Tell Me Something Good
Our Lenten Series
Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter.
The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.
You are welcome here…come and worship!
Gathering Music: Forever Young (by Bob Dylan) -Rob Duqette
Welcome: A Time for Good News Rev. Paula Norbert
Call To Worship:
God loves the field mouse. God loves the crows
that take flight when church bells ring.
God loves the baby, cooing in the back pew.
God loves the child who rocks and claps.
God loves the one with wrinkled hands and soft eyes.
God loves the bumblebees and the hummingbirds.
God loves those who walk, crawl, and roll. God
loves the giant oaks and the evergreens, standing
strong over all of us.
God loves the young, the impressionable, and the earnest.
There is no bit of creation that God does not love.
So let us worship this good-news God! Amen.
Opening Hymn: Blest Are They #172 vs. 1 – 4
Opening Prayer:
Holy One, sometimes the simplest of your commands
are the hardest for us to hear. You say, “Love your enemy.”
“Turn the other cheek.” “Care for the widow and the orphan.” And we want to know: How? When? Where?
Today as we turn to your word, open up space in us to simply hear your truth for what it is. Open up space in our hearts to dream new dreams, to imagine new realities, to draw closer to you and closer to love. With hope for a better tomorrow, we listen, we pray. Amen.
Lord’s Prayer
Awakening: Little Hands (by Rob Duquette) – Rob Duqette
Readings: Deuteronomy 24:17-22, Matthew 19:13-15-
Cris Hudson
Sermon: Let Them Come To Me Rev. Paula Norbert
Quiet Reflection
Music: Meditative Instrumental ~ Rob Duquette
Musical call to Prayer: (two times) Hush now in quiet peace, be still your mind at ease. The Spirit brings release, so wait upon the Lord.
Prayers of the People
Silent Prayers Pastoral Prayer
Offertory: Lighthouse (by Rob Duquette) -Rob Duquette
Doxology: Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise God all creatures here below. Praise God above ye heavenly hosts, Creator, Christ and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer of Dedication:
Closing Music: Child of Blessing, Child of Promise # 486
Blessing: “May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of God’s hand” Amen.
Postlude: Go In Peace
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Worship Resources: “Prayer by Rev. Sarah A. Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC |sanctifiedart.org.”
With thanks to Michelle Currie, our Music Director and to our Guest Musician today, Rob Duquette. Many thanks to our Reader and Deacons today.