A Confessional Prayer
June 27, 2015
Gracious God, we confess before you our complicity in the sins of this world, sins which Jesus felt in his own body and soul. Our
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Gracious God, we confess before you our complicity in the sins of this world, sins which Jesus felt in his own body and soul. Our
We are told that we are not alone, you are with us.You are as close as a prayer, close as our heart.Yet why do you
On this day when we remember your triumphal entry we admit that we, too, have paid lip service to you, but have not wanted to
We come gingerly to prayer on this Good Friday holding the pieces of our broken world. So much is ruined and spoiled, so much hatred
On entering the service, people are given a small square of paper. Ask people not to write their name on the paper, but to think
Here’s a prayer for the corners of our lives messy with yesterday’s business. There’s the guilt about what was thrown in the garbage, the regret
Open our eyes, Lord, to the modern yoke; the burden of our consumer culture, the debt that holds people fast, the myth of
God, we invite you into the fights of our lives; fights with the ones we love the most,
God of Wisdom, As we remember the atomic blasts, the gas chambers, the killing fields, as we remember the war machines and the military establishments,
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.
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