Third Space refers to one’s social surroundings separate from the two environments of home (first space) and the workplace (second space).

Dimensions Study: Every Tuesday from 4:00-5:00pm @ SawMill Market (1909 Ballamah Ave, NW) on the second floor, you are invited to explore the 5-dimensions of Physical, Financial, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social Health through this interactive study and fellowship time.

Starbucks Study: Every Wednesday from 11:00am-12:00pm @ the Starbucks on Lomas and Washington you are invited to study and discuss C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity.

Bow & Arrow 3rd Thursday Study: Join us the third Thursday of every month @ Bow & Arrow Brewery from 5:30-7:00pm for an engaging discussion on various topics in theology.

Announcing Fall Monthly Volunteer Breakfast Celebrations hosted, prepared, and served by the CUMC staff and clergy. Come join in recognizing and celebrating CUMCs dedicated volunteers the last Sunday of every month this fall in the Life Center during the Sunday School hour.

NAVIGATE Children and Youth Ministries

September 9th, 5:00pm - 8:00pm: Join the fun! Children will get the opportunity to engage with other children, enjoy dinner, and watch a movie. The cost is $20 per child. Space is limited so sign up with Heather S. at the church ASAP!

to submit a prayer, or view those on the Prayer List.

To help track Sunday Attendance, we like to have everyone sign-in with using our Attendance Form.

Look around. What wonders we behold!

Each person here is a unique, beloved creation of God.

Come, let us worship God who has blessed us so mightily.

Hymn of Preparation  A Mighty Fortress is Our God      110 UMH

First Reading  Romans 5:20-21

Creator God, We are broken vessels. You have watched us. You have called to us. You have blessed us and yet we have chosen our own flawed ways. Throughout the ages you have sent your prophets to help us return to you. Some people heeded your call and turned again to lives of love, grace, and witness. But others chose not to listen. Please help us to tune our ears and our hearts to you. Help us to seek peace and justice rather than greed and complacency. As we have gathered here this morning to listen to your word, to sing praise, to offer our prayers, help us to remember that you hold us dearly in your hands. You cherish our lives and listen to our cries. You respond to our needs. Enable us to place our trust in you totally, that we may faithfully serve you all of our days. In Jesus’ Name, we pray together the pray you taught us to pray, “Our Father…”

Forgiving God, we have messed up in so many ways. You gave us a wonderful world, filled with beauty, power, and majesty, and we have ravaged it - tearing away at its gifts with our own greed and cowardice. We have not treated this world or one another with compassionate love. We have turned our backs on situations of need in which we could have been instruments of help, healing, and peace. We have neglected service to others and have focused our lives on accumulating things and status. We have chased after false gods - greed, power, fame. You are the potter, O Lord. You fashioned us, but we focused on developing our flaws rather than working with our strengths. Please forgive us, Lord. Refashion us to be your people, celebrating your love in service to others. For we ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. AMEN.

God’s loving choice for you is peace and hope and grace. God has fashioned you to be God’s people. Rejoice! For God is with you, reaching out to heal and care for you. AMEN.

Musical Response      Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus        349 UMH

Gospel Scripture Reading Matthew 22:36-40 

Anthem    The Gift of Love       arr. Hal Hopson

Sermon  The Law of the Land 

We have listened to your word, Lord.

We have watched you at work in the world, Lord.

You have touched us, Lord.

And if the ushers would begin our morning offering:

What must be done to convince us of God’s unending love? What further proof do we need? We have only to look around us to see what the Lord has done. We have only to look to the One who poured out his life for us, who offered himself in our place, and whose Spirit casts out all doubt and fear. What can we offer in response? Only our very selves, and the fruit of our lives and labor.

Doxology  Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow     94 UMH     

In our songs and in our words, we give praise to you, Lord. In our worship, study, and service, we bless you. Loving God, you breathe life into our mortal bodies; you complete us and fill our every need. For all that you have done; for all that you have given to us, we worship you. Beautiful savior, with all that we are, and with all that we have, we offer you our thanks and praise. Amen.

The Lord be with you.

Lift up your hearts. 

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you,

Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life.

