Check out this Holy Thursday service with a sure to be excellent sermon by the man, Evan Jones!
Travis Park UMC
Holy Thursday, April 5th, 2007
7:00 p.m.
ENTRANCE
CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP The Sun Still Shines
Text: found in Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany; Music:???
Joyful Melodies Choir; Jackie Shepherd, conductor
GREETING*
Leader: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
People: Christ has prepared a feast of love.
--The United Methodist Book of Worship
OPENING HYMN* No. 384 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: My sisters and brothers, Christ shows us his love by becoming a humble servant. Let us
draw near to God and confess our sin in the truth of God’s Spirit.
SILENT PRAYERS
People: Most merciful God, we your Church confess that often our spirit has not
been that of Christ. Where we have failed to love one another as he loves us, where we have pledged loyalty to him with our lips and then betrayed, deserted, or denied him, forgive us, we pray; and by your Spirit make us faithful in every time of trials; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Leader: Who was in a position to condemn? Only Christ. But Christ suffered and died for us,
and continues to intercede for us. Believe the good news: in the name of Jesus Christ you are forgiven!
People: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven! Glory to God. Amen!
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
All: Lord, open our hearts and minds by the power of your Holy Spirit, that, as the
Scriptures are read and your Word proclaimed, we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen.
A READING FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE Exodus 12:1-14
PSALM 116:1-2, 12-19 UMH No. 837 (let’s chant it or use the responses!)
A READING FROM THE EPISTLES 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
HYMN No. 2266 Here is Bread, Here is Wine
GOSPEL LESSON John 13:1-17, 31b-35
SERMON “One More Thing…” John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Evan Jones
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Last Supper
Words and Music: Allen Pote
Emmaus Youth Choir: Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist; narrator
THANKSGIVING AND COMMUINION
TAKING THE BREAD AND CUP
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING (using OSL lit.)
THE LORD’S PRAYER
BREAKING THE BREAD
GIVING THE BREAD AND CUP
SENDING FORTH
Hymn No. 292 What Wondrous Love is This?
STRIPPING OF THE CHURCH
DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING
Leader: Go in peace. May Jesus Christ, who for our sake became obedient unto death, even death
on a cross, keep you and strengthen you this night and forever. Amen.
PLEASE LEAVE IN SILENCE
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Very Cool Palm/Passion Sunday 2007
Hey Everybody!
We are doing a very cool palm/passion Sunday service this Sunday using the Rutter Requiem. Check it out!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Palm Sunday
9:00 a.m.
CALL TO WORSHIP Trumpet Voluntary Lana Cartlidge Potts
GREETING
Leader: If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross
and follow me.
People: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their
life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
--Mark 8:34b-35
OPENING HYMN* No. 278 Hosanna, Loud Hosanna ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
Like the people who greeted Jesus as he entered Jerusalem and then later pronounced “Crucify him,” we are fickle people who often deny Christ in our thoughts, words, and deeds. Remembering the events of Jesus’ last week helps us see ourselves for what we are: sinners in need of a Savior, a Savior—praise God—we have in Christ. In honesty and hope, we confess now our sins to God.
--The Worship Sourcebook
SILENT PRAYERS
I. Requiem aeternam John Rutter
Réquiem aetérnam dóna éis, Dómine Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord
et lux perpétua lúceat éis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.
Te décet hýmnus Déus in Zíon, A hymn befits thee, O God in Zion
et tíbi redétur and to thee a
vótum in Jerúsalem vow shall be fulfilled in Jerusalem
exáudi oratiónem méam, Hear my prayer,
ad te ómnis cáro véniet. for unto thee all flesh shall come.
--from Missa pro defunctis
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
HOMILY The Rev. John Flowers
II. Out of the deep Marilyn de Olivieiri, cellist John Rutter
Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice.
O let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint.
If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O Lord, who may abide it?
For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared.
I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him: in his word is my trust.
My soul fleeth unto the Lord; before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.
O Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy:
and with him is plenteous redemption.
And he shall redeem Israel: from all his sins.
--Psalm 130
TITHES AND OFFERINGS/PLEDGE CARDS
III. Pie Jesu Jackie Shepherd, soprano soloist John Rutter
Píe Jésu Dómine, Merciful Lord Jesus,
dóna éis requiem. grant them rest.
--from ‘Dies Irae’, Missa pro defunctis
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS John Rutter
Sánctus, Sánctus, Sánctus, Holy, Holy, Holy
Dóminus Déus Sábaoth. Lord God of Hosts
Pléni sunt caéli et térra glória túa Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.
Hosánna in excélsis. Hosanna in the highest.
Benedíctus qui vénit in nominee Dómini. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosánna in excélsis. Hosanna in the highest.
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Your Son, Jesus Christ, fulfilled the prophets’ words, and entered the city of Jerusalem
where he was lifted high upon the cross, that the whole world might be drawn to him. By his suffering and death he defeated the power of death, becoming the source of eternal life. The tree of defeat became the tree of victory; where life was lost, life has been restored.
