Set your burdens down. Set your expectations down, and center. Hear these words from Mary Oliver: I don’t want you just to sit down at the table. I don’t want you just to eat, and be content. I want you to walk out into the fields where the water is...
This devotional experience is meant to introduce you to this Sunday’s passage and offer you paths for reflection. Please go through it at your own pace, lingering on the aspects that are most meaningful for you. All Scripture quotations are taken from The...
This week in worship, we’re exploring Luke 7:36-50. It’s the story of the woman with the alabaster jar. You can read it here on Bible Gateway. The story sets up a contrast. On the one hand there’s Simon: a Pharisee, a good person, the kind of person...
This week in worship, we have two stories of Jesus in conflict with religious leaders about the meaning of the Sabbath. We’re exploring Luke 6:1-11, which you can read here on Bible Gateway. Sabbath is an unfamiliar concept for many of us. It’s associated...
On months with five Sundays, we take the Fifth Sunday to experiment with semi-programmed worship. Friends meetings identify along a spectrum from programmed to unprogrammed, based on how much of the service is planned ahead of time. We’re a...
God said, “Take, pray, your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go forth to the land of Moriah and offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall say to you.” And Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey...
