by Justin Marple | Aug 29, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! In the last issue I reflected on how we hear the word so that our lives are transformed. We are to listen to the reading and preaching of Scripture expecting to think differently, to want differently, and to imagine a...
by Justin Marple | Jul 24, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! Thanks for all of your prayers for me and for Tim Devine (who sends his best to you) and the rest of the commissioners at the General Assembly (GA). Also, I discovered after coming that Sarah Erckert (who will be coming to...
by Justin Marple | Jun 26, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! In this edition of “Pastor’s Green Pastures” we are continuing our way through the order of worship. We have heard the call to come up the invisible Mount Zion. We have ascended that holy hill through the Prayer of...
by Justin Marple | May 22, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
On the prayer of adoration… Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! We live in a day and age when visual entertainment is all the rage. Video games and movies often seek to bring us a rush that short-circuits our minds.1 It is not unusual then to expect that...
by Justin Marple | May 1, 2014 | COMMUNITY
Asked to lead the portion on business at the National Day of Prayer service in Wheatfield, New York, the following is the prayer that I prepared: Heavenly Father, we come seeking shalom for the marketplace – in the fullest sense of the Hebrew word we ask for...
by Justin Marple | Apr 24, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! At a time when many on the rolls of American churches have come to believe that attending church is a good thing, like taking your vitamins, but that it is just one option among many for good health, it is all the more...
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