By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Micah 6:1-8 Imagine yourself in the forest that we just heard about during Children’s Time. What do you think you’d be noticing if you were in the forest? Maybe the sound of birds or the height of the trees? Maybe the skittering of the squirrels, rustling the leaves as they bound…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk This sermon is the third in our Advent Series, “Embracing Our Chaotic, Fertile Reality,” which is based in prophecies from Isaiah as well as the wisdom of a modern-day prophet, adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy. Isaiah 35:1-10 There is so much beauty and abundance in this passage from Isaiah….
by Joanna Lawrence Shenk Mark 4:30-32 I am connected. I am connected to my body, to the Spirit and to the earth. I am earth. Those are the intentions I chose for myself while on the wilderness vigil last month. For four days and four nights I was alone in the woods without food. Seven…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Psalm 146 About a decade ago when I was visiting some friends in Pittsburgh, they suggested we go for a walk around the beautiful grounds of the Henry Clay Frick estate. As we walked the grounds I began to feel sick to my stomach. I wondered, what did this Frick guy…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Acts 2:1-18 A few years ago when I preached on Pentecost, I shared about the Jewish holiday Shavuot. This holiday, observed seven weeks after Passover, is the reason why people from so many places were in Jerusalem. Shavuot is the celebration of God giving the Torah to the Hebrew people at…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Psalm 23 This beloved psalm contains so many vivid images. I wonder about the ones that stick out to you, maybe a phrase you noticed in childhood or an image that has become meaningful to you over the years? I know for me I was confused by the first two lines…
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