Hymn: God, we thank you for our people (Ruth
Duck / HOLY
MANNA, William Morris)*
Call
to Worship
Song: Make me a channel of your peace (based
on St. Francis / Sebastian Temple)
Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise: Ain't-a that good news (African-American)*
Prayer
of the Day
Sh’ma
Israel: (Tsvika
Pik)
Reading
from Hebrew Scripture: Leviticus 19:1-4, 9-18
Sermon
Song: The harvest of justice (David Haas)
Credo by W.E.B. DuBois
Prayer Song: From you I receive, to you I give (Joseph
and Nathan Segal)*
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements
Offerings (regular and food)
Song: I thought of God (Porter
Waggoner)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Songs: Come walk with us (South Africa)
We are on the road (South Africa)
*seasonal for Ordinary Time
Forces:
Soprano
Tenor/guitar
Tenor/bass
Drums
February 23, 2014
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
1. God, we
thank you for our people, roots dug deep within the soil,
Hardy spirits, rich in loving, strong for
struggle, bold for toil.
Faithful Rock of generations, you whom parents’
parents praised:
Here in hope as we remember may our song to you be
raised.
2. Thank
you, God, for gentle pleasure: lessons
learned and secrets told,
Hopes and memories saved as treasure, passed to
young ones by the old,
Pranks and glories, songs and stories, food by
loving hands prepared.
God, we bless you for your presence in our tears
and laughter shared.
3. Still we
must confess before you, sometimes, Savior, we have failed;
Though we worship and adore you, sometimes love
has not prevailed.
Tempers racing, devil chasing, hearts estranged by
ice or flame
You transform by ways forgiving. Grace amazing! Grace, your name!
4. By your
Spirit of creation keep us bold for risking still,
Eager in anticipation, ever strong to do your
will.
Bind us close to one another, sharing life and
death and birth,
Welcoming as sister, brother, all your children on
the earth.
Call to Worship
One: O Holy God, we are gathered here to worship
you today
All: Woke up this
morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
One: We are here to praise you today
All: Woke up this
morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
One: You have been present in each one of our
lives this week
All: Singing and praying
with my mind stayed on Jesus
One: You have been with us every moment of every
day
All: Singing and praying
with my mind stayed on Jesus
One: Guide us to be voices of justice, of hope, of
peace in our world
All: Keep my mind stayed
on Jesus
One: Make us your living examples of justice, of
hope, of peace in our world.
All: Keep my mind stayed
on Jesus
Please be seated
Song
Make me a channel of
your peace.
Where there is hatred
let me bring your love.
Where there is injury
your pardon Lord,
And where there's doubt
true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness only light,
and where there’s sadness only joy.
O Master, grant that I
may never seek
so much to be consoled
as to console,
To be understood as to
understand,
to be loved as to love
with all my soul.
Make me a channel of
your peace.
It is in pardoning that
we are pardoned,
It is in giving that we
receive
And in dying that we
are born to eternal life.
Prayer of Confession
NOT ON PPT
Love and mercy always awaits those
who turn to God.
Let us pray.
All: I
confess, O God,
that our
world is not yet
the world
you have called us to create.
There is
bitterness and spite
among us.
For my
part, O God,
I ask your
forgiveness.
For the
times I have failed to challenge
systems of
oppression in my heart and in my world,
forgive
me, O God.
I want to
follow you, Jesus,
and live
in a world that honors
your
commandment
to love
one another as we love ourselves.
Strengthen
me to live this commandment
today and
always.
—silent
personal reflection—
One: My friends we are set free: to be a forgiven
people, and to become a forgiving people in all our dealings with those who sin
against us.
All: Thanks be to God.
Please stand, all who are able.
Song of Praise
//I ‘ve got a crown up in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
I’m going to lay down this world
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t that good news
//I ‘ve got a harp up in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
I’m
going to lay down this world
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t that good news
//I ‘ve got a robe up in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
I’m
going to lay down this world
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t that good news
//I ‘ve got a Savior in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
I’m
going to lay down this world
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t that good news
Prayer of the Day
NOT ON PPT
O God,
you spoke your word
and revealed your good news in Jesus, the Christ.
Fill all creation with that word again,
so that by proclaiming your joyful promises to all nations
and singing of your glorious hope to all peoples,
we may become one living body,
your incarnate presence on the earth. Amen.
