Lectionary Ruminations: Scripture for Worship on November 29, 2009
Here are the passages for November 29th, 2009, the First Sunday of Advent (Year C).  Although the month of November isn't even over yet, it's New Year's time on the liturgical calendar.  This is because the liturgical calendar starts with the season of advent: the four

Advent Prayers 2009: Call to Worship & Themes
November 29, 2009 - First Sunday of Advent  (purple candle, theme is Hope)• December 6, 2009 - Second Sunday of Advent  (purple candle, theme is Love)• December 13, 2009 - Third Sunday of Advent  (purple or pink candle, theme is Joy)• D

Welcome
Welcome to Matthew Camlin, Minister of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA), husband, and father of three children.  Rev. Camlin blogs at The Solitary Broom Tree.Over eight years of the ordained life, I have returned again and again to this chapter in 1 Kings, so fraught with evocative imagery and poignancy, and found echoes of my own spiritual journey. I have read it and found myself in the clinically depressed prophet who "sat down under a solitary broom tree" and asked that he might die. I have read it and found myself in the prophet of God on the run from those

Thursday Read and Learn: About BSD
Justice Seeker suggested that I write a post about the very successful Bible Study Discussion program at my church and share how it is set up and why it has been so well-received throughout our community.First the caveat--I am relatively new to the program, so I don't have personal ex

Lectionary Ruminations: Scripture for Worship on November 22, 2009
Here are the passages for November 22nd, 2009, Christ the King Sunday (Year B).  Christ the King Sunday (some churches may refer to this Sunday as "Reign of Christ Sunday") is the last Sunday of the liturgical calendar, and is one that many Christians (let alone many Presbyt