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and for ever. Amen.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
V. Agnus Dei John Rutter
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world.
dona eis requiem. grant them rest.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succor?
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
--Latin text from Missa pro defunctis; English texts from the Burial Service,
1662 Book of Common Prayer
A TIME OF REFLECTION ON THE EVENTS OF HOLY WEEK
VI. The Lord is my shepherd Larry Muelluer, oboist John Rutter
The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing.
He shall feed me in a green pasture: and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.
He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me:
thou has anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
--Psalm 23, Miles Coverdale/Anglicaan translation
PRAYER FOR LIGHT (the congregations candles will be lit by the pastors here)
VII. Lux aeterna Patty Riggle Bonner, soprano soloist John Rutter
I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours: even so saith the Spirit.
Lux aéterna lúceat éis, Dómine: May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord.
Cum sánctis túis in aetérnum, in the company of thy saints forever and ever;
quia píus es. for thou art merciful.
Requiem aetérnam dóna éis, Dómine, Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord,
et lux perpétua lúceat éis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.
--English text from the Burial Service (slightly altered); Latin text, Missa pro defunctis
BENEDICTION Rev. Joe Stobaugh
We are doing a very cool palm/passion Sunday service this Sunday using the Rutter Requiem. Check it out!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Palm Sunday
9:00 a.m.
CALL TO WORSHIP Trumpet Voluntary Lana Cartlidge Potts
GREETING
Leader: If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross
and follow me.
People: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their
life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
--Mark 8:34b-35
OPENING HYMN* No. 278 Hosanna, Loud Hosanna ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
Like the people who greeted Jesus as he entered Jerusalem and then later pronounced “Crucify him,” we are fickle people who often deny Christ in our thoughts, words, and deeds. Remembering the events of Jesus’ last week helps us see ourselves for what we are: sinners in need of a Savior, a Savior—praise God—we have in Christ. In honesty and hope, we confess now our sins to God.
--The Worship Sourcebook
SILENT PRAYERS
I. Requiem aeternam John Rutter
Réquiem aetérnam dóna éis, Dómine Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord
et lux perpétua lúceat éis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.
Te décet hýmnus Déus in Zíon, A hymn befits thee, O God in Zion
et tíbi redétur and to thee a
vótum in Jerúsalem vow shall be fulfilled in Jerusalem
exáudi oratiónem méam, Hear my prayer,
ad te ómnis cáro véniet. for unto thee all flesh shall come.
--from Missa pro defunctis
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
HOMILY The Rev. John Flowers
II. Out of the deep Marilyn de Olivieiri, cellist John Rutter
Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice.
O let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint.
If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O Lord, who may abide it?
For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared.
I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him: in his word is my trust.
My soul fleeth unto the Lord; before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.
O Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy:
and with him is plenteous redemption.
And he shall redeem Israel: from all his sins.
--Psalm 130
TITHES AND OFFERINGS/PLEDGE CARDS
III. Pie Jesu Jackie Shepherd, soprano soloist John Rutter
Píe Jésu Dómine, Merciful Lord Jesus,
dóna éis requiem. grant them rest.
--from ‘Dies Irae’, Missa pro defunctis
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS John Rutter
Sánctus, Sánctus, Sánctus, Holy, Holy, Holy
Dóminus Déus Sábaoth. Lord God of Hosts
Pléni sunt caéli et térra glória túa Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.
Hosánna in excélsis. Hosanna in the highest.
Benedíctus qui vénit in nominee Dómini. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosánna in excélsis. Hosanna in the highest.
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Your Son, Jesus Christ, fulfilled the prophets’ words, and entered the city of Jerusalem
where he was lifted high upon the cross, that the whole world might be drawn to him. By his suffering and death he defeated the power of death, becoming the source of eternal life. The tree of defeat became the tree of victory; where life was lost, life has been restored.
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and for ever. Amen.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
V. Agnus Dei John Rutter
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world.
dona eis requiem. grant them rest.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succor?
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
--Latin text from Missa pro defunctis; English texts from the Burial Service,
1662 Book of Common Prayer
A TIME OF REFLECTION ON THE EVENTS OF HOLY WEEK
VI. The Lord is my shepherd Larry Muelluer, oboist John Rutter
The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing.
He shall feed me in a green pasture: and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.
He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me:
thou has anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
--Psalm 23, Miles Coverdale/Anglicaan translation
PRAYER FOR LIGHT (the congregations candles will be lit by the pastors here)
VII. Lux aeterna Patty Riggle Bonner, soprano soloist John Rutter
I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours: even so saith the Spirit.
Lux aéterna lúceat éis, Dómine: May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord.
Cum sánctis túis in aetérnum, in the company of thy saints forever and ever;
quia píus es. for thou art merciful.
Requiem aetérnam dóna éis, Dómine, Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord,
et lux perpétua lúceat éis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.
--English text from the Burial Service (slightly altered); Latin text, Missa pro defunctis
BENEDICTION Rev. Joe Stobaugh
3/25/07 11 Lit.
