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Worship Guide - First Sunday of Christmas, Year B

12/27/2020

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You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.


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The Incarnation. God choosing to be with us in mind, body, and spirit...showing that we are not an evil to be saved; we are waiting to be freed to live into the fullness of our baptismal promise. Each with our own gifts, our own callings. God is with us. Thanks be to God.
 
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Worship Guide - Fourth Sunday in Advent, Year B

12/20/2020

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My heart shall sing of the day you bring.
Let the fires of your justice burn.
Wipe away all tears, for the dawn draws near,
and the world is about to turn.
~ My Soul Cries Out with a Joyful Shout, Rory Cooney
 
A youth. A girl. Unmarried. A Jew in an occupied, repressive empire. None of this is in the favor of Mary, this “highly favored one.” But consider it this way: Hearing that the Lord has found favor with you is no small thing when you are aware this is not the case. Wipe away all tears, indeed.
 
It may be in economics that past results are no indication of future performance, but Mary’s song to Elizabeth and the child John dancing within her suggests that in God’s economy it most certainly is. 
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Can we believe it too? How and where is God’s promise being born anew in our world, and what is the call to each of us?
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In the 4th century St Gregory of Nyssa wrote, “What was achieved in the body of Mary will happen in the soul of everyone who receives the Word.” May we too become what God has called us to be.

 
Enter into worship. 

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Worship Guide - Third Sunday in Advent, Year B

12/13/2020

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​[The Lord] has sent me 
to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners;
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
to provide for those who mourn in Zion--
to give them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the mantle of praise 
instead of a faint spirit.
~ Isaiah 61:1-3
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The hope of Advent is not a mystery, nor is it particularly complicated. John the Baptist, is its spokesperson, deploying bulldozers and gathering a movement to relocate heaven and earth, to “make straight the way of the Lord.”
 
Isaiah gives us a Christmas recipe—liberty and release for those locked up, real change that is good news for those who are robbed of their right to abundant life by their neighbor and their government. Real politics for real people, comfort food for those who have lost their children. All spiced with shouts of praise.
 
Notice, though, that all this is spoken in the midst of a not-yet-ness. Broken hearts are scattered through the hillsides. Bars, as yet, still locked. Justice delayed…but coming. John comes as a witness to the coming light.
 
Advent is no vague, disembodied sense of warmth. It is poetry, from the Greek poesis, the act of making or doing—production, creation, creativity, culture: lighting a candle in the darkness, then another, an active waiting, noticing what's wrong and what could be made right, the preservation of hope, a 500-year plan new every morning.

​Enter into worship.

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Worship Guide - Second Sunday in Advent, Year B

12/6/2020

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NOTE: In today's worship, we have a Moment For Mission with Sarah-Michelle Leonard from Communities in Schools, our liaison with Honey Dew Elementary. If you're interested in watching the entire conversation (approx. 15 minutes) , there's a link on the front page of this website.
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​A voice cries out:
In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,

make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
      and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,

            and the rough places a plain.
~Isaiah 40:3-4
 

Are these words of comfort to you?
 
If you heard this with your friends and neighbors, what would you take from it?
 
If you heard this on the streets of Renton, with a person who sleeps in their car, what would you take from it?
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Where or what is the wilderness and the desert?
 
Is the valley the valley of the shadow of death?
 
Is the mountain the place where spiritual experiences happen?
 
Questions, questions, questions. And there will be more to come.
 
No easy answers, but let us wait, remember, and look ahead together as we worship God on this Lord’s Day.

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