Sunday, May 15, 2022, 10 a.m.
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In-person Worship* Enter the sanctuary through the doors facing Stockley Gardens.
Our nursery is available for children through age 3. Our nursery workers are CPR certified and fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus.
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Prelude
Greeting & Announcements
Collect Revelation 21:1-6
Call to Worship adapted from Feasting on the Word: Worship Companion
- As we gather this Easter season rejoicing. O, God of Love,
- Raise us to new life in Christ!
- As we spring blooms and we give thanks for your creation, precious creatures great and small. O, God of Love,
- Raise us to new life in Christ!
- As we broaden your table that all may find a place to live and grow! O, God of Love,
- Raise us to new life in Christ!
- Amen.
Opening Hymn: "God of Queer Transgressive Spaces;" Tune: Converse; Words and Music: One License #A-727358
- God of queer, transgressive spaces: Lavish manger, empty tomb; wine-dark loaves and precious graces, bend our barren lives to bloom. God’s own deviance is Jesus: Born of virgin, Word made flesh; dead and buried, still he rises! What abnormal worldliness!
- Thanks to God for grave disorder: shroud and sorrow fall undone; Easter garments, at His order, swaddle Her beloved One. Brothers bind ye to each other, sisters, too, and have no shame. Sing with God our Father-Mother, love that dares now speak its name.
- Stone walls shall not be our prison, Iron bars shall not engage. Christ transfigured, Christ now risen: where the frenzy, where the rage? Shedding clouds of flesh and gender, garments shining like the sun. At the crossroads of surrender. Bodies beings breathe as one.
- With our unbound God confessing: turn all fracture into praise, benediction into blessing, fabulous and full of days.
Centering Prayer from Feasting on the Word: Worship Companion
Children's Message
Sermon
Sermon Hymn #2223: "They'll Know We Are Christians by Our Love;" Tune: St. Brendan's
Words and Music: One License #A-727358
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Words:
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1. We are one in the Spirit; we are one in the Lord. We are one in the Spirit; we are one in the Lord. And we pray that all unity may one day be restored.
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Refrain: And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love.
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2. We will walk with each other; we will walk hand in hand. We will walk with each other; we will walk hand in hand. And together we'll spread the news that God is in our land. Refrain
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3. We will work with each other; we will work side by side. We will work with each other; we will work side by side. And we'll guard human dignity and save human pride. Refrain
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4. All praise to the Father, from whom all things come. And all praise to Christ Jesus, God's only Son. And all praise to the Spirit, who makes us one. Refrain
The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Pastoral Prayer
The 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, the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Offering
Doxology: Tune: St. Kevin; Words and Music: Public Domain
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Words: "Alleluia!” now we cry to our King immortal, who, triumphant, burst the bars of the tomb’s dark portal; “Alleluia!” with the Son, God the Father praising, “Alleluia!” yet again to the Spirit raising.
Closing Hymn #384B: "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling;" Tune: Hyfrydol; Words and music: Public Domain
- Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down; fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown! Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart.
- Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast! Let us all in thee inherit; let us find that second rest. Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty.
- Come, Almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love.
- Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be. Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee; changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Benediction
Postlude
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Daily Prayer Starter
Please set aside time each day to pray for 2-3 minutes. This week's prayer starter is:
"Delivering God, awaken me this day to your goodness that I might not hinder your love but strengthen its spread throughout the earth…" (adapted from Feasting on the Word: Worship Companion)
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"Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
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