Prayer of the Week

This week as we celebrate Earth Day (April 22), we are especially mindful of how we are part of God’s creative and creating web. Dependent on the earth God has made, we are also endangered when it is threatened. Being conscious and careful of our use and impact of all the earth offers us is… Read more.

In Jeremiah 31, God speaks of writing a new covenant, not on stone or on paper, but on the hearts of the people. The words of love and relationship will be inside and indelible. As you think about your heart, and perhaps the heart of your work and time this week, here is the prayer… Read more.

This week we are praying with Bread for the World to end childhood hunger. Here is the prayer we offered on Sunday morning reminding us of our common humanity, one shared by Jesus and proclaimed holy by his saving love. We Long for Community O God, the source of our common life, When we are… Read more.

This week in our readings Paul spoke of the foolishness of the Gospel saving those who are perishing and Jesus turned the tables on the money changers in the 2nd chapter of John. Here is the prayer offered by Bill Srsic, our worship leader, as we consider the tables in our lives that need to… Read more.

Transfiguration, the day of change and challenge, is always the last day in the season after Epiphany and the Sunday immediately before the start of Lent. In the story we see Jesus on the mountain with 3 disciples visited by Moses and Elijah and a reprise of the voice at his baptism. Tempted to remain… Read more.

With pipes frozen and more snow on the way, here is a reminder from the poet  Lynn Ungar. We used this as the benediction for our online Ash Wednesday service. May it be a blessing  and reminder as the snow falls. SALVATION By what are you saved? And how? Saved like a bit of string,… Read more.

In a week of difficult news, it’s often hard to find the joy.  But we are called to seek it, to be awake to the inbreaking of God’s deep joy even in the midst of sorrow.  Here is a prayer for that journey.  – Rev. Rachel Incarnate God, present among us even as we go… Read more.

This Sunday marked the beginning of a new church year, the season of Advent opening with apocalyptic words from Mark 13 telling us all to keep awake and keep watch. Isaiah readings called on God to “Rend the heavens and come down!” Like the authors of these texts, we too live in a world too… Read more.