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Worship Guide - First Sunday of Advent, Year B

11/29/2020

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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty, and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place… Like campers who have bonded over cook fires far from home, we remain grateful for the provisions that we have brought with us from those cupboards, but we also find them more delicious when we share them with one another under the stars.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
 
Here we find ourselves. Again. Another Advent, under the stars, considering anew the hope and promise we seek, asking again, asking still, of new birth, new possibility, even as our eyes have been opened, our ears better tuned to the story around us and our place in it.
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Surely, the moment is different. How could we have imagined where we would be even a year ago? Yet, these themes, these questions, these tests, these promises are still relevant. Perhaps more so. Even as we sequester ourselves, the idea of sharing these things with companions under these stars in these circumstances are no less powerful or real, but all the more cherished. “Oh that you would tear open the heavens and come down,” Isaiah prays. And so do we.
 
What is being born in you this season? In us? What do you now perceive?

​Enter into worship. Enter into hope.

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Worship Guide - Reign of Christ Sunday, Year A

11/22/2020

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​I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.
~Matthew 25:35-36
 
Reign of Christ Sunday gets us ready to “ring in” the new year in the Christian calendar. On the following Sunday we will begin that journey toward the stable, looking for the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the promised one, earth’s hope.
 
This Sunday, then, functions like a check-in or check-up. It does so by way of an implicit and unexpected promise. Feeding the hungry, welcoming strangers. Clothing. Tending. Healing. Visiting. As we are doing these things, we are not only mending the world, we are putting ourselves in the locations where Christ himself dwells. We are putting ourselves in healing’s way. We are gaining our own lives back. What a strange and wonderful thing!

​Enter into worship.
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Worship Guide - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

11/15/2020

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W​ell done, good and trustworthy servant; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.
~Matthew 25:21
 
In the midst of a pandemic, a  group of Minneapolis tenants have worked together for better conditions, resisted evictions, and ultimately pooled resources and bought out their landlord.
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Amidst a season of collective pain, they conceived of something new and unexpected, radically improving the lives of their neighbors and themselves. Perhaps they have something to teach these three servants about how best to use the “talents” they are given!

What if the last servant in this parable Jesus tells buried the wrong thing? Should he have used his talent, and buried his fear? Or was he right to take ill-gotten wealth out of circulation so it could no longer be used destructively in an unjust economy?
 
Jesus told parables, not allegories with coded meanings needing only a key to discover the “true meaning.” Jesus told parables like the one of the super-wealthy man who went on a journey and entrusted enormous sums to three servants while he was gone. This is a parable that defies any simple interpretation and instead invites us every time we encounter it to ask interesting questions of it and our own lives. There is always more “there” there. What for you, what for us this day?
 
Enter into worship. 

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Worship Guide - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

11/8/2020

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Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
~Matthew 25:13
 
How do we keep awake? In these fraught and uncertain times, how do we remain aware of the dangers before us, while always attuned to the hope of our faith?
 
The ancient writer Pliny tells of cranes who kept watch for one another: “During the night they … place sentinels on guard, each of which holds a little stone in its claw: if the bird should happen to fall asleep, the claw becomes relaxed, and the stone falls to the ground, and so convicts it of neglect. The rest sleep in the meanwhile, with the head beneath the wing, standing first on one leg and then on the other: the leader looks out, with neck erect, and gives warning when required.”
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​Who might we identify as our “sentry cranes”? Who are those in our midst who remain awake even as the rest of us sleep? Who are the ones crying out to warn us of impending danger? Amos has his own take on what puts us in danger—empty religion as a tool of oppression, lacking justice and righteousness. Jesus’ parable remains more troublesome to understand in our own time. But stay awake, we must, to the Word coming to us.
 
Enter into worship. Join the celebration awaiting us. 

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Worship Guide - All Saints, Year A

11/1/2020

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Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from? … These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
~Revelation 7:13-14
 
Blessed are they, and blessed are you, Jesus tells those who hunger and thirst, the merciful, the peacemakers.
 
We remember those saints who have gone before us this All Saints Sunday. Surely in this moment of such intense suffering and dislocation this is an act of faith—to remember, to look to those who have modeled for us how to live in uncertainty, how to live in the midst of loss and dysfunction, how to work to mend the world. 
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To know others have been before us, to remember that we are not alone in this work of being human, to know that God is with us is to begin to name the hope we have as children of the Just and Compassionate One.
 
So prepare for this day. Find a candle, or many and light them. Our preacher will invite us to do just that if you haven’t already. Give thanks for those who have led the way for us, mentored us, guarded and guided us, finished the race. And remember that you are doing the same for others. Be challenged and inspired. Look for the hope that surrounds us. Be that hope for others. Enter into worship. 

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