Fall 2023 Series: Renewed Resonance

Saint Augustine said, “the one who sings, prays twice over.” 

This fall, we’re exploring some of the songs and canticles of the First and Second Testaments, songs which have kept the story of God’s presence and mercy alive and burning in the hearts of countless women and men.

The ancient lyrics we’ll explore in this series have not just been fodder for prayer, study, and inspiration.

Morning by morning, century by century, our forebears in faith took up these songs to sing themselves into resonance with the renewed reality God is manifesting in our midst—as do billions of Jews and Christians still today.

We’ll explore how their ancestral cadences harmonize our contemporary longing for a world that is more beautiful, more peaceful, and more just, as they have for millennia.

Together, we’ll experience their magic anew as we rediscover our right and our responsibility to learn these time-tested songs of power, love, and wisdom—and to sing them in our own new key.

As a new practice in our worship together during this season, we will offer healing prayer with anointing for all those suffering from sickness of body, mind, or spirit on the fourth Sunday of each month.

Part I - Rise

September 3rd: I Sought Wisdom (Ecclesiasticus 51:13-16,20b-22) Communion Sunday

September 10th: Morning By Morning (Lamentations 1:12,16; 3:19,22-24,26)

September 17th: Out of the Depths (Jonah 2:2-7,9)

September 24th: A New Heart (Ezekiel 36.24-28) Healing Prayer

Part II - Renew

October 1st: My Heart Exults (1 Samuel 2:1-8) Communion Sunday

October 8th: A Song of the Wilderness (Isaiah 35:1-7, 10)

October 15th: The Brightness of Your Dawning (Isaiah 60:1-3, 11a, 14c, 18-19)

October 22nd: Carried on Her Arm (Isaiah 66:10-14) Healing Prayer

October 29th: Full of Grace (Luke 1:46-55)

Part III - Remember

November 5th: Gather Us In (Ephesians 1:3-10) All Saints’ Celebration; Communion

November 12th: In This Is Love (1 John 4:7-11)

November 19th: One Of Us (Philippians 2:6-11)

November 26th: Healing Nations (Revelation 21:22-26, 22:1-4) Healing Prayer