Jill Duffield reads the prayers of the people she crafted for Trinity Sunday. You are welcome to share this with your congregation or use it as part of your worship service. Find the full printed order of service here. … [Read more...]
Order of worship — Trinity Sunday
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation. It is free for worship use. Please credit Jill Duffield of the Presbyterian Outlook. Download the PDF of the full order worship: Liturgy 06_07_20 … [Read more...]
George Floyd is my brother
George Floyd is my brother. Like you, like me, George Floyd was created in God’s image and declared good. We are members of the one human family, all of us beloved children of God. Further, I am a Christian and so was George Floyd. That makes him my brother no less than the one with whom I grew up in the same household. George Floyd and I did, in fact, grow up in the same household: the household of God. George Floyd and I are united in Christ, made one in our baptism and through the Spirit, inseparable members of the Body of Christ. If his murder is not personal to me, then I am not the Christian I claim to be. If his murder, and that of countless other innocent black and brown people, does not make me scream in lament and groan in mourning, then I am not a follower of the Head of the Body. If white Christians do not see the murder of black and brown people as the killing of God’s family and our own, then we need to stop calling ourselves Christian. If we do not take actions … [Read more...]
Day of Pentecost — May 31, 2020
Numbers 11:24-30; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost Sunday They were all together in one place. Would that we could be, too. This Acts 2 Pentecost story begins small but gets bigger and bigger and bigger until all of creation is encompassed in the Spirit of God. Barriers of language and culture, status and religion, gender and age get blown down by the wind of the Spirit, immolated by the flames of God, usurped by the life-saving deeds of Jesus Christ. Yet, this expansive divine power makes itself known through the common and mundane, through ordinary people going about their regular routines. The Spirit rests on Eldad and Medad. Do we ever hear from them again? Joshua does not seem to think they ought to be prophesying, even though Moses says to let them be — and wouldn’t it be great if all the Lord’s people were prophets? The Spirit comes with wind and fire, those ubiquitous elements of creation that both empower and destroy. The Spirit speaks in human … [Read more...]
Prayers of the people for the Day of Pentecost (May 31, 2020)
Jill Duffield reads the prayers of the people she crafted for Pentecost Sunday. You are welcome to share this with your congregation or use it as part of your worship service. Find the full printed order of service here. … [Read more...]
A lonely, lonely virus
Drew Faust in the epilogue of her book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War,” wrote: “Individuals found themselves in a new and different moral universe, one in which unimaginable destruction had become a daily experience. Where did God belong in such a world? How could a benevolent deity countenance such cruelty and such suffering?” Faust notes, “Civil War Americans lived the rest of their lives with grief and loss.” The scale of suffering was such that no one was left untouched nor unchanged. I wonder if the same will be said of those of us living in this time of COVID-19. My brother, who works in a Boston emergency room, sent me a text: “Boston Globe had 20 pages of obituaries. Scary.” Makeshift morgues dot city landscapes. Cremations are backlogged. Unclaimed bodies in New York are buried in mass graves. The unimaginable has become a daily experience. People are dying without family by their sides, last words having been spoken through a screen. “The … [Read more...]
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