At Table Together!
Bring a plate to share for tea, as we enjoy conversation together & discuss some more of those questions we raised a few weeks ago.
We're meeting at 10 Kingsbury Court, Diamond Creek
Note: We're not at UCA, 97 Schotters Rd, Mernda this week
Note: It's 5:00pm-6:30pm not 4:30pm for this week.
By the way -- if you want to refresh your memory about those many hard questions go HERE
If you missed out on our gathering (4/5) or you want to review the first session, you can do that here.
Pete's summary points:
If you want to explore ahead, here's where you can find all the Prayer Course resources - HERE
This term we will be deep diving into the "The Lord's Prayer."
You can check out the prayer HERE
We're going to use the awesome 'Prayer Course' to guide our discussions, and discover the profound truths in this prayer Jesus taught his disciples.
There are eight topics around eight short and easy to follow video-sessions.
We'll be getting into these about every second or third week.
This week, our first, we're looking at Jesus' intro to the prayer:
#1 "Lord, teach us to Pray" - Why Pray?
Video & discussion around the "Prayer Course session:1."
Light refreshments.
UCA, 97 Schotters Rd, Mernda
PS. If you can't make it next Sunday, or want to re-watch the session:1 video, go HERE
This coming Sunday at Haven (4:30pm 27/4), we gather around the Lord's Table and focus on the One who died and rose again for us. We’re also going to contemplate what is called ‘The Lord’s Prayer.’
The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, when they asked him how they should pray.
Most Christians know the prayer by heart in their own language, and it is used today by every Christian tradition, though there are sometimes minor variations in the wording. The prayer is a pattern or template showing the key ingredients of true prayer:
I think the best remembered version is in an older language style:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
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| 'Palm Sunday' by John Swanson |
Jesus comes to the gate, to the synagogue,
to houses prepared for wedding parties,
to the pools where people wait to be healed,
to the temple where lambs are sold,
to gardens, beautiful in the moonlight.
He comes to the governor’s palace.
Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you,
to new subdivisions and trailer parks,
to penthouses and basement apartments,
to the factory, the hospital and the Cinema complex,
to the big to the big shopping centre centre & to churches,
with the same old same old message,
unchanged from the beginning of time.
Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you
with his Good News and…
Hope erupts! Joy springs forth!
The very stones cry out,
“Hosanna in the highest,
blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
The crowds jostle and push,
they can’t get close enough!
People running alongside
flinging down their coats before him!
Jesus, the parade marshal, waving, smiling.
The paparazzi elbow for room,
looking for that perfect picture for the headline,
“The Man Who Would Be King”.
Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you
and gets the red carpet treatment.
Children waving real palm branches from the florist,
silk palm branches from K-mart,
palms made from green art paper.
Hosannas ringing in churches, chapels, cathedrals,
in monasteries, basilicas and home-meetings.
King Jesus, honoured in a thousand hymns
in Canada, Cameroon, Calcutta and Canberra.
We LOVE this great big powerful capital K-King Jesus
coming in glory and splendor and majesty
and awe and power and might.
Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you.
Kingly, he takes a towel and washes feet.
With majesty, he serves bread and wine.
With honour, he prays all night.
With power, he puts on chains.
Jesus, King of all creation, appears in state
in the eyes of the prisoner,
the AIDS orphan, the crack addict,
asking for one cup of cold water,
one coat shared with someone who has none,
one heart, yours,
and a second mile.
Jesus comes to Jerusalem, the city nearest you.
Can you see him?
Adapted from a piece by Contemporary Canadian poet Carol Penner, a Mennonite pastor, who reminds us that the events of Palm Sunday and Holy Week are not simply historical events; they are present realities.
