Tuesday, June 29, 2021
The liturgy below is for the Chapel gathering (via Zoom) on June 29 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.
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Call to Worship | Based on Psalm 30
Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people;praise his holy name.
For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.
O LORD our God, we will praise you in every season.
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
Prayer of Repentance
The following prayer is excerpted from Prayers for a Privileged People by Walter Brueggemann (11-2).
We pray as often as we meet,that we might “perfectly love you.”
Indeed, we have been commanded from the beginning,
to love you with all our hearts and
all our souls and
all our minds and
all our strength.
We have pledged to love,
pledged in our prayers and in our baptism,
in our confirmation and with our best resolve.
But we confess . . .
we love you imperfectly;
we love you with a divided heart,
with a thousand other loves
that are more compelling
with reservation and qualification,
and passion withheld and
devotion impaired.
We do not now come to pretend before you,
but to confess that we do not,
as we are,
love you perfectly;
we do not keep your commands;
we do not order our lives by your purpose;
we do not tilt toward you as our deepest affection.
But we would . . .
we would love you more perfectly,
by the taste of bread become your flesh,
by the swallow of wine become your blood,
by the praise of our lips and beyond our usual reasoning,
by the commandments that are not burden but joy to us,
by embracing your passion for neighbors,
by your ways of justice and peace and mercy,
by honoring the world you have made
and all creatures great and small,
by self-care that knows you as our creator.
Lead us past our shabby compromises
and our cheap devotion;
lead us into singleness of vision
and purity of heart,
that we may will one thing,
and answer back in love to your great love to us.
Free us from idolatries
and out habits of recalcitrance
tender our hearts,
gentle our lips,
open our hands,
that we may turn toward you fully
toward your world unguardedly.
Let us bask in your freedom
to be fully your, and
so trusting fully our own.
We pray through the Lord Jesus who loved you
singularly, perfectly, fully—to the end. Amen
Lord, Lord, Lord
Ryan Flanigan | © 2018 Common Hymnal Digital
Lord, Lord, Lord please restore our trust
We've lost our way, Lord, we've strayed from love
We broken vows, we've wasted breath
We've stolen life, we've tasted death
Lamb of God take away our sin
Have mercy, have mercy
Jesus Christ, holy sacrifice
Have mercy, have mercy on us
Lord, Lord, Lord please restore our trust
We've lost our way, Lord, we've strayed from love
We’ve broken vows, we've wasted breath
We've stolen life, we've tasted death
We need you now to forgive our sin
Replace our stone hearts with flesh again
Undo the curse, and heal our faith
Unleash your power, Lord, come and save
Lamb of God take away our sin
Have mercy, have mercy
Jesus Christ, holy sacrifice
Have mercy, have mercy on us (repeat)
Scripture | PSALM 106:1-12 (NIV)
Praise the LORD!
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORD
or fully declare his praise?
Blessed are those who act justly,
who always do what is right.
Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people,
come to my aid when you save them,
that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones,
that I may share in the joy of your nation
and join your inheritance in giving praise.
We have sinned, even as our ancestors did;
we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
When our ancestors were in Egypt,
they gave no thought to your miracles;
they did not remember your many kindnesses,
and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.
Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
to make his mighty power known.
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
he led them through the depths as through a desert.
He saved them from the hand of the foe;
from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
The waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them survived.
Then they believed his promises
and sang his praise.
Homily | The Stories We Tell About Ourselves
Matthew Lynch
Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Regent College. Co-host/founder: OnScript Podcast
We Trust The Story
© 2017 Tom Wuest 2017 | Brass Trumpet Publishing (Admin. by Thomas E. Wuest) | (Exodus 14:19–20; Job 14:7–9.)
We trust the story behind us
The beauty, hope, and love
And we’re stepping towards the future
With abiding faith in God
God is with us
God is with us
God is with us
A pillar through the night
We wait with senses ready
For the blossoms yet to come
Like the tender shoots on the hillside
We are reaching towards the sun
God is with us
God is with us
God is with us
A pillar through the night
God is with us
God is with us
God is with us
A pillar through the night (repeat x4)