Tempus Per Annum means "Time Throughout The Year". In the liturgical church calendar, it is known as Ordinary Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between.

TEXT:

Phillipians 4:4-9

TAKEAWAYS:

• Start a conversation with someone in your orbit who you don’t know and think you don’t want to know. It doesn’t have to be heavy right off. Ask good questions.

• Re-engage with someone you used to love and with whom you used to agree, but now maybe you don’t. Again, it doesn’t have to start off heavy. Ask good questions.

• Listen to or read someone with whom you disagree. Do so with an open heart.

• Before doing any of this, pray the Jesus prayer: 

  Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us.

• Next time you are angry and your fingers are on the keyboard or the words are heading for your mouth, stop.

  You can stop, stop, stop.

  For a girl can someday be a lady, and a boy can someday be a man.

Tempus Per Annum means "Time Throughout The Year". In the liturgical church calendar, it is known as Ordinary Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between.

TEXT:

John 14:15-23

TAKEAWAYS:

• A place where everybody or at least some of em know your name

• A place full of grace.  And truth.

• A place with good welcomes and good farewells

• A place where you can be real, and they won't run away

Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between.

TEXT:

Psalm 8:1-2

Micah 6:8

TAKEAWAYS:

• Laugh
• Make someone else laugh
• Relax
• Help someone else relax
• Three times in the next week:
  • Sit still in silence for five minutes, with nothing on the agenda but being open to what the Lord may - or may not - have for you.

BENEDICTION:

For anyone who says yes to Jesus

For anyone who 

believes what Jesus said

For anyone who 

will just reach out to take it

Then God will give them

 this wonderful gift:

To be born into

A whole new Life

To be who they really are

Who God always made them to be --

Their own true selves --

God’s dear

Child.

Tempus Per Annum means "Time Throughout The Year". In the liturgical church calendar, it is known as Ordinary Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between with teachings that encourage us to do so.

Tempus Per Annum means "Time Throughout The Year". In the liturgical church calendar, it is known as Ordinary Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between.

BENEDICTION:

Tempus Per Annum means "Time Throughout The Year". In the liturgical church calendar, it is known as Ordinary Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between.

TEXT:

John 6:1-15

TAKEAWAYS:

• What for you is essential, what is good, what is trivial in this season? 
• Where is Jesus inviting you to trust him with the seemingly impossible? 
• Where are you? What do you have? Who are you with? 

BENEDICTION:

TEXT:

Psalm 77:1-6a

TAKEAWAYS:

• Think about songs that have been there for your times
• Listen to them again...and remember
• Listen to Asaph by Loudharp
• Share a song with someone for this time
• If possible, thank an artist for the song they gave you for a time

BENEDICTION:

REPENTANCE AS PROTEST

Father, forgive us

For the hate that we deny

Father, forgive us

For turning a blind eye

Teach us to love,

To lay down our lives, like you

TEXT:

Ephesians 2:8-9

James 2:14,17

Philippians 2:12-13

TAKEAWAYS:

I want to get better at adding value.

I want to get better at real vulnerability.

I want to get better at disagreeing.

I want to get better at there you are.

I want to get better at proximity.

I want to get better at helming find the unique gifts in people.

I want to get better at prayer.

BENEDICTION:

With the city of Charlottesville in mind:

REPENTANCE AS PROTEST

Father, forgive us

For the hate that we deny

Father, forgive us

For turning a blind eye

Teach us to love,

To lay down our lives, like you

TEXT:

1 Thessalonians 5:17

TAKEAWAYS

• For one week, practice the Jesus prayer

• For one week, practice giving full attention to those who arrive in the middle of your things.

  Ask the Lord in that moment if it is in fact you who are arriving in the middle of Kingdom things.

• Google:

  “Ancient Prayers of the Church”

  Find a prayer of one of the saints and make it your prayer for awhile.

BENEDICTION

The Jesus Prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

TEXT:

Mark 10:35 

TAKEAWAYS

• Who do I know to whom I can tell my truth?
• Start telling that person your truth.
• Interrogate your motivations in your relationships.
• In what relationships have I found equilibrium?

BENEDICTION

Lord, turn our praises into hands that clothe the naked, arms that comfort the afflicted, tables that host the stranger, and shoulders that support the weary so that your name may be praised by those who live and die with their backs against the wall. 

Amen.