Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Second Sunday After Epiphany: Hearing God in the Ordinary Rhythms of Our Lives

This week we celebrated the second Sunday after Epiphany. Our community is in the midst of a series focusing on Discovering the Presence of God in the Ordinary Rhythms of Life in which we are juxtaposing the Old Testament and Gospel texts.

The message for this second Sunday after Epiphany focused on the following Scriptures: 1 Samuel 3:1-20; John 1: 43-51

Connect to Hearing God in the Ordinary Rhythms of Our lives . In this message, I ask how we might go about training our ears so that we might hear God in the everyday rhythms of our lives.  Cultivating our imagination and responding to the Spirit-guided intuition helps attune our lives to the voice of God who speaks to us in the midst of our days.  Some suggestions are provided how we cultivate our ears through engaging Scripture, through prayer, and through spiritual conversations.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

First Sunday After Epiphany: Seeing Re-creation in the Ordinary Rhythms of Our Lives

This week we celebrated the first Sunday after Epiphany. Our community is in the midst of a series focusing on Discovering the Presence of God in the Ordinary Rhythms of Life in which we are juxtaposing the Old Testament and Gospel texts.

The message for this first Sunday after Epiphany focused on the following Scriptures: Genesis 1:1-5; Mark 1:4-11

Connect to Seeing Re-creation in the Ordinary Rhythms of Our lives .  In this message, we are being called to have eyes to see the light of God. Just as God created light in creation, so the presence of God is not only revealed in Jesus, but also through us, as the people of God, as we live out our lives.  What we discover is that God's presence is not primarily in spectacular ways, but in the everyday ordinary rhythms of our lives.