We held virtual worship on Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 10:00AM! You can watch a recording of worship on Facebook by clicking here, or you may watch below.
WELCOME The Olsen Family
CALL TO WORSHIP Katherine Hawker, adapted
Where have we seen the light of God?
We have seen the light of God
on high mountains of celebration
and in the ecstasy of a lover’s embrace.
We have seen the light of God
through the bitter scorn of betrayal
and the searing chasm of grief.
We have seen the light of God
with eyes that have been shaded,
with eyes that have been opened,
with eyes that have been blinded.
We have seen the light of God.
We have seen the light of God!
OPENING TO GOD Steve Collins
How do you feel when the dark goes out?
Are you afraid of the light?
Does it make your lies water?
Do you screw up your heart and hide under the covers?
The light is a flood that will level your landmarks to a plain,
leaving you no shelter or familiar territory.
It will carry away the house of your comfortable darkness
and give you only holy ground to stand on.
It will fall like stone upon you.
You will be the only thing that casts a shadow,
but your shadow will flee behind you where you cannot see it.
You will grope for definition like a climber in the fog,
your hands will search for edges
that tell you what is and what is not,
and you will not find them.
You will cling to frozen certainty for fear of falling.
Your map will be too small.
The light will burn your skin.
The light will bleach your bones.
The light will leave you snowblind.
And you will not be the same.
YOUNG PEOPLE’S MESSAGE Happy Valentine’s Day Danielle Sturgeon & family
GOSPEL Mark 9:2-9
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He did not know what to say, for they were terrified.
Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!”
Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.
REFLECTION Comfort and Calling Mitchell & Barb
REAL WORLD EPIPHANIES June Packard
MUSIC Children of the Heavenly Father Music & photos by Kathryn Parker
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Listen for the One amid the others,
the one who awakens something lovely in me.
If you don’t turn from this clanging world to listen
I won’t hear him.
Listen for the voice that calls you Beloved,
the voice that calls me to love.
Listen to the voice that speaks of Creation’s wholeness,
that beckons me to completion.
A voice that leads you toward others,
not my own rising above and away.
Listen to the song of the immense flowering within you,
the risk and passion I can dance to.
You will hear it in stillness, not in frenzy,
in silence, not in noise.
You will hear it from those who are belittled,
not those who are honored by this besotted world.
The Beloved will not speak of success,
but of death and resurrection.
Listen for one who speaks with hope and delight,
We listen to him. I listen to him.
SHARING PRAYERS & LORD’S PRAYER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Praise and Glory music & photos
by Kathryn Parker
