Beginning with Ordinary 15 and running through, oh, all summer, it’s parable season in the lectionary. What are you doing with your Ordinary Time this summer? Do you have creative seeds you hope to see grow? Do you need ideas? Do you have liturgical, symbolic, musical, decorational, or other ideas you want to bounce off a community planning worship together? Here’s a spot to talk about what to do with that long stretch of green paraments.
illumination: as if we are ready…
Submitted by Rev. Scott Cervas, Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church
Holy God,
speak to us, as if we are ready to listen;
show us, as if we are ready to see;
and send us, as if we are ready to go and be and do.
Amen.
CTW: drawn together
Submitted by Rev. Scott Cervas, Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church
Let’s gather…
to catch a glimpse of God’s vision for our lives and all of creation;
to witness the presence of Christ in this place and in one another;
to feel the Spirit of God moving around us, among us, and within us!
We are drawn together as a community
to give thanks, to be renewed, and to share our lives.
So let’s be drawn together now to worship God!
CTW: in God’s house
Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
One: How lovely it is to be in the presence of God!
All: Better is one day in God’s house
than thousands spent elsewhere.
One: Our hearts and flesh sing for God,
our souls long to know God.
All: Holy, holy, holy is God,
the whole earth is full of God’s glory!
One: Come, let us worship God together!
confession: move!
Submitted by Rev. Scott Cervas, Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church
Spirit of God,
you move around us and we wave you away
as if you are a fly getting too close to our heads.
You move among us, but we all have different ideas…
different ways of doing things…
and so your perfectly chilling harmonics
are drowned out by our chaotic dissonance.
You move within us,
but sometimes we just aren’t willing to risk our own reputations
to embrace your radical vision.
But, deep down, we know that we need to move beyond ourselves…
we know that the church needs to move beyond itself.
So keep moving…keep moving around us, among us, and within us…
keep moving us so that we can be creators of movment in the world…
Amen.
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