48 min
Year A, Lent 4, 2020 – Ultraviolet Light More Than Hearing
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- Christianity
Hey all! We suspect you are listening to this podcast being careful to keep a social distance from others. The spread of COVID-19 has caught many of us unprepared and is stressing our resources and sense of security. Introverts the world over may be happy to stay away from people while extroverts are itching to get back out to their people as soon as possible. In this episode, David and I spend a little time talking about what this means for worshipping communities in the weeks ahead and offer a prayer I found online. Technology can be a wonderful thing! We pray you are well and are finding this unexpected fast from everything this Lent to be a time for reflection and re-ordering priorities. May your lives be blessed.
Three years ago, we titled the podcast for this episode Seeing is Believing. Samuel saw one thing when he saw Jesse’s sons but maybe didn’t believe he had heard God right when each one was rejected as king. We explored the way humans respond to physical stature when looking for a leader. Paul tells the Ephesians that they’ve received light through Jesus, so go live like it. We found a lot of poetry in the passage! In John, we have another long narrative that we transformed into a Reader’s Theater. Which we mentioned again in this podcast, so go have a look at the script already written!
By the way, as we did last week, we recorded this “live,” as we call it. That means we are coming up with ideas while we are recording without as much preparation. It makes it a lively exercise, although it’s a little more chaotic. What do you think – Are we as creative and clever when we go live? Share your comments below or on our Facebook page.
John 9:1-41 – [06:47]
John 9:1-41 – worksheetDownload
This passage is one long drama – full of PEOPLE smart elements! We wrote a Reader’s Theatre script three years ago, so download it and see if you can get it to work for you. I ran across a fascinating essay by Barbara Brown Taylor (linked below) about a man’s experience with his own inner light after he lost his sight as a child. Is is possible we all have this? Jesus uses mud and saliva to heal the blind man’s vision which we talked about three years ago, as well. Is it possible there were some healing properties in each? Jesus tells the man that he is the light of the world before he applies this mixture. In this passage, the man knows he has received this light and his sight, but others are still in the dark about the whole thing. They can’t see the light, so does it exist? Break out some fluorescent markers and a black light (see Ephesians below) and explore what we can, can’t, and won’t see.
* BODY smart – commentary by Barbara Brown Taylor
Ephesians 5:8-14 – [19:42]
Ephesians 5:8-14 – worksheeta href="https://morethanhearing.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ephesians-5_8-14.
Hey all! We suspect you are listening to this podcast being careful to keep a social distance from others. The spread of COVID-19 has caught many of us unprepared and is stressing our resources and sense of security. Introverts the world over may be happy to stay away from people while extroverts are itching to get back out to their people as soon as possible. In this episode, David and I spend a little time talking about what this means for worshipping communities in the weeks ahead and offer a prayer I found online. Technology can be a wonderful thing! We pray you are well and are finding this unexpected fast from everything this Lent to be a time for reflection and re-ordering priorities. May your lives be blessed.
Three years ago, we titled the podcast for this episode Seeing is Believing. Samuel saw one thing when he saw Jesse’s sons but maybe didn’t believe he had heard God right when each one was rejected as king. We explored the way humans respond to physical stature when looking for a leader. Paul tells the Ephesians that they’ve received light through Jesus, so go live like it. We found a lot of poetry in the passage! In John, we have another long narrative that we transformed into a Reader’s Theater. Which we mentioned again in this podcast, so go have a look at the script already written!
By the way, as we did last week, we recorded this “live,” as we call it. That means we are coming up with ideas while we are recording without as much preparation. It makes it a lively exercise, although it’s a little more chaotic. What do you think – Are we as creative and clever when we go live? Share your comments below or on our Facebook page.
John 9:1-41 – [06:47]
John 9:1-41 – worksheetDownload
This passage is one long drama – full of PEOPLE smart elements! We wrote a Reader’s Theatre script three years ago, so download it and see if you can get it to work for you. I ran across a fascinating essay by Barbara Brown Taylor (linked below) about a man’s experience with his own inner light after he lost his sight as a child. Is is possible we all have this? Jesus uses mud and saliva to heal the blind man’s vision which we talked about three years ago, as well. Is it possible there were some healing properties in each? Jesus tells the man that he is the light of the world before he applies this mixture. In this passage, the man knows he has received this light and his sight, but others are still in the dark about the whole thing. They can’t see the light, so does it exist? Break out some fluorescent markers and a black light (see Ephesians below) and explore what we can, can’t, and won’t see.
* BODY smart – commentary by Barbara Brown Taylor
Ephesians 5:8-14 – [19:42]
Ephesians 5:8-14 – worksheeta href="https://morethanhearing.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ephesians-5_8-14.
48 min