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Fifth Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
Guide My Feet (16)
Blessed be the Name of the Lord (17)
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Give Thanks (18)
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Surely God is Able (4)
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: The Old Rugged Cross (19)
MESSAGE “Are You Ready for Something New” Isaiah 43:16-21 Rev. John Flowers
PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS: Here is Bread, Here is Wine (7)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION: Here is Bread, Here is Wine (7)
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe (20)
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe (reprise)
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Fifth Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
Guide My Feet (16)
Blessed be the Name of the Lord (17)
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Give Thanks (18)
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Surely God is Able (4)
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: The Old Rugged Cross (19)
MESSAGE “Are You Ready for Something New” Isaiah 43:16-21 Rev. John Flowers
PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS: Here is Bread, Here is Wine (7)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION: Here is Bread, Here is Wine (7)
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe (20)
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe (reprise)
3/18/07 11 Lit.
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
God is Good (All the Time)
I Will Bless the Lord
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS –Taylor Boone
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (band only)
MESSAGE “Parties for Prodigals” Luke 15 Rev. Karen Vannoy
PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS: Here is Bread, Here is Wine
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION: Let us Be Bread
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Through it All
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: God is Good (reprise)
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
God is Good (All the Time)
I Will Bless the Lord
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS –Taylor Boone
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (band only)
MESSAGE “Parties for Prodigals” Luke 15 Rev. Karen Vannoy
PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS: Here is Bread, Here is Wine
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION: Let us Be Bread
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Through it All
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: God is Good (reprise)
3/11/07 11 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Third Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
Your Name is Great
Victory Chant
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Because of Who You Are
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS –Taylor Boone
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: We Fall Down
MESSAGE 1st Corinthians 10:13 Rev. John Flowers
SERMON REFLECTION SONG: It Don’t Come Easy
PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS: Here is Bread, Here is Wine
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION: Taste and See
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: This Little Light of Mine
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Victory Chant (reprise)
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Third Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
Your Name is Great
Victory Chant
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Because of Who You Are
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS –Taylor Boone
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: We Fall Down
MESSAGE 1st Corinthians 10:13 Rev. John Flowers
SERMON REFLECTION SONG: It Don’t Come Easy
PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS: Here is Bread, Here is Wine
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION: Taste and See
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: This Little Light of Mine
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Victory Chant (reprise)
2/25/07 11:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
First Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
All Around
Guide My Feet
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Change My Heart O God
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Your Name is Great
MESSAGE Luke 4:1-13 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
POSTLUDE: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (w/solos)
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
First Sunday in Lent
OPENING MUSIC:
All Around
Guide My Feet
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Change My Heart O God
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Your Name is Great
MESSAGE Luke 4:1-13 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
POSTLUDE: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (w/solos)
3/18/07 9:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
"I'll Bid My Heart Be Still" Rebecca Clarke
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: In your wisdom, O God, you call us here to worship you.
People: We gather, alive to the Word of God.
Leader: You call us to be fully alive with your life abundant, ready to listen and respond with
heart, soul, strength, and mind.
People: We listen, alive to the Word of God.
Leader: You call us to be always watchful for your Word of wisdom, sometimes startling and
unexpected, sometimes still and quiet, but always dwelling among us.
People:: We watch and wait for the Word of God.
--Reformed Worship
OPENING HYMN* No. 2008 Let All Things Now Living ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
O God, make me discontented with things the way they are in the world,
and in my own life. Make me notice the stains when people get spilled on.
Make me care about the slum child downtown, the misfit at work, the people crammed into the mental hospital, the men, women and youth behind bars.
Jar my complacence, expose my excuses, get me involved in the life of my city and world. Give me integrity once more, O God, as we seek to be changed and transformed, with a new understanding and awareness of our common humanity.
-- adapted from Robert Raines
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Parties for Prodigals” Luke 15 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Agnus Dei
Words: English text from the Burial Service, 1662 Book of Common Prayer; Latin text, Missa pro defunctis
Music: John Rutter
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Jackie Shepherd, conductor
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world.
dona eis requiem. grant them rest.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succor?
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(See insert)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
"Londonderry Air" trad. Arr. By Lionel Tertis
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 384 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
"I'll Bid My Heart Be Still" Rebecca Clarke
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: In your wisdom, O God, you call us here to worship you.
People: We gather, alive to the Word of God.
Leader: You call us to be fully alive with your life abundant, ready to listen and respond with
heart, soul, strength, and mind.
People: We listen, alive to the Word of God.
Leader: You call us to be always watchful for your Word of wisdom, sometimes startling and
unexpected, sometimes still and quiet, but always dwelling among us.
People:: We watch and wait for the Word of God.
--Reformed Worship
OPENING HYMN* No. 2008 Let All Things Now Living ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
O God, make me discontented with things the way they are in the world,
and in my own life. Make me notice the stains when people get spilled on.
Make me care about the slum child downtown, the misfit at work, the people crammed into the mental hospital, the men, women and youth behind bars.
Jar my complacence, expose my excuses, get me involved in the life of my city and world. Give me integrity once more, O God, as we seek to be changed and transformed, with a new understanding and awareness of our common humanity.
