Week Four
Sunday Morning
Greeting and Doxology
Psalm 95
Come , sing with joy to God. Come , worship our God.
Come , sing with joy to God,
Shout to our savior, our rock.
Enter God’s presence with praise ,
Enter with shouting and song.
A great God is the Lord,
Over the god’s like a king.
God cradles the depths of the earth,
Holds fast the mountain peaks.
God shaped the ocean and owns it,
Formed the earth by hand.
Come , bow down and worship,
Kneel to the Lord our maker.
This is our God, our shepherd,
We are the flock led with care.
Listen today to God’s voice:
“harden no heart as at Meribah,
On that day in the desert at Massah.
There your people tried me,
Though they had seen my work.
“Forty years with that lot!
I said : They are perverse,
They do not accept my ways.
So I swore in my anger:
They shall not enter my rest.”
Reading: 2 Timothy 2:8,11-13
Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David--
that is my gospel. The saying is sure:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
If we endure , we will also reign with him;
If we deny him, he will also deny us;
If we are faithless , he remains faithful--- for he cannot deny himself.
CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH
Let me gaze upon you, O God , that I may see your beauty.
Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,
who shepherds the people and sets them free.
God raises from David’s house
a child with power to save.
Through the holy prophets
God promised in ages past
to save us from enemy hands,
from the grip of all who hate us.
The Lord favored our ancestors
recalling the sacred covenant,
the pledge to our ancestor Abraham,
to free us from our enemies,
so we might worship without fear
and be holy and just all our days.
And you child, will be called
Prophet of the Most High,
for you will come to prepare
a pathway for the Lord
by teaching the people salvation
through forgiveness of their sin.
Out of God’s deepest mercy
a dawn will come from on high,
light for those shadowed by death,
a guide for our feet on the way to peace.
Intercessions
O God , after you created the heavens and the earth, you took time to rest , and so we pray:
--- Renew our spirits , O Creator God .
For all peoples of the earth , who cry out to you to make all things new, we pray:
For those who harvest the land and seas , that all may enjoy your abundance , we pray:
For ourselves, that we may rest from our labors and abandon all that distracts us from your plan for us, we pray:
For all ministers in the church, that they may restore others through their service, we pray :
The Lord’s Prayer
Prayer
Holy One , you bring us joy in the morning! All creation is shaped by your hand , to live in harmony and dignity. Open our hearts to listen to your word and to praise you throughout this day. We ask this as your people united in one spirit. Amen.
BLESSING
May God’s blessing be upon us. Amen
May God’s light lead us in the way of Righteousness. Amen.
May our lives be patterned on Christ Jesus. Amen.