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Ordinary 9B-33B

CTW: wait for the Lord

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L:  At the defeat of a candidate, the news shouts polarizing speculations:  how the mighty have fallen!

P:  We wait for the Lord, our souls wait in hope;
L:  When economies crash,  investors bemoan their losses, crying: how the mighty have fallen

P:  We wait for the Lord, our souls wait in hope.

L:  When beloved pillars of community, church or family die, like David, we wail our grief: how the mighty have fallen!

P:  We wait for the Lord, our souls wait in hope.

All:  Lord, hear our voices! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of our praise and our prayers!
A call to worship based on 1 Samuel 1 and Psalm 130. Submitted by Rev. Deb Avery.

Sunday’s Coming: working toward July 1

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well, it’s that time again…the time when we look forward to another bulletin, another round of pondering the strangeness of the lectionary, another liturgy-writing extravaganza! Because really, how many liturgies do you know of that help us explore David’s prayer of lament over Saul and Jonathan at their death? Or “Paul’s” discussion of the match between “your present abundance and their need”?

Of course, there are wonderful possibilities with the psalm this week, and it’s move from crying out of the depths to trusting in the depths. And with the great story of Jesus and the two least important people in his society…the dying girl and the bleeding woman. Perhaps some of us will even be connecting those to current news stories.

 

So–where are you heading this week? What creative ideas do you have? Drop your phrases, images, or even just a word or vague idea into the comments, and let’s create together!

CTW: the day, and the church, the Lord has made

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One:      This is the day the Lord has made,

let us rejoice and be glad in it!

All:      We come with awe and praise, hearts lifted high!

      Some of us come with doubt and fear, hearts troubled.

One:      This is the church the Lord has made,

the people God created for this place and this time.

All:      We come, all of us, to hear God’s word,

      know Christ’s presence,

      and follow the Spirit wherever she may lead.

One:      Come, let us worship the Living God,

who calls us together.

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

confession: one-way conversations

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God, you call to us, but often we do not listen.

We are so busy speaking, we forget that conversations go two ways.

We are so busy looking for what we want, we forget to look for what you want.

Quiet our fear, our greed, and even our uncertainty,

that we may seek you, and hear you, and know you.

Forgive us our one-way conversations, our short-sighted solutions, our narrow fields of vision.

When we look only for answers, sit beside us as a friend in the questions.

When we look only for our desires, walk with us through your beautiful yet broken world.

When we look only for our own ways, open our eyes to your way,

and bring us to true life with you, today and every day.

We pray in the name of the One who lives and breathes among and within us. Amen.

 

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

Sunday’s Coming: working toward June 24

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Have you ever noticed that even when you’re out of town, Sunday still comes? Or that even in summer there are still only 168 hours in a week? Yeah…

So, in the few remaining hours before Sunday, what are you contemplating?

Are you looking at that David and Goliath story and wondering if you can pull off a reader’s theater complete with audience participation, as we did last week at the Montreat Youth Conference? (half the auditorium were Philistines, the other half Israelites…we taunted each other in between various sections of the reading…)

Are you wondering if you can preach about the comfort of your own pillow in the midst of the storm?

Perhaps you’re pondering yet another of Paul’s lists and exhortations.

Are you doing a summer series? What’s the theme? (Ours is “people’s choice”–we asked for suggestions, so this week I’ll be preaching on the who-what-where-when-why-how of prayer…)

Drop in and share your ideas, your seeds of ideas, your germs of seeds…who knows, the conversation may spark something new and fabulous that we can all use!