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11th Sunday After Pentecost
08/24/2025 - 10:30 pm
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CENTERING MUSIC Just as I am arranged by Fred Bock
MOMENT OF HOPE
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: May the God of all consolation be with you.
People: And also with you!
One: May the God of peace and mercy be with you.
People: And also with you!
One: May the Compassionate one, who feels our pain and cries with us in our passion and the Just One, who rages with us against the Injustice of our experience, be with you!
People: And also with you! Amen
*OPENING HYMN “Ask the Complicated Questions
Ask the complicated questions, do not fear to be found out;
For our God makes strong our weakness, Forging faith in fires of doubts.
Seek the disconcerting answers, Follow where the Spirit blows;
For Christ calls from shores of wonder, for in tension new life grows.
Knock on doors of new ideas, test assumptions long grown stale;
For Christ calls from shores of wonder, daring us to try and fail.
For in struggle we discover truth both simple and profound;
In the knocking, asking, seeking, we are opened, answered, found.
TIME OF SILENT PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC “Prayer of St. Francis” Allen Pote
Kimberly D’Onofrio
BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!
Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine!
Today’s Story “The Great Flood”
Kathleen Krentz & Jane Moseley
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: Psalm 92:1-5, 12-15
Reading from Kahlil Gibran
SERMON Theological Panel
MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION
OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
OFFERTORY Home by Ola Gjeilo
*DOXOLOGY Tune: OLD HUNDRED
Praise God from whom all grace flows forth.
Praise Life, all creatures here on earth.
Praise Light who guides us on our way.
Praise Love who forms us day by day.
*UNISON PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING –
One: We give you what is already yours, whