Bulletin
April 19, 2009
Second Sunday of Easter
Gathering in Christ's Name
Announcements
Joys and Concerns
Greeting one another in Christian Love
Coming to Christ
Prelude and Lighting of the Altar Candles
Greeting:
L: May the love of our Lord Jesus Christ fill you
P: May Christ's love fill you as well.
*Hymn of Praise and Worship: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
UMH 384
*Invocation (Glen E. Rainsley in Touch Holiness p. 79)
Sharing Life in Christ
Blessing of Prayer Shawls
Call to Confession
Prayer of Confession (Glen E. Rainsley in Touch Holiness
p. 82)
God of all worlds and all time, we gather voicing thanks for
this season of resurrection. May our worship be as an Easter
tide.
Wash over us and see into us to refresh and to cleanse.
Dissolve the prejudices that cling to us like barnacles, the
jealousies that lodge in crevices of memory. Move toward
us with power and might when we are rock-rigid in our views and
when we are unforgiving as granite. Let us hear the thunderous
sound of good news as it breaks upon our hardness of heart.
And bid us, God, to dare to journey upon the sea of the Spirit.
May the waves of an Easter tide buoy us up and beckon us to the
adventure of resurrection living. Amen.
L: In the Name of Jesus Christ your sins are forgiven!
P: In the Name of Jesus Christ your sins are forgiven!
All: Thanks be to God! Amen!
*Hymn
He Lives
UMH 310
Prayers of the People
Lord's Prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us
not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the
kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Prayer Response He Is Lord
UMH 177
He is Lord, he is Lord!
He is risen from the dead and he is Lord!
Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord!
Prayer of Saint Patrick
Christ be with us, Christ before us, Christ behind us,
Christ in us Christ beneath us, Christ above us,
Christ on our right, Christ on our left,
Christ where we lie, Christ where we sit, Christ where we arise,
Christ in the heart of every one who thinks of us,
Christ in every eye that sees us,
Christ in every ear that hears us.
Salvation is of the Lord,
Salvation is of the Christ,
May your salvation, O Lord, be ever with us.
*Hymn
The Day of Resurrection
UMH 303
Growing in Christ
Preparation for giving
Offertory
*Doxology UMH 95
*Prayer of Thanksgiving
Loving God, full of grace, we know there are things we take
for granted that are your gifts. We thank you for the gift
of work, of food on the table and a roof over our heads.
We thank you for clothes to wear and time for recreation.
Most of all, O God we thank you for our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has shown us how to walk in the power of your Spirit and in peace;
in perfect love and great joy; in the fullness of life even in
the midst of trials and tribulation. Bless now these gifts
and offerings that they may be a blessing to the world.
Amen.
*Hymn
The Day of Resurrection
UMH 303
Anthem
Sermon Texts
Isaiah 65:1 Ephesians 1:15-19a Matthew
26:40-41
Sermon
Pay Attention
*Hymn
Open My Eyes, That I May See
UMH 454
Going Forth to Live in Christ
*Benediction
Lectionary readings for next week:
Acts 3:12-19
Psalm 4
1 John 3:1-7
Luke 24:36b-48
Passages for Lectio Divina:
I, the LORD, was ready to answer even those who were
not asking and to be found by those who were not searching.
To a nation that refused to worship me, I said, "Here
I am!" Isaiah 65:1 Contemporary English Version
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so
that you may know him better. Ephesians 1:17 TNIV
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order
that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches
of his glorious inheritance in his people, and his incomparably
great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:18-19a TNIV
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's
glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing
glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians
3:18 TNIV
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