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Throwback Sundays…Beautiful Words

November 20, 2011 in Throwback Sundays

I think I still get chills every time I read these words…a poem…a liturgy of sorts that Mark Pierson included in his book The Art of Curating Worship. My favorite portion of the poem is below, but check out this post for the entire thing. It’s worth it!

We often forget the story which came to us,
Preferring order to uncertainty;
Orthodoxy to love,
And religious piety to unmerited grace

Come to us again, Lord Jesus,
And whisper your words of welcome;
Fill our hearts with reckless wonder,
And our minds with splendid nonsense

Awake in us the dream of the kingdom;
Resurrect our dead and perished visions;
Alert us to the heaven in our midst;
And quicken us to laugh and love

 

 

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Throwback Sundays…Our New Religion

October 16, 2011 in Throwback Sundays

This poem still strikes me. Differently than it did when I wrote this post over a year ago, but still it makes me stop & think.

Here’s the last stanza…

New motor roads are dustless,
The latest steel is rustless,
Our tennis courts are sodless,
Our new religion — godless.

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Ponder…Churches

August 6, 2011 in Ponder...

Churches should be places where people come to hear the story of God and to tell their own. That’s how we find out how the two relate.  (from Chasing Francis, by Ian Morgan Cron, pg. 67)

Seems so simple, doesn’t it? But I think Ian Cron is on to something.

 

 

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Throwback Sundays…Just a Building

June 5, 2011 in Throwback Sundays

My grandpa passed away four years ago and I smiled when I read the last line of his letter: “The church building itself is the structure that we worship and glorify God in. The real church is the people.”

And I’m smiling today re-reading that. You can read the rest of the post for the story behind the letter here.

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Throwback Sundays – A Prayer to Remind Us it’s So Much Bigger

March 27, 2011 in Throwback Sundays

I love this entire prayer, but especially need to be reminded of these lines:

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that. This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well. It may be incomplete,
but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen.

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