Sunday, June 19, 2022 - Moving forward when you feel like you've been left behind
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Pre Service Music
Welcome
Hymn 39 Great Is Thy Faithfulness (In Person Only)
Awakening to God’s Presence (In Person Only)
Hymn 39 Great Is Thy Faithfulness (In Person Only)
Prayer for God’s Guidance
John 14:15-20 Common English Bible Translation
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will send another Companion, who will be with you forever. This Companion is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can’t receive because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be with you. “I won’t leave you as orphans. I will come to you. Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you will live too. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. (Question: How often have you turned away from healthy living and wondered why?)
John 14:21-24
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) asked, “Lord, why are you about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered, “Whoever loves me will keep my word. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word that you hear isn’t mine. It is the word of the Father who sent me. (Question: What do you find difficult about loving others as Jesus loved?)
Hymn 366 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (In Person Only)
John 14:25-26
“I have spoken these things to you while I am with you. The Companion, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I told you. (Question: How do you notice the Spirit of God present in your life?)
John 14:27-29
“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. I give to you not as the world gives. Don’t be troubled or afraid. You have heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away and returning to you.’ If you loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than me. I have told you before it happens so that when it happens you will believe. (Question: What are you willing to change in your life to have the peace of Christ?)
Hymn 840 When Peace like a River (In Person Only)
John 14:30-31
I won’t say much more to you because this world’s ruler is coming. He has nothing on me. Rather, he comes so that the world will know that I love the Father and do just as the Father has commanded me. Get up. We’re leaving this place. (Question: What are the distractions or hurdles that make it difficult to follow Christ?)
Offering Ourselves to God
During this time let us reflect upon the words from the Brief Statement of Faith
We trust in God the Holy Spirit everywhere the giver and renewer of life. The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the Church. The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the Church.
Special Music (In Person Only)
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory, forever. Amen
Benediction
Closing Hymn 623 I’ve Got Peace like a River (In Person Only)
Hymn List
39 Great Is Thy Faithfulness
366 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
623 I’ve Got Peace like a River
840 When Peace like a River
Sermon Series – The questions that gnaw at us
June 26th – The power of being honest with yourself
July 3rd - TBD
July 10th – How to focus when your distractions keep coming?
July 17th – How do you find a way forward in life when so many barriers exist?