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Sept 12, 2021 Worship Outline
Opening Song Blessings by Laura Story
Verse 1
We pray for blessings
We pray for peace comfort for family
Protection while we sleep
We pray for healing for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand
To ease our suffering
And all the while You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things
Chorus 1
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
And what if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise
Verse 2
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness
We doubt Your love
As if ev'ry promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while You hear each desp'rate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe
Bridge
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not this is not our home
Tag
It's not our home
Chorus 2
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is a revealing of a greater thirst
This world can't satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain the storms the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise
Call to Worship
The heavens shout of God’s glory!
There is so much beauty in this earth and in the heavens!
Day by day we are reminded of God’s creative love.
Day by day we are blessed with large and small visions of God’s glory.
Come, let us praise the God of creation.
Let us sing and shout our praises of thanksgiving and joy to God. AMEN.
Beginning with Blessings
How have you seen God show up this Week?
Opening Prayer
Eternal God,
whose signature we see, if we dare to look,
in the creation of the universe,
help us this hour to look and to listen
for Your handwriting and Your voice in this place,
among these people.
Connect our temporary praise to Your timeless rhythms,
Your ageless melodies,
Your everlasting joyful noise.
Guide us now to focus upon You,
knowing that in You,
our distractions become new possibilities for action.
Breathe life into our singing, our praying,
our speaking, our listening, our touching,
that all these activities might become more than they are.
In our worship we reach out to You, O God,
knowing that You have already enfolded us in Your arms.
In Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Song of Praise We Are Part of God’s Creation #710 (tune of #609)
1 We are part of God’s creation
and tho’ human, creatures too.
As the world of nature serves him,
so he wills our lives to do.
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
2 By God’s will the sun still rises
In his plan the leaves still fall
All things made reflect their Maker
For his mark is on them all
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
3. Forests grow with trees majestic
Oceans touch each golden shore
For our world is full of wonders
Always we discover more
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
4. Birds and bests and living creatures
live within his grand design
For he formed their varied features
Gave them life through pow’r divine
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
5. We are part of God’s creation
and tho’ human, creatures too.
As the world of nature serves him,
so he wills our lives to do.
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
Passing of the Peace
Scripture: Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6 It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect,
refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the LORD are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the LORD are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring for ever.
The decrees of the LORD are firm,
and all of them are righteous.
10 They are more precious than gold,
than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey,
than honey from the honeycomb.
11 By them your servant is warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.
12 But who can discern their own errors?
Forgive my hidden faults.
13 Keep your servant also from wilful sins;
may they not rule over me.
Then I will be blameless,
innocent of great transgression.
14 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Sermon “Wisdom from Our Home, Planet Earth”
THEME: OIKOLOGIE: WISDOM FROM OUR HOME PLANET
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
“The 4th Second”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nEYsyRlYo
Prayers & Lord’s Prayer
Today we pause for a solemn moment to acknowledge the tragedy that took place 20 years ago.
Our lives were changed by what happened that day.
Today we remember and mourn the devastating loss of life.
We also recall the ongoing toll the attacks took on so many lives and the immeasurable suffering borne by family members and friends to this day. We thank you for all those who were helpers that day and in the days the followed.
Tragically, casualties of injury, death, and misery have continued up to the present, and we pray fervently for an end to violence everywhere, and the establishment of your peace among humankind.
We recognize the kind of hate and division that led to that day is all our responsibility to heal within ourselves and our world.
Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
Offering
Communion
“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Announcements
Successful Pop Up & Thrift Boutique
Successful Offering of Letters
THANKS to all the people who have been working so hard!!
Blessing of the Animals
Small groups survey
Sending Song “Will You Come and Follow Me”
Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown? Will you let my name be known,
will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?
Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean and do such as this unseen,
and admit to what I mean in you and you in me?
Will you love the "you" you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you've found to reshape the world around,
through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?
Lord your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In Your company I'll go where Your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
Benediction
The power of God, displayed in creation,
fill you with grace to serve God in his world;
The peace of God, breathing in every living thing,
enable you to spread God’s peace wherever you go;
The love of God, which fills the universe,
flow through you that you might reflect his image,
and the blessing of God almighty,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,
be among you and remain with you always.
Go into God’s world in peace to love and serve the Lord, for God’s glory and neighbor’s good!
