This worship resource guide will help your community plan services that honor our Creator, who invites us to join in caring for the whole creation.Ĭontinue exploring these topics on, a search engine designed for thoughtful Christian preachers, teachers, and leaders. Yet, billions of people suffer in places where so much is no longer bright and beautiful. We confess that God created heaven and earth and everything in it. This worship resource guide will help your community plan services of grace and truth as you commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation or plan worship for a Reformation Sunday. Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517. Worship Resources for the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation A feature story exploring the planning for Christian Funerals and Memorial Services. Howard Vanderwell and Leonard VanderZee offer pastoral considerations for planning funerals and memorial services. Thomas Long makes a case for classic Christian funeral traditions. Sung Prayer O God of Every Nation Psalter Hymnal We invite you to participate in our prayer with short phrases that name a person, place, event, or concern (e.g., “our family friend, trapped inside the Trade Center,” “our friends on an oversea course,” ”thanks for an aunt who didn’t go to work yesterday," “President Bush,” “our professors”). Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.įor the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Your kingdom come, your will be done, as earth as in heaven.įorgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, How can we pray in ways that acknowledge that, while evil is powerful, it is not final? How do we pray as a community of people from many tribes and languages and countries? How can we pray honestly, in ways that express our doubts and fears as well as our faith, hope, and love? And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.Ĭomments John D. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. Host a Community Memorial Beautification Plan a volunteer day to clean and restore a 9/11 memorial in your community. to mark the moment when Flight 11 struck the North Tower. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.įor the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Lower Flags in Remembrance Lower flags to half-staff on the anniversary of 9/11. Hymn O God, Our Help in Ages Past Psalter Hymnal 170 Call to Worship Dale Cooper, College Chaplain
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