Palm Sunday is a significant Sunday in the Christian liturgical calendar year. We follow the Christian year to re-live the story of God’s passionate love. As we end the sermon series on Liturgy, we look to Holy Week to walk in the footsteps of Jesus during his last days as he pours himself out for […]
Communion, or also known as, the Eucharist, is the single most significant act of worship in the Christian faith. If the goal of liturgy is to become something greater together, than that something great is the Body of Christ. Through God’s active role in communion, God forms us into the Body of Christ. When we […]
Prayer is often described as simply talking to God, the problem is, it isn’t quite that simple. Prayer has a multifaceted role in our lives with God, and one of the primary components is that prayer helps us experience our connection to God. If prayer is experiencing God’s love and the meeting place between us […]
Often times people assume that God’s word is self evident. The challenge of hearing God is always the challenge of interpretation and the problem is that often our best intentions lead to bad outcomes. In order to hear God, we need God. We must always approach God’s word with humility and a sense of confession. […]
Music plays a vital, if not foundational, role in our liturgy. Music has the power to speak to our innermost being and it also has the power to move us beyond our individual experience to connect us to others, and even to the world around us. Sacred music in our worship service does both, and, […]
Often many who participate in liturgical worship services have little understanding of the role the various components of worship, the liturgy, have in our lives of faith. This lack of understanding spans across denominations and, unfortunately, it is a missed opportunity. By knowing what we are doing in worship and why we do it, we […]
Ash Wednesday is a time to remember that we are dust and to the dust we shall return. While this is hard news for many of us to hear, God remembers that we were created out of the dust and where we see dust, God sees the possibility for beauty.