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take this cup from me!

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Takethiscupgavinrichardson

this is a little how i am feeling right now.. tonight for our maundy thursday service we sang hymn 482.. but what was nice was hymn/prayer 481.. you know it like this

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon’
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O’ Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

not quite your maundy thursday experience, but it was much of what i am needing in this odd time.

worship feast prayer stations : do you have a copy

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are you one of the millions, thousands, maybe hundred or so that have a copy of my "worship feast prayer stations" cdrom? if so could you email me and tell me what prayer stations are highlighted in the cdrom? i was wanting to post some of the videos & pdf’s that didn’t make the resource but i have given away all the copies i had of it so i don’t know anymore what was on there. thanks in advance

in case: if you didn’t know, i have this cdrom out there on prayer stations. Worship Feast Prayer Stations, put out by abingdon press. it was set up to be a primer to get people started on doing their own, but have no idea about them or where to start. it has some meditative background images, original music, and video and pdfs on how to do some specific prayer stations plus alternatives which make up a total of around 20 prayer stations. not bad for a $20 price.

thoughts of the day

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  • i am pondering what sort of relations do a postmodern model of youth ministry have with a methodist church and it’s laity driven history.. and the trouble that brings about because it goes against just about every other model of youth ministry out there..??
  • i am wondering what all i need to do to start doing a to-do-list to make sure i get stuff done during the rest of this week.
  • i am thinking i want to get a new little tv for our bedroom, one that has a remote that works and the sound doesn’t go funny when you have at a low volume.
  • not sure what books i want to try to finish reading this week… it is a pretty open week work wise, so i’ve got some opportunities here.
  • with some odd church activities tomorrow, we have no regular programming.. do i go and do some observations of other churches or just take the night off…??
  • i am going to move into using the prayerbook from the iona community this week.. that is generally a month or two earlier than i have done in the past (usually start in summer)..

the problem with the Lord’s prayer

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The problem with the Lord’s Prayer is neither its content nor its historicity, but its familiarity. Many congregants don’t actually think of the meaning of the words or, if they do, find only comfort rather than a challenge. Little children still happily conclude that the deity’s name is "Harold" fear that the major sin they might commit is trespassing on someone else’s lawn, adn earnestly hope that they are never led "into Penn Station." When placed in a first-century Jewish context, the prayer recovers numerous connotations that make it both more profound and more political. It fosters belief, promotes justice, consoles with future hope, and recognizes that the world is not always how we would want it.

the Misunderstood Jew: the church and the scandal of the Jewish Jesus, by AJ Levine

how true.. and it made me giggle too

update: those crazy folks at church of the resurrection are talking up the Lord’s Prayer as well.