Hope and Healing
Focus: “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” ― David Richo Welcome: Music: God Is Holding Your Life (by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) ― Michelle Currie Call To Worship:One: Breath of God, you are the onein whom we live and move and have our being.All: And we are the ones […]
Hearing the Call
Rev. Paula Norbert We have these lovely themes today…of waiting in silence for God, and of God’s call that goes out to Jonah, one the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures, as well as to the early followers of Jesus who became his trusted companions on the journey of healing and hope. The passages from Jonah […]
“I Still Have a Dream” – Martin Luther King Weekend Service
Focus: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Threshold Moment: Winter’s Light by Tim Janishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyr6GVeLno Welcome: Opening Music: We Are Called (by David Haas) -Michelle Currie Call to WorshipLeader: God of our ancestors and God of our dreams,we gather today to […]
Sweet Land of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing
Rev. Paula Norbert Each year, we remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his work for civil rights, economic justice, and peace. His birthday was January 15th and so the decision to remember him with a national holiday always falls near that date each year. It was 1986 when this date was first observed for […]
God is Holding Us
Focus: “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” —Susan Sontag Introduction: God Is Holding Your Life (video) Welcome: Music: From A Distance (by Julie Gold) —Michelle Currie Call To Worship:L: God has set this day before us,A day set apart, a day of rest and praise.All: God […]
God is Holding Us
Rev. Paula Norbert I want you to know that I began working on our Worship earlier this week, prior to the tragic events which took place on Wednesday, January 6th in our nation’s capital. I had already selected the readings and written some of my Sermon before that day unfolded. Like many pastors, I am […]
Shine On
Focus: “Today the Magi gaze in deep wonder at what they see: heaven on earth, earth in heaven, humanity in God, God in humanity, one whom the whole universe cannot contain now enclosed in a tiny body.” — Peter Chrysologus Welcome: Music: Let There Be Light (by Lauren Daigle) -Michelle Currie Call To Worship:L: O come, let […]
Shine On
Rev. Paula Norbert Epiphany: Matthew 2:1-12I want to wish you all a happy, healthy New Year. I know we bring our collective hopes and prayers to this moment and to this year ahead. We join with all those around the world who are hoping against hope for a far healthier, better year ahead when we […]
Love Is Shining
Rev. Paula Norbert It’s a most beautiful and holy night and we are lucky to be able to gather in this time and place, to be together in prayer and to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child, the Prince of Peace, Hope for the Nations, Son of God. We celebrate the gift of love […]
Peace is Still Possible
Rev. Paula Norbert “I Believe in the Light: Illuminating Peace”Synopsis (read at the beginning of worship): The “great light” which we will hear spoken of in the Isaiah reading this morning is echoed in the good news of John’s Gospel: the light that brings peace–that saves the people from all that would extinguish it–has been […]