RevJamesMurray

Sermon for Jan 9

Posted on: 01/08/2011 13:34

"Learning to let the light of Christ

shine in your life"

Epiphany Sunday, Jan 9 2011.

storyman507

Following

Posted on: 02/09/2010 18:32

Written for a Lenten Daily Devotion for St Mark UMC, Atlanta, GA

Philippians 3:17-4:1

FOLLOWING DAD

One of the sweetest posters I ever saw was of a father walking on an empty beach. Close behind him was his son who was trying hard to fit his feet into his father’s footsteps. The son was trying to follow with the assurance that he would not get lost and that his Dad’s example would not lead him astray.

EmergingSpirit

Richard Manley-Tannis: The Journey - Patterns & Choices in the Murkiness of Life

Posted on: 10/28/2009 06:24

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's foes will be members of one's own household.

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10.34-39

We are all, individually and collectively, on a journey. In our United Church context, we openly name - confess - the things that separate us from God and one another. We struggle, however, with our own stuff. How do we share our own dysfunction, our own brokenness? I am not talking about some trite opportunity to weep our woes and beat our chests in a competition of whose issues trump the others. I am talking about safe spaces to share what needs to be shared, in order that we might heal, to move toward wholeness.

This journey, when entered with intention, is about discipleship.

discipleship

Discipleship Exploration: U.N.I.T.E.D.

Welcome!

As part of its Adult Faith Exploration programme, St. Andrew's Haney United Church (in Maple Ridge, BC) will be inviting people to participate in an 8-week exploration of discipleship, running from Sept. 28/09 to Nov. 23/09.

An invitation has been entended to the WonderCafe community to be a part of this exploration. The leaders at St. Andrew's will post the written material (and links to other material), that people in the face-to-face group will receive.

We're hoping to make some connections between the WonderCafe group and the face-to-face group, as we go along.

Welcome in!

Photo Credit: "Explore" by kevindooley (Creative Commons - attribution liscense.)

(Note: Please don't worry if you don't see posts here until mid-September. I'm opening the group to make sure I get it set up correctly! - RichardBott)