Progressive, affirming, questing in Warrnambool, Victoria
Sanctuary is taking a summer break. We’ve unearthed a few gems from the archives to pop up on the website while we’re on leave, with a special focus on praying outdoors, and we’ll be back with fresh content late January. If you need to contact us in the meantime, email sanctuary.baptist.warrnambool@gmail.com, and a church leader will get back to you. Peace.
Sanctuary is taking a summer break. We’ve unearthed a few gems from the archives to pop up on the website while we’re away, and we’ll be back with fresh content mid-January. If you need to contact us in the meantime, email sanctuary.baptist.warrnambool@gmail.com, and a church leader will get back to you. Peace.
I’ve been wondering how to help households have more conversations about faith, perhaps while driving together in the car, perhaps over the dinner table. So this is a little experiment, the idea being, if you have five minutes, you can pull out your phone, pull up a cartalk / tabletalk, and do it with your kids. If you give it a go, please let me know! This time, we’ll look at the reading we just heard on Sunday, when Abraham welcomes some suprising visitors. Continue reading “Cartalk / Tabletalk: Some surprising visitors”
Sanctuary is taking a break for a few weeks. We’ll be back on Sunday 12 January at 4.15pm to celebrate Epiphany (the visit of the magi, wise men, numerologists …). If you need to contact us in the meantime, email sanctuary.baptist.warrnambool@gmail.com, and a church leader will get back to you. Peace.
A dispute also arose among Jesus’ disciples as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, ‘The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.’ (Luke 22:24-27)
During World War II, a German widow hid Jewish refugees in her home. As her friends discovered the situation, they became extremely alarmed.
‘You are risking your own well-being,’ they said.
‘I know that,’ she replied.
‘Then why,’ they demanded, ‘do you persist in this foolishness?’
Her answer was stark and to the point. ‘I am doing it,’ she said, ‘because the time is now and I am here.’
© Joan Chittister in Songs of the Heart. John Garratt Publishing, 2011. #40ways40days. Image credit: Shelley Knoll-Miller. Used with permission of the artist.
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