Category Archives: Liturgies

Download this post as an rtf file: cel harvest notes HARVEST FESTIVAL ORDER OF SERVICE Opening Statement Creator God, breathing your own life into our being, you give us the gift of life. You placed us on this earth with its … Continue reading →

Theme: Cosmos Sunday, by Keith Innes Proverbs 8:22-31 The wisdom of God is fundamental to the universe. God’s wisdom is older than the earth (22-26), and is concerned with establishing God-given limits and boundaries (27-29). Wisdom rejoices (or plays) in … Continue reading →

Theme: Storm Sunday, by Keith Innes  Job 28:20-27 Unlike precious minerals, which can be extracted by miners deep underground (1-10), wisdom, though of surpassing value, is absolutely elusive, hidden from all living creatures and even from the realm of the … Continue reading →

Theme: Fauna Sunday, by Keith Innes Job 39:1-8, 26-30 In this passage God challenges Job as to his knowledge of wild creatures: the mountain goats (1-4), the wild donkey (5-8) and the birds of prey (26-28). The context of the … Continue reading →

Theme: Ocean Sunday, by Keith Innes Job 38:1-18 Our human words and ideas can obscure and confuse God’s wisdom, hindering ourselves and others from receiving it (2). Job is challenged to declare how much he knows of the origins of … Continue reading →

Theme: River Sunday, by Keith Innes Genesis 8:20-22; 9:12 -17 In the Flood story water is destructive, an instrument of judgment. The ‘Cosmic Covenant’ includes the promise that God will not repeat this wholesale destruction ( 8:21 ; 9:11 ). … Continue reading →

Theme:Outback/Wilderness Sunday, by Keith Innes Joel 1:8-10; 17-20 A horrifying picture of the devastation caused to human society as a result of locusts (4) and drought (20). The devastation is seen as a judgment from God – a foretaste of … Continue reading →

Theme: Land Sunday, by Keith Innes Genesis 3:14-19; 4:8-16 3:17 -19: The relationship of humans with the land is disrupted so that work becomes toil: irksome and discouraging (cf. Ecclesiastes 1:8). ‘Human wilfulness and human sin have in innumerable ways … Continue reading →