-- adapted from Robert Raines
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Parties for Prodigals” Luke 15 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Agnus Dei
Words: English text from the Burial Service, 1662 Book of Common Prayer; Latin text, Missa pro defunctis
Music: John Rutter
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Jackie Shepherd, conductor
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world.
dona eis requiem. grant them rest.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succor?
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(See insert)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
"Londonderry Air" trad. Arr. By Lionel Tertis
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 384 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
3/11/07 9:00 LIturgy
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Third Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Come to the Lord, who is rich in grace; approach our God, who is full of mercy.
People: We will praise God with all our heart and glorify the name of the Most High
forever.
--Lenten liturgy, Church of the Servant, Grand Rapids, Michigan
OPENING HYMN* No. 2001 We Sing to You, O God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just,
Will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all righteousness.
Let us confess our sins to Almighty God.
--based on 1 John 1:8-9, NRSV
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE 1 Corinthians 10:13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Lux aeterna
Words: English text from the Burial Service (slightly altered); Laten text, Missa pro defunctis
Music: John Rutter
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Patty Riggle Bonner, soprano soloist
I head a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Blessed are the dead who dies in the Lord,
For they rest from their labours: even so saith the Spirit
Lux aeterna luceat eis Domine: cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Light eternal shine upon them, Lord, we pray:
with saints and angels ever dwelling, for thy mercy’s sake, may the rest in peace.
Grant them rest eternal, Lord our God, we pray to thee:
and light perpertual shine on them for ever.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(See insert)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 127 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Third Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Come to the Lord, who is rich in grace; approach our God, who is full of mercy.
People: We will praise God with all our heart and glorify the name of the Most High
forever.
--Lenten liturgy, Church of the Servant, Grand Rapids, Michigan
OPENING HYMN* No. 2001 We Sing to You, O God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just,
Will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all righteousness.
Let us confess our sins to Almighty God.
--based on 1 John 1:8-9, NRSV
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE 1 Corinthians 10:13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Lux aeterna
Words: English text from the Burial Service (slightly altered); Laten text, Missa pro defunctis
Music: John Rutter
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Patty Riggle Bonner, soprano soloist
I head a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Blessed are the dead who dies in the Lord,
For they rest from their labours: even so saith the Spirit
Lux aeterna luceat eis Domine: cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Light eternal shine upon them, Lord, we pray:
with saints and angels ever dwelling, for thy mercy’s sake, may the rest in peace.
Grant them rest eternal, Lord our God, we pray to thee:
and light perpertual shine on them for ever.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(See insert)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 127 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
3/4/07 9:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Second Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Let us worship God, who has done great things.
People: We rejoice in our God, who made a way through the desert of this world.
Leader: Let us worship God, who has caused streams of mercy to flow in the wasteland.
People: We are the people God has formed through Christ; we worship him, and we rejoice!
Leader: Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
All: We praise God for the grace that has saved us. Alleluia! We rejoice! --based on Isaiah 43:19-21
OPENING HYMN* No. 2001 We Sing to You, O God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: Search me, O God, and know my heart;
People: try me and know my thoughts
Leader: See if there is any wicked way in me,
People: and lead me in the way everlasting.
--Psalm 139:23-24, NRSV
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Your Citizenship Papers Philippians 3:17-4:1 Rev. Joe Stobaugh
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Be Thou My Vision
Words: Ancient Irish
Music: Traditional Irish melody and THAXTED by Gustav Holst, arranged by John Leavitt
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please turn to number 451 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Someone from Camerata
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 257 We Meet You, O Christ ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Someone from Camerata
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Second Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Let us worship God, who has done great things.
People: We rejoice in our God, who made a way through the desert of this world.
Leader: Let us worship God, who has caused streams of mercy to flow in the wasteland.
People: We are the people God has formed through Christ; we worship him, and we rejoice!
Leader: Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
All: We praise God for the grace that has saved us. Alleluia! We rejoice! --based on Isaiah 43:19-21
OPENING HYMN* No. 2001 We Sing to You, O God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: Search me, O God, and know my heart;
People: try me and know my thoughts
Leader: See if there is any wicked way in me,
People: and lead me in the way everlasting.
--Psalm 139:23-24, NRSV
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Your Citizenship Papers Philippians 3:17-4:1 Rev. Joe Stobaugh
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Be Thou My Vision
Words: Ancient Irish
Music: Traditional Irish melody and THAXTED by Gustav Holst, arranged by John Leavitt
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please turn to number 451 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Someone from Camerata
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 257 We Meet You, O Christ ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Someone from Camerata
2/25/07 9:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
First Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Ken Freudigman & Emily Watkins
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Let us worship God, who reconciled us to Godself through Christ.
People: We are new creations; the old has gone, the new has come!
Leader: Let us worship God as Christ’s ambassadors.
People: Through us and through our worship may we announce the good news to
all.
Leader: Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
All: Praise God! We are reconciled, redeemed, renewed!
