Coming to the City Nearest You
April 15, 2022
Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you. Jesus comes to the gate, to the synagogue, to houses prepared for wedding parties, to the pools
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Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you. Jesus comes to the gate, to the synagogue, to houses prepared for wedding parties, to the pools
On the journey with Jesus there is always the first step; the first prayer, the first self-less act, the first encounter with scripture, the first
God the Almighty longs for justice and confronts the sin of white supremacy. God gathers the souls of the murdered, their blood cries out from
We’re always calling God. Where are you God? Why don’t you pick up? The phone rings and rings, echoing in that heavenly chamber. We check
This Christmas can we find a newborn love for Jesus? Can this baby disarm us; agendas, busyness and grudges dropped on the ground? Will we
On the darkness of the roada couple walks, bone-weary,seeking a sanctuarywhere new life can be born. In the darkness of the womba baby stirs and
Night time brings with it a host of fearful thoughts crowding; sickness striking and life changing forever, debts looming and bills that can’t get paid,
It’s not easy to trace the tears, the gaping holes where mothering went wrong. I can point to the withering look that day at the
We all have one. She goes by different names: mom, mama, mummy, my mother, my birth mother, the woman who bore me. We may know
I am a Mennonite pastor currently teaching theology at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario. I’ve served congregations in Ontario and most recently, Alberta.
I love to write and to lead worship! If you are finding my writing helpful, I would love to hear from you! Feel free to use or adapt the material here, it is all written by me. If printing material, please credit “Copyright Carol Penner www.leadinginworship.com” (and say whether you modified it). If publishing, please contact me for permission. Contact me at carol@leadinginworship.com
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