48
I had to take pause, and soak in the experience. As I viewed this new day, I began to have a vision of wonderful possibilities. I thought about the liturgical texts that I had read earlier. The Psalm passage came to mind. Could this beautiful morning experience be a glimpse of what the City of God is like?
A Reflection on the Life & Death of Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, Nada Soltan and Ed McMahon
What do all these people have in common? Well, first and foremost, they died in the past few days. But, even though the fact in and of itself is significant, there…
On the Oppression of Women in the world
This morning as I make my daily review of my favorite internet news web sites, I noticed a brief reference to an incident that, to me, highlights a central issue…