--based on John 4:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
OPENING HYMN* No. 2234 Lead On, O Cloud of Presence ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: O Lord, you desire truth in our inward being;
People: teach us wisdom in our secret heart.
Leader: Send out your light, send out your truth,
People: and let them lead us to our home.
Leader: Take from us the weight of our sin,
People: that room might be made for the spirit of truth.
Leader: If we prepare a dwelling place, that spirit will abide within us,
People: and the truth will set our spirits free.
Leader: Then shall we love not only in word or in speech; then we shall love in deed and truth.
People: and by this know that our service is faithful.
Leader: O Lord, you desire truth in our inward being;
People: teach us wisdom in our secret heart. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Luke 4:1-13 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: We Meet You, O Christ
Words: Fred Kaan
Music: Carl F. Schalk
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please turn to number 257 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2105 Jesus, Tempted in the Desert ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Ken Freudigman & Emily Watkins
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
First Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Ken Freudigman & Emily Watkins
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Let us worship God, who reconciled us to Godself through Christ.
People: We are new creations; the old has gone, the new has come!
Leader: Let us worship God as Christ’s ambassadors.
People: Through us and through our worship may we announce the good news to
all.
Leader: Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
All: Praise God! We are reconciled, redeemed, renewed!
--based on John 4:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
OPENING HYMN* No. 2234 Lead On, O Cloud of Presence ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: O Lord, you desire truth in our inward being;
People: teach us wisdom in our secret heart.
Leader: Send out your light, send out your truth,
People: and let them lead us to our home.
Leader: Take from us the weight of our sin,
People: that room might be made for the spirit of truth.
Leader: If we prepare a dwelling place, that spirit will abide within us,
People: and the truth will set our spirits free.
Leader: Then shall we love not only in word or in speech; then we shall love in deed and truth.
People: and by this know that our service is faithful.
Leader: O Lord, you desire truth in our inward being;
People: teach us wisdom in our secret heart. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Luke 4:1-13 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: We Meet You, O Christ
Words: Fred Kaan
Music: Carl F. Schalk
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please turn to number 257 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2105 Jesus, Tempted in the Desert ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Ken Freudigman & Emily Watkins
Thursday, March 15, 2007
The Mean Green goes to the big dance...
Well, I still haven't died yet, despite the long period between postings. (Though my church might be trying to kill me as there is a rash of TB cases floating around. The church staff had to be tested by the city...sorry, Evan...take time to smell the roses before the summer comes, my friend.)
I've got lots things to talk about but very little time. Here's some highlights...
1. Several very cool holy week services coming up that will be posted soon.
2. Reading lots of good books: almost done with Lauren Winner's Girl Meets God and just
started Barack Obama's most recent, which is quite readable.
3. Getting ready to take Eleanor Grace to meet her extended family from Tennessee today!
4. Tomorrow, at 11:30 central, my alma mater, The University of North Texas is playing Memphis in the NCAA tournament! The last time the Mean Green was in the tournament was 1988...We're probably going to get killed but it's great to be there!
Well, I've got lots to do before the flight leaves so I better split but I'll post more later!
May you experience the fullness of the Spirit this Lenten season.
I've got lots things to talk about but very little time. Here's some highlights...
1. Several very cool holy week services coming up that will be posted soon.
2. Reading lots of good books: almost done with Lauren Winner's Girl Meets God and just
started Barack Obama's most recent, which is quite readable.
3. Getting ready to take Eleanor Grace to meet her extended family from Tennessee today!
4. Tomorrow, at 11:30 central, my alma mater, The University of North Texas is playing Memphis in the NCAA tournament! The last time the Mean Green was in the tournament was 1988...We're probably going to get killed but it's great to be there!
Well, I've got lots to do before the flight leaves so I better split but I'll post more later!
May you experience the fullness of the Spirit this Lenten season.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Ash Wednesday 2007
Ash Wednesday is here again. Here is the second draft of the liturgy for TPUMC.
TRAVIS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
ASH WEDNESDAY, February 21st, 2007 at 7:00 PM
GREETING
The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.
God’s mercy endures forever.
*HYMN 2138 Sunday’s Palms are Wednesday’s Ashes
*OPENING PRAYER IN UNISON:
For the mystery of your Presence in and beyond all that can be see thanks be to you. Guide me further this night into the inner universe of my soul ever opening inwards light upon light new depth after new depth. Guide me through strange and fearful spaces towards the place of your eternal dwelling. Amen.
LESSON FROM HEBREW SCRIPTURE Joel 2:1-2. 12-13
ANTHEM Create in Me a Clean Heart Carl F. Mueller
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
LESSON FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT II Corinthians 6:2b-10
HOMILY Beyond the Ashes Rev. Deanna Kirby
BURNING OF THE PALMS
THANKSGIVING OVER THE ASHES
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Let us pray:
Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth; these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, so we may remember that only by your gracious gift are we given to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
IMPOSITION OF ASHES
*HYMN 77 How Great Thou Art
BENEDICTION
*Please stand if you are able.
TRAVIS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
ASH WEDNESDAY, February 21st, 2007 at 7:00 PM
GREETING
The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.
