We held virtual worship on Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 10:00am! You can watch a recording on Facebook by clicking here, or you may watch below.
Quote for Reflection:
II am persuaded that hopelessness is the enemy of justice; that if we allow ourselves to become hopeless, we become part of the problem.Bryan Stevenson
WELCOME Narda Carlson
CALL TO WORSHIP
Rabbi Jesus, when you said, “Come, and don’t bring anything with you,”
we thought you were only joking.
When you led us away from security into the world of questions and controversy and hard choices,
we thought you were off your rocker.
When you led us to meet and to touch and to call as friends the ones we usually avoid,
we thought you were dangerous.
When you said the Kingdom would come through people like us
we knew you had picked the wrong people.
But when you said, “Come, and rest awhile,”
we knew just enough to find our rest in you.
And when you said, “I am the good shepherd,”
we trusted just enough to follow.
And when you said, “You are not servants, but friends,”
we believed just enough to trust you with our lives.
And so we gather,
to learn how to live like you, in you, and through you. Amen.
OPENING TO GOD Ted Loder
Eternal One,
Silence
from whom our words come;
Questioner
from whom our questions arise;
Lover
of whom all our loves are hints;
Disturber
in whom alone we find rest;
Mystery
in whose depths we find healing
and ourselves;
enfold us now in your Presence;
restore to us your Peace;
renew us through your Power;
and ground us in your Grace.
YOUNG PEOPLE’S MESSAGE What a Mess! Danielle Sturgeon & family
HEBREW SCRIPTURE Isaiah 55:11-12 Dana LaCLair
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out in joy,
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
GOSPEL Mark 1:21-28
They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, “What is this? A new teaching—with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.
REFLECTION What You Aren’t Mitchell & Barb
REAL WORLD EPIPHANIES Brooke Milo Mitchinson
MUSIC Hear Our Prayer Music & photos by Kathryn Parker
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK Steve Garnaas-Homes, mod.
He taught them as one having authority,
—Mark 1.27
O Christ,
Let your word cut into me.
Not a proposition I should agree with,
not a doctrine to believe,
but a revelation that astounds
with authenticity that rings,
a seeing of my soul,
an opening that draws me in,
a pool I look deep into until I fall.
O Christ,
Let your word burrow into me.
With love that overrules any authority on this earth,
let it take my breath away,
and give me new breath.
Let it uncover something in me.
Let it, with authority, ask of me.
Let it author a new story in me. Amen.
SHARING PRAYERS & LORD’S PRAYER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Pass It On music & photos
by Kathryn Parker
