Anchor & Hope Blog

  • The Third Sunday of Advent Centering Practice  Advent is a season of waiting & expectation. Today, we invite you to center your whole self in the joy of Christ. Lighting of the Advent Candles Week Three: The Candle of Joy Reader 1We give thanks for the light of Christ, shining in the lives of all God’s…

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  • The First Sunday of Advent Centering Practice  Advent is a season of waiting & expectation. Today, we invite you to center your whole self in the hope of Christ. Lighting of the Advent Candles Week One: The Candle of Hope Reader 1We give thanks for the light of Christ, shining in the lives of all God’s…

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  • Centering Practice  Take a full 10 seconds of silence before engaging other work Set the Table Together What will build togetherness?  Worship Songs You Hold It All Together God of my present God of my future You write my story You hold it all together You come at the right timeWhen I least expect itNever…

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  • Centering Practice  Deep breath of gratitude Call to Worship/Creed The Spirit calls us from many placesand invites us to find our home in Christ,together as God’s people. God sets the lonely in families.There are no outsiders here.We are welcomed and embraced by love.Amen. Worship Songs Oh Our Lord We behold the breaking dawnThe light that…

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  • There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of the things of space, becomes our sole concern.…

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  • Centering Practice  Deep breath of gratitude & imagination Call to Worship/Creed For we are the product of God’s hand,heaven’s poetry etched on lives,created in the Anointed, Jesus,  to accomplish the good worksGod arranged long ago.Amen. Worship Songs Called Me Higher I could just sitI could just sit and wait for all Your goodnessHope to feel…

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  • Centering Practice  Stand, make a little room, and get ready to stretch Call to Worship/Creed Jesus said the most important commandment is this:Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.You shall love the Lord your God With all your heart and with all your soul,and with all your mind and with all…

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  • Centering Practice  Stand, deep breath of gratitude Call to Worship/Creed God sets the lonely in families.We are seen and welcomed by God,and included in the family of Christ. We open our lives to those around us,inviting them to find belonging and loveas we follow Jesus together. Amen.  Worship Songs Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly…

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  • World Communion Sunday Centering Practice  Deep breath of gratitude Call to Worship/Creed God invites us to the table of grace.We have come from east and west,from north and south, in faith and love. Here we find the Bread of Life and Living Water,the gifts of God for the people of God.Let us taste and see…

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  • Centering Practice  Deep breath of gratitude Call to Worship/Creed The Lord our God is in our midst.God is a mighty Savior.The Lord delights in us with gladness! With renewing love,God will calm all our fears.The Lord rejoices over us with joyful songs!Amen. Worship Songs The Love of the Father Lift up your voices and lift…

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