PULLMAN, WA - OPEN MINDS, OPEN ARMS
Hosea....the Jilted Prophet. How to describe how God feels about the relationship with Israel where they purposefully ignore and walk away. God's love creates vulnerability and God's pain is heartwrending,
Here is your Trinity Online for All Saints Sunday.
Our narrative lectionary now has us in the time of the Kings. Elijah has a running battle going with Ahab and Jezeba'al. All through Isael's history there is the tendency to turn to the worship of the Canaanite gods; Ba'al and Ashera. In dramatic form Elijah takes them on...
Good morning all! We roll along with the Hebrew people as they enter into a Wilderness Time. Meeting Yahweh at Mount Horeb they are gifted with the Ten Commandments: A basic framework, really, on how we can get along with one another...
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Our God story moves on! Abraham and Sarah lived about the year 2000 BCE. Their son Isaac had two sons, Esau and Jacob. Jacob had a gaggle of sons...the youngest was Joseph...colored Dream Coat and all that. He eventually brings his people down to Egypt to same them from a horrible famine...and they settle.
At first things are good for the Hebrew people in Egypt...but years pass and the regime changes and now they are seen as a threat...dangerous outsiders... enter the story of Moses...
October 4th is Saint Francis Day, Patron Saint of Creation's Friends. Sooo...we will be doing our Trinity ANIMAL BLESSING ON OCTOBER 8th; at the beginning of Worship or right after....your choice! It's a different environment for most of our pets , other animals and lots of people, so you can opt for the after worship if that is better.
Blessings!
Jacob Wrestles
Our God story continues... Abraham and Sarah have a son, Isaac (laughter). Isaac has two sons; Esau and Jacob. Jacob is second born but spends his whole life trying to take Esau's place. His name literally means, "to pull down...to cheat). His life is a continual wrestling match; with Esau, with Laban, with himself....and here, on the banks of the Jabbok river, with God.
Our Scripture Story rolls on and now we are with Abraham and Sarah at the Oaks of Mamre. Pitching their tents there three wanderers come by on the path. Abraham and Sarah offer hospitality: washing feet and a meal. The Three (actually Yahweh) offer a gift. Even though Abraham and Sarah are well up in years she shall bear a child. Sarah snorts with disbelief, and hearing the laugh God says, "The Child's name shall be Yitz zak (Isaac) which means laughter.
Part Three of "We believe!" We understand God as Divine Wind, Holy Air...present and giving life to all things.
Here is your Trinity Online for August 27th. With a quick interlude focus on Creeds we turn to John 1. Early first century poetic hymn which wraps itself around the question of WHO/WHAT was Jesus all about.
I hope you have a blessed Sunday.
Here is our Trinity Online for this weekend! In person worship is back to 10:30am and we have Sundae Sunday after worship (Ferdinands Ice Cream, you bring favorite topping) to welcome back WSU students and everyone as a new season begins.
Here is your Trinity Online Music and Meditation for the Weekend of August 6th! We continue looking at a section of the Old Testament called "Wisdom Literature": Books which are much more common in everyday use and practical application. Job Looks at the question of why rotten things happen to good people. Proverbs offers everyday advice. Song of Solomon celebrates love and is used at weddings. And today's book: Ecclesiates. In it a elder teacher (Kohelot) tells pupils that in the quest for happiness in life it's the simple things. A good meal with friends,
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
We had a few issues with youTube we needed to iron out but we are back.
Here is you Trinity Online for July 30
Tucked into the Book of Proverbs and it's short little wisdom sayings is a Body of material which is both Challenging and Exciting at the same time. Within popular "hometown" Judaism in the 4 to 5 centuries before Jesus we are introduced to Lady Wisdom; Hochma in Hebrew, Hagia Sophia in Greek. In Proverbs 8 she is the first-born of creation and joyfully participates with God in the artistic acts of creating. Echoes of themes we will hear later, both in the Gospels of Matthew and in John when they are trying to make sense of Jesus.
