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8/31/2021 0 Comments Call to Worship, P+15B You persistent women
seeking healing for your children and for the world, come and worship. You suffering children crying out in the darkness, crying for comfort, crying for justice, crying for peace, come and worship. You who cannot hear, and you whose voices have been silenced, come and worship the one who will open your ears and listen to your laments with compassion and with love.
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8/28/2021 0 Comments Prayers of the People, P+14B God of grace,
hear our prayers. For those who are bound by rules and rituals, who cannot see beyond the legalism of their own making, Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers. For those who worship with their tongues -- who say the words, but do not internalize them, who go through the motions, but do not feel anything, who sing the songs and pray the prayers, but leave unchanged and empty, Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers. For a world of people who struggle with anger, addiction, and arrogance, unmoved by your compassion, unable to love as you love, Lord in your mercy, hear our prayers. Cleanse our hearts, O God. Remove the pollution from our souls. Transform us into a people who glorify your name with passion and in truth, that all who look upon your children everywhere call see the love of Christ in all we say and do. 8/26/2021 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P+14B Call to Confession
If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. (James 1:26) Let us confess our sin before God, and seek God's mercy. Prayer of Confession Forgive us, God. We are quick to point out the speck in our neighbor's eye and slow to remove the log in our own. We tithe mint, and dill, and cumin, and ignore, downplay, and even mock matters of justice, mercy, and faithfulness. We clean the outside of cups and plates which are full to overflowing with greed and self-indulgence. Our worship is meaningless because we refuse to live out our identity as children of a loving and compassionate God. We profess your name, but deny you with our self-righteous behavior. We do not have the love of God within us. Have mercy on us, we pray. Cleanse our hands and purify our hearts, so that all we say and do -- every word, every action -- reflects the love you and peace and mercy in which we have been created and recreated every day of our lives. Assurance of God's Grace God has promised that when we confess our sin, God who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins, removing them as far as the east is from the west, and remembering them no more. 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. 8/24/2021 0 Comments Call to Worship, P+14B Listen, people, and understand:
Worship the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. Worship God alone, and bring glory to God's name! 8/12/2021 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P+12B Call to Confession
God did not send God's Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. (John 3:17) Let us confess our sin before God, and receive God's mercy. Prayer of Confession Forgive us, God. We have lost our hearty appetite for you. Instead, we snack on bread that was meant to sustain us only for a day ... bread that will not keep us from dying in wildernesses of our own making. This is the bread we choose as we stray from your Table and the feast of eternity that is laid out for us there. Forgive us, we pray, because the bread of the moment is not made with the same kind of fortitude. It leaves us hungry, and hungry people find it difficult to love radically and share extravagant grace as Jesus did. Breathe life into the cosmos, Living Bread; breathe life into our spirits, so that we too can meet your people where they are and offer them the Bread of Life according to your will. Assurance of God's Grace In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:10) 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. 8/10/2021 0 Comments Call to Worship, P+12B You are invited
to experience the Living Bread which came down from Heaven. You are welcomed into the community of God’s self and God’s people. You are encouraged to receive that which will raise you up on the last day, for a forever life. Let us worship God. 8/5/2021 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P+11B Call to Confession
And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account. (Hebrews 4:13) Let us confess our sin before God and seek God's mercy. Prayer of Confession Bread of Life, We are believers who wrestle with faith. We are grumblers, grumbling amongst ourselves about you ... YOU ... yes, you ... because we do not like your radical love and extravagant grace except when it benefits us. We hunger and thirst for righteousness, for justice, for peace, but our righteousness looks different than yours; our justice is not justice in your sight. We hunger for the Bread of Life and thirst for Living Water. Daily. But we wait too long between feasting, and our bodies, minds, and spirits wane from lack of nourishment, and it shows in our work, and in our energy, in our relationships, and in our spirits. God, forgive us. Tell us again how to love as you love. Nourish us anew with the Bread of Heaven, and raise us up with you. Assurance of God's Grace God said, "This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Hebrews 8:10) In the name of Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of the covenant God made with God's people, 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. 8/3/2021 0 Comments Call to Worship, P+11B Believers, complainers, compelled, and hungry,
come now to the Bread of Life, and live eternally. Hunger and thirst no more, but be raised up by the bread that came down from Heaven and live forever as a child of God. |
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Julie participated in the 25th Seminar for Certified Zentangle(R) Teacher Training in June, 2019, trained by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. In addition to creating art as a personal spiritual practice, Julie also incorporates the Zentangle(R) method in Prayer Art Retreats in a variety of contexts, including church groups, friend gatherings, and at a local art gallery. Check out the Upcoming Events page for a calendar of events, or use the Contact Us page to inquire about scheduling an event with your group!
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