Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2024%3A34-38%2C%2042-49%2C%2058-67&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 46:10-17  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2046%3A10-17&version=NRSVUE

Romans 7:15-25a  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%207%3A15-25a&version=NRSVUE

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-3 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011%3A16-19%2C%2025-30&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Romans 7:15-25a. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Romans 7:15-25a inspires or encourages you? In what do you delight? How do you express gratitude to God for God's rescue through Jesus Christ? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1454682770034305&set=a.549399683895956.  

Genesis 22:1-14 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022%3A1-14&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 13 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2013&version=NRSVUE

Romans 6:12-23 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206%3A12-23&version=NRSVUE

Matthew 10:40-42 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010%3A40-42&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Romans 6:12-23. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Romans 6:12-23 inspires or encourages you? What does it mean to you to live your life as one brought back from the dead (sin)? What does it look like to be a slave to righteousness? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1448419423993973&set=a.549399683895956.
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Call to Confession 

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) Let us confess our sin before God, and seek God's mercy:

Prayer of Confession 

Forgive us, God,
for we have knowingly continued in sin,
expecting your grace to cover us
in spite of the harm we inflict
on your people.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
As baptized children 
and co-heirs with Christ,
we behave as though we are 
entitled
rather than blessed.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
Born under the law of love,
our actions are anything 
but loving 
toward the children of Abraham and Sarah
and the children of Hagar
and even those who bear the name 
Christ-follower. 
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
Write your name on our hearts, O God,
and renew a right spirit within us
that we may remember who we are
and whose we are
and live according to the gracious example
et for us in Jesus.

Assurance of God's Grace

God has promised that when we confess our sin, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive us our sin, removing it as far as the east is from the west and remembering it no more. 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. 

Genesis 21:8-21 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021%3A8-21&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2086%3A1-10%2C%2016-17&version=NRSVUE

Romans 6:1b-11 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206%3A1b-11&version=NRSVUE

Matthew 10:24-39 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010%3A24-39&version=NRSVUE

The A Place of Grace focus passage this week is Romans 6:1b-11. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Romans 6:1b-11 inspires or encourages you? Where does the sin you died to continue to trip you up? What does it mean to you to be baptized into Christ's death? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1442466724589243&set=a.549399683895956. 

Come, you who boast in the sharing of God's glory!
Come, you who have endured through persecution
and suffering.
Come, you sinners and saints alike,
for God has declared you "not guilty" 
through Jesus Christ,
who died for the ungodly.
Come and worship the God who loves you
more than you can even begin to imagine.

*photo credit goes to Crystal Holmes

Genesis 18:1-15  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%2018%3A1-15&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%20116%3A1-2%2C%2012-19&version=NRSVUE

Romans 5:1-8  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%205%3A1-8&version=NRSVUE

Matthew 9:35-10:8  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%209%3A35-10%3A8&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Romans 5:1-8. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Romans 5:1-8 inspires or encourages you? Where have you discovered that your suffering was not wasted? Where in your life are you feeling weak and in need of God's help? What does it mean to you that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1436027118566537&set=a.549399683895956.

Gather in, you children of Abraham and Sarah,
you who have been gifted with faith
and saved by grace. 
Give glory to God
who raised Jesus from the dead
and who calls into existence
things that did not exist before!
Let us worship the Lord our God