Scripture Text: 1 Peter 2:4-10 and Hebrews 10:19-25

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary

I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet. But what I crave is novelty and stimulation.

James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom

Being a disciple of Jesus is not primarily a matter of getting the right ideas and doctrines and beliefs into your head in order to guarantee proper behavior; rather, it's a matter of being the kind of person who loves rightly--who loves God and neighbor and is oriented to the world by the primacy of that love. We are made to be such people by our immersion in the material practices of Christian worship--through affective impact, over time, of ...