Prelude: Prelude
in C Major (Johann Christian
Kittel)
Hymn: Lord, you give the great
commission (Jeffery Rowthorn / ABBOT’S LEIGH, Cyril V. Taylor)*
Call to Worship
Psalm 95 (David Haas)
Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise: I am that great and fiery force (Hildegard of Bingen / EM)*
Call to Worship
Psalm 95 (David Haas)
Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise: I am that great and fiery force (Hildegard of Bingen / EM)*
Prayer
of the Day
Preparation
Song: My
God is a rock in a weary land (African-American)
Scripture
Readings: Exodus
17:1-7; Psalm 42:1-3; John 19:28-29
Sermon: I thirst (Rev.
Kikanza Nuri-Robins)
Song: All you who are thirsty (Isaiah 55 / Michael Connolly)
Song: All you who are thirsty (Isaiah 55 / Michael Connolly)
Litany of Compassion
Prayer
Song: God be in my head (Sarum Primer / Susan Bloomfield)*
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements
Song: My eyes have
seen the glory (Heidi Blythe / CANAAN’S HAPPY SHORE, William Steffe)
*Seasonal for Ordinary Time/July
Forces:
Soprano
Piano/Organ
Soprano
Piano/Organ
July 20, 2014
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Please stand, all who are able.
Hymn
Lord, you give the great
commission:
"Heal the sick and preach the word."
Lest the Church neglect its mission
and the Gospel go unheard,
help us witness to your purpose
with renewed integrity;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Lord, you call us to your service:
"In my name baptize and teach."
That the world may trust your promise,
life abundant meant for each,
give us all new fervor,
draw us closer in community;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Lord, you show us love's true measure:
"Father, what they do, forgive."
Yet we hoard as private treasure
all that you so freely give.
May your care and mercy lead us
to a just society;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Lord, you bless with words assuring:
"I am with you to the end."
Faith and hope and love restoring,
may we serve as you intend,
and, amid the cares that claim us,
hold in mind eternity;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
"Heal the sick and preach the word."
Lest the Church neglect its mission
and the Gospel go unheard,
help us witness to your purpose
with renewed integrity;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Lord, you call us to your service:
"In my name baptize and teach."
That the world may trust your promise,
life abundant meant for each,
give us all new fervor,
draw us closer in community;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Lord, you show us love's true measure:
"Father, what they do, forgive."
Yet we hoard as private treasure
all that you so freely give.
May your care and mercy lead us
to a just society;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Lord, you bless with words assuring:
"I am with you to the end."
Faith and hope and love restoring,
may we serve as you intend,
and, amid the cares that claim us,
hold in mind eternity;
with the Spirit's gifts empower us
for the work of ministry.
Call to Worship
One: We are people of all ages who enter this
space
bringing our joys and our concerns.
All: We come together in hope.
bringing our joys and our concerns.
All: We come together in hope.
One: We greet each other warmly with our
voices and our smiles.
All: We come together in peace.
All: We come together in peace.
One: We share our growth and our aspirations.
All: We come together in wonder.
All: We come together in wonder.
One: We share our losses and our disappointments.
All: We come together in sorrow.
All: We come together in sorrow.
We share our concern and
our compassion.
All: We come together in love.
All: We come together in love.
One: We sing and pray and listen.
We speak and read and dream.
We think and ponder and reflect.
We cry and laugh and reflect.
We mourn and celebrate and meditate.
We strive for justice and for mercy.
All: We come together to worship God.
We speak and read and dream.
We think and ponder and reflect.
We cry and laugh and reflect.
We mourn and celebrate and meditate.
We strive for justice and for mercy.
All: We come together to worship God.
Please be seated
Psalm 95
All: //If today you hear God’s voice, harden not
your hearts.//
One: Come, ring out our joy to God; hail the rock
who saves us.
Let us come now before
God, with songs let us hail the Lord.
All: //If today you hear God’s voice, harden not
your hearts.//
One: Come, let us bow and bend low; let us kneel
before God who made us,
for God is God, we the
people of God, the flock that is led by God’s hand.
