This Sunday’s Worship: November 29
(Sunday, November 29 At 11 AM, First Sunday of Advent, Live-Streamed On Zoom)
Scripture:
Hymns:
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
The Days Are Surely Coming
People, Look East
Service Preview (Online):
Sermon Title: “Apocalypse Now” by Rev. James Reisner
Our Gospel lesson begins:
“But in those days, after that suffering,
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,
and the stars will be falling from heaven,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken."
The language of apocalypse has been always hard for first-world Christians to access. Maybe the many extraordinary events of 2020 gives us insight into what these strange texts mean.
Kristen Mitchell offers insight into the nature of apocalypse:
“Apocalypse” is perhaps one of the most misunderstood words in the entire Biblical lexicon … The Greek word apokalypsis means “revelation” or “unveiling.” Apocalypse is about vision and about perception. The apocalypse is marked by a transformed and spiritually-informed way of seeing that pierces through the veil of deception, egocentrism, fear, and confirmation bias that pervades our everyday life in “the world” and prevents us from confronting the truth about ourselves, one another, and God. The day of reckoning that the New Testament writers wrote about was a day of ultimate truth-telling, a day when “the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.”
About Online Worship
We will gather by ZOOM (feed available starting about 10:45 AM). At the moment, Pastor Reisner and a few others broadcast from the church sanctuary while worshipers will be invited to sign on ZOOM.
Directions on how to connect and participate in virtual worship will be sent via a group.io e-mail. If you are unfamiliar with ZOOM we recommend you read up a little before the service. We will set an informal and experimental mood, ask forgiveness as we stumble along our way in a new medium. It will be fun.
We will set an informal and experimental mood, ask forgiveness as we stumble along our way in a new medium. It will be fun.
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