Tuned for Praise Tuned for Praise: Stay With Us “The Road to Emmaus” Robert Zünd (1877) Read: Luke 24:13-35 As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going…
Tuned for Praise Tuned for Praise: The Road Home Introduction to the Tuned for Praise Series Leonard Bernstein once observed that “music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” In this series, we will…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Self-Care Read: Luke 13:10-17 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” (Luke 13:12, NRSV). Why is it so…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Justice Read: Isaiah 58 If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the sabbath a delight and the…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Community Sabbath and Community Read: Acts 16:11-15 On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer;…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Surrender Read: Exodus 16 The house of Israel called it manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (Exodus…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Celebration Read: Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry and they began to pluck heads of grain and to…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Hospitality Read: Deuteronomy 5:12-15 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Creation Read: Genesis 2:1-3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation (Gen. 2:3…
Celebrating the Sabbath Celebrating the Sabbath: Sabbath and Slavery Read: Exodus 31:12-18 The LORD said to Moses: You yourself are to speak to the Israelites: You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and…
