Holy Father (Bible) and Great Father (Treaties)

1 Kings 19:1-4 [5-7] 8-15a and Galatians 3:23-29 Father is one of those… rather contentious nouns… to me. Great Father Andrew Jackson (1835) It's hard when I read scripture and Jesus refers to his Father. And we have prayers about our Holy Father. And we pray, every Sunday, Our Father. It reminds me of Mary …

Prayers of the People – God of Many Titles

Father God, we pray to you with joy for our fathers were and are wonderful people. They have been steady in our lives, a rock of solid support, and a constant source of love.  And we dislike calling you father, for our fathers were not there, not loving, or fearful. Mother God, we pray to …

Creator of Wonder – Indigenous Peoples’ Day / Solstice / Fathers’ Day

A Sermon by Rev. Whitney Bruno - June 20, 2021 – for LCPC – Job 38: 1 - 11 “Creator of Wonder” Click here to watch this service.https://fb.watch/v/160Nw6wkA/ Our reading of Job today continues. I paraphrase the ancient Hebrew poem: Have you commanded the morning and made dawn to know its place?Do you dye the …

Opening Prayer: Families

Come Holy God into our worship today! We recall your universal parenthood to us today. We see you active in the ways we have been raised by mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, sisters and brothers, foster parents and step parents, and more. We see you in the way you give us loving families -- …

A Christian Family

A Christian Family “A Christian Family” THAT is a phrase to make me shudder. I immediately have images in my mind of Focus on the Family; of a dad who is the Head of the House, the submissive stay-at-home mother who sells Tubberware and Avon and other things to have some personal cash, of a …

Like A Father

The authors of Proverbs imagine wisdom as a woman and a spirit that invites all people to come to her. When she remembers God creating, she uses a word that calls herself either God’s master artisan or worker helping imagine the wonders of the world… or a little girl who delights and plays in the …