The liturgy below is for the Chapel gathering on June 7 at 12 pm (PDT). If you are unable to join us at that time, the Chapel recording and the liturgy will be posted on Moodle on Tuesday afternoon and available for 1 week.
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
The Lord welcomes us into this place,
We gather to know Him, and be known.
The Lord breathes out His Spirit on us,
We worship in spirit and in truth.
The Lord calls us His daughters and sons,
In Christ, we are the family of God.
Behold, the Lord is making all things new,
We say, "Come Lord Jesus, come."
Be Thou My Vision
Mary Elizabeth Byrne and Eleanor Henrietta Hull
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me save that thou art
Thou my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping thy presence my light
Be thou my wisdom and thou my true word
I ever with thee and thou with me Lord
Thou my great Father and I thy true child
Thou in me dwelling to thee reconciled
Riches I heed not nor vain empty praise
Thou mine inheritance now and always
Thou and thou only first in my heart
High King of Heaven my treasure thou art
High King of Heaven my victory won
May I reach heaven's joys, O bright Heaven's Sun
Heart of my own heart whatever befall
Still be my vision O Ruler of all
Prayers of the People
Based on Colossians 2:6-7
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord:
We come to you now in prayer,
declaring that you are indeed Lord.
You are Lord over the world and our lives.
You are Lord in the light and in the dark.
You are Lord when we sense it, and when we don’t.
You are Lord of all things;
May your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
continue to live your lives in him:
Help us to continue to live in you.
Help us to not live in our fears and anxieties.
Help us to not live in pursuits of vain things.
Help us to not live in the ways of the world.
But may we live in the way, the truth, and the life.
Help us to live in you.
rooted and built up in him:
May we be rooted deeply in you.
We cannot thrive on shallow things,
On things that seem pristine on the surface,
But lack the roots needed to bear fruit.
You are the true vine,
So may we be rooted in you.
We cannot flourish with division and brokenness.
So we long to be refreshed and renewed by your Spirit.
May we be built up in you.
strengthened in the faith as you were taught:
Lord we need your strength.
For the task great and small that you have called us to.
Would you strengthen our faith, our hope and our trust,
So that we may do that to which you have called us.
Strengthen us with your word, Lord.
May we be attentive to what you want to say to us in this place;
give us ears to hear.
and overflowing with thankfulness:
May we know the abundance of your goodness, Lord.
For, indeed, you fill up our cup and it overflows.
We give you thanks to you, O Lord,
In whom we live and have our being.
We give thanks to you calling us your own, for hearing our prayers,
and for the good works you are already doing.
Amen
Hymn Of the Holy Spirit
by Pat Barrett, Brenton Brown, Chris Tomlin, and Jason Ingram
Holy Spirit guide my vision,
Help me see the way You see
Always Jesus ever Jesus Christ in all as Christ in me
Holy Spirit guide my speaking
Words of grace and truth abound
Let my lips be filled with stories of the mercy that I've found
You're the light You're my path
You're the Shepherd of my soul
All I am all I have
Holy Spirit lead me on
Holy Spirit guide my hearing
Wake my ears to words You speak
In the thunder in the stillness
Let Your voice be clear to me
Let Your voice be clear to me
Holy Spirit lead me onward
Walking through the great unknown
Trusting leaning holding clinging
Till the day You lead me home
Scripture | Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV)
6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live
your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the
faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Homily | What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Tom Schwanda - Associate Professor Emeritus of Christian Formation and Ministry Wheaton College
Silent Reflection
Poem: God’s Big Hand
By Luci Shaw, CRUX, vol. 57, no. 4 (Wint 2021):32.
holds the universe
like an egg in
his palm, firmly
and gently, so as not
to drop it, break it,
lose it.
And he covers
me, you, the creation,
each, all of us
at home in the egg,
waiting to be born
into something
more golden than
the unbroken yoke.
The Solid Rock
by William Batchelder Bradbury and Edward Mote
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus' name
His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay
On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
When darkness seems to hide his face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
When He shall come with trumpet sound
O may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne