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*Opening Prayer
Inspiring One, please open us now to your power and love. Prepare us, we pray, for a journey of faith and renewal, both as individuals and as a community. We come in humility to be held in your caring hands and to be lifted to new heights…
(silence)
*Lord’s Prayer
Our Father* who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
*Please feel free to pray as you wish. We respect tradition — and we welcome images of the Divine that are diverse and inclusive.
*Words of Assurance
*Gloria
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
Almighty victorious, your great name we praise.
*Passing of the Peace
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Invitation to the Offering
Offertory On Eagle's Wings Michael Joncas
Todd Swavey, tenor
*Presentation
*Offering and the Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise God, all creatures here below,
Praise God above, ye heavenly host:
Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication
Ministry of the Word
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:21-31 Mary Jenkins, Liturgist
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to live in;
who brings princes to naught,
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
To whom then will you compare me,
or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high and see:
Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,
calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,
mighty in power,
not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God’?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
Sermon: With Wings Like Eagles aaaaaaaaaaaRev. Dr. Peter Allen
Prayers of the People
Joys & Concerns – Pastoral Prayer - Silent Prayer
(Prayer concerns may be written in the binder in the entranceway or voiced aloud at the indicated time.)
*Hymn There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy NCH(black) #23
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