The Taize Prayer Experience

Wonderful Mercy Church

The Taize Prayer Experience

October 31, 2021 • Lee Meyer

As part of our series on prayer, we enter into a Taizé prayer experience this morning. Taizé prayer is a unique form of prayer; it's not “worship” as we commonly think of it. Taizé prayer creates an environment for communion with the Living God through…
• Quiet, meditative listening prayer
• Hearing selected readings from Scripture
• Simple, repetitive songs that voice words of faith and hope
• Silence that opens the heart to the mystery and presence of God
• Helping us become more aware of our inner life and alert to signs of the invisible.

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The Baby Who Threatens the World

December 19, 2021 • Graeme Sellers

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December 12, 2021 • Graeme Sellers

When we read the Christmas story, when we hear it, when we re-enact it in our worship, we are invited into an astonishing revelation of what God is really like. Christmas shows us what God is like—just as he trusted Joseph and Mary with his well-being, we can trust him with ours. Our lives, our fate, are safe with him. This is who God is—like his earthly parents, there’s nothing He won’t do, no part of Himself he won’t spend to care for us.