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Trinity and Father's Day

06/15/2025 - 10:30 pm

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

CENTERING MUSIC Prelude in C Major Anton Bruckner

MOMENT OF HOPE

CALL TO WORSHIP

Holy Trinity,

you are neither a monarch nor monologue

But an eternal harmony

of gift and response:

Through the Uncreated Word

And the Spirit of Truth

Include us and all creation

In your extravagant love;

Through the Wisdom of God,

Who raises her voice

To call us to life.

Amen

*OPENING HYMN #760 Bring Many Names

Bring many names, beautiful and good,

Celebrate, in parable and story,

Holiness in glory, living, loving God.

Hail and Hosanna! Bring many names!

Strong mother God, working night and day,

Planning all the wonders of creation,

Setting each equation genius at play:

Hail and Hosanna, strong mother God!

Warm father God, hugging every child,

Feeling all the strains of human living,

Caring and forgiving till we’re reconciled:

Hail and Hosanna, warm father God!

Old, aching God, gray with endless care,

calmly piercing evil’s new disguises,

Glad of good surprises, wiser than despair:

Hail and Hosanna, old, aching God!

Young, growing God, eager, on the move,

Saying no to falsehood and unkindness,

Crying out for justice, giving all you have:

Hail and Hosanna, young, growing God!

Great, living God, never fully known,

Joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,

Closer yet than breathing, everlasting home:

Hail and Hosanna, great, living God!

PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE

From Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley

Creator God,
We confess that we have confined ourselves to the binaries of analytical and artistic, logician and poet, instead of existing in the full complexity of our humanity. That which is feeling and creative we have made optional as opposed to vital. And we destroy far more than we create. Forgive us. And in your mercy, restore our relationship to the artistry that dwells within us all. Amen.

MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER

SONG OF RENEWAL #288 Spirit of the Living God

ASSURANCE OF GOD’S GRACE

(From Black Liturgies)

Let your soul receive this rest: You are remade by the same divine force that made the star and flower petal—the sacred artist who crafted you in their holy image. Mercy over you as you reclaim every beautified fragment and resurrect the creative in you. Amen.

*PASSING THE PEACE

Pastor: The peace of Christ be with you.
People : And with you also.
Pastor: Let us pass the peace of Christ.
People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)

SPECIAL MUSIC Sheep May Safely Graze J. S. Bach
Barbara, Barkley, Flute

BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!

Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine!

Today’s Godly Play Story “Paul’s Discovery”
Kathleen Krentz & Cyndi Sneeringer

      Leader:                  And as we continue our worship…
      Congregation:      May God be with you there.
      Children: May God be with you here.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

Leader: God in your grace,
People: Hear our prayer

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

As we pray together the Lord's Prayer, you are invited to say this in whatever version is most comforting and meaningful to you. Here is one possible version (ecumenical version) that you can use:

Our Father, who is in heaven, holy be your name.

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

SCRIPTURES Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 and John 16:12-16

RESPONSE

Reader: The word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION, from Psalm 19 - responsively

Pastor: May the words of my mouth
People: And the meditations of our hearts
All: Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord,
Our rock and our redeemer. Amen

SERMON “Father, Son, and the Unknown” Andrew Jamieson

MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION

*HYMN OF RESPONSE #656 We’ve Come This Far by Faith

We’ve come this far by faith, leaning on the Lord,

Trusting in the holy Word; God’s never failed us yet.

O, can’t turn around, we’ve come this far by faith. We’ve come this far by faith.

OFFERING

OFFERTORY This Is my Father’s World English Melody
Arr. Fred Bock

*DOXOLOGY Sung to: All Creatures of our God and King

Praise God the giver and the gift,
Hearts, minds and voices now uplift:
Allelulia! Alleluia!

Praise, praise the Breath of glad surprise,
Freeing uplifting opening eyes,
Three in Oneness, Love community,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Your wisdom, O God, is beyond all understanding, beyond our individual comprehension and beyond all the gathered wisdom of humanity. We are humbled by the glories of the heavens and the earth, by the powers of the wind and the tide and volcanoes, by the energies of living things and chemicals, by the complexities of the relationships of all you have created. We are grateful for all the good gifts you have given us and the grace to use them for the benefit of humanity. We are thankful for the guidance you will continue to give us as we seek new ways to recover the balance of nature and full sharing with all your creatures. We glorify you, Initiator, Investigator, Integrator, one God, forever. Amen

*CLOSING HYMN #66 Every Time I Feel the Spirit

REFRAIN

Every time I feel the Spirit moving in my heart I will pray.

Yes, every time I feel the Spirit moving in my heart I will pray.

Upon the mountain, when my Lord spoke,

out of God’s mouth came fire and smoke.

Looked all around me, it looked so fine,

Till I asked my Lord if all was mine.

Jordan River, chilly and cold, it chills the body but not the soul.

There is but one train upon this track.

It runs to heaven and then right back.

*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE Postlude on Charles Callahan
Darwall’s 148th