Services
Strong Center Open Doors exists to help worship leaders take liturgy out of
the box. This website is a "meeting place" where you can come to share the
vision of liturgical spirituality known around the strong central things--font,
pulpit and table--and how life around these central things forms the people of
God for open-door living in the world of daily life.
Strong Center Open Doors
How? By...
Strong Center Open Doors exists to help worship leaders take liturgy out of
the box. This website is a "meeting place" where you can come to share the
vision of liturgical spirituality known around the strong central things--font,
pulpit and table--and how life around these central things forms the people of
God for open-door living in the world of daily life.
Strong Center Open Doors
- promotes and supports liturgy and liturgical spirituality as central to
congregational life - provides links and resources for richer sacramental and missional life
- engages church leaders in interactive dialogue for worship in the
liturgical tradition
How? By...
- Supplementing denominational and other worship websites with
additional materials - Supporting my books and publications with additional interpretation and
opportunities for author-reader dialogue - Providing the church with an alternative perspectives on worship in the
church’s emerging missional context - Offering consulting services to leaders and churches
- Linking visitors to online courses through BeADisciple.com
- Consulting by arrangement: phone 808/637-4020 (Honolulu time)
or use "Contact Me" page on this website - Online courses--for current options see the home page's
"Upcoming Events and Courses" or go to BeADisciple.com - Author-reader dialogue (initiate by using "Contact Me" or email to
stlukebysea@yahoo.com or strongcenteropendoors@yahoo.com) - Providing growing lists of resources, links and web articles
Use "Contact Me" to request more information about
consultations, teaching events, or any other service.
consultations, teaching events, or any other service.
Strong Center Open Doors
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Baptismal font and pool, St. Theresa
(Roman Catholic) Co-Cathedral, Honolulu.
What would baptism in this pool be like for
the recipient and the attending
congregation? Can you imagine services of
the reaffrimation of the baptismal covenant
in this pool?
(Roman Catholic) Co-Cathedral, Honolulu.
What would baptism in this pool be like for
the recipient and the attending
congregation? Can you imagine services of
the reaffrimation of the baptismal covenant
in this pool?
Pastor James White presiding at a baptism at
Aiea UMC. The rite was done well, but how do
we move to more ample use of water and
fonts and pools that make more powerful
statements and more fully enact the
abundance of God's grace? What prevents us
from renovating our worship spaces with
more ample fonts and pools?
Aiea UMC. The rite was done well, but how do
we move to more ample use of water and
fonts and pools that make more powerful
statements and more fully enact the
abundance of God's grace? What prevents us
from renovating our worship spaces with
more ample fonts and pools?
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