Mike and Blythe have sent through photos of the basement space, which look great. At some point i’ll put up a fuller description of the space, but – like everyone at the moment – i’m hurtling from one event to the next just now, and there’s not time to think about tomorrow, let alone remember…
i wanted to get that last post off the top… and in the temporary absence of good photos of Sunday’s space, i’ll put up one taken on my phone of the entry to the basement! It was kind of a retro ‘christmas at our house’ space. I really liked it. We’re learning that we can’t…
The context and intro to this worship can be found here The gathering and station 1 can be found here Stations 2 and 3 can be found here. Station 4 The table was laid out with a bowl of tiny kewpie dolls… Advent can be cruel for anyone who has longed for a pregnancy –…
The context and intro to this worship can be found here The gathering and station 1 can be found here Station 2 The space was laid out with magnetic poetry and two readings: morning sickness [a pre-magnificat] and the magnificat from Luke’s Gospel. Read the two poems: one biblical, one not – both faithful. Is…
an intro to this worship can be found here Gathering As people gathered, we had a clip looping of a baby in-utero, taken from the BBC series The Human Body, with the vocal track from Lamb’s ‘Heaven’ playing over the top [Craig Mitchell sent me the vocal track a couple of years ago. I don’t…
I was in Benalla yesterday, a country town a few hours north of Melbourne. I was leading worship for a group at the Uniting Church last night, and then staying for dinner and a conversation. It’s not the sort of gig I normally do, but Benalla has a fabulous art gallery, I like the people…
The world has given up hoping and maybe we have too. In this advent be blessed with courage to hear the call of faith – to believe that love is being shaped right now in the womb-space of a waiting world and to live as though the miracle of its birth is waiting only for…
[a teaser for worship in Benalla next weekend, heading into advent… the theme is ‘a pregnant pause’] we are tempted to think that this is out of character for you a momentary fragility [showing your tender side] that once the christmas carols are finished and the decorations are put away, you’ll get back to power…
i mentioned in an earlier post that we’re curating a basement space for christmas this year. just to clarify, the space is open to everyone, but I’m not putting details up here because we want to keep track of who’s coming – and we want to send you an invitation in the mail! please email…
[for a space in Benalla in a couple of weeks… we’re going to explore waiting through the characters in the advent story… this will need work if we’re going to use it – i like the idea more than the execution] what was it like for you, god, when you were waiting for your child…
