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Rev. Dennis Hendricksen
Synod
Worship Co-ordinator
4825 Dewdney Avenue
Regina, SK S4T 1B7
Phone: (306) 352-4832
Email: dennisdh@sasktel.net
This study on "A Lutheran
Reading of Scripture for Faithful Conversation" was requested
by the Saskatchewan Synod
Council to assist our members to discuss with
care the question of how our church will regard gay and lesbian persons in
our church and in society.
It is posted on the Synod
Website for use by Synod
congregations and delegates for study prior
to the 2005 ELCIC National Convention.
The sources for the material included here
include: Faithful Conversations: Christian Perspectives on
Homosexuality, James M Childs Jr, ed. Augsburg Fortress, 2003; and
essays from the ELCIC collection "Considering the Matter of Same-Sex
Blessings" published on the ELCIC website at www.elcic.ca
, especially the essay A Lutheran Approach to the New Testament—A
Hermeneutic of Grace.
The study includes a slide presentation
with commentary, a Bible study on Romans 1:26-27, an outline of the
presentation, and a copy of the ELCIC resolution for July 2005 convention
consideration. The presentation and study were developed by Bishop Cindy
Halmarson and Rev Roger Haugen for the Sask Synod
Conference Conventions 2005.
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The
handout is a brief overview of the presentation. A copy should be
provided to all participants in the study.
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The
Romans text is necessary for the Bible study at the end of the
presentation. A copy should be provided to all participants in
the study.
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The
ELCIC Resolution is for information. Again, a copy should be
provided to all participants in the study.
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The
presentation is in power point form. To print the slides with
commentary, choose "View" "Notes Page". Show the
slides by choosing "Show Slides". The commentary should be
read while the slides are viewed.
Any comments regarding the study should be
directed to the Saskatchewan Synod
office by phone (1.306.244.2474) or by email
to sksynod@elcic.ca
Internet
Sermon Resources
This
page is for use by congregations or individuals who are looking for
resources to help them in preparation for Sunday worship. Depending
on level of comfort, you may wish to prepare your own sermons using some
of the resources here, or you may want to use a sermon that someone else
has prepared for the text of the day.
Our
Synod strategic plan
encourages us to be a “Courageous Church”, to “encourage
ideas, co-operation and collaboration” and to “provide opportunities
for inspiration in planning and action”. We are to be a “Resourceful
Church” in order to “develop support for the congregational
ministries of worship, learning, witness, service and support.” We
are to “use Lutheran theology as a guide for choosing and creating
resources.”
You
will want to respect the author of the material by giving credit where
credit is due and acknowledge the source of a sermon, when a complete one
is used, or when significant quotes or ideas are derived from another
person’s work.
Proclamation
of the Word is a personal encounter with the texts assigned for a
particular day, therefore you are encouraged to make use of these
resources so that they speak to you and to the listeners. Use your
own personal stories and find ways to articulate how the text speaks to
you and your community of faith.
Steps:
1.
Determine the liturgical year and date and texts assigned for that day.
Use
the “Revised Common Lectionary Cycle” calendar for this year to
determine the texts
2007-2008
Year A
2008-2009
Year B
2009-2010
Year C
Prepared by ELCIC pastor Wendell Grahlman, the ELCIC's Worship Planning
Calendar contains full lectionary citations for all Sundays, festivals
and days of special devotion. A similar document, called Worship Planning
Calendar with Hymns includes hymn suggestions. Publications which reflect
ELCIC use and elaboration of the Revised Common Lectionary are
based upon this calendar.
ELCIC's Worship Planning Calendar is available in several formats.
2. Look for a complete sermon, prepared by a pastor whose work you have come to appreciate or find speaks
to your place and community. A sermon by a Lutheran pastor will
exhibit a Lutheran theology of grace.
When you are at a website that you find promising, bookmark it
because you may not find your way there again easily!
Be sure to follow links suggested.
Some of the best material is found through links.
Some sites that provide complete sermons you might find
helpful:
http://lutheran-sermons.com/
LCMS Sermons are
from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in the U.S.
They identify the sermons as “confessional”.
The sermons are searchable according to preacher by using the link
at the top of the page: “other sermons by Pastor …”
If you find one pastor with whom you feel comfortable in theology
and presentation, you may want to explore his work further.
Timothy
Lutheran, Livonia, Michigan. These archived sermons by Pastor Wade
Johnston are arranged by the Year of Lectionary and by Scripture and cover
the three years of the RCL. http://www.christsaginaw.com/sermons.html
Sermons
by Rev. Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson,
from Grace Lutheran ELCIC, Medicine Hat, Alberta.: Sermons are posted if
at all possible by Thursday or Friday each week. An archive for each Year
of the Lectionary Cycle is now available. http://members.tripod.com/~wehrhan/index-11.html
Sermons & Sermon Lectionary – Resource, is a large site with sermons
and sermon helps from a wide range of sites. Navigate the site for a
variety of resources, aware that a wide range of styles and theologies are present. http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermon.html
SermonCentral.com is a largely evangelical site with over 60,000 sermons.
The search capabilities allow you to find sermons that are closer to
Lutheran by searching for the liturgical date. (i.e. 3 Pentecost C). Often
you can find your way to a site of a Lutheran pastor who’s work you can
appreciate. http://www.sermoncentral.com/
A search on the Google web-site such as “Lutheran sermon 3
Pentecost C” can also be helpful. http://www.google.ca
There are a growing number of sites providing audio recordings of sermons.
