Lent 2017: Listening for the Heartbeat of God
Prayer: Forty Days of Practice
A WAY OF LOVING - INTERCESSION
April 9, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Jesus' command to love each other includes using our prayers as a method to love our neighbors. What can this look like? How do we love others through prayer? Come Sunday to explore and experience our final prayer practice of Lent: intercession, as we join Jesus in Jerusalem with palm branches and shouts of Hosanna!
TEARS - LAMENT
April 2, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Anger, sadness, disappointment. When we think of what "Christian folk" look like (in worship, in daily life) these are not often the expressions or emotions we associate with Jesus-followers. Shouldn't we be shiny and happy all the time? And yet. The Jesus story is a story of wholeness: including the full expression of all the things we feel and experience. This Sunday we experience the prayer practice of Lament.
IN THE ABSENCE - FASTING
March 19, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
We're consumers. On a fundamental level we need to consume food, water, nourishment. And we also consume goods, services, and activities. Curiously, the life of Jesus invites us to challenge and even give up the basics we consume in order to grow. How does making room in this way DO THAT?
Series Trailer
February 28, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Lent, the six weeks spanning Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, a word that means “spring,” has for nearly two-thousand years been a season of spiritual spring-cleaning. A time to honestly examine who we are and who we are becoming. This season we're using a book on prayer by Justin McRoberts and Scott Ericsson called Prayer: Forty Days of Practice. Building on the language and the imagery from the prayer book, Justin and Scott have also designed a brand new performance piece with stories and insights from their own journeys and processes as practitioners. And they are bringing this new work, along with the book that is it’s heart, to Salt House on March 19th. So, pick up the book at Salt House. Begin the readings on Wednesday, March 1st and engage with the practice of prayer.