Tuesday, July 6, 2021
The liturgy below is for the Chapel gathering (via Zoom) on July 6 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 | Philippians 2:5-11
We are gathered to contemplate the Lord Jesus Christ who,though he was in the form of God,
did not consider being equal with God something to exploit.
Instead, he emptied himself completely,
not only taking on human form, but the form of a slave.
He humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death,
even a humiliating death by torture on a cross of wood.
So God raised him up with great honour,
and gave him a name above all other names,
that, at the name of Jesus, everyone—
in heaven and on earth and even under the earth—
might bow down,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
James Montgomery, Thomas Vito Aiuto, Sufjan Stevens | Asthmatic Kitt, New Jerusalem Music, 2008.
Hail to the Lord's Anointed, Great David's greater Son
Hail, in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun
He comes to break oppression, to set the captive free
To take away transgression and rule in equity
He comes with succor speedy to those who suffer wrong
To help the poor and needy and bid the weak be strong
To give them songs for sighing, their darkness turn to light
Whose souls, condemned and dying, are precious in his sight
He shall come down like showers upon the fruitful earth
Love, joy, and hope, like flowers spring in his path to birth
Before him, on the mountains shall peace the herald go
And righteousness, like fountains from hill to valley flow
To him shall prayer unceasing and daily vows ascend
His kingdom still increasing, a kingdom without end
The tide of time shall never his covenant remove
His name shall stand for ever, His Name alone is love
Prayer (I-II) by George Herbert
Herbert, George. The Poetical Works of George Herbert. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857. 131-132.
Prayer the church's banquet, angel's age,God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth
Engine against th' Almighty, sinner's tow'r,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days world transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
The land of spices; something understood.
Of what an easy quick access,
My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly
May our requests thine ear invade!
To show that state dislikes not easiness,
If I but lift mine eyes, my suit is made:
Thou canst no more not hear, than thou canst die.
Of what supreme almighty power
Is thy great arm which spans the east and west,
And tacks the center to the sphere!
By it do all things live their measured hour:
We cannot ask the thing, which is not there,
Blaming the shallowness of our request.
Of what unmeasurable love
Art thou possessed, who, when thou couldst not die,
Wert fain to take our flesh and curse,
And for our sakes in person sin reprove,
That by destroying that which tied thy purse,
Thou mightst make way for liberality!
Since then these three wait on thy throne,
Ease, Power, and Love; I value prayer so,
That were I to leave all but one,
Wealth, fame, endowments, virtues, all should go;
I and dear prayer would together dwell,
And quickly gain, for each inch lost, an ell.
Our God Alone
© 2010 The Brilliance Music | John Arndt, David Gungor
Who formed the mountains and filled the oceans?
Our God alone, our God alone
Who took the dust, breathed life in us?
Our God alone, our God alone
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia (2x)
Who came from heaven for our redemption?
Our God alone, our God alone
Who died for sin that we may live?
Our God alone, our God alone
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia (2x)
Who rose again? Death could not win
Our God alone, our God alone
Who is returning bringing a kingdom?
Our God alone, our God alone
We will worship, we will worship
Our God alone, our God alone
We will worship, we will worship
Our God alone, our God alone
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia (2x)
Scripture Readings
Mark 8:27-30 (NIV)
Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages
around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked
them, “Who do people say I am?”
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah;
and still others, one of the prophets.”
“But what about you?” he asked.
“Who do you say I am?” Peter answered,
“You are the Messiah.”
Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him
Revelation 12:10-12 (NIV)
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
Homily | Aftermath: Lessons From The Early Church On Living In Times Of Turmoil
Paul Spilsbury
Academic Dean; Professor of New Testament
The Solid Rock
William Batchelder Bradbury and Edward Mote. Public Domain.
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 veils His lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
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
On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand (repeat x3)