Extravagant Love (Lent, 2009)

A collection of creative worship tools for your church at Lent and Eastertide.

Contents:

Lectionary text for Lent – page 3
Repentance and Ashes : thoughts for Ash Wednesday – page 4
Extravagant Faith : a sermon – page 5
A Lesson from Babette : thoughts about extravagant gifts – page 8
Bookmark – page 8
For Liberty to Free the Soul: a poem – page 9
Mary of Bethany: a monologue for children – page 10
Beloved: a nested meditation – page 11
Jesus and the Feast of Fools: thoughts for Palm Sunday – page 12
Lectionary texts for Easter Sunday – page 13
Quotes, Poems & Pithy Sayings – page 14
The Loving Father: a nested meditation – page 15
While Looking on a Crucifix: a poem – page 16
That’s All Well and Good, but What Do We Do Now? thoughts about life after Easter – page 17
Resurrection by Bread: a poem – page 18
With Our Own Eyes: seven monologues about the resurrection appearances: Three Women at the Tomb, Mary Magdalene, Thomas, part 1, The Incident at Emmaus, Thomas, part 2, Breakfast by the Sea, The Ascension – page 19
25 Benediction – page 25

Hunger and the Bible

Jeremiah 22:13-16

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages; who says, ‘I will build myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,’ and who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion. Are you a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me?” says the Lord.