Live from Topeka, it's Sunday Morning Live! As we finish our worship series this week on "Lights, Camera, Action," Jesus will take center stage as he hosts worship on Sunday morning. What does it look like when Jesus encounters some of our most beloved Saturday Night Live characters? What if Peter and Paul were on Celebrity Jeopardy, and King David sat down with Church Lady?
The Triniteens have based their worship around one of the lectionary passages this week: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31.
The Triniteens will be reminding us that Trinity is one body with many members, and that we need the gifts/callings/talents of ALL our members to be the body of Christ in the world today. Just as Saturday Night Live is one show with many sketches, so too will "Sunday Morning Live" be one worship with many sketches, one offering with many different characters. Just as the Bible is one collection with many different books, so too will "Sunday Morning Live" reflect one theme with many different perspectives. Whether you are an avid Saturday Night Live fan or have never seen the show in your life, the Triniteens hope to bring the Word of God to life through laughter, singing, reading, and playing some cowbell.
As we head in after worship for our annual potluck and gathering, I hope you hear a message in the worship led by the Triniteens - a message that the body that Trinity is not complete without you, that the diversity in our unity makes us stronger, not weaker, and that God has called you to be an essential part of our body.
Grace and peace,
Pastor Kate
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Lights, Camera, Action: God as Screenwriter
What exactly do you know about the wise men from the Bible? How many of them paid homage to the Christ child? Were the wise men or kings or astrologers or scholars? Where did they come from? What were their names?
Did you find how many wise men were there? No? Did you know
that early Christians believed there were twelve wise men, traveling in a giant
caravan, with servants and supplies and all the trappings? Can you imagine
adding that to a Christmas nativity?
God as screenwriter seemingly leaves us wanting for the
details of this story – how did Herod call all the religious leaders together
so quickly? Wasn’t there animosity between them and King Herod? Where exactly
is the “East?” Whatever happened to the wise men as they traveled home? Sometimes
we feel that way about our own lives – why didn’t God stop this from happening?
Why won’t God let us in on the future plan? What details has God seemingly left
out of your story?
But when we stop worrying about what has been left out and
start looking at what is there, a whole new story opens up. A way to Jesus
appeared for a group of people who weren’t Jews, who weren’t part of the ‘in crowd.’
God sent signs for those not even expecting a Messiah, while the king of the
Jews Herod hadn’t the slightest clue. By sending the exotic foreigners to worship the Christ child, it is a signal that all are welcome into God's kingdom, that salvation through the Messiah is not limited to the Jewish people.
God acts again and again in our lives. God puts a star in
the sky, a light in our lives to show us the way, so that we can offer ourselves
to Christ. God offers us epiphanies – revelations – of God’s presence in our
lives over and over again. Are you paying attention like the wise men, looking
for direction? Are you responding to the God-actions in your life, the
God-nudges? For when God acts, God expects us to respond. And what a joyful
response we can offer, because our God loves us enough to continue writing our
story and calling “Lights, Camera, Action!”
Grace and peace,
Pastor Kate
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