The full version, and fully designed PDF can be purchased here for printing (small fee), but this is a sample below.

Hope my friends don’t mind if I ask for the price of a bagel and coffee for it. It’s an artist’s time and energy thing, and I have teenagers to raise. If you really can’t afford the $5, just let me know and I’ll email you one.

INCARNATION: A Christmas Reading
by Dan Wilt, M.Min.

Celebrant: The fire of heaven has taken on flesh.
Community: Living God, You are the Wonderful Counselor.

Celebrant: The voice of stars and suns is now audible to our ears.
Community: Living God, You are the Mighty God.

Celebrant: The love that binds all the cosmos has revealed Himself.
Community: Living God, You are the Everlasting Father.

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It goes on from here to invite the whole community into engagement with the God who intervenes in a world He is righting. Hope it can serve your community this Advent and Christmas.

Click here if you’d like the full version.

Acts of worship (I’m specifically speaking now of worship through sacramental expression) are most fully about reclaiming memory.

When we remember, we connect, we pray, we offer, we delight, we repent, we appreciate, we hope, we help.

We all suffer from an amnesia, or loss of memory, that keeps us distant from our original Relational Center, and that ultimately destroys our right-relatedness to the rest of creation – both animate and inanimate. The term “anamnesis” is a term that speaks of an intense experience of memory that virtually places us as an actor within the story once again. We long for such an experience as this when it comes to our origin story. As Madeleine L’ Engel said, “I can’t wait until I remember how to walk on water.” Worship hearkens back to that state of affairs, and moves us in a circular destiny toward our original meaning.

When we worship, we remember who we are, our context in this vast universe, and our responsibilities born of our stewardship vocation before God. When we worship, we delight in the correct center of universal reality – an eternal Person.

To create these liminal spaces, these threshold venues of connection again to our gifted past as we connect to the One who tethers us to that past, is the role of the one who purposes to lead others into worship.

We are MemoryBearers, ThresholdCrafters, EdenReminders – when we lead worship.

Our summer online course, Essentials Blue: Online Studies In Worship Theology and Biblical Worldview is just wrapping up, and our students are getting creative. It’s been an amazing time growing and learning together as worship leaders and creative influencers, and now it’s time to put feet to the learning.

Each of our students has been asked to present a “creative project” of some sort that meets our criteria, and embodies some aspect of theological/worldview insight(s) they gleaned from the course. We’re excited about what is coming in.

Posted in the comments section of this post will be links to their projects. Enjoy, and let them know what you think! It may take a few days for their links to get up here.