Tuesday, September 28, 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 | St Patrick’s Breastplate
Credit: Traditional Celtic Prayer (revised)
We gather today
through a mighty strength:
the invocation of the Trinity;
through belief in the Threeness
and confession of the Oneness
of the Creator of creation.
We gather today through
God’s strength to pilot us,
God’s eye to look before us,
God’s wisdom to guide us,
God’s way to lie before us,
God’s shield to protect us,
God's ear to hear us,
God's word to speak for us,
God's hand to guard us,
God's way to lie before us,
God's shield to protect us,
God's host to secure us. Amen.
Come Thou Fount
Lyrics: Robert Robinson, Martin Madan | Tune (“Nettleton): Unknown (first published by John Wyeth)
Come thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise His name I'm fixed upon it
The name of God's redeeming love
Hitherto thy love has blest me
Thou hast brought me to this place
And I know thy hand will bring me
Safely home by thy good grace
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed his precious blood
Oh to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to thee
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, O take and seal it
Seal it for thy courts above
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, O take and seal it
Seal it for thy courts above
Saviour Like A Shepherd Lead Us (Alternate Melody)
Lyrics: Dorothy A. Thrupp | Arr: Leigh Nash (Hymns & Sacred Songs album)
Saviour, like a shepherd lead us
Much we need thy tender care
In thy pleasant pastures feed us
For our use thy folds prepare
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Thou hast bought us, thine we are
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Thou hast bought us, thine we are
We are thine, thou dost befriend us
Be the guardian of our way
Keep thy flock, from sin defend us
Seek us when we go astray
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hear oh hear us when we pray
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hear oh hear us when we pray
Thou hast promised to receive us
Poor and sinful though we be
Thou hast mercy to relieve us
Grace to cleanse and power to free
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
We will early turn to thee
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
We will early turn to thee
Poem | For the Interim Time (excerpts)
by John O’Donohue (from To Bless the Space Between Us, 119)
No place looks like itself, loss of outline
Makes everything look strangely in-between
Unsure of what has been, or what might come.
In this wan light, even trees seem groundless.
…
You are in this time of interim
Where everything seems withheld.
The path you took to get here has washed out;
The way forward is still concealed from you.
The old is not old enough to have died away;
The new is still too young to be born.
You cannot lay claim to anything:
In this place of dusk, your eyes are blurred;
And there is no mirror.
As far as you can, hold your confidence.
Do not allow your confusion to squander
This call which is loosening
Your roots in false ground,
That you might come free
From all you have outgrown.
Good to Me
2013 © Audrey Assad (revised)
I put all my hope in the truth of your promise
I steady my heart on the ground of your goodness
When I'm bowed down with sorrow I will lift up your name
And the foxes in the vineyard will not steal my joy
Because you are good to me, good to me
You are good to me, good to me
You are good to me
I lift up my eyes to the hills: where is my help found?
Your voice fills the night – raise my head up to hear the sound
Though fires burn all around me, I will praise you my God
And the foxes in the vineyard will not steal my joy
Your goodness and mercy shall follow me
All my life, I’ll trust in your promise
Prayers of the People | Kyrie
Lord, in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Lord have mercy,
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy,
Christ have mercy.
Scripture | Psalm 23 (NRSV)
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I fear no evil;
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff—
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
my whole life long.
Homily | You Are With Me
Diane Stinton – Associate Professor, Mission Studies; Dean of Students
All The Way My Savior Leads Me
Original Lyrics (revised): Fanny Jane Crosby Tune & Chorus Lyrics: Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman
All the way my Savior leads me
Who have I to ask beside?
How could I doubt his tender mercy
Who through life has been my guide?
All the way my Savior leads me
Cheers each winding path I tread
Gives me grace for every trial
Feeds me with the living Bread
You lead me and keep me from falling
You carry me close to your heart
And surely your goodness and mercy
Will follow me (will follow me)
All the way my Savior leads me
Oh the fullness of his love
Oh the sureness of his promise
In the triumph of his blood
When my being clothed immortal
Wings its flight to realms of day
This my song through endless ages:
“Jesus led me all the way!
Jesus led me all the way!”
All the way my Savior leads me (Repeat)
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.