Worship Quotables

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• Good Friday Is Good
  This day is good precisely because God was in control at Calvary. The crucifixion of Jesus was not some bad deal that God had to try to make the best of; it was a working out of divine intention with a view to the salvation of an otherwise doomed creation. —Laurence Hill Stookey, Calendar: Christ’s Time […]
• Lavish Worship (A Holy Week Meditation)
  And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the […]
• Becoming
  When we gather together to worship, we are indeed becoming what we are called to be.  —Edith Humphrey, Grand Entrance: Worship on Earth as in Heaven, 3
• Through the Son
  One cannot know the full implications of God the Father until one understands truly that there is God the Son. —Edith M. Humphrey, “The Gift of the Father: Looking at Salvation History Upside Down,” in Trinitarian Theology for the Church: Scripture, Community, Worship, 91 n6 “Oh come to the Father through Jesus the Son,And give […]