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life @ the crossing
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Thursday @ 6pm
Worship at St. Paul's Cathedral
2nd Thursdays @ 7:30
Everyone Does Theology
TOPIC: The Cross.
Stay tuned for the start of Winter/Spring Small Groups (1st week in February!)
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 It takes prayer, care, people and money ($30,000 from our own community, to be exact) to bring the ministries of The Crossing to life. If we pool our resources -- and invite others to share, too -- we can do this! Here's how:GIVE NOW: Click DONATE to give right now. And share the link with family, friends and others you think would love to help a ministry like The Crossing flourish.
PLEDGE FOR 2011:Download and fill out this Giving @ The Crossing card to promise your support for the year to come. |
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The Crossing community has been blessed with passionate, gifted members who give a whole lot of themselves for love of God.
If you want to learn more, share more or engage in worship, community or action, please contact the conveners for each of our ministry areas: WORSHIP: where we fall in love with GodIsaac Everett / isaac@thecrossingboston.org
CONTACT US BY PHONE: 617.482.4826, x318 |
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The Crossing is a community that seeks to walk in the life-changing, world-changing Way of Jesus, sharing the love, hope, beauty and justice of God in the city of Boston.
Everybody is welcome to join as we gather for transformative worship, spiritual practice and
authentic community; as we fuse the wisdom and mystery of ancient traditions with that of urban mystics, artists and activists; and as we move out to join God in healing, freeing and blessing all people, communities and the earth.
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I hope most of you enjoyed a much deserved Snow Day today. Some of us -- especially telecommuters like me -- worked the same as always. So unfair! But the grace is that I hit send on the edits
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for a new book that kicks church booty: Elizabeth Drescher's Tweet If You [Heart] Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation.
Will being the editor for this book finally force me to carve more time for Facebook, get a Twitter account and write a more meaty blog? I'm guessing no (but hey, miracles happen!). It has certainly stirred my thinking about the extraordinary community that meets, gathers, shares, prays and nurtures each other in social digital space. And it makes me wonder what the physical church can learn from all of you who are making authentic community happen online, or enriching your face-to-face community with a commitment to listen, attend and connect digitally.
I could tell you more. Instead, you can click the image to the right and go to Elizabeth's homepage.
The book comes out later this spring. The revolution has already begun. Can we keep up? |
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THIS Thursday, Worship @ 6pm
We're walking through the season of Epiphany. This is when Christians everywhere join the wise men following signs of Jesus' light, and becoming manifestations of Christ's life in the world.
Crossing intern for Community Life Jack Jenkins will offer a wise, stunning reflection on John 1:29-42 (scroll down for text).
Everyone Does Theology
2nd Thursdays after worship - FEB. TOPIC: The Cross
Every second Thursday, we head from worship into a free-ranging discussion around the big topics at the core of Christian life. Don't come looking for a single "right" answer, but come looking to journey with some wise, curious and humble folks seeking the mind of Christ.
CONTACT: Keith at keith@thecrossingboston.org to help or get info on future topics.
Winter Small Groups and Spiritual Formation
The Community Life Circle is busy listening and planning winter small groups. Filled out the Small Groups Feedback + Ideas Survey? Then we have your info. If you haven't, or if your info has changed, this is real simple:
Reply to this email and say:
1) you'd like to be part of a group,
2) you would do a weekly +/or every other week gathering,
3) days/time of the week that will work Feb-May (esp. Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays)
For more info, CONTACT a Community Life co-convener:
Keith / keith@thecrossingboston.org
Rev. Steph / revsteph@thecrossingboston.org
Worship Intern/Assistant Needed NOW
Yes, we'll pay you $25 a week for 2 hours of work. Yes, you'll get to work closely with Isaac Everett, Ben Whaley and our awesome Worship Circle leaders. Write prayers, organize set-up and help to make the collaborative project that is our worship happen.
CONTACT Isaac at isaac@thecrossingboston.org.
Communion Delivery / Anytime!
Got a Thursday night class or work? Going through a rough work stretch and can't make a couple of weeks? The Worship Circle is helping to knit all of us together as a body by organizing communion delivery to your house, class ... wherever you need some Jesus! To request communion, help with delivery or just get info, CONTACT Ben at ben@thecrossingboston.org. |
| meditate on this: epiphany | | |
Meditate on this: the gospel for this Sunday (we hear it on Thursday), an icon from Joseph Holston and a prayer for Epiphany ...
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John 1:29-42
John saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, "Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, `After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.' I myself did not know him; but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel." And John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, `He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God."
The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, "Look, here is the Lamb of God!" The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?" He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated Anointed). He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).
A prayer (or "collect") for Epiphany -- from the Book of Common Prayer
Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ's glory, that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen. |
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