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8/28/2025 0 Comments Prayer of Dedication, P+12C Gracious God,
you fill us with good things! Nourished by your abundant provision, we gratefully bring to your our gifts of time, talent, and treasure as we participate in the building of your kin-dom on earth, and we dedicate them as a commitment to live according to your faithful guidance. Bless these gifts, we pray, and multiply them, that the Good News may be refreshment to the souls of your people in this community and beyond. Amen. If you have been blessed by A Place of Grace, you are invited to support this ministry in our community and beyond. Electronic offerings may be made via Venmo (@Julie-Gvillo) or PayPal.me/JulieGvillo. Thank you, and God bless~
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8/28/2025 0 Comments Playlist, P+12C8/27/2025 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P+12C Call to Confession
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth. (Deuteronomy 32:18) Let us remember the God who gave us birth, confessing our sin and seeking God’s mercy: Prayer of Confession God, forgive us, You spoke to us through prophets, but we turned away. You came to us through Christ, but we crucified him. You demonstrated love, but we chose dehumanization. Following our own counsel, we choose greed over generosity, prejudice over diversity, and power over partnership, allowing the entitlement of ego to overcome the humility of hospitality. You long for your people to return to you with repentant hearts, but we resist your beckoning, insisting on our own way. Open our ears, we pray, that our stubborn hearts might be transformed. Lead us out of the chaos we have created toward a just society for your name’s sake. Assurance of God’s Grace God has promised that when we confess our sin before God, 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. 8/26/2025 0 Comments Call to Worship, P+12C People of God, come into God's presence with singing!
Remember God’s faithfulness to God’s people. God keeps God’s promises. God frees the enslaved and fills God's people with bread and honey. God sent God’s Son to set an example for God’s children in overturning tables of grifters using God’s name to line their pockets. God frees the enslaved and fills God's people with bread and honey. God’s Word is the story of God’s people and God’s activity in the world. Through it, we come to know the character of God whose steadfast love for all God’s children endures forever. God frees the enslaved and fills God's people with bread and honey. Let us worship God!  Jeremiah 2:4-13 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202%3A4-13&version=NRSVUE
Psalm 81:1, 10-16 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2081%3A1%2C%2010-16&version=NRSVUE Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2013%3A1-8%2C%2015-16&version=NRSVUE Luke 14:1, 7-14 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2014%3A1%2C%207-14&version=NRSVUE The focus passage for A Place of Grace this week is Psalm 81:1, 10-16. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Psalm 81:1, 10-16 inspires of encourages you? Share your thoughts here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1195219982647253&set=a.549399683895956, 8/22/2025 0 Comments Pastoral Prayer, P+11C God, our Fortress,
the weary come to you for rest, the fearful come to you for assurance, the hopeless come to you for hope, the humbled come to you for grace. Exhausted by the turmoil of our world, we crawl into your welcoming arms looking for restoration. Hear our prayers for strength, O God. Be present with your people in battle-torn territories, grieving the loss of their homes and their livelihoods and their security and those they love. Be present, we pray, with those who are starving for nutrition, for connection, for joy, for hope. Be present, merciful God, with those whose voices have been silenced and those who speak on their behalf, with those whose needs are great and those who have the power to address them, with those whose liberty is threatened and those who have pledged to protect it. Work in and through your church in this community and around the world to create places of refuge and hope for all who need it. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 8/21/2025 0 Comments Prayer of Dedication, P+11C O God, In grateful thanksgiving for your enduring care from our birth until now, we bring our time, our talents, and our treasure, and we offer them to you, trusting that your faithfulness continues throughout all generations, and leaning in to that trust with hearts that are full. May these gifts create shelter for those who seek refuge in our community and beyond. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
*If you have been blessed by the ministry of A Place of Grace -- by the prayers or the retreats or the community -- you are invited to support this ministry with an electronic offering made via Venmo (@Julie-Gvillo) or PayPal.me/JulieGvillo. 8/21/2025 0 Comments Playlist, P+11C8/20/2025 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P+11C Call to Confession
To you they cried and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. (Psalm 22:5) Let us cry out to God and seek God's saving grace: Prayer of Confession God, forgive us. We seek security in things of earthly value like money and property and power. We seek control over our lives and the lives of others instead of trusting that God’s grace is sufficient in ways we cannot imagine. We resist trusting God’s faithful presence through life’s challenges by believing we can only depend on ourselves, by becoming drunk on power, by focusing on greed and fear. When hope wavers, we long for refuge, but we seek it in the fault lines of human ego instead of the rock-solid faithfulness we find in you. Open our hearts to the transforming power of unconditional love. Teach us to trust in the justice of equity and the certainty of grace. Help us to believe in and to join the work of the Spirit that the kin-dom of God may be made real in the present for a future filled with the hope you desire for us. Assurance of God's Grace In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us. (Ephesians 1:7-8) 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. 8/19/2025 0 Comments Call to Worship, P+11C Like a mountain of rock, God stands faithfully,
generation after generation, a fortress in times of chaos and tumult. All who are weary, fearful, exhausted, and feeling alone are welcomed into God’s steadfast presence where yearnings for rest and peace and belonging are met with compassion and comfort and community. Come, you who long for the assurance of God’s unshakable strength. God is here. Let us worship 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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