When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. You delivered us from captivity, made covenant to be our sovereign God, and spoke to us through your prophets, who looked for that day when justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream, when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.

Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners. 

By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your Church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit. 

At his ascension you exalted him to sit and reign with you at your right hand.

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:

"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me."

When the supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:

"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine.

Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and for ever. Amen.

Closing Hymn     Marching to Zion  (vs 1,4)        733 UMH

Peace to you from the One who is and was, and is to come. Grace and peace to you from the One who loves us and frees us, the One who gives us repentance and forgiveness. As God sent Jesus into the world, so the Spirit now sends us to continue God’s holy work. To God be glory and dominion forever and ever! Amen.

Look around. What wonders we behold!

Each person here is a unique, beloved creation of God.

Come, let us worship God who has blessed us so mightily.

Hymn of Preparation  A Mighty Fortress is Our God      110 UMH

First Reading  Romans 5:20-21

Creator God, We are broken vessels. You have watched us. You have called to us. You have blessed us and yet we have chosen our own flawed ways. Throughout the ages you have sent your prophets to help us return to you. Some people heeded your call and turned again to lives of love, grace, and witness. But others chose not to listen. Please help us to tune our ears and our hearts to you. Help us to seek peace and justice rather than greed and complacency. As we have gathered here this morning to listen to your word, to sing praise, to offer our prayers, help us to remember that you hold us dearly in your hands. You cherish our lives and listen to our cries. You respond to our needs. Enable us to place our trust in you totally, that we may faithfully serve you all of our days. In Jesus’ Name, we pray together the pray you taught us to pray, “Our Father…”

Forgiving God, we have messed up in so many ways. You gave us a wonderful world, filled with beauty, power, and majesty, and we have ravaged it - tearing away at its gifts with our own greed and cowardice. We have not treated this world or one another with compassionate love. We have turned our backs on situations of need in which we could have been instruments of help, healing, and peace. We have neglected service to others and have focused our lives on accumulating things and status. We have chased after false gods - greed, power, fame. You are the potter, O Lord. You fashioned us, but we focused on developing our flaws rather than working with our strengths. Please forgive us, Lord. Refashion us to be your people, celebrating your love in service to others. For we ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. AMEN.

God’s loving choice for you is peace and hope and grace. God has fashioned you to be God’s people. Rejoice! For God is with you, reaching out to heal and care for you. AMEN.

Musical Response      Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus        349 UMH

Gospel Scripture Reading Matthew 22:36-40 

Anthem    Just a Closer Walk with Thee    arr. Jack Schrader

Sermon  The Law of the Land 

We have listened to your word, Lord.

We have watched you at work in the world, Lord.

You have touched us, Lord.

And if the ushers would begin our morning offering:

What must be done to convince us of God’s unending love? What further proof do we need? We have only to look around us to see what the Lord has done. We have only to look to the One who poured out his life for us, who offered himself in our place, and whose Spirit casts out all doubt and fear. What can we offer in response? Only our very selves, and the fruit of our lives and labor.

Doxology  Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow     94 UMH     

In our songs and in our words, we give praise to you, Lord. In our worship, study, and service, we bless you. Loving God, you breathe life into our mortal bodies; you complete us and fill our every need. For all that you have done; for all that you have given to us, we worship you. Beautiful savior, with all that we are, and with all that we have, we offer you our thanks and praise. Amen.

The Lord be with you.

Lift up your hearts. 

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you,

Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life.

When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. You delivered us from captivity, made covenant to be our sovereign God, and spoke to us through your prophets, who looked for that day when justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream, when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.

Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners. 

By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your Church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit. 

At his ascension you exalted him to sit and reign with you at your right hand.

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:

"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me."

When the supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:

"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine.

Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and for ever. Amen.

Closing Hymn     Marching to Zion  (vs 1,4)        733 UMH

Peace to you from the One who is and was, and is to come. Grace and peace to you from the One who loves us and frees us, the One who gives us repentance and forgiveness. As God sent Jesus into the world, so the Spirit now sends us to continue God’s holy work. To God be glory and dominion forever and ever! Amen.