Adult Faith Formation
Compline for Advent
Compline is one of the daily offices along with morning prayer, noonday prayer, and evening prayer, and will be said at 7:00 on Monday evenings during Advent. The meetings on December 1, 8, 15, and 22 will give us an opportunity to be part of the blessed waiting of the season. Click below to link to the meeting via Zoom.
Still Waters
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Still Waters Fellowship takes place around a good meal and the exploration of one or more of the traditional practices that can help us grow in our relationship to God. All are welcome! RSVPs are encouraged in the interest of
meal planning.
Our next gathering will be on Saturday, December 20, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the home of Roger Parker. For more information or to RSVP to Roger, click on the link below.
Bible Study
We meet every Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. in the church library. Our hour consists of communal prayer, attention to scripture as it applies to our lives, and fellowship.
Wednesday Bible Study will resume on January 7, the day after the feast day of Epiphany, the last day of Christmastide and the first day of the Epiphany season. We will have a modest celebration to celebrate the season. The topic of study will be the Plan of God as found in scripture (which is really all about the Plan of God), what the place of humankind is in the Plan, and what it says to the 21st century.
Psalm/canticle of the week for December 21: Psalm 80: 1-7, 16-18, Qui regis Israel (Who is King in Israel)
Note the descriptions of the God to whom this plaintive psalm if prayer. What kind of person would
have made these laments and what are the problems being addressed? To get the full meaning of this psalm/
prayer, read all of it. Do you ever feel that you need to be delivered from the situation in which you are now
living? We all have times like that, but do we remember to call on God for what we need? What qualities are
used to describe God and what actions are asked for? Think about what the "vine out of Egypt" might mean.
Verse 17 has the speaker make a promise. Note the way that verses 16-18 are a conclusion to the rest of the
psalm. Is this a negotiation, a covenant? I wonder about the importance of being "given life" for a particular
reason. This may speak to the individual's relationship to God and a life of prayer. "The light of your
countenance and we shall be saved." Think about why this text is stated twice and meditate about this light.
There are other references to this light in scripture. Until next week.....Amen