We held virtual worship on Sunday, June 28, 2020. You can watch the recording below or on Facebook by clicking here.
digital effects by Artisto
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize
how rare and valuable each one of us really is,
that each of us has something that no one else has
—or ever will have—
something inside that is unique to all time.
It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness
and to provide ways of developing its expression.
Mr. Rogers
WELCOME
I’m tired.
There’s a place for you, a place for us all!
I’m lonely.
There’s a place for you, a place for us all!
I’m sick and hungry and hurt.
I’m worn down by the world.
I can’t bear to look at myself.
There’s a place for you, a place for us all!
A place where all are held safe?
A place where all are loved?
A place where we can lay our burdens down?
Where is this place?
In the embrace of God! In the peace of Christ!
in the wings of the Holy Spirit!
A place for me?
There’s a place for you, a place for us all!
OPENING TO GOD
Shaper of our hearts,
birther of our souls,
potter of all creation,
giver of good gifts –
you are our life!
In each breath, you breathe in us.
In each step, you move in us.
In each moment, you live in us. Alleluia!
EPISTLE Romans 12:1-3 (The Message paraphrase)
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for God. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what God wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what God does for us, not by what we are and what we do for God.
EPISTLE Romans 12:4-13 (NRSV)
For as in one body we have many members,
and not all the members have the same function,
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,
and individually we are members one of another.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us:
prophecy, in proportion to faith;
ministry, in ministering;
the teacher, in teaching;
the exhorter, in exhortation;
the giver, in generosity;
the leader, in diligence;
the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
Let love be genuine;
eschew what is evil, hold fast to what is good;
love one another with mutual affection;
outdo one another in showing honor.
Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.
Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
REFLECTION Knots Barb and Mitch
MUSIC Jesus, Lover of My Soul music & photos
by Kathryn Parker
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK
SHARING PRAYERS
LORD’S PRAYER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE St. Anthony’s Rondo Charlie Yerrick
and his Socially Distanced Quartet
