Time to Share the Love
July 18, 2024
Church of the Servant
Recorded on May 3, 2020
A Reflection for the 9am Worshippers
For some reason I never posted this to my blog in May of 2020. The formal sermon was posted, but not this simple reflection for our 9am worshippers. It's a service that's very interactive and allows children and adults to engage with the scripture and explore not only what it meant in Jesus' time, but what it is saying to us in our current time.
As I am taking a break for Clergy Renewal (aka sabbatical), and while I'm away from the congregation I enjoy and serve, I've been reflecting on that time four years ago when we all navigated the onset of COVID-19. Everything was shut down and we were finding new ways to stay connected.
Perhaps posting this simple message now will help us reflect on those times, and consider what we learned from them - what surprised us, what inspired us, what did we see with new eyes, and where did we find the love that sustained us?
Our world could use a healthy dose of love right now. What might that look like in your neck of the woods?
God's Peace,
Rev. Jody
Good Shepherd Friday
March 29, 2024
Church of the Servant
Good Friday
John 18-19
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Lent: The Season of Listening
February 18, 2024
Church of the Servant
1st Sunday in Lent
Psalm 25:1-9; Mark 1:9-15
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
Anderson, Luleen S. Under The Covers: Discovering the Crazy Quilt of Life, 2017. Kindle edition. Location 62.
Meeks, Catherine. A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI (2024), xii-xiii.
Plummer, Don. “Dr. Catherine Meeks: A Lifetime of Working for Racial Healing,” June 6, 2023. Diocese of Atlanta.https://episcopalatlanta.org/news/catherine-meeks-lifetime/ Accessed: Feb. 17, 2024.
The Secret Life of Lent
February 14, 2024
Church of the Servant
Ash Wednesday
Matthew 6:1-6,16-21; Isaiah 58:1-12
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
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