May 23, 2009 Gathering - BBQ Afterward!!

WELCOME

 

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!  

 

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

 

OPENING READING

By Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook (p. 120)

 

This I have always known – that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.

 

SILENT MEDITATION

Be Still and Aware of the Divine presence within and all around us.

 

TELLING OUR STORY

 

PEACE – TOAST

 

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

 

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

 

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

 

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Mark 2: 13-22

 

Again, he went out by the sea. And with a huge crowd gathered around him, he started teaching. 

¹⁴As he was walking along, he caught sight of Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the toll booth, and he says to him, “Follow me!” And he got up and followed him. ¹⁵ Then, Jesus happened to recline at table in (Levi’s) house, along with many toll collectors and sinners and Jesus’ disciples. (Remember, there were many of these people and they were all following him.) ¹⁶And whenever the Pharisees’ scholars saw him eating with sinners and toll collectors, they would question his disciples: “What’s he doing eating with the toll collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷When Jesus overhears, he says to them: “Since when do the able-bodied need a doctor? It’s the sick who do. I did not come to enlist religious folks but sinners!”

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were in the habit of fasting, and they come and ask him, “Why do the disciples of John fast and the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples don’t?” ¹⁹And Jesus says to them: “The groom’s friends can’t fast while the groom is around, can they? So long as the groom is around, you can’t expect them to fast. ²⁰But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast, on that day.

²¹“Nobody sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, otherwise, the new, unshrunk patch pulls away from the old and creates a worse tear. ²²And nobody pours young wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and destroy both the wine and the skins. Instead, young wine is for new wineskins.

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·        Thoughts on today’s reading.

·        Questions?

·        Why don’t religious folks need a doctor?

 

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

 THE INVITATION

One:  God is with us.

All:  Yes she is.

 

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

CLOSING PRAYER

 

Great, living God, never fully known,

joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,

closer yet than breathing,

go with us now as we continue to drink in the spirit! 

May 16, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by John Gerard

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!  

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

By Alfonso Ortiz, Earth Prayers (p. 125) 

Within and around the earth,

within and around the hills,

within and around the mountains,

your authority returns to you.

TELLING OUR STORY

 

PEACE – TOAST 

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By John

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Mark 2: 1-12 

Some days later he went back to Capernaum and was rumored to be at home. And many people crowded around so there was no longer any room, even outside the door. Then he started speaking to them. Some people then show up with a paralytic being carried by four of them. And when they were not able to get near him on account of the crowd, they removed the roof above him. After digging it out, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus noticed their trust, he says to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”

Some of the scholars were sitting there and listening wondering: “Why does that fellow say such things? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except the one God?”

            And right away, because Jesus sensed in his spirit that they were raising questions like this among themselves, he says to them: “Why do you entertain questions about these things? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat and walk’?” But so that you may realize that on earth the son of Adam has authority to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic, “You there, get up, pick up your mat and go home!”

            And he got up, picked his mat right up, and walked out as everyone looked on. So they all became ecstatic, extolled God, and exclaimed, “We’ve never seen the likes of this!”

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·        Thoughts on today’s reading – Great News?

·        Interruptions – what do we do with them?

·        Healed to go?

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

 THE INVITATION

One:  God is with us.

All:  Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

When will you be Angelic? When will you take off your clothes? When will you look at yourself through the grave? When will you live with naked honesty? When will the world of “heaven” meet the world of earth?’ Until we meet again, let us keep these challenges close to heart. And continue to drink in the spirit!

POSTLUDE

By John

May 9, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Andrew Prete 

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!  

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space. 

OPENING PRAYER

by Pat Kozak, Life Prayers (p. 193)

Rise up, child of earth

Let life rise up in you,

full-term, new-born.

Time enough in wondrous darkness,

Echoed sounds of voices, stirrings,

splashings of new life.

Relinquish to memory this one mystery

We yearn to know and will again

in after-death.

So much latent

still to rise

Until our risings lifts us to a depth

that questions every truth

we’ve ever known.

 

Mud-stirred of first clay.

Plaything of a potter who fell in love

with her hands’ work.

Blessed be her handiwork.

Blessed be the work of her hands.

Blessed be.

TELLING OUR STORY

First pub church stories 

PEACE – TOAST 

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Andrew 

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Mark 1:1-8 

The good news of Jesus the Anointed begins with something Isaiah the prophet wrote:

            Here is my messenger,

            whom I send on ahead of you

            to prepare your way!

            A voice of someone shouting in the wilderness:

            “Make ready the way of the Lord,

            Make his paths straight.”

So John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness calling for baptism and a change of heart that lead to forgiveness of sins.

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·        Thoughts on today’s reading – Great News!

·        What we stated with; who are are; how we are to continue

·        Stop, start, continue

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

 THE INVITATION

One:  God is with us.

All:  Yes she is. 

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

 When will you be Angelic?

POSTLUDE

By Andrew 

April 18th, 2009 - Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Andrew Prete

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! We are a church in a pub and the Spirit is with us. In this space you are free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express your ideas openly! 

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

John 13: 34-35

‘A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’

God, help us to fulfill your commandment and not stumble over lesser things. 

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST 

In this place we creatively express; 

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Andrew

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Psalm 133

1How very good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters live together in unity! 

2It is like the precious oil on the head, running down upon the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down over the collar of his robes. 

3It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord ordained his blessing, life forevermore. 

Leviticus 8:10-12

10Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 11He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. 12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to sanctify him.

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• Thoughts on today’s reading

• Thoughts on Easter

• Comments or thoughts on sanctification

COMMUNION AND SHARING OF RESOURCES

THE INVITATION

One: God is with us. 

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Updates on thepubchurch.blogspot.

ONE year Anniversary Celebration! 

BENEDICTION

Love one another and through this sacred love be sanctified. Go in peace, Amen.

POSTLUDE

By Andrew