All: //If today you hear God’s voice, harden not
your hearts.//
One: O that today you would hear God’s voice,
“Harden not your hearts
as on that day in the
desert, when your parents put me to the test.”
All: //If today you hear God’s voice, harden not
your hearts.//
Prayer of Confession
NOT ON PPT
Let us pray.
Open our hearts, O God of glory,
to the presence of your Spirit.
Hear our songs of praise and the quiet
yearnings of our souls,
and feed us again through word and sign. Amen.
Let us call to mind our sins.
—silent reflection—
One: God of
all creation,
we have wasted your gifts and squandered our
inheritance.
Have mercy on us.
All: Have
mercy on us.
One: God of
saving grace,
we have turned away from your message of peace and
love.
Have mercy on us.
Have mercy on us.
God of new life,
we have forgotten that in you all things are
possible.
Have mercy on us.
All: Have
mercy on us.
—silent reflection—
One: Jesus
Christ came into the world to free us from despair.
Hear then, these words of grace:
“Your sins are forgiven.”
All: Amen.
Thanks be to God.
Please stand, all who are able.
Song of Praise
1. I am
that great and fiery force
the spark in every thing that lives;
in shining of the river's course,
in greening grass that glory gives.
2. I shine
in glitter on the seas,
in burning sun, in moon and stars.
In unseen wind, in verdant trees
I breathe within, both near and far.
3. And
where I breathe there is no death,
and meadows glow with beauties rife.
I am in all, the spirit's breath,
the thundered word, for I am Life.
Prayer
One: I was hungry and you gave me food
All: Let us act justly, love tenderly, and walk
humbly with our God.
One: I was thirsty and you gave me drink
All: Let us act justly, love tenderly, and walk
humbly with our God.
One: I was a stranger and you welcomed me
All: Let us act justly, love tenderly, and walk
humbly with our God.
One: I was naked and you clothed me
All: Let us act justly, love tenderly, and walk
humbly with our God.
One: I was ill and you comforted me
All: Let us act justly, love tenderly, and walk
humbly with our God.
All: God, true light and source of all Light, may we
recognize you in
One: oppressed people,
All: poor people,
One: homeless people,
All: hungry people.
One: May
we be open to your Spirit that we may be a means of healing, strength, and peace
for all your children. We ask this through Jesus, your son and our brother!
All: Amen
Please be seated
Preparation Song
All: My God is a rock in a weary land,
weary
land, weary land.
My
God is a rock in a weary land,
shelter
in a time of storm.
Cantor:
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the
Chapter One,
Jehovah’s work was just begun.
Stop! Let
me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Two,
Jehovah wrote the Bible through.
Stop! Let
me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Three,
when Jesus died on Calvary.
All: My God is a rock in a weary land,
weary
land, weary land.
My
God is a rock in a weary land,
shelter
in a time of storm.
Cantor:
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the
Chapter Four,
when Jesus went among the poor.
Stop! Let
me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Five,
when Jesus brought the dead to life.
Stop! Let
me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Six,
Jesus went in Jerusalem and healed the sick.
All: My God is a rock in a weary land,
weary
land, weary land.
My
God is a rock in a weary land,
shelter
in a time of storm.
Cantor:
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Seven,
When the Lord God died and went to heaven.
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Eight,
When the Lord, he stood at the pearly gate.
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Nine,
When the Lord God changed the water to wine.
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Ten,
Well, the Lord my God, he's a-comin' again.
When the Lord God died and went to heaven.
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Eight,
When the Lord, he stood at the pearly gate.
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Nine,
When the Lord God changed the water to wine.
Stop! Let me tell you ‘bout the Chapter Ten,
Well, the Lord my God, he's a-comin' again.
All: My God is a rock in a weary land,
weary
land, weary land.
My
God is a rock in a weary land,
shelter
in a time of storm.
Scripture Readings
Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 42:1-3; John 19:28-29
NOT ON PPT
Exodus 17:1-7
From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation
of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Holy One commanded.
