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6/17/2025 0 Comments

Call to Worship, P+2C

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Gather in, you who long for God,
you whose spirits thirst for Living Water.
Come closer, you whose souls
are disquieted within.
Deep calls to deep,
and the steadfast love of God
is both a refuge
and a rolling thunder.
​Come and worship the God of hope.
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6/17/2025 0 Comments

Prayer of Confession, P+2C

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Call to Confession 

Stretch out your hands to God;
    May  our souls thirst for God like a parched land. Selah

God will answer us quickly, O children of the Lord;
    our spirits fail.
God does not hide God's face from God's children,
    or we shall be like those who go down to the Pit.  (Psalm 143:6-7 with a pov shift)

Let us stretch out our hands to God and seek God's mercy:

Prayer of Confession 

Forgive us, God, 
for we do not thirst for you.
Our souls are parched, 
but we look for refreshment 
in material things.
We assuage our longing
with angry outbursts.
We behold your face in the faces
of our neighbors,
but we do not recognize it.
Instead, we chant for deportation
and for imprisonment
and for war.
How do we lead the procession
into your house 
with glad shouts of thanksgiving
and praise,
kneeling before you on Sunday
and calling on the name of the One
who lived as an unhoused
refugee
and then live as subjects
of an earthly kingdom
Monday through Saturday?
Have mercy on us, we pray!
Sing to us your song of steadfast love
that we may rise above those who taunt us,
asking, "Where is your God?"
Send your Spirit to open our eyes
to the disquiet within us,
and help us to see
what we have refused to see:
that we are the deceitful and unjust.
Send out your light and your truth,
O God,
​and let them lead us.


Assurance of God's Grace


So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth, 3 for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your[a] life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)
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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6/16/2025 0 Comments

Lectionary Scriptures for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

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1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20King%2019%3A1-4%2C%208-15a&version=NRSVUE

Psalms 42 and 43  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2042%2C%2043&version=NRSVUE

Galatians 3:23-29  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%203%3A23-29&version=NRSVUE

Luke 8:26-39  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%208%3A26-39&version=NRSVUE

The focus passages for A Place of Grace this week are Psalms 42 and 43. All liturgy will be based on these passages. What in Psalm 42 or Psalm 43 inspires or encourages you? Share your thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1138491721653413&set=a.549399683895956.
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6/12/2025 0 Comments

Prayer of Confession, TSC

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Call to Confession

O that the Lord would remember us when showing favor to God's people,
that the Lord would help us when delivering them. (Psalm 106:4 paraphrased)
Let us call upon the Lord for help and seek God's mercy: 

Prayer of Confession 

Forgive us, God,
for we have come to believe 
that we are not even a little lower than you,
but that we are equal --
or even greater --
than you.
We have taken the dominion
you entrusted to us
and misused
and abused it.
We have crowned ourselves
and our leaders
with undeserved honor.
We have tarnished the glory
of intelligence
and compassion.
Forgive us, we pray.
We do know what we are doing,
and we do it anyway.
In your mercy, O God,
remind us of our mortality,
humble our hearts in the vastness
of the universe.
Remind us that power comes with
responsibility
to love and serve according
to Christ's example.
Rescue us from the natural, logical consequences
of our grievous behavior
and teach us to love 
as you love us.

Assurance of God's Grace

God so loved the world that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God did not send God's Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him. (John 3:16-17) 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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6/10/2025 0 Comments

Call to Worship, Trinity Sunday, Year C

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Lift up your voices,
you creatures of the Almighty!
Sing of the majesty of God!
By the power of the Word, 
all that is was given life
as the Spirit hovered over
and breathed life into it all.
Let us worship the Triune God,
who was and is and is to come!
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6/9/2025 0 Comments

Lectionary Scriptures for Trinity Sunday, Year C

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Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%208%3A1-4%2C%2022-31&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 8  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=NRSVUE

Romans 5:1-5  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=NRSVUE

John 16:12-15  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2016%3A12-15&version=NRSVUE

The A Place of Grace focus this week is Psalm 8. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Psalm 8 inspires or encourages you? Share your thoughts here:  www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1132950432207542&set=a.549399683895956
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6/3/2025 0 Comments

Call to Worship, Pentecost, Year C

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Welcome, all you creatures of the earth!
Welcome, all you that belong to the sea!
Gather in, you who look to God for food.
Gather in, you who breathe the breath of Spirit.
Come, and sing to the Lord;
Sing praise while you have being!
You sinners who fear being consumed ...
you wicked who face destruction ...
Come and bless the Lord
and be transformed by God's grace.
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6/2/2025 0 Comments

Lectionary Scriptures for Pentecost, Year C

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Acts 2:1-21  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%202%3A1-21&version=NRSVUE

Psalm 104:24-34, 35b  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20104%3A24-34%2C%2035b&version=NRSVUE

Romans 8:14-17  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%208%3A14-17&version=NRSVUE

John 14:8-17  www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2014%3A8-17&version=NRSVUE

The focus passage for a Place of Grace this week is Psalm 104:24-34, 35b. All liturgy will be based on this passage. What in Psalm 104:24-34, 35b inspires or encourages you? Share you thoughts here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1127534629415789&set=a.549399683895956. 
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5/29/2025 0 Comments

Playlist, E7C

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www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSZrsZWKXfo9cLkZws2459bESdoNcSaVy
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5/28/2025 0 Comments

Prayer of Confession, E7C

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Call to Confession 

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. (Malachi 4:1) Let us humble ourselves before God and confess our arrogance and our evil deeds and seek God's immeasurable mercy:

Prayer of Confession 

Lord, in your mercy, forgive us, we pray.
In his wisdom, King Solomon warned, 
"It is an abomination to kings to do evil,
    for the throne is established by righteousness,"
 
yet we do not hold our leaders to the standard set
by the One whom we claim to follow. 
In fact, we excuse their evil deeds
and adopt their arrogance
and defer attention by slandering those
who serve faithfully. 
We are not who we claim to be.
We do not follow Christ's example 
when we take food from children
and support from those who are battling for their lives
and aid from those who are ill
and opportunities from the marginalized
and history and science from education. 
We do not follow your commandments
when we take autonomy from humans
or hospitality from strangers
or provision for the poor. 
Have mercy on us, we pray,
and renew a right spirit within us.
Remind us who we are 
and whose we are
that we might transform our thinking
and live out the baptismal claims
on our lives. 



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) 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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    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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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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