October 16, 2022
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Our annual Blessing of the Animals is back on October 30! This time we’re doing it Halloween style! More details will be coming soon!
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PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY
Abby Butler-Cefalo
Opening Song
James Sattva
“Your Love is a Song”
~Switchfoot
I hear you breathing in
Another day begins
The stars are falling out
My dreams are fading now
Fading out
I've been keeping my eyes wide open
I've been keeping my eyes wide open
Oh, your love is a symphony
All around me
Running through me
Oh, your love is a melody
Underneath me
Running to me
Oh, your love is a song
The dawn is fire bright
Against the city lights
The clouds are glowin' now
The moon is blackin' out
It's blacking out
I've been keepin' my mind wide open
I've been keepin' my mind wide open
Oh, your love is a symphony
All around me
Running through me
Oh, your love is a melody
Underneath me
Running to me
Oh, your love is a song
Your love is a song
Oh, your love is a song
Your love is strong
With my eyes wide open
I've got my eyes wide open
I've been keeping my hopes unbroken
Yeah, yeah
Oh, your love is a symphony
All around me
Running through me
Oh, your love is a melody
Underneath me
Running to me
Your love is a song
Yeah, yeah
Your love is my remedy
Oh, your love is a song
Theological Reflection
Amanda Miller Garber
Adam King
What is a parable? Why did Jesus so often speak in parables? Why not just get to the point?
Luke 5:36-39
36 Then he told them a parable. “No one tears a patch from a new garment to patch an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t match the old garment. 37 Nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new wine would burst the wineskins, the wine would spill, and the wineskins would be ruined. 38 Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins. 39 No one who drinks a well-aged wine wants new wine, but says, ‘The well-aged wine is better.’”
What is a wineskin? What’s the difference between new and old wine? Why is he so against repairing clothes? Wasn’t he supposed to be a hippie?
What is the point here, Jesus? What lessons can we learn? What’s actually timeless in this message? (Intersection of this ancient story and our lives)
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COMMUNION
SONG
James Sattva
“Walk on”
~U2
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage that you can bring
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind
And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong
Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom
Walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it, or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on
walk on
Home, hard to know what it is if you've never had one
Home, I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the hurt is
And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you feel
All that you reason
All that you care (It's only time)
And I'll never fill up all my mind
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
And all that you scheme
All you create
All that you wreck
All that you hate
Final BLESSING
Adam King