I noticed Elysia and Gareth’s favorite part as we’ve been doing FAITH 5 for quite a while (maybe 2 years?) is the part where we bless each other as we hook our little fingers, and give each other a great hug. Okay, I must admit. It’s one of my favorite parts too. The practice…
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Sivin Kit on the Good News
Dream Awakener JR Woodward was kind to invite me to contribute for an on-going blog series called The Good News, which is taking place throughout the Easter Season, from Easter to Pentecost. Please read on below, and check out the others on JR’s site. * * * Sivin Kit on The Good News 04.17.2009 Illustration…
Christ Is Risen: Easter 2009 at BLC
I’ll just put up three videos with a reflection from Upper Room Daily Reflections and one prayer. BLC’s Easter Worship 2009 – How Great is Our God! from Sivin Kit on Vimeo. ON EASTER morning, we celebrate Christ’s resurrection, which is more than just a return to life; it is a new, stronger, never-ending life….
Good Friday: From the Heart of God
Good Friday opens up the chance for me to conduct the Tenebrae Service. And we did it with some adaptation with the Seven Last Words of Jesus, relevant passages with prayers tonight. We ended with Psalm 51 and dismissed quietly while singing the Taize Chant I’ll use the full outline from Upper Room Daily Reflections…
Maundy Thursday & A Ritual of Remembrance
IN THE PASSOVER MEAL we have come to call the Last Supper, Jesus chooses to share himself – his very body and blood – with his dearest friends. Christ gives not only bread and wine to his disciples present in that moment, but he also gives them a ritual of remembrance. . His intimate,…
A Third Way for Congregations and the word “And”!
I missed out on the following paragraph from Changing the Conversation: A third way for congregations which I thought is worth some blog space. In these third-way congregations, spirituality is real and worship is vital. God is alive and people are engaged in practicing and expressing faith. That is, they are living their faith in…
Introduction to Godly Play
It’s nice to watch glimpses of a lesson done with the presence of children around the storyteller. It’s more than skill, it’s about the storyteller embodying the significance of the stories they are communicating. The discovery of insights from Godly Play actually benefitted me more than I realized. even though the initial prompting was more…
A Third Way for Congregations?
I’m still reading Changing the Conversation: A third way for congregations and using the book as a point for self-reflection. The blog posts here slows me down and pulls me back to the chapters I’ve already read which is good. So, there is a back and forth movement. I’m already into the chapter “Conversation Four:…
Godly Play: The Great Family
I’ve been thinking about Godly Play. I wonder how we can reengage the best of what it has thought us.
Changing the Conversation: A third way for congregations.
I’ve always loved the word “conversation”. I prefer it over other words like “dialogue” or “movement” (depending on which end of the spectrum one is in whether activism or quietism or whatever pole one chooses. Happy Birthday Bangsar Lutheran Church! It’s fascinating after all these years, I find myself returning to the basic questions…