A Sacred Benediction

Here’s the benediction I gave after closing worship for the retreat I led on “Sacred and Social”:

May sacred times free you for God’s service

May sacred places set you in God’s peace

May sacred objects anchor you for God’s presence

May sacred activities place you in God’s hands

May sacred people you challenge and comfort you in God’s grace.

May the sacred in your life increase
and be filled with the holy God
overflowing into the world,

For we are blessed to be a blessing.  Amen

 

Sacred And Social

Do you value privacy? Social media is making privacy almost shameful even hostile. Rather than argue in public, faithful folks can consider seeking sacred space, time, people, objects and activities. What’s the difference? Listen…

Sacred and Social
a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey

originally titled “World Wide Web”
Preached at South Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church
on October 5, 2014 at the early service

A message based on John 4:5-30,39-42

Recorded live with all the background hum, volume challenges, dropouts and surprises that brings.

Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes

Christy Ramsey. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Take Two and Call God in the Morning

How does being a Christian make a difference in our lives and in the lives of the world? Relationships as the basis for not just God’s justice, but for Christianity and even for the very essense of God is explored.

Take Two and Call God in the Morning
a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey

A message based on Matthew 18: 15-20 and Romans 13: 8-14

Recorded live with all the background hum, volume challenges and surprises that brings.

Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes

Christy Ramsey. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

In and Out

Who is in, holy, pure and acceptable and who is out, banished, condemned and ignored? The more one gets to know someone the harder it is to believe one is totally good or completely evil. How can we faitnfully deal with the oceans of information that crash down upon us from newly public sources, twenty four hour news streams, and social media? Should we forgive and forget?

In and Out, a sermon by J. Christy Ramsey

A message based on Matthew 15:10-28 and Genesis 45:1-15

Recorded live with all the background hum, volume challenges and surprises that brings.

Sermons also available free on iTunes

Christy Ramsey. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Web Geek Lord's Prayer

This prayer was given at the 1998 Presbyterian General Assembly during a PresbyNet dinner. It was the only prayer quoted in the daily news reports for the Assembly that year:

Weaver of the web from creation which links all together,
you knew our personal profile before we had a URL.
You never respond with a 404.
Keep us connected to you, on-line to our hearts, 
in the net Christ cast into the world,
in whose screen-name we pray. Amen.

- Christy Ramsey