More from ‘Worship Reflections’

20+C+M+B+11 (a house blessing)

By • Jan 2nd, 2011 • Category: Worship Reflections

This short liturgy is a way of marking our homes, usually at the main entrance, with sacred signs and…



Christmas Eve w/ Beloved

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

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



Some Thanks Comes Only After Rupture

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

Taking a close look at the innate movements of worship.



Dangerous Inclusion

By • 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.  [...]