God’s mercy endures forever.
*HYMN 2138 Sunday’s Palms are Wednesday’s Ashes
*OPENING PRAYER IN UNISON:
For the mystery of your Presence in and beyond all that can be see thanks be to you. Guide me further this night into the inner universe of my soul ever opening inwards light upon light new depth after new depth. Guide me through strange and fearful spaces towards the place of your eternal dwelling. Amen.
LESSON FROM HEBREW SCRIPTURE Joel 2:1-2. 12-13
ANTHEM Create in Me a Clean Heart Carl F. Mueller
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
LESSON FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT II Corinthians 6:2b-10
HOMILY Beyond the Ashes Rev. Deanna Kirby
BURNING OF THE PALMS
THANKSGIVING OVER THE ASHES
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Let us pray:
Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth; these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, so we may remember that only by your gracious gift are we given to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
IMPOSITION OF ASHES
*HYMN 77 How Great Thou Art
BENEDICTION
*Please stand if you are able.
February 18 9:00 Liturgy
Well, our pastor wasn't preaching about the Transfiguration but I got it in as best I could! :)
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,
People: Who publish peace, who bring good tidings, who publish salvation, and
proclaim, “Your God reigns!”
Leader: God will judge between many peoples,
People: And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and nation shall not lift
up sword against nation: neither shall they learn war any more.
All: Let us lift up our voices and praise the God of peace and justice. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
OPENING HYMN* No. 2103 We Have Come at Christ’s Own Bidding ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God, we confess that we do not expect and long for the transforming power of your love to work miracles in these hard hearts of ours. Yet we secretly long for a rescue, an escape, a miracle, to relieve us of the responsibilities and the challenges you set before us. Healing Spirit, renew our confidence in your power and in the power of love to change our lives, and give us courage to be the fully responsible persons Christ calls us to be. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Matthew 12:31-32 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Waitin’ for the Light to Shine from Big River
Words and Music by Roger Miller
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
I have lived in the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
Far beyond horizons I have seen, beyond the things I’ve been,
Beyond the dreams I’ve dreamed are the things I’ve done,
In fact, each and everyone are the way that I was taught to run.
I am waitin’ for the light to shine, I am waitin’ for the light to shine.
I have lived in the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
Yes, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
I have lived for the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 378 Amazing Grace ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,
People: Who publish peace, who bring good tidings, who publish salvation, and
proclaim, “Your God reigns!”
Leader: God will judge between many peoples,
People: And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and nation shall not lift
up sword against nation: neither shall they learn war any more.
All: Let us lift up our voices and praise the God of peace and justice. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
OPENING HYMN* No. 2103 We Have Come at Christ’s Own Bidding ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God, we confess that we do not expect and long for the transforming power of your love to work miracles in these hard hearts of ours. Yet we secretly long for a rescue, an escape, a miracle, to relieve us of the responsibilities and the challenges you set before us. Healing Spirit, renew our confidence in your power and in the power of love to change our lives, and give us courage to be the fully responsible persons Christ calls us to be. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Matthew 12:31-32 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Waitin’ for the Light to Shine from Big River
Words and Music by Roger Miller
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
I have lived in the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
Far beyond horizons I have seen, beyond the things I’ve been,
Beyond the dreams I’ve dreamed are the things I’ve done,
In fact, each and everyone are the way that I was taught to run.
I am waitin’ for the light to shine, I am waitin’ for the light to shine.
I have lived in the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
Yes, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
I have lived for the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 378 Amazing Grace ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
February 11 9:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Sing praises to God, O you saints, and give thanks to God’s holy name!People: We exalt you, O God, for you have restored us to life!
Leader: We may cry through the night, but your joy comes with the morning.
People: You hear us, O God, and you are gracious in our distress.
Leader: You turn our mourning into dancing!
People: Our souls cannot be silent! O God, our Savior, we give thanks to you for
ever!
--Jane C. Weaver
OPENING HYMN* No. 102 Now Thank We All Our God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: God, we confess our day to day failure to be truly human.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we confess that we often fail to love with all we have and are, often because we don
not fully understand what loving means, often because we are afraid of risking ourselves.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we cut ourselves off from each other and we erect barriers of division.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we confess that by silence and ill-considered word
People: we have built up walls of prejudice.
Leader: God, we confess that by selfishness and lack of sympathy
People: we have stifled generosity and left little time for others.
Leader: Holy Spirit, speak to us. Help us listen to your word of forgiveness, for we are very deaf.
Come, fill this moment and free us from sin.
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Blest Are They
Text: Matthew 5:3-16; Music: David Haas
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
For the text please see No. 2155 in The Faith We Sing
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2076 O Blessed Spring ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Sing praises to God, O you saints, and give thanks to God’s holy name!People: We exalt you, O God, for you have restored us to life!
Leader: We may cry through the night, but your joy comes with the morning.
People: You hear us, O God, and you are gracious in our distress.
Leader: You turn our mourning into dancing!
People: Our souls cannot be silent! O God, our Savior, we give thanks to you for
ever!
