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On Sunday we will have (cue epic action movie trailer voice) an “Annual Parish Meeting.” What is that? What do I need to expect? Or, as one of my beloved children have said, doesn’t this “sound boring” to put it bluntly?
More importantly, maybe, for some, is the question of hallowedness: “What does all this ‘business meeting’ stuff have in God’s house —isn’t this why Jesus turned-over the tables on the rulers of the Temple...?"
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This Sunday, the Feast of Michaelmas, we will begin a few changes in our Sunday liturgy. And, additionally, we will have a few more musical changes in the months ahead. In what follows I want to give a brief forecast of those changes (with dates) as well as offer some explanation behind them —some answer to “why are we doing this?” As always what is posted here is in no way offered instead of conversation, but rather as a starting point for further questions and conversations. Please feel free to come to any of us on the lead team or pastoral team as questions arise.
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…Worship is a response to what God has given us. When the Psalmist sings, “What shall I return to the Lord for all his goodness to me?” he asks already knowing the answer: “I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord” (Ps. 116:12-13). The worship of God begins with the prior goodness of God…
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In the interest of some small recovery of what I think the Holy Spirit is saying through Paul in Romans I offer this general thesis: the Letter to the Romans is primarily about Glory, glory and worship. The brief notes which follow flesh this out a little.
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