Father's Day: Sunday, June 19, 2016
CALL TO WORSHIP
Psalm 42
MUSIC
Chris Tomlin - Good Good Father
Leeland - Lion And The Lamb
Audrey Assad - Be Thou My Vision
Melody & Keith Green - There Is A Redeemer
PRAYER FOR EUCHARIST
By Joel Braun
Lord Jesus Christ, for this moment and this table, we give you thanks. For these friends and the journey, we give you thanks and ask that you continue to be faithful to us. Even as we are energized by your breath within us, we confess our destructiveness, and repent of the harm we have done to ourselves and our world. For the sake of Jesus, who, in death, disarmed all that is evil, and, in resurrection, stripped death of power, We ask you to recreate us, to reconnect us, and to restore us.
Amen.
SIMPLE FATHER'S DAY PRAYER
By Kevin Borst
God we honor you as you are our redeemer.
And today Jesus, on Father’s Day
We thank you for all the Father’s here
who care and love so graciously.
May the blessing they have been to so many be honored on this day.
For we pray in the Spirit of the risen Christ.
Amen.
RESPONSE TO ORLANDO TRAGEDY
By Jeremy Duncan
COLLECTIVE PRAYER
Leader
We praise you, O God, we claim you as Lord.
All
With all the earth we worship you.
Leader
With all the powers seen and unseen we declare the fullness of your majesty, with all the church in earth and heaven, the prophets, apostles, and martyrs before us, with the saints around us, we worship you:
All
Ever-living Father, ever-loving Son, ever-present Spirit.
Leader
Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, Son of the Father, you took upon yourself our salvation,
in human birth, humbling yourself;
in human death, conquering sin and the grave;
in divine love, opening your arms to all who would come;
All
In almighty power, Ruler of all.
Leader
We have squandered time, hoarded money, avoided challenges, and used others.
All
We are sorry, God; hear our repentance.
Leader
We have doubted your care, mistrusted your providence, distorted your power, and ignored your love.
All
We are sorry, God; hear our repentance.
Leader
You are Savior and Judge.
Deal with us according to your mercy, not according to our merit.
All
Forgive us now, we pray, and let us try again,
sensitive to your Spirit and committed to your will.
Amen.
[adapted from the Covenant Book of Worship]
TEACHING + DISCUSSION NOTES
Ritual