--Jane C. Weaver
OPENING HYMN* No. 102 Now Thank We All Our God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: God, we confess our day to day failure to be truly human.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we confess that we often fail to love with all we have and are, often because we don
not fully understand what loving means, often because we are afraid of risking ourselves.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we cut ourselves off from each other and we erect barriers of division.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we confess that by silence and ill-considered word
People: we have built up walls of prejudice.
Leader: God, we confess that by selfishness and lack of sympathy
People: we have stifled generosity and left little time for others.
Leader: Holy Spirit, speak to us. Help us listen to your word of forgiveness, for we are very deaf.
Come, fill this moment and free us from sin.
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Blest Are They
Text: Matthew 5:3-16; Music: David Haas
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
For the text please see No. 2155 in The Faith We Sing
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2076 O Blessed Spring ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
I promise I'm not dead! (And other random thoughts.)
Wow, it's been yet another long sojourn from blogging. Life is full!!!! I just returned from a wonderful few days of skiing with great friends in New Mexico. We drove in during a blizzard (which, unfortunately, seemed to keep us from seeing any aliens in Roswell) so the skiing was great.
Recently, I have been preparing for my final ordination interview. The moment of truth, so to speak, occurs February 27th, at 2:00. I'm a bit nervous but I am looking forward to getting started on the interview.
I just finished reading Marcus Borg's The Heart of Christianity. Borg is truly a gift to the church. While the ending wasn't as strong, at least in my humble opinion, as the rest of the book, I believe it should be required reading for any progressive Christian.
Also, I finished reading Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak during my vacation. Palmer is a gift as well! I would recommend this book for anyone who is struggling to discern what their true vocation might be.
More random thoughts...the Sanctuary Choir here at TPUMC is working on the Rutter Requiem which is coming along better some days than others...I'm struggling not to panic! :)
I just found out that I will be preaching March 4th and I am quite excited about it! I will be preaching the early service and our district superintendent the second. The lectionary texts for the day are Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17-4:1; and Luke 13:31-35. Lot's of difficult and interesting options!
Well, I've got a few more minutes until my wife gets out from her work with our youth group, so I better wrap things up!
God bless you and do not be afraid!!!
Recently, I have been preparing for my final ordination interview. The moment of truth, so to speak, occurs February 27th, at 2:00. I'm a bit nervous but I am looking forward to getting started on the interview.
I just finished reading Marcus Borg's The Heart of Christianity. Borg is truly a gift to the church. While the ending wasn't as strong, at least in my humble opinion, as the rest of the book, I believe it should be required reading for any progressive Christian.
Also, I finished reading Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak during my vacation. Palmer is a gift as well! I would recommend this book for anyone who is struggling to discern what their true vocation might be.
More random thoughts...the Sanctuary Choir here at TPUMC is working on the Rutter Requiem which is coming along better some days than others...I'm struggling not to panic! :)
I just found out that I will be preaching March 4th and I am quite excited about it! I will be preaching the early service and our district superintendent the second. The lectionary texts for the day are Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17-4:1; and Luke 13:31-35. Lot's of difficult and interesting options!
Well, I've got a few more minutes until my wife gets out from her work with our youth group, so I better wrap things up!
God bless you and do not be afraid!!!
Monday, January 22, 2007
9:00 Liturgy for February 4th, 2007
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Ken Freudigman, cello
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: I will sing of mercy and justice.People: For mercy and justice are praises befitting God.
Leader: I will follow the way of mercy and justice, for it is the way to peace.
Congregation: And on the seventh day peace was created; this is our Sabbath, the
day of peace, the aim of creation.
All: Thanks be to God!
--Keith A. Schuette
OPENING HYMN* No. 557 God of Grace and God of Glory ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
O God, whose heart weeps at the disobedience and the suffering of any of your creatures, look with justice and mercy on the prominent trouble spots of your globe. You be the champion of those who suffer poverty, dislocation, hunger, and disease. You be the chastisement of those who abuse innocent victims. Unerring judge of us all, forgive us our involvement in the sins of your people, whether it be by action direct or indirect. Renew in us the will to make peace and do justice that we may bring you delight, not tears. Amen
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Blest Are They
Text: Matthew 5:3-16; Music: David Haas
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
For the text please see No. 2155 in The Faith We Sing
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2241 The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Ken Freudigman, cello
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Ken Freudigman, cello
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: I will sing of mercy and justice.People: For mercy and justice are praises befitting God.
Leader: I will follow the way of mercy and justice, for it is the way to peace.
Congregation: And on the seventh day peace was created; this is our Sabbath, the
day of peace, the aim of creation.
All: Thanks be to God!
--Keith A. Schuette
OPENING HYMN* No. 557 God of Grace and God of Glory ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
O God, whose heart weeps at the disobedience and the suffering of any of your creatures, look with justice and mercy on the prominent trouble spots of your globe. You be the champion of those who suffer poverty, dislocation, hunger, and disease. You be the chastisement of those who abuse innocent victims. Unerring judge of us all, forgive us our involvement in the sins of your people, whether it be by action direct or indirect. Renew in us the will to make peace and do justice that we may bring you delight, not tears. Amen
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Blest Are They
Text: Matthew 5:3-16; Music: David Haas
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
For the text please see No. 2155 in The Faith We Sing
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2241 The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Ken Freudigman, cello
1/28/07 11:00 Service
This service will be fun. Our youth choir is going to serve as one of the choirs and will sing with the band, which is going to be really cool!
