We
all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises
can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.
Today's meditation features a song
by composer Eric Whitacre. "Alleluia" is a stunning and
resounding piece of music that will help us greet the new week with greater
clarity and hope.
I am an experienced hearer, teacher and preacher of the gospel. This began early in life, in the Congregational Church where I was I raised and my father was a pastor. Over the years, I have heard the perspective of many different denominations including: United Church of Christ, Church of Religious Science, Anglican and a union congregation of Presbyterians and United Methodists. My teaching began as an Elder. My preaching began as a Lay Speaker. At San Francisco Theological Seminary I earned a Master of Divinity Degree. In 2000, I was ordained as a Minister in the UCC. I have served city, village and suburban churches. My lay service was in an interracial inner city neighborhood. As a teacher and preacher, as a lay leader and as a minister, I have consistently taken a different approach. Most Bible study and sermons are based on single passages or a single line of text. But I explored linkages between several passages. Every week for years I wove together ideas from the assigned gospel, the other New Testament passage, the weekly psalm and passage from the Hebrew scripture. To prepare for this holistic approach I read the entire bible.
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