Worship for October 3, 2021: Jesus on Marriage

Therefore, what God has joined together let no one separate. Mark 10:9

Place Finders: Readings 16:10 Sermon 30:39 Prayers 42:44

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Worship for September 26, 2021: When We Let God Down

For everyone will be salted with fire —- Mark 9:49

Place Finders: Readings 15:26 Sermon 20:41 Prayers 37:31

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Worship for September 19, 2021: Getting Back on Track

When we stray from God’s ways, God is always calling us back.

Place Finders: Readings 13:08 Sermon 18:20 Prayers 35:24

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Special Worship for September 12, 2021: A Tribute to Jim Thurman

Place Finders: Readings 13:38 Pastor Tribute/Sermon 19:38 Prayers 40:07

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9/11: 20th Year Commemoration

God is in the midst of the city…God will help it when the morning dawns. Psalm 46

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For full text of the prayers used, visit: https://engageworship.org/ideas/9-11-memorial-prayer. Thank you to engageworship.org!

Worship for September 5, 2021: "Be opened" and other Frustrating Commands from God

I wish that when it came to our stuck places, we could just say to ourselves: open up, rise, live. But it’s just not that easy. And God seems to know this. God seems to understand that very often it’s an outside force that pries us open to new life.

This week, there is no worship guide available. This feature will return next week.

Place Finders: Readings 10:04 Sermon 15:00 Prayers 30:02

Hymns: 4:02 Be Though My Vision 26:45 Open The Eyes Of My Heart 32:26 Jesus Is A Rock In A Weary Land 34:34 All Who Hunger Gather Gladly

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Worship for August 29, 2021: Youth Worship Celebration ft. Bethel Youth

This is also where we sometimes get stuck: discipleship in the Bible doesn’t look like Jesus’ friends in the classroom achieving and achieving and learning and learning until they are filled up with good grades and ready to graduate. It doesn’t look like a proficiency exam. In the Bible, it actually looks like the opposite: discipleship looks like people unlearning everything and falling apart.

Place Finders: Readings 14:28 Sermon 23:16 Prayers 39:24

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Worship for August 22, 2021: The Longer Path with Laura Krueger

What Jesus offers is not the immediate miracles of food and plenty, but a longer path of discipleship. How will we respond?

Place Finders: Readings 13:46 Sermon 19:58 Prayers 38:06

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Worship for August 15, 2021: Walking Wisely with Rev. Russ Gordon

…be filled with the Spirit, 19as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.—- From Ephesians 5:19-20

Place Finders: Readings 11:35 Sermon 20:13 Prayers 38:00

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Worship for August 8, 2021: Guest Preacher, Rev. Brian Stein-Webber

Whoever eats of this bread will live forever;

and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. —- From John 6:51

Place Finders: Readings 7:57 Sermon 18:06 Prayers 34:56

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Worship for August 1, 2021: Why We Follow

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. John 6:24-35

Place Finders: Readings 9:19 Sermon 20:08 Prayers 37:28

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Worship for July 25th: How the Gospel of John Set Us Up

This week: the baptism that never happened and other tales of water and washing

Place Finders: Readings 10:12 Sermon 15:33 Prayers 33:21

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Worship for July 18th, 2021: Come Away and Rest Awhile

Question: Where is your deserted place, away from the frantic pace?

Place Finders: Welcome 0:22 Readings 11:17 Sermon 16:41 Prayers 33:07

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Worship for July 11th, 2021: What's Needed to Heal

‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ Mark 6:31

Place Finders: Readings 12:33 Sermon Dialogue 18:00 Prayers 46:01

Sermon Notes: For more reading on why multiple moral viewpoints are helpful to absorb Covid, read Fareed Zakaria’s A New Key to Covid Success, Not States but Societies. And for the importance of the exhale, listen to the whole interview of Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett, What’s Happening in our Nervous Systems? Such helpful perspective.

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Worship for July 4th, 2021: What's your Country Song?

Jesus left that place, and came to his hometown… Mark 6:1

Place Finders: Readings 11:22 Sermon 15:15 Prayers 33:23

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Worship for June 27, 2021: Jesus on the Loose

…Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live. Mark 5:23

Place Finders: Readings 13:28 Sermon 20:20 Prayers 37:41

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Worship for June 20, 2021: A Father's Day Special

…And: "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

-2 Corinthians 6:18

There are no printed prayers or song lyrics available this week. They will return next week :)

Place Finders: Readings 12:18 Dialogue Sermon 17:14 Prayers 38:06

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Worship for June 13, 2021: Trust. In spite of ourselves.

…the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how - from Mark 4:27

Place Finders: Readings 11:58 Sermon 17:59 Prayers 33:07

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Worship for May 30, 2021: The Essential Trinity

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. -Romans 8:14

Place Finders: Readings 10:14 Sermon 17:06 Prayers 34:46

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Worship for May 23, 2021: Little Rooms Where New Worlds are Made

The Holy Spirit = God in the present tense, here and now.

Place Finders: Readings 11:58 Sermon 20:12 Prayers 36:40

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