Sh’ma Israel
Cantor, then all:
//Sh’ma Israel Adonai eloheinu, Adonai echad.//
Cantor:
Baruch shem k’vod, shem k’vod malchuto l’olam
vaed.
Reading from Hebrew
Scripture
Leviticus 19:1-3, 9-18
NOT ON PPT
God spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to all
the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy,
for I your God am holy. You shall each revere your mother and father, and
you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Holy One your God. When you
reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your
field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not strip your
vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave
them for the poor and the alien: I am the Holy One your God.
You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely;
and you shall not lie to one another. And you shall not swear falsely by
my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Holy One. You shall not defraud your neighbor; you
shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer
until morning. You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block
before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Holy One. You
shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or
defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor. You shall
not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not profit by the
blood of your neighbor: I am the Holy One.
You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove
your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge
against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am
the Holy One.
Reader: Hear
what the Spirit is saying to you today.
All: Thanks
be to God!
Psalm 119:33-40
Cantor, then all:
Elevate my understanding. Ever in
my heart keep watch.
Find my strength in your commandments for your
truth is all I’ve sought.
Cantor: Teach
me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I will observe it to the end.
Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
and observe it with my whole heart.
All:
Elevate my understanding. Ever in
my heart keep watch.
Find my strength in your commandments for your
truth is all I’ve sought.
Cantor: Lead
me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.
Turn my heart to your decrees, and not to selfish
gain.
All:
Elevate my understanding. Ever in
my heart keep watch.
Find my strength in your commandments for your
truth is all I’ve sought.
Cantor: Turn
my eyes from looking at vanities; give me life in your ways.
Confirm to your servant your promise, which is for
those who fear you.
All:
Elevate my understanding. Ever in
my heart keep watch.
Find my strength in your commandments for your
truth is all I’ve sought.
Cantor: Turn
away the disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
See, I have longed for your precepts; in your
righteousness give me life.
All:
Elevate my understanding. Ever in
my heart keep watch.
Find my strength in your commandments for your
truth is all I’ve sought.
Sermon
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
May
we find richness in the harvest of justice
Which
Christ Jesus has ripened for us.
Bread
for the journey, bread for the hungry,
All
for the glory and praise of God.
1. Gather
with patience for those who have nothing.
Leave them your riches, and you will receive.
Make room for the poor ones, make way for the
stranger;
for I am the Lord, the Lord your God.
2. For to
have mercy on those forgotten,
This is my true law, this is my command:
Clothe the naked, be home for the homeless,
Care for the prisoner, the sick and the lost.
3. For to
have little is to be in abundance.
To give what remains, to give all we have,
Is to walk with the poor ones, and become the
stranger,
One with the Lord, the Lord our God.
May
we find richness in the harvest of justice
Which
Christ Jesus has ripened for us.
Bread
for the journey, bread for the hungry,
All
for the glory and praise of God.
Credo by
W. E. DuBois
One: I believe in God who made of one blood all races
that dwell on earth.
All: I believe that all people, black and brown
and white, are sisters and brothers,
varying, through Time and
Opportunity,
in form and gift and
feature,
but differing in no
essential particular,
and alike in soul and in
the possibility of infinite development.
One: I believe in the Prince of Peace.
All: I believe that War is Murder.
One: I believe that armies and navies are at
bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong;
All: and I believe that the wicked conquest of
weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the
death of that strength.
Please be seated
Prayer Song
From you I receive, to you I give,
together we share, and from this we
live.
Silent Meditation
News of the People
Not on ppt:
Welcome cards
Service concludes with bilingual celebration
Offerings
(regular and food)
Song
I talked to God
sung by James Kincheloe
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
///Come, walk with us, the journey is long.///
////The journey, the journey, the journey is
long.////
////Share our burden and join in the song.////
////The journey, the journey, the journey is
long.////
////Come, uplift us and bring us new life.////
////The journey, the journey, the journey is
long.////
////Give us peace when the journey is done.////
////The journey, the journey, the journey is
long.////
[logo]
1. //We are
on the road (wo), we are on the road,//
//On our way to heaven, we are on the road.//
2. //We
shall sing God’s praise (wo), we shall sing God’s praise,//
//On our way to heaven, we shall sing God’s
praise.//
3. //We
shall live the word (wo), we shall live the word.//
//On our way to heaven, we shall live the word.//
4.
Hallelujah, amen (wo), hallelujah, amen.
//On our way to heaven, hallelujah, amen.//
