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CTW: a promise for all time

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One: God has made a covenant with us, a promise for all of time.
All: A promise that began with Noah,
A ribbon of vibrant color in the sky.
One: God has made a covenant with us, a promise for all of time.
All: A vow that continued with Abraham,
The uncountable stars in the heavens would all be gifts from God.
One: God has made a covenant with us, a promise for all of time.
All: With Moses and the refugees who crossed the Red Sea,
Words to order life in peaceful community.
One: God has made a covenant with us, a promise for all of time.
All: For David and those who would come after him,
That they would inherit it all.
One: God has made a covenant with us, a promise for all of time.
In Jesus, the Christ,
Price of Peace—who calls us to New Life,
Invites us to live the promise and the covenant
With our lives, without fear, with total abandon.
All: We gather today to worship
To remember the promise of the covenant
And to go out into a world where rainbows still grace the skies.

Submitted by Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo, Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church, North Plainfield, NJ.

CTW: the intersection of Enduring Love & Faithfulness

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Call to Worship

L: We come, so God might open our eyes,
P: that we may discover the wonders surrounding us;
that we may embrace the joy deep within us.
L: We gather, so Christ might widen our hearts,
P: that we may hear the sounds of brokenness around us;
that we may sing the melodies of hope.
L: We are here, so the Spirit might teach us the ways of humility,
P: that we may walk that street named Enduring Love;
that we may wait at the corner called Faithfulness.

 

Submitted by Rev. Thom Shuman, author of Lectionary Liturgies.

Sunday’s Coming: working toward February 26

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Lent is upon us. This week we’ll enter the journey, some of us, on Ash Wednesday. We’ll come face to face with mortality and sin, then turn our faces and our lives back toward God, seeking a new relationship with God, God’s people, and God’s world. Throughout Lent we continue seeking both the truth of our own lives and the Truth of God’s desire for us…and this Sunday is the first time we get to explore that fully.

So maybe you’ll be working with God’s rainbow covenant. Maybe, along with the psalmist, you’ll be pleading “Teach me your ways.” Maybe you’ll be contemplating Paul’s call to Be prepared to suffer for doing good, and connecting baptism and the Flood… or maybe you’ll enter the season with the traditional story of Jesus’ baptism, and you’ll follow him out into the wilderness.

Do you have a theme for the whole season, or will you work week by week? Are you planning to follow one set of readings (all old testament, all psalms, all gospel, etc) throughout the five Sundays, or are you mixing it up? Are you following the lectionary or working on a series off-lectionary? Share your ideas in the comments!

Perhaps you have just one word or one phrase so far…if you put that in the comments, you can inspire others and we can begin bouncing ideas around. Who knows, we may even end up with a brand new piece of liturgy we can share!