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It is meant to be shared around the table, in the car, or wherever your journeys take you! It's a celebration of God's love for all, echoing Jesus' words during the Last Supper and affirming our role in furthering God's Kingdom work as we love and serve one another.
We Believe is a sweeping love song for all creation, equally suitable as standalone anthem or as a sung creed.
Blessed Christmas-tide even in a particularly bleak mid-winter. One carol includes a metaphorical rose blooming in darkest winter.
Here's a collection of 10 church songs that come from some pretty famous and influential secular artists. They’re easy enough for most people to sing along to, come in a printable format and are pretty straightforward to play, too.
by Keith Sanford
Developed by Keith Sanford, Ph.D., Forward Faith provides new music and in-depth discussion of ideas from a faith perspective based on liberal, progressive theology.
Downloadable & Published Music for Progressive Faith, School & Community
There are choral anthems, congregational hymns and songs and instrumental music for progressive faith settings. The website’s blog, “Resonate!” will offer thoughts on communal music and music-making.
For forty days and forty nights you wander in the wilderness and face temptation of body, heart, mind and spirit.
"Las Posadas" is an old Mexican tradition enacting the effort by Mary and Joseph to find a place to stay on Christmas Eve. Actors depicting Mary and Joseph wander from "inn" to "inn" asking for a room, with a singing candlelight procession following them through the town. Here I offer my own words for the tune:
The Christmas poem, “Immanuel: God Within and Among Us” was written for the Centennial Christmas Cantata to celebrate the centennial of First Congregational Church of Long Beach's historic building. Below is a the video of the performance.
From the Seasoned Celebration Collection
1. Winter is the season of the revelation of basic structure. If I was to strip away all the paraphernalia of my life what form would it have? How many of the things which I do are related to the roots of my spirit. 2. Winter is the season for hibernation. What rhythm do I have for reflection as well as action? What frequency and length of time do I need in solitude in order to facilitate the growth and quality of my spirituality?
From the Seasoned Celebration collection
Like the falling of the leaves security in life lies in the process not in the fixed points. Without harvest there can be no seed time. Without death there can be no new life, no new beginning.
From the Seasoned Celebration collection
1. The fragrance of Spring lies not in judgement's intervention but in love's nurturing of the interior goodness. 2. Spring is not so much a moment as a movement, a manifestation of the sometimes hidden but always present life-force of God.
From the Seasoned Celebration collection
The flowering of summer is only eclipsed by the flowering of the human spirit. Flowering has no permanency - only the process remains. Indeed the flowering only exists for the continuation of the process.
Coming home to community, we come home to our better selves.Coming together as community, we can live as our better selves.
Written by William Channing Gannett
Bring, O morn, thy music! Night, thy starlit silence! Oceans, laugh in rapture to the storm-winds coursing free! Suns and planets chorus, praise to all found holy. Life was, and is, and evermore shall be.
Can we get inside this story, Try to think as lepers thought? Totally despised, rejected; Life for them was worse than naught.
Hymn lyrics by Rev. Jim Gertmenian
In the brilliant sunshine, in the city street, Hear the bright hosannas, hear the marching feet;
Look at Jesus; hear the story; Probe the purpose of his life; See the struggle and the glory, All the conflict, all the strife.
Boundless love in all creation, Source and pulse of human life, Unseen hope of every nation, Healer of disease and strife;
From the Festive Worship collection
1. Without an overview of the Bible it is very easy to gain an erroneous impression of what the Bible is all about. 2. Look behind the words to the people.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
1. Every tear is a womb which can birth new life. 2. Grief is the narrow passage through which we pass from death to life.
They’re carted off like cattle, yet we’d refuse a bed to those who flee from carnage now drowned, or lost or dead?
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Nothing lasts forever in the same form.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Romance is only healthy within the context of our love for life, for the mystery, for the divine.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Buried in every beginning is an ending.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Each day can be a life time. Time is the enemy only if we let it control our lives. Time is redeemed by timeless moments.
Searching for the Christmas spirit – Is it heard when angels sing? Is it found in deeds of merit? Is it heard when church bells ring? Come and treasure Jesus’ memory; All the beauty it can bring.
Sometimes the footfall seems incessant, a challenge to our selfish greed, how can we clothe and house such numbers, our fears well up and veils their need.