Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The Regent community gathers for Chapel through Zoom on Tuesdays at 11 am (PDT). You can find Zoom login details in the Weekly Announcements email. If you don’t currently receive our Weekly Announcements email, you can subscribe by clicking the 'Subscribe’ button on this page.
If you are unable to join us at that time the recording of Chapel will be available on Moodle.
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
One: Welcome! Open your hearts to God’s love this day.
All: Praise be to God who calls us friends!
One: Let the Word wash over you and offer you healing and hope.
All: Praise be to God who continually blesses us!
One: Place your hope and trust in God.
All: With joyful hearts we come to worship and praise God! Amen.
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
Louisa M.R. Stead and William James Kirkpatrick
‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to take Him at His word
Just to rest upon His promise
And to know thus saith the Lord
O how sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to trust His cleansing blood
Just in simple faith to plunge me
‘Neath the healing cleansing flood
Jesus Jesus how I trust Him
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus Jesus precious Jesus
O for grace to trust Him more
I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee
Precious Jesus Savior Friend
And I know that Thou art with me
Wilt be with me to the end
Jesus Jesus how I trust Him
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus Jesus how I trust Him
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus Jesus how I trust Him
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus Jesus how I trust Him
O for grace to trust Him more
We Abide We Abide in You
Sandra McCracken 2017 Hymns From the Porter’s Gate
We are the vineyard You have planted
Tend our leaves and wild branches
We abide, we abide in You
We abide, we abide in You
Fruit growing from our strength and labor
Rain on us with grace and favor
We abide, we abide in You
We abide, we abide in You
Where can my soul find living water?
Apart from You, we bear no fruit
O plant my feet down by the river
We abide, we abide in You
Prayer on Friendship
Scripture | John 15:12-17 (NIV) (NRSV)
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.
Homily | I have called you friend
Cindy Aalders - Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity
Meditation | Come All Ye
Benediction
After the benediction, volunteers are available to pray with you. If you would like someone to join you in prayer, send a private chat message to Claire Perini.