They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to
drink. The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to
drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test
the Holy One?” But the people thirsted there for water; and the
people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt,
to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried out
to God, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” God said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the
people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the
staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in
front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of
it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of
Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites
quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or
not?”
Psalm 42:1-3
As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul
longs for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When
shall I come and behold the face of God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while
people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
John 19:28-29
After this, when Jesus knew that all was now
finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” A
jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine
on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
Reader: Hear
what the Spirit is saying to you today.
All: Thanks
be to God!
Please be seated
Sermon
I thirst
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
All:
All you who are thirsty,
come to the water;
all you who hunger,
come receive grain;
all without money,
come without paying;
all you who heed me,
come for rich fare.
One:
Come now and listen that
you may have life;
my covenant I will
renew,
this covenant shall be
eternal,
as I promised to David.
All:
All you who are thirsty,
come to the water;
all you who hunger,
come receive grain;
all without money,
come without paying;
all you who heed me,
come for rich fare.
One:
Why spend your money for
what is not bread,
your wages for what
fails to satisfy?
Heed my commandments and
you shall eat well;
you shall delight in
rich fare.
All:
All you who are thirsty,
come to the water;
all you who hunger,
come receive grain;
all without money,
come without paying;
all you who heed me,
come for rich fare.
One:
Drink of this water
abundant with life
and eat of the bread I
provide.
I am the bread and the
water am I;
put hunger and thirsting
aside.
All:
All you who are thirsty,
come to the water;
all you who hunger,
come receive grain;
all without money,
come without paying;
all you who heed me,
come for rich fare.
Litany of
compassion
One: Oh God of infinite mercy and grace, hear our
prayers as we pray for the unaccompanied migrant children among us.
All: Extend your tender care to these children, oh
God, making of us your agents of compassion and love to them.
One: Remove from our hearts any obstacle that does
not allow us to see them as the precious children you have created.
All: Be merciful towards us for our failures to
respond to these unaccompanied migrant children in the way that Jesus once did,
receiving them and embracing them and declaring that the children are the
inheritors of your kingdom.
One: Place within us a burning love for these
migrant children and all children, that we may give witness to them of the
world of justice and peace that you hope for, for all your children.
All: Remind us that in your eyes there are no
borders, only a great big world of your children whom you love without
exception.
Amen.
Please be seated
Prayer Song
God be in my head, and in my understanding;
God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
God be in my heart, and in my thinking;
God be at mine end, and at my departing.
God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
God be in my heart, and in my thinking;
God be at mine end, and at my departing.
Silent Meditation
Prayers
News of the People
Not on ppt:
Welcome cards
Service concludes with bilingual celebration
8/2 Women’s gathering
8/9 Potluck and talent show
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
My eyes have seen the glory of the
coming of the Lord!
You will find her sowing seeds of
love where grapes of wrath once poured.
May we, two or three together,
raise God’s justice high once more:
God’s truth still marches on.
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
God’s truth still marches on.
I have read a fiery gospel of
unmitigated love,
Of a Christ who is within,
without, below, around, above.
Let me be the one who turns my
cheek when push has come to shove:
God’s truth still marches on.
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
God’s truth still marches on.
Christ has sounded forth the
trumpet that shall never call retreat
Bidding each of us to sit and
serve at one another’s feet.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer,
see the Christ in all I meet:
God’s truth still marches on.
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
God’s truth still marches on.
God is coming to the people on a
tidal wave of peace,
Bringing wisdom to the mighty,
that all needless strife may cease.
May we listen to each other, and
by hearing find release:
God’s truth still marches on.
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
God’s truth still marches on.
Song
//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-a that good news
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-a that good news
//I ‘ve got a harp up in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
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-a that good news
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t-a that good news
//I ‘ve got a robe up in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
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-a that good news
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t-a that good news
//I ‘ve got a Savior in-a the Kingdom
Ain’t-a that good news.//
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-a that good news
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t-a that good news
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