Sunday, January 25, 2015 - Third Sunday After Epiphany (Year B)

Hymn Sing:

#530VU   “All Beautiful the March of Days”

#135MV   “Called By Earth and Sky”

#409VU   “Morning Has Broken”

News and Announcements:

Lighting of Candles: #154MV (verse 1)

Deep in my heart, there is a common vision;

Deep in my heart, there is a common song;

Deep in my heart, there is a common story;

Telling creation that we are one.

Coming Together:

We gather as a distracted people. No matter where we are, someone or something wants our attention.

For God alone, my soul waits in silence.

We are offered endless solutions that will make it all clear, solve all our problems, guarantee our happiness and success.

For God alone, my soul waits in silence.

wWelcome to this place of worship where you can renew the silence and wait for God.

We wait for God.

Let us pray...

God, our Maker, in each second of time you are with us, you invite us into relationship one with another and with you. In the moments of this service may we experience your call, your community, your grace – and be led to respond. Amen.

Singing:   #113MV   “Fish With Me”

Sharing the Peace of Christ:

In a spirit of community and thanksgiving, reach out to those around you and share with each other the Peace of Christ, perhaps with the words "Peace be with you!", responding "And also with you!"

Readings from Scripture:

1^st Corinthians 7:^29-31              NT pg 170

Psalm 62:^5-12                                 HB pg 526

In ages past, disciples, prophets, priests and historians wrote down their faith.  This is a faithful witness of our ancestors.  Word of God for us today.

Thanks be to God.

Singing:   #652VU   “Be Still My Soul”

(Greeters will pick up prayer request cards)

Storytelling:

Music for Movement:  #87VU (rfn)

(Sunday School participants leave for their learning circle)

I Am the Light of the World.

You people come and follow me.

If you follow and love

you’ll learn the mystery

of what you were meant

to do and be.

Choir:

Message:                           “Stretched”

Singing:   #660VU   “How Firm a Foundation”

Giving Our Offerings:

Minute for Mission

Offering Song (#241VU) and Prayer:

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

praise God, all creatures high and low;

give thanks to God in love made known:

Creator, Word and Spirit, One.

Let us pray...

We offer these gifts as a sign of our dedication to a way of liv­ing. Help us make a commitment that our lives might give witness to The Way of living in which your love is both refuge and strength. Amen.

Prayers of the People and Our Lord’s Prayer (#921VU):

Singing:   #278VU   “In the Quiet Curve of Evening”

Sending Out and  Sung Response:  #145MV (verse 2)

Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still.

Let this be our song, no one stands alone,

standing side by side.  Draw the circle wide.

Let our hearts touch far horizons,

so encompass great and small.

Let our loving know no borders,

faithful to God’s call.

Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still.

Let this be our song, no one stands alone,

standing side by side.  Draw the circle wide.