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  • Into the Ordinary: Pentecost 4

    A brief commentary on this week’s lectionary PLUS a prayerpoem that integrates the readings and a downloadable handout.

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  • Into the Ordinary: Pentecost 3

    A brief commentary on this week’s lectionary PLUS a prayerpoem that integrates the readings and a downloadable handout.

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  • Into the Ordinary: Pentecost 2

    A brief commentary on this week’s lectionary PLUS a prayerpoem that integrates the readings and a downloadable handout.

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  • Sanctuary: entering by the gate

    A “safeguarding” service for our intergenerational Faith@5 gathering, because: 1. an ethic of care is about theology, not compliance;2. so many people have experienced significant trauma through what has happened within Christian communities;3. the Church can be a much-needed sanctuary in the midst of the chaos and unkindness in the world right now but it…

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  • Ent Moot – A Gathering of Trees

    Inspired by Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”An intergenerational liturgy for the start of the Season of Creationincluding responsive activitiesexperiential prayerand youth leadership Based on Judges 9:7-16 The Parable of the Trees Introducing the importance of looking at the worldand our place in it through an eco-justice lens Call to Worship: Entish Greeting LEADER: (slowly, dramatically)“Hroom, hroom. The…

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  • Prayer: a space between

    Prayer: a space between

    A “sermon” on The Lord’s Prayer from Luke 11:1-13 If only it was that easy: people giving good gifts to neighbours in need and to their children according to their requests –  “For everyone who asks receives; ​the one who seeks finds;and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” But much of…

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