When standing in line, or when the commercial comes on, or when a moment of boredom comes, fast and pray instead of reaching for the screen. Be reminded that the world is not an oyster to be shucked, but a place where the gifts of redemption are already open.
Prayer is only possible because Jesus has given you access to the Father through His shed blood. Prayer is a gift purchased for you by Christ.

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The earliest followers of God sang their faith, which is no different today as we sing of the hope we have in Jesus.
The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
In a time of unknown, the Flanigans found comfort in the words of the prayer book and made them truly their own.
Green is the color for “ordinary time” in the liturgical church year. It's the regular time of year that always gets overshadowed by other seasons such as Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter.
In Defense of Christian Ritual is now available for purchase from 1517 Publishing
So, what do we pray? What do we say? In times of fear, in times of chaos, in unprecedented times, we pray and say the words that have been written on our hearts.
Rituals resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
I love the liturgy of my church, and ache for its full return. When all the world is changing, and everything is disrupted, what comes to mind is what is unchanging: the grace of God.
This post contains notes on orders of service, texts, and hymns for your midweek Lent services.
We sing, and in so doing, we are blessed as we are instilled with the word of God in word and song.
The minister’s clothing represents his office of service, derived from the ministry of Christ, and never himself.
The majority of churches still use the traditional eight-sided font. The question I’d like to explore in this post is, “Why?”