These will require some technical knowledge and equipment to
present them for the entire congregation.
www.lutheranbroadcast.ca/sermons/
is from Saskatchewan Synod pastors who are broadcast on CKBI radio in
Prince Albert.
Zion, North Battleford has been
recording sermons for about a year so there will not be sermons available
for the lectionary date ahead of time.
http://battlefordslutheran.sk.ca/sermons.shtml
3.
Sermon Writing Resources
If
you wish simply to find resources that lead you to commentaries or studies
by others, there are a number of sites available.
Sermons & Sermon Lectionary – Resource mentioned above is helpful.
http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermon.html
Text
this Week
describes itself as “a virtual study desk for students, teachers and
preachers. Click on a date to find direct links to a wide variety of
contemporary and historical resources for study & liturgy for each
lectionary week and pericope, or check out the Scripture
Index to locate links to study resources relating to specific
passages. Artwork indexed by Biblical theme can be found in the Art
Concordance. And check out the Movie
Concordance for lists of movies indexed by spiritual theme.”
http://www.textweek.com/
Deacon
Sil’s Homiletic Resource Center is a subscription service that is
lectionary based and of quality. There is a link to a free trial
period that would allow you to see the quality and usefulness of the site.
He claims to have 350 links for every Sunday of the Church Year. http://www.deaconsil.com/
Dr.
William Loader is a professor of the Uniting Church of Australia who’s
“First Thought on the Passages from the Gospels” is a well thought out
introduction to the texts for the week. His site is based on the
lectionary date. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/lectionaryindex.html
If
you know of other sites which would be helpful in proclaiming the Word in
Saskatchewan Synod,
please email your suggestions to Rev. Roger Haugen, Assistant to the
Bishop rhaugen@elcic.ca.
Drawing
on the talents of our own people I am heading up a project which will see
as its final result a published book containing hymns, songs, prayers and
other worship components written by members of Saskatchewan Synod
congregations.
I
am asking for clergy and lay people who are interested to submit any
original hymns, songs, prayers, litanies, blessings and such to this
project.
All the material collected will go through a small committee
selection process as we strive to compile a useful resource filled with a
wide variety of worship material.
Composers
and authors of the material selected for this resource will maintain
copyright for their created work with the understanding that all material
included in this resource will be available for use by ELCIC congregations
and events (such as conventions, retreats, camps and so forth). Any use of
this copyrighted material beyond these guidelines would need to seek
specific permission from the creator of that specific item.
You
can submit material already written or composed, or you can write new
material just for this project.
All submissions must be an original creation by yourself.
If your submission is an adaptation of an existing item you must
note what the original source material is.
I
hope that a significant portion of the submissions will reflect the
uniqueness of our cultural and geographic setting.
I hope that there will be submissions that reflect a uniquely rural
perspective as well as submissions that come from a urban context. I also
hope that there will be material that covers the range of liturgical
seasons and themes. I hope that this project will encourage people to
craft some of their own worship resources rather than always looking to
other people’s words and images.
How
to Submit Material:
The
best way to send your material to me is by email. I can read most file
formats so you are welcome to send your submissions as a file attachment.
Here is the email address to use for submissions to this project: epiphany@sasktel.net
You
may also mail your material to the following address:
Roots
& Wings Resource
1725 Empress Street
Regina, SK
S4T 5E9
Submission
Deadline:
May 15th, 2005 (Pentecost Sunday)
Please
share this information with all who might be interested. If you have any
questions or comments please contact me using the above addresses or phone
me at (306) 352-4832 or (306) 949-1310.
Peace
& Joy!
Rev.
Dennis Hendricksen
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Worship Survey Results
Since
January of 2002 the Parish Life Committee has been conducting a survey on
worship in our Saskatchewan Synod.
The first part of this survey was printed in the October
newsletter. Further results
of this survey will be printed in the next three newsletters.
Fifty-three
congregations participated by filling out the survey questionnaire.
All of the original surveys are in binder format at the Synod
office
library and are available for individuals to view.
The
information in the newsletters are the tabulated results of the completed
surveys and are worded exactly as they are in the surveys.
The
Synod
office
is neither approving or disapproving of the information given in the
compiled results. The purpose
of this survey is for sharing information about worship practices in the
ELCIC church in Saskatchewan.
Penny
Rosten
Worship Co-ordinator
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Renewing
Worship Update
Available
at the Synod
office
library is a copy of “Principals for Worship”.
During 2001, over one hundred people representing the breadth of
this church took part in a series of consultations that led to the
formulation of these principles.
The
consultations addressed four dimensions of the church’s worship:
language, music, preaching and worship space, central matters of attention
for the ELCA and ELCIC at this time in its life.
This document is intended to invite study and response, encourage
unity, and foster common understanding and practice, rather then impose
uniformity. It is from these
principles that the new worship resource is being developed.
This
document is available for congregations to borrow from the synod library
for a period of three weeks.
You may also view this document on Internet through the following
address:
www.renewingworship.org/publications/principles-for-worship-index.html
ATTENTION:
A completed copy of the Worship Survey Results is being sent out
with this newsletter to each pastor or chairperson (where a vacancy
exists), for each of the parishes. This
information should be made
available to anyone who may wish to see it.
Penny
Rosten
Worship Co-ordinator
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Worship
Survey Result Numbers
The survey results are available in a .pdf format.
Please click the icon below to open a printable version.
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