LiturgyLink

a community creating for the relentless return of Sunday

You are here: Home / Archives for Ordinary Time / Year B / Ordinary 2B-8B / Ordinary 2B

Ordinary 2B

The rest of the service

By Leave a Comment

Good morning, worship planners!

This week’s texts seemed to inspire a lot of you. We have loved the original liturgy that has been shared, and hope you all will keep adding more for future weeks!

The bulletin is finally ready for editing, but there is still more to do, of course.

What part of worship do you save for the last minute? The children’s sermon? The prayers of the people? Do you try to change your invitation to offering each Sunday based on the texts and themes?

What liturgy are you working on today (or tomorrow… Or Sunday morning)? This is a space to brainstorm ideas, ask questions, & get feedback.

And if you write something you want to share to help and inspire other folks, we would love it too!

CTW: You know us well

By Leave a Comment

Submitted by Rev. Martha Spong, pastor at North Yarmouth Congregational Church, North Yarmouth, Maine.

 

One: We come to worship God, who knows us better than we know ourselves.
Many: We come to worship God, who can understand our thoughts, who knows when we sit down and when we get up and go.
One: O God, you know us well, in all the ways. Before we say a word, you know what is coming.
Many: Wherever we go, you are there. It’s hard to believe, but it’s the truth.
One: Let us worship God, who knows our hearts and our lives.

Simple Confession based on Psalm 139

By Leave a Comment

From Laura Becker, Pastor, Northminster Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, TN

Call to Reconciliation
The psalmist declares that God who creates us – God who loves us, God who redeems us – searches us and knows us completely. Before a word is on our tongues, God knows it completely. And we are assured that there is nowhere we can go that is separated from the presence of God. Let us pray our prayer of confession in silence, and then speak the words of the psalmist together.

Prayer of Confession

(Silent Prayers)

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Amen. (Psalm 139:23-24)

Confession: you speak…we don’t listen

By Leave a Comment

Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church, Crystal Lake IL.

on reading 1 Samuel 3

One: Lord, you call,
but we do not always recognize your voice.
All: Sometimes we don’t listen carefully.
Sometimes we’re caught off guard.
One: Lord, you call,
but we haven’t always taught others to hear you.
All: Sometimes we stand in the way,
allowing our voice to ring out over yours.
One: Lord, you call,
but we don’t always believe our ears.
All: Sometimes we believe we know better.
Sometimes we think you can’t possibly be calling us,
or her, or him.
Forgive us, Lord, our unpracticed listening,
our closed ears.
Help us to hear.
Amen.

call to worship – based on Psalm 139

By Leave a Comment

submitted by Michael Morgan, organist, Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia; seminary musician, Columbia Theological Seminary; and author of the Psalter for Christian Worship

One: O Lord, you have searched us and known us.
All: Before we move or think or speak, you know our actions and our words.
One: You breathed life into us, and shaped us in human form to serve your purpose and sing your praise.
All: We praise you for the gifts of substance and spirit, of acceptance and expectancy, of lineage and legacy.
One: How wonderful are your thoughts, O God!
All: How vast is the expanse of your grace and love!
One: Praise the Lord!
All: The Lord’s name be praised!