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
You are Good
C-Band Medley
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Sanctuary
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Clarence or Ernie
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Soon and Very Soon
POSTLUDE: Sent Out In Jesus Name
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
You are Good
C-Band Medley
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Sanctuary
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Clarence or Ernie
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Soon and Very Soon
POSTLUDE: Sent Out In Jesus Name
1/28/07 9:00 Liturgy
Whew! I can't believe...the Monday before the service!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Allemande BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: The God of New Beginnings has called us to this place.People: We come celebrating the new life that is ours as God’s faithful people.Leader: Let your joy ring through the universe, and let your vision see to the depths of every soul.
Congregation: We will be shouters of joy and seekers of God’s light wherever we go. Praise God for this day!
--Sandra E. Graham
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God,. You love us steadfastly, but we have trouble loving in return’ you call us, but we have wax-filled ears; you reveal yourself, but our eyelids are heavy; you lead us toward our neighbor, but we build walls around ourselves; you hate evil, injustice, and alienation, but we get used to it. O God, we pray, help us to see ourselves both as we are and as we might be before you, and draw us by your Spirit’s tether into your forgiving, renewing, and serviceable grace, through the mercies of Christ. Amen.
--David D. Bowman
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Jeremiah 1:4-10 & I Corinthians 13:1-13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Gift of Love
Text I Corinthians 13, Music Hal H. Hopson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
Though I mad speak with bravest fire,
And have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love;
My words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be giv’n by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide ev’ry deed.
By this we worship and are freed.
Amen.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2228 Sacred the Body ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Courante BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Allemande BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: The God of New Beginnings has called us to this place.People: We come celebrating the new life that is ours as God’s faithful people.Leader: Let your joy ring through the universe, and let your vision see to the depths of every soul.
Congregation: We will be shouters of joy and seekers of God’s light wherever we go. Praise God for this day!
--Sandra E. Graham
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God,. You love us steadfastly, but we have trouble loving in return’ you call us, but we have wax-filled ears; you reveal yourself, but our eyelids are heavy; you lead us toward our neighbor, but we build walls around ourselves; you hate evil, injustice, and alienation, but we get used to it. O God, we pray, help us to see ourselves both as we are and as we might be before you, and draw us by your Spirit’s tether into your forgiving, renewing, and serviceable grace, through the mercies of Christ. Amen.
--David D. Bowman
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Jeremiah 1:4-10 & I Corinthians 13:1-13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Gift of Love
Text I Corinthians 13, Music Hal H. Hopson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
Though I mad speak with bravest fire,
And have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love;
My words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be giv’n by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide ev’ry deed.
By this we worship and are freed.
Amen.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2228 Sacred the Body ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Courante BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
Thursday, January 18, 2007
1/21/07 11:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
Woke Up This Morning
Victory Chant
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe?
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe? (reprise)
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
Woke Up This Morning
Victory Chant
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe?
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe? (reprise)
1/21/07 9:00 Worship
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God said: let there be light; and there was light. Congregation: And God saw that the light was good.Leader: This very day our God has acted! Let us rejoice!
Congregation: Alleluia! God’s name be praised!
--from The Worship Book: Services and Hymns
OPENING HYMN* No. 89 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Jesus, revealer of all that we can know of the Divine, your words in the Scripture we are about to hear so plainly reveal your life’s work and thereby our own work as well. We are to follow your example and by God’s grace and sustaining power, we are to bring good news to the poor. We are to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Help us God! In our brokenness we have often not done what you have asked of us. Forgive us, Creator, and transform us into all that you would have us to be. We ask this in your worthy Son’s name, Jesus. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
ANTHEM Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
Words: Amy Grant (Ps. 119:105) Music by Michael W. Smith, arr. Jack Schrader
Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Journey is Our Home
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2182 When God Restored Our Common Life ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God said: let there be light; and there was light. Congregation: And God saw that the light was good.Leader: This very day our God has acted! Let us rejoice!
Congregation: Alleluia! God’s name be praised!
--from The Worship Book: Services and Hymns
OPENING HYMN* No. 89 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Jesus, revealer of all that we can know of the Divine, your words in the Scripture we are about to hear so plainly reveal your life’s work and thereby our own work as well. We are to follow your example and by God’s grace and sustaining power, we are to bring good news to the poor. We are to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Help us God! In our brokenness we have often not done what you have asked of us. Forgive us, Creator, and transform us into all that you would have us to be. We ask this in your worthy Son’s name, Jesus. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
ANTHEM Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
Words: Amy Grant (Ps. 119:105) Music by Michael W. Smith, arr. Jack Schrader
Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Journey is Our Home
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2182 When God Restored Our Common Life ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
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