4th Sunday After Pentecost CALL TO WORSHIP P: God cares for us completely and calls for our total commitment. Christ gave his life that we might live and calls us to give our lives to him. Through Christ we have died to sin; in Christ we are fully alive to God. Come, let us worship God. CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS inspired by today’s readings P: Confident that we are promised newness of life through repentance and forgiveness, let us turn to God and to one another, confessing our sin. Silence for reflection P: Hear our cries to you, O Lord: C: for our lack of compassion toward the poor, have mercy on us; for our failure to end the destruction of air, water, soil, and creatures on Earth, have mercy on us; for our disbelief in your power to make us whole, have mercy on us; for making war, have mercy on us; for mistrusting your Word, have mercy on us; for all that we have done and have not done out of hardened hearts, have mercy on us. Forgive us and renew us. Guide us into ways that do not deny you but lead to peace. Amen. P: Do not be afraid. The One who was and is and is to come knows you through and through and has overcome death and sin to forgive you, so that you might be delivered into joy that has no end. Your sins are forgiven. You are alive to God in + Christ Jesus. C: Amen. HYMN “How Firm A Foundation” PRAYER OF THE DAY P: Holy and gracious God, your steadfast love abides with your people in every age. You teach us to trust in you and call us to live in peace with one another. Show us the way to live grateful lives, without fear, knowing the true worth of your creation, including ourselves; in Jesus’ name, we pray. C: Amen. READING Epistle Reading: Romans 6:1b-11 1bShould we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For whoever has died is freed from sin. 8But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. SERMON Rev. Lori E.L. Kitzing HYMN “Baptized in Water” PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION P: Listening God, hear now ours prayers, both spoken and silent: For peace where there is conflict . . . For food where there is hunger . . . For hope where there is despair . . . For health where there is sickness . . . For faith where there is fear . . . For life where there is death . . . We pray in the name of Jesus, who conquers all that would defeat us and gives us new life. C: Amen. OFFERING PRAYER P: Because we need not fear tomorrow we offer ourselves, our time, and our possessions to the work of the church Financial gifts may be sent to the church. P: Holy God, you give us life, nourishment, and strength. We thank you: for the community of faith you have built, for your servants who have held fast to you through centuries, for the teachings and the witness of our ancestors, for the gospel’s word of welcome to all in need. Bless the gifts that we bring today, may they be used to spread the truth of your love. In Jesus’ name we pray. C: Amen. APOSTLE’S CREED C: I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. LORD’S PRAYER Spoken in Chinese BENEDICTION P: May the love of God, the grace of + Christ, and the Spirit’s peace be with you always. C: Amen. HYMN “We Know That Christ Is Raised” CHARGE
P: Go in peace to love and serve God and your neighbor. C: Thanks be to God. Printed by permission oneliscense.net A-717495
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorRev. Lori E.L. Kitzing Archives
April 2024
Categories |