Virtual Worship – 3/22/2020

We held a virtual worship service on Sunday, March 22, 2020. You can watch on Facebook by clicking here, or you can watch below.


Best of all, God is with us. 
John Wesley, on the day of his death, March 2, 1791

CALL TO WORSHIP

God is good!  All the time!
All the time!  God is good!

 

OPENING TO GOD                                    Celtic, Northumbria Community

Christ as a light, illumine and guide us;
Christ as a shield, overshadow us.

Christ under us, Christ over us,
Christ beside us, on our left and our right.

This day be within and without us.
Lowly and meek, yet all-powerful.

Be in the heart of each to whom we speak,
In the mouth of each who speaks to us, 

This day be within and without us.
Lowly and meek, yet all-powerful.

Christ as a light, Christ as a shield,
Christ beside us, on our left and our right.

PSALTER Psalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want;
he makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters;
he restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil;
for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff,
they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
thou anointest my head with oil,
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life;
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

 

GOSPEL John 9:1-7

And, as he was walking along, he saw a man blind from birth.

And his disciples questioned him, saying,

“Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,

that he was born blind?”

Jesus answered,

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,

but the works of God must be made manifest in him.

It is necessary for us to perform the works

of the One who has sent me while it is day;

the night comes, when no one can work.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Having said these things,

he spat on the ground and made clay from the spittle,

and anointed his eyes with the clay, and said to him,

“Go wash in the pool of Siloam,”

—which means, when interpreted, “Sent Forth.”

So he went and washed and came back with sight.

 

REFLECTION

 

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER

We arrange our lives as best we can,

to keep your holiness at bay,

with our pieties, our doctrines, our liturgies,

our moralities, our secret ideologies,

safe, virtuous, settled.

(silence)

And then you–

you and your dreams, you and your visions,

you and your purposes, you and your commands,

you and our neighbors, you and the stranger.  You.

 

We find your holiness not at bay,

but probing, pervading, insisting, demanding.

And we yield—sometimes gladly, sometimes resentfully,

sometimes too late . . . or soon.

(silence)

We yield because you, beyond us, are our God.

We are your creatures met by your holiness;

by your holiness made our true selves.

Walter Brueggemann

THE LORD’S PRAYER

BREATH PRAYER

BENEDICTION

PRAYERS
Heidi – Angela, who fell and broke her jaw in 2 places, long and difficult recovery ahead
Krista – family of a beloved coworker who suddenly passed.

BIRTHDAYS
24 Mar  Grant Corson, Vickie Casazza
26 Mar Judy Wright, Nick Duff
28 Mar  Donna Paffrath

SUGGESTED MUSIC FOR TODAY
HYMN      Love Divine, All Loves Excelling      UMH 384

 

HYMN      God of Grace and God of Glory      UMH 577

 

TAIZÉ CHANT       O Lord, Hear My Prayer      FWS 2200

 

HYMN      Breathe on Me, Breath of God       UMH 420

 

CHORALE      We Are Not Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCz529uNLCg

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