Theme: What's Your Rush?
Worship
Lectionary Worship Aids
Series VII, Cycle B
Call To Worship
Decades passed between the promise of anointing a shepherd boy's forehead and the fulfillment of a shepherd king's ascension to the throne. Centuries passed between the promise that a Son of David would rule forever and the time when death on a cross would lead to life everlasting. Come, all you who feel you have waited forever for the fulfillment of God's promise in your lives -- wait a little longer with God's people -- and see!
Collect
God of promise, we promise our patience as we wait for your will to unfold in our lives. Amen.
Prayer Of Confession (based on Psalm 90)
One:
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn us back to dust, and say, "Turn back, you mortals."
All:
For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night. You sweep us away; we are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning; in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
One:
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
All:
Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to our children.
Hymns
O God Our Help In Ages Past
Blessed Assurance
Sent Forth By God's Blessing
Proper 9 / Ordinary Time 14
Sunday between July 3 and July 9 inclusive
Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Theme: We're Talking Paul Here, Right?
Call To Worship
Paul is having a hard time not bragging, but he's braying, at least. That someone who had the vision of the third heaven is none other than Paul himself, and the glance into the eternal has contented him with the thorn in his side. May we who gather here today, stricken with thorns, striving with pain, be proven gold in our endurance, and in your strength, which is made all the more evident in our weakness. Come, God's people. Come, God's Spirit. Here in this place we praise and adore! Amen.
Collect
God, we gather today, confident in your strength which shines through our infirmities. We praise your name for the opportunity to demonstrate in our weakness your power to change lives! Thank you, Lord. Amen.
Prayer Of Confession
Enduring Lord, we have been blessed beyond measure as your people, and ought to appreciate more than others what we are striving for. We should embrace with glad endurance the opportunity to bear the cross in our flesh to demonstrate to an unbelieving world the glory of our salvation. Yet we balk and bellow, bray and bicker. Lord, set our hearts and minds on the cross, that we may walk beneath its shadow and be made whole. Amen.
Hymns
Christ Is Coming! Let Creation
Lead Me, Guide Me
Make Me A Captive, Lord
Proper 9 / Ordinary Time 14
Sunday between July 3 and July 9 inclusive
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6:1-13
Theme: The Longest Shortest Half Of A Verse
Call To Worship
What a universe in half of a verse! After he was rejected by his own neighbors, Jesus sends out his disciples into a dangerous world, and in between we read that Jesus went about among the villages teaching. Weeks, even months, squeezed into a few words. That's Ordinary Time for you. Extraordinary things happen. Let us take hold of the Ordinary Time, squeezed in between rejection and commission, and with God's help do great things!
Collect
Lord we may reject you. God, we may serve you. You have granted us the freedom to come to this place, or to stay away, to serve you with our hearts, hands, and feet, or to serve you with our lips only. Send us among the ones hurting in our neighborhoods. Send us further, beyond, to the four corners of the world! We would be your disciples, your apostles, your family. Amen.
Prayer Of Confession (based on a hymn by Alexander Mack)
How is the time so urgent, which God gives us only once? And how is the world so empty, that it is loved by us too much, that we walk in it like one dreaming, little thinking of the span of God's vast eternity? Amen.
Hymns
The Work Is Thine, O Christ
Where Are Kings And Empires Now?
Are Ye Able?
Decades passed between the promise of anointing a shepherd boy's forehead and the fulfillment of a shepherd king's ascension to the throne. Centuries passed between the promise that a Son of David would rule forever and the time when death on a cross would lead to life everlasting. Come, all you who feel you have waited forever for the fulfillment of God's promise in your lives -- wait a little longer with God's people -- and see!
Collect
God of promise, we promise our patience as we wait for your will to unfold in our lives. Amen.
Prayer Of Confession (based on Psalm 90)
One:
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn us back to dust, and say, "Turn back, you mortals."
All:
For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night. You sweep us away; we are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning; in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
One:
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
All:
Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to our children.
Hymns
O God Our Help In Ages Past
Blessed Assurance
Sent Forth By God's Blessing
Proper 9 / Ordinary Time 14
Sunday between July 3 and July 9 inclusive
Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Theme: We're Talking Paul Here, Right?
Call To Worship
Paul is having a hard time not bragging, but he's braying, at least. That someone who had the vision of the third heaven is none other than Paul himself, and the glance into the eternal has contented him with the thorn in his side. May we who gather here today, stricken with thorns, striving with pain, be proven gold in our endurance, and in your strength, which is made all the more evident in our weakness. Come, God's people. Come, God's Spirit. Here in this place we praise and adore! Amen.
Collect
God, we gather today, confident in your strength which shines through our infirmities. We praise your name for the opportunity to demonstrate in our weakness your power to change lives! Thank you, Lord. Amen.
Prayer Of Confession
Enduring Lord, we have been blessed beyond measure as your people, and ought to appreciate more than others what we are striving for. We should embrace with glad endurance the opportunity to bear the cross in our flesh to demonstrate to an unbelieving world the glory of our salvation. Yet we balk and bellow, bray and bicker. Lord, set our hearts and minds on the cross, that we may walk beneath its shadow and be made whole. Amen.
Hymns
Christ Is Coming! Let Creation
Lead Me, Guide Me
Make Me A Captive, Lord
Proper 9 / Ordinary Time 14
Sunday between July 3 and July 9 inclusive
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6:1-13
Theme: The Longest Shortest Half Of A Verse
Call To Worship
What a universe in half of a verse! After he was rejected by his own neighbors, Jesus sends out his disciples into a dangerous world, and in between we read that Jesus went about among the villages teaching. Weeks, even months, squeezed into a few words. That's Ordinary Time for you. Extraordinary things happen. Let us take hold of the Ordinary Time, squeezed in between rejection and commission, and with God's help do great things!
Collect
Lord we may reject you. God, we may serve you. You have granted us the freedom to come to this place, or to stay away, to serve you with our hearts, hands, and feet, or to serve you with our lips only. Send us among the ones hurting in our neighborhoods. Send us further, beyond, to the four corners of the world! We would be your disciples, your apostles, your family. Amen.
Prayer Of Confession (based on a hymn by Alexander Mack)
How is the time so urgent, which God gives us only once? And how is the world so empty, that it is loved by us too much, that we walk in it like one dreaming, little thinking of the span of God's vast eternity? Amen.
Hymns
The Work Is Thine, O Christ
Where Are Kings And Empires Now?
Are Ye Able?
