More from ‘Worship Reflections’

Christmas Eve w/ Beloved

By ryan • Dec 14th, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

Two services: 5 and 11pm – Get the details here.



Some Thanks Comes Only After Rupture

By ryan • Nov 22nd, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

This is a short little guide that explains the thousand heartbreaking steps to your most grateful life ever! Start today!



Life Together – Deconstructing Ideals & Discovering Real Community

By ryan • Oct 3rd, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

This little book by Bonhoeffer never ceases to ring true. Here’s an excerpt that works in me like vinegar on an oily pan – time to cut the fat my friends.



Remembering St. Jerome – Sept 30

By ryan • Sep 30th, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

Days of commemoration, like today, afford us an opportunity to reconnect ourselves to historical community, for whom we owe God a great debt of gratitude.



“What Beloved Means to Me” by Todd Johnson

By ryan • Jun 28th, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

When I first visited Church of Beloved about a year ago, I was homeless. Not in a physical sense, but in a spiritual one. I was in the midst of a very difficult transition time. My family and I were letting go of our nomadic lifestyle, our missionary dream we’d lived / breathed for nearly [...]



Corpus Christi Day – Today!

By ryan • Jun 3rd, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

Raise your hand if you knew today is the feast day of the Institution of Holy Communion or Corpus Christi day. Mmm, not many of you. Well, I didn’t know either. But it is. Corpus Christi day lands on the Thursday after the feast of the Holy Trinity, which was Sunday. Most Lutherans or Americans [...]



Bjorcharist – An Unforgetable Ascension Liturgy

By ryan • May 12th, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

This is what you get when you combine the music of Bjork, the Book of Common Prayer, and musing about the Ascension…. whoa.



The Shape of Worship

By ryan • Feb 7th, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

Taking a close look at the innate movements of worship.



Dangerous Inclusion

By ryan • Jan 31st, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

I want to tell you a story, but to do so we’ll have to leave this time and this place and go to a time when God walked the earth.  You can hear the sound of hushed murmurs, a growing buzz is filling the air, and we find ourselves back in the synagogue in Jesus’ hometown.  [...]



Epiphany Kyrie

By ryan • Jan 18th, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

A liturgical resource for the season of Epiphany