"Abraham bears the whole world with him in his personal anguished search. To roam, implies full exposure to the hazards of experience. The resonance of —“fool”—lingers on: the radical “folly” of those who abandon safe structures and fare forth on unmapped roads." -Avivah Gottlieb Zornber, The Beginning of Desire (p. 130)

All the pathologies of openness and closedness relate to imaginative obtuseness. According to the midrash in Bereshit Rabbah (36:1), the Flood people see God as blind, indifferent, callous to the world. What follows is that human beings feel themselves free to be likewise blind, indifferent, and callous. --Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Beginning of Desire, p. 56

The powerful implication here is that God’s original intention can be consummated only by Adam’s free perception and desire. Only when Adam comes to feel the solitude of the angelic, unitary existence is he split into two separate beings. He must, in a sense, diminish himself, come to know the rightness of a more complex form of unity.  -Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Beginning of Desire, p. 37

Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been changed from a linear progression to a kaleidoscopic experience centering on the psalm.

Key changes and new elements include:

Embodiment: the Psalm becomes a spoken Word through deeper congruence with the emotional self.

Meditation: a five-minute moment of silence for reflection and note-taking after the Embodiment which ends with the Passing of the Peace.  Please note your feelings and memories in the space provided in the bulletin.

Reflection:  a homily suggesting the emotional and theological connection of a section of the psalm with a New Testament writer.

Engagement:  The Engagement continues after worship in Discussion in the Gathering Place where others are invited to share their notes and “ah ha’s.”  Look for a group gathering at the big table near the stained-glass windows in the Gathering Place.

Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been changed from a linear progression to a kaleidoscopic experience centering on the psalm.

Key changes and new elements include:

Embodiment: the Psalm becomes a spoken Word through deeper congruence with the emotional self.

Meditation: a five-minute moment of silence for reflection and note-taking after the Embodiment which ends with the Passing of the Peace.  Please note your feelings and memories in the space provided in the bulletin.

Reflection:  a homily suggesting the emotional and theological connection of a section of the psalm with a New Testament writer.

Engagement:  The Engagement continues after worship in Discussion in the Gathering Place where others are invited to share their notes and “ah ha’s.”  Look for a group gathering at the big table near the stained-glass windows in the Gathering Place.

Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been changed from a linear progression to a kaleidoscopic experience centering on the psalm.

Key changes and new elements include:

Embodiment: the Psalm becomes a spoken Word through deeper congruence with the emotional self.

Meditation: a five-minute moment of silence for reflection and note-taking after the Embodiment which ends with the Passing of the Peace.  Please note your feelings and memories in the space provided in the bulletin.

Reflection:  a homily suggesting the emotional and theological connection of a section of the psalm with a New Testament writer.

Engagement:  The Engagement continues after worship in Discussion in the Gathering Place where others are invited to share their notes and “ah ha’s.”  Look for a group gathering at the big table near the stained-glass windows in the Gathering Place.

“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions are to be held within the rhythm of a life lived in God's presence.”  

― N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been changed from a linear progression to a kaleidoscopic experience centering on the psalm.

Key changes and new elements include:

Embodiment: the Psalm becomes a spoken Word through deeper congruence with the emotional self.

Meditation: a five-minute moment of silence for reflection and note-taking after the Embodiment which ends with the Passing of the Peace.  Please note your feelings and memories in the space provided in the bulletin.

Reflection:  a homily suggesting the emotional and theological connection of a section of the psalm with a New Testament writer.

Engagement:  The Engagement continues after worship in Discussion in the Gathering Place where others are invited to share their notes and “ah ha’s.”  Look for a group gathering at the big table near the stained-glass windows in the Gathering Place.

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; there is no one who does good.

The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?

O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.