Meghan: My sisters and brothers, let us first quiet down,

 

 

 

            —–silence—-

 

Rusty: We wait in quietness for God alone,

 

 

Rusty: Here is the good news:

 

Meghan: The promised time has come,

 

 

 

Rusty: Trust in God at all times,

 

pour out your heart and find refuge.

 

Meghan: God is a rock fortress and our salvation,

 

 

 

 

Opening Praise          Sing Praise to God      59

 

Verse 1: Sing praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation,

 

The God of pow’r, the God of love, the God of our salvation.

 

With healing balm my soul is filled and every faithless murmur stilled’

 

To God all praise and glory!

 

 

 

Verse 2: What in almighty pow’r was made, God’s gracious mercy keepeth,

 

By morning glow or evening shade, God’s watchful eye ne’re sleepeth.

 

Within the shelter of God’s might, lo! All is just and all is right.

 

To God all praise and glory!

 

 

 

Verse 3: Our God is never far away, throughout all grief distressing

 

an everpresent help and stay, our peace and joy and blessing.

 

As with a mother’s tender hand, God gently leads the chosen band.

 

To God all praise and glory!

 

 

 

Verse 4: Then all my gladsome way along I sing aloud thy praises,

 

that all may hear the grateful song my voice unwearied raises:

 

Be joyful in the Lord, my heart! Both soul and body, bear your part!

 

To God all praise and glory!

 

 

The time is fulfilled;
Repent, and believe in the Good News.
The reign of God has drawn near;
Repent, and believe in the Good News.
Jesus is calling out to us;
Repent and believe in the Good News.
Come, follow me, and gather people,
Repent, and believe in the Good News.

 

 

Morning Psalm          Psalm 62:5-12.

 

 

Prayer Song        As the Deer    Verse 1 only          

 

Verse 1:  As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs after you.

 

You alone are my hearts desire and my soul longs after you.

 

Chorus: You alone are my strength my shield, to you alone may my spirit yield.

 

You alone are my hearts desire and I long to worship you.

 

 

Eternal God, the refuge and help of all your children,
we praise you for all you have given us,
for all you have done for us,
for all that you are to us.
In our weakness, you are strength,
in our darkness, you are light,
in our sorrow, you are comfort and peace.
We cannot number your blessings,
we cannot declare your love:

 

 

 

For all your blessings we bless you.
May we live as in your presence,
and love the things that you love,
and serve you in our daily lives;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

 

 

 

 

Hymn              Dear Lord and Father of Mankind      523

 

Verse 1: Dear Lord and Father of mankind. Forgive our foolish ways.

 

Reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find,

 

in deeper reverence praise.

 

 

Verse 2: In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian Sea,

 

the gracious calling of the Lord, ley us, like them, without a word

 

rise up and follow thee.

 

 

Verse 3: O sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm with of hills above,

 

Where Jesus knelt to share to share with the silence of

 

Eternity interpreted by love.

 

 

Verse 4: drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease.

 

Take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess

 

The beauty of thy peace.

 

 

Verse 5: Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm.

 

Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire, speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,

 

O still small voice of calm!

 

 

Sermon           Willing or Unwilling, We Are Called

 

Hymn             Lord We have come to the Lakeshore       229

 

 

Verse 1: Lord you have come to the lakeshore looking neither wealthy or wise ones.

 

You only asked me to follow humbly.

 

O Lord with your eyes you have searched me,

 

kindly smiling, have spoken your my name.

 

Now my boat’s left on the shoreline behind me; by your side

 

I will seek other seas.

 

 

Verse 2: You know so well my possessions; my boat carries no gold

 

And no weapons; but nets and fishes my daily labor.

 

O Lord, with your eyes you have searched me, kindly smiling

 

have spoken my name.

 

Now my boat’s left on the shoreline behind me; by your side

 

I will seek other seas.