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5/20/2025 0 Comments

Gather in, you nations of the earth!
Gather in, you people who sing praise to God.
Gather in, you who long for equity
and you who seek God's guidance.
God is present with God's people
and blesses God's people with hope.
Let all God's people worship with reverence
and with joy.

5/19/2025 0 Comments

Lectionary Scriptures for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Acts 16:9-15  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2016%3A9-15&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 67  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2067&version=NRSVUE

Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021%3A10%2C%2022-22%3A5&version=NRSVUE

John 14:23-29  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2014%3A23-29&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Psalm 67. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Psalm 67 inspires or encourages you? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1117153653787220&set=a.549399683895956.

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5/17/2025 0 Comments

O Great Creator,
hear our prayers.
Hear our prayers of praise and thanksgiving
for all that you have created
and for the wisdom in which you created it.
For sun and moon and stars of light,
we give you thanks and praise, O God!
For waters that refresh the earth
and waters teeming with life,
we give you thanks and praise, O God!
For the earth and its varied landscapes,
for the sky and its varied temperaments,
for wildlife of every kind,
we give you thanks and praise, O God!
We bow before you in gratitude
for all that you have created
and deemed good.

Hear our prayers today, Sovereign God,
for the leaders of all nations
and for all people,
that compassion and justice would reign
together,
and that cries for mercy
would be met with kindness
and grace.

Hear our prayers today, Redeemer,
for young and old alike
who struggle to make ends meet,
who long for meaning and purpose,
who hold on to hope for a future
that is secure and filled with joy.

Hear our prayers today, Spirit of Wisdom,
for a world where all are fed,
where are all are whole,
where all are at peace,
that the goodness of God's creation
may be fully realized
and the glory given to the Triune God
who spoke it into existence.

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5/15/2025 0 Comments

Playlist, E5C

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSZrsZWKXfo8hQovDXM21wqnTE-kJvgpH

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5/14/2025 0 Comments

Prayer of Confession, E5C

Call to Confession

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8) Let us confront our failures honestly, and seek God's mercy:

Prayer of Confession

Forgive us, God, for we have sinned.
Our stewardship of your creation
and all that you called good
is far from faithful
and less than loving.
In our arrogance, we choose
to rely on our own invention
rather than on your abundant provision.
You provide light and air and energy,
but we build elaborate grids
and depend on electricity.
You provide water,
but we pollute it with poison
and overuse it,
so that many who need it to live
go without.
You populated the earth with seeds
and plants
and fruit-bearing trees,
and we have engaged in unsustainable practices,
over-cultivating and deforesting
to the point of degradation.
In your vast imagination, you made creatures
of every size and shape and color and species,
and we have destroyed their habitats
and made them extinct by hunting for sport.
Forgive us, we pray.
Remind us that misused dominion and authority
are harmful to everyone
and every thing.
Move your Holy Spirit within us,
that we might renew our sense of responsibility
as heirs of all that is according to the privilege
of our kinship to the Creator.

Assurance of God's Grace

He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:13-14) Friends, hear the Good News: in the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Thanks be to God!

Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us also forgive one another.
The peace of Christ be with you.
Please extend the peace of Christ to all whom you encounter this week.

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5/13/2025 0 Comments

Call to Worship, E5C

Gather in, you leaders of nations
and you citizens.
Gather in, women and men,
young and old,
you faithful who have walked with God
in all seasons!
Dance your way into God's sanctuary!
Sing your songs of praise!
Let all of creation worship God!

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5/12/2025 0 Comments

Lectionary Scriptures for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Acts 11:1-18  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2011%3A1-18&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 148  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20148&version=NRSVUE

Revelation 21:1-6  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021%3A1-6&version=NRSVUE

John 13:31-35  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2013%3A31-35&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Psalm 148. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Psalm 148 inspires or encourages you? Share your thoughts here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1111947190974533&set=a.549399683895956.

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5/6/2025 0 Comments

Call to Worship, Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Come, you who are looking for still waters.
Come, you who long for your soul to be restored.
The Table has been prepared.
The oil has been set aside for anointing.
Here, we find renewal and healing.
Here, we worship with gratitude and praise.

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5/5/2025 0 Comments

Lectionary Scriptures for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Acts 9:36-43 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%209%3A36-43&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 23 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2023&version=NRSVUE

Revelation 7:9-17 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%207%3A9-17&version=NRSVUE

John 10:22-30 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010%3A22-30&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Psalm 23. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Psalm 23 inspires or encourages you? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1107236158112303&set=a.549399683895956.

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4/29/2025 0 Comments

Call to Worship, E3C

Come into God's courts, you faithful ones!
Sing praise to God's name, you who have experienced
God's blessing!
Give thanks, you who have been restored to wholeness!
New life is possible in Christ.
Come and worship, God!

*photo credit to Bonnie Edwards who not only took the photo but also created the nature mandala :)

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Julie served as a Commissioned Ruling Elder in a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation for thirteen years. She now absolutely delights in filling the pulpit for colleagues upon request, and looks forward to opportunities to do so. Her reformed perspective is sprinkled with humor and presented with authenticity, and she is open to creatively deconstructing worship as a means to helping congregants explore worship in transformational ways.

Julie and her husband, Ray, are parents of three adult children, and grandparents of four energetic and imaginative little people. She is an introverted-with-enough-extrovert-balance-to-keep-her-social, perfectionistic-with-hopper-tendencies, time and goal-oriented, kaleidoscopic, and insatiably curious child of God.

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Call to Worship, E6C

Gather in, you nations of the earth!
Gather in, you people who sing praise to God.
Gather in, you who long for equity
and you who seek God's guidance.
God is present with God's people
and blesses God's people with hope.
Let all God's people worship with reverence
and with joy.

Lectionary Scriptures for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Prayers of the People, E5C

Playlist, E5C

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSZrsZWKXfo8hQovDXM21wqnTE-kJvgpH

Prayer of Confession, E5C

Call to Worship, E5C

Gather in, you leaders of nations
and you citizens.
Gather in, women and men,
young and old,
you faithful who have walked with God
in all seasons!
Dance your way into God's sanctuary!
Sing your songs of praise!
Let all of creation worship God!

Lectionary Scriptures for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Call to Worship, Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Lectionary Scriptures for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C

Call to Worship, E3C

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Where Life and Worship Intersect

Gather in, you nations of the earth!
Gather in, you people who sing praise to God.
Gather in, you who long for equity
and you who seek God's guidance.
God is present with God's people
and blesses God's people with hope.
Let all God's people worship with reverence
and with joy.

Gather in, you leaders of nations
and you citizens.
Gather in, women and men,
young and old,
you faithful who have walked with God
in all seasons!
Dance your way into God's sanctuary!
Sing your songs of praise!
Let all of creation worship God!