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7/19/2019 0 Comments Prayers of the People, P6C The cries of the needy call out to you,
O God! The plight of the poverty-stricken is deplorable. Those with power and privilege trample over those without, and taunt them with their prestige. Send help, Lord! Women and children are bought and sold as slaves for the wealthy, and toyed with and tossed away as if they are nothing, as if they are less than human, because they are helpless and without a voice. Send help, Lord! The greedy demand more than they deserve, working the system, taxing those who labor intensely out of what little they have. The uneducated are at a distinct disadvantage yet they cannot obtain education in a world where knowledge comes at a price many cannot pay. Send help, Lord! Hear our cries for those who grieve without mercy, and those who die without notice, and those whose lives are not celebrated or even recognized because they are invisible. Send help, Lord! We implore you. Send help! In the name of all that is holy, send help!
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7/17/2019 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P6C Call to Confession
(Jesus said,) "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in." (Matthew 23:13) Let us confess our sin before God and seek God's mercy. Prayer of Confession, P6C Our self-centeredness, our arrogance, our entitlement has impacted the world around us, We have failed to care for our neighbors as we care for ourselves. Often times, our sense of value depends on which end of the almighty dollar we find ourselves, so that we expect to spend less and we expect to receive more, creating a system of economic injustice in a global economy instead of fostering a healthy interdependence. Hear our pleas for mercy, and rescue us from the pain we inflict on others, teaching us the way of love and compassion that Jesus modeled. Assurance of God's Grace I, I am (the One) who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins, (said the Lord). (Isaiah 43:25) 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 those whom you encounter this day. 7/16/2019 0 Comments Call to Worship, P6C Come, you who long to keep God's oath,
and keep it rightly, for God welcomes you and calls you God's own. Come, you who are excluded elsewhere, for God welcomes you and calls you God's own. Come, you prophets and preachers, who have been alienated from others by a daring theology of love, for God welcomes you and calls you God's own. Come, and worship God. 7/12/2019 0 Comments Prayers of the People, P5C Open our eyes, Lord,
and help us to see the places where we fall short of the measure you have laid down for us. Quiet our anxieties, Lord, and help us to hear one another rather than jump to our own fear-based conclusions, and season our conversations with mercy and with grace. Strengthen us to stand firm in the face of opposition when we are responding to your will, that we may not fail you or those whose voices need to be heard because the voices of the oppressor are louder. Open our ears, Lord, and help us to hear your words of warning and your call to repentance. Teach us what it means to live according to your rule of love, that your children everywhere may know the companionship of Christ embodied by your people, empowered by the Spirit, emboldened in our words and in our deeds. 7/10/2019 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P5C Call to Confession
God has set a plumb line in the midst of God's people, promising to lay waste to the sanctuaries where God's people gather but refuse to listen. Let us confess our sin before God and seek God's mercy. Prayer of Confession, P5C Forgive us, O God. We are the ones who hear your word and refuse to obey it. We are the ones who claim to follow and refuse to budge from our places of privilege and power. We are the ones who sense a call to leave behind the comfortable and risk our very selves to prophecy to your people. You have set the plumb line, but we build around our own prejudices, creating faulty foundations that fall to ruin. Hear our prayers for mercy. Help us show the grace we have been shown in the name of Love. Assurance of God's Grace Who is a God like you, asks Micah, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of your possession? God does not retain God's anger forever, becuase God delights in showing clemency. (7:18) 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 day. 7/9/2019 0 Comments Call to Worship, P5C What do you see,
you who have left your day-to-day work lives for worship and for service in the name of God? What do you see, you unexpectedly ordained coming from your ordinary lives to listen for God's voice? Open the eyes of your hearts and look at what God has done ... is doing ... will do ... Look, and worship God. 7/5/2019 0 Comments Prayers of the People, P4C O Holy Parent,
be present with your children in captivity, stolen away from their parents, taken to unknown lands, sold as servants or held as prisoners or trafficked as objects instead of being loved like the precious children of God they are. May the voices of justice cry out for them that they, too, may know freedom in the name of Christ, who represents freedom for all. O Merciful Healer, be present with those who are suffering with illness, with addiction, with grief, with fear, with pain. Place your healing hand upon them, we pray, and grant them comfort, strength, and courage to face each new day. Place people in their lives who can offer solutions, and grant them the wisdom to discern which healing paths to follow. May the whisper of Spirit inspire them, that they, too, may know freedom in the name of Christ, who represents freedom for all. O Great Prophetess, be present with those who direct your people to still waters and other unexpected places of hope. Instill in them a spirit of humility, a compassionate heart, a loving kindness, and a clear vision, that those who seek their guidance may be restored by your power at work in them, and those who do not understand them may not fear them, but come to respect your call on their lives. May the energy of love move them, that they, too, may know freedom in the name of Christ, who represents freedom for all. 7/3/2019 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, P4C Call to Confession
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, til God has mercy upon us. (Psalm 123:2) Let us confess our sin before God, and seek God's mercy. Prayer of Confession, P4C O Lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned. Have mercy on us, we pray. Our impatience has gotten the best of us. Our tempers flare. In our pride, we fail to acknowledge the wonders you can do for us in the simplest of ways. We demand great shows of power to match what we think of ourselves, when your all-encompassing love shows what you think of us. Forgive our egocentricity. Teach us the humility of prayer and the wisdom of listening to the faithful when addressing matters of the spirit however they manifest themselves. Assurance of God's Grace You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (2 Corinthians 6:11b) 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 day.  You who are suffering and longing to be healed, come.
The Healer is waiting to restore you to wholeness. You who are bold enough to speak truth to power, come. The Spirit is waiting to embrace you. You who have not yet experienced God's wonders, come. The Sovereign is waiting to reveal God's self to you. You who have been commissioned by God, come. Your Master is waiting to bless you. Come and worship. 6/28/2019 0 Comments Prayers of the People, P3C Fierce winds blow through the lives of your people, O God,
and we cry out to you for mercy. Hear our prayers. Companion us with faithful friends who refuse to abandon us in our distress and walk with us all the way to places of healing and hope. Grant us double shares of your spirit, that as we seek to find our way back to life, we are strengthened by the community of others who have walked the path we walk before us and encouraged by those who observe our transition from fear and despair to courage and grace. In the fiery storms of grief and pain, Lord, divide for us the waters that threaten to overtake us, and lead us through on dry ground, steadying our feet, and lifting our eyes toward the future. Inspire in us the daring it requires to pick up the mantle that has been thrown down and the wisdom and faith to use it according to your will. In your mercy, Lord, hear our prayers. |
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