Verse 1
We pray for blessings
We pray for peace comfort for family
Protection while we sleep
We pray for healing for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand
To ease our suffering
And all the while You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things
Chorus 1
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
And what if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise
Verse 2
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness
We doubt Your love
As if ev'ry promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while You hear each desp'rate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe
Bridge
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not this is not our home
Tag
It's not our home
Chorus 2
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is a revealing of a greater thirst
This world can't satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain the storms the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise
Call to Worship
The heavens shout of God’s glory!
There is so much beauty in this earth and in the heavens!
Day by day we are reminded of God’s creative love.
Day by day we are blessed with large and small visions of God’s glory.
Come, let us praise the God of creation.
Let us sing and shout our praises of thanksgiving and joy to God. AMEN.
Beginning with Blessings
How have you seen God show up this Week?
Opening Prayer
Eternal God,
whose signature we see, if we dare to look,
in the creation of the universe,
help us this hour to look and to listen
for Your handwriting and Your voice in this place,
among these people.
Connect our temporary praise to Your timeless rhythms,
Your ageless melodies,
Your everlasting joyful noise.
Guide us now to focus upon You,
knowing that in You,
our distractions become new possibilities for action.
Breathe life into our singing, our praying,
our speaking, our listening, our touching,
that all these activities might become more than they are.
In our worship we reach out to You, O God,
knowing that You have already enfolded us in Your arms.
In Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Song of Praise We Are Part of God’s Creation #710 (tune of #609)
1 We are part of God’s creation
and tho’ human, creatures too.
As the world of nature serves him,
so he wills our lives to do.
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
2 By God’s will the sun still rises
In his plan the leaves still fall
All things made reflect their Maker
For his mark is on them all
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
3. Forests grow with trees majestic
Oceans touch each golden shore
For our world is full of wonders
Always we discover more
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
4. Birds and bests and living creatures
live within his grand design
For he formed their varied features
Gave them life through pow’r divine
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
5. We are part of God’s creation
and tho’ human, creatures too.
As the world of nature serves him,
so he wills our lives to do.
Jubilate, jubilate, jubilate, amen
For the glories of creation,
let us praise our God again.
Passing of the Peace
Scripture: Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6 It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect,
refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the LORD are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the LORD are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring for ever.
The decrees of the LORD are firm,
and all of them are righteous.
10 They are more precious than gold,
than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey,
than honey from the honeycomb.
11 By them your servant is warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.
12 But who can discern their own errors?
Forgive my hidden faults.
13 Keep your servant also from wilful sins;
may they not rule over me.
Then I will be blameless,
innocent of great transgression.
14 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Sermon “Wisdom from Our Home, Planet Earth”
THEME: OIKOLOGIE: WISDOM FROM OUR HOME PLANET
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
“The 4th Second”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nEYsyRlYo
Prayers & Lord’s Prayer
Today we pause for a solemn moment to acknowledge the tragedy that took place 20 years ago.
Our lives were changed by what happened that day.
Today we remember and mourn the devastating loss of life.
We also recall the ongoing toll the attacks took on so many lives and the immeasurable suffering borne by family members and friends to this day. We thank you for all those who were helpers that day and in the days the followed.
Tragically, casualties of injury, death, and misery have continued up to the present, and we pray fervently for an end to violence everywhere, and the establishment of your peace among humankind.
We recognize the kind of hate and division that led to that day is all our responsibility to heal within ourselves and our world.
Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
Offering
Communion
“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Announcements
Successful Pop Up & Thrift Boutique
Successful Offering of Letters
THANKS to all the people who have been working so hard!!
Blessing of the Animals
Small groups survey
Sending Song “Will You Come and Follow Me”
Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown? Will you let my name be known,
will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?
Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean and do such as this unseen,
and admit to what I mean in you and you in me?
Will you love the "you" you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you've found to reshape the world around,
through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?
Lord your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In Your company I'll go where Your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
Benediction
The power of God, displayed in creation,
fill you with grace to serve God in his world;
The peace of God, breathing in every living thing,
enable you to spread God’s peace wherever you go;
The love of God, which fills the universe,
flow through you that you might reflect his image,
and the blessing of God almighty,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,
be among you and remain with you always.
Go into God’s world in peace to love and serve the Lord, for God’s glory and neighbor’s good!