8/7/2018 0 Comments Call to Worship, OT19BCome from your places of fear and hopelessness
for the Lord our God delivers. Come from your places of striving and embattlement for the Lord our God delivers. Come from your places of anxiety and distress for the Lord our God delivers. Come from your place of grief and pain for the Lord our God delivers. Let us worship God!
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8/3/2018 0 Comments Prayers of the People, OT18BWhere greed and selfishness
and power-mongering are accepted as normal and those who have make all the rules for those who haven't, send your prophets to speak words of truth. Bring justice to your people, Lord, everywhere that injustice reigns. Where grief and devastation and powerlessness bring the voiceless to their knees and the innocent are rendered helpless at the hands of those in power, send your Spirit to comfort your people. Show mercy toward your people, Lord, everywhere that oppression is prevalent. Where poverty is rampant and your children cry out in hunger, and those who hoard their resources refuse to share with those who have none, send your church with bread both physical and spiritual. Feed your people, Lord, offering nourishment and strength. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers. 8/1/2018 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, OT18BCall to Confession
God has set our iniquities before us, our secret sins in the light of God's presence. Let us confess our sin before God and seek God's mercy. Prayer of Confession, OT18B Our selfishness and our greed, our lust and our abuse of power, our deception and our manipulation are ever before us. Daily, we are reminded of the many ways we have failed to live out your claim on our lives. Forgive us, we pray, though we know we do not deserve it. Hear our cries for mercy. Wash the guilt from our hands, and restore us to right relationship with you, O God, and with one another, that our lives might reflect your grace. Assurance of God's Grace {God} who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? (Romans 8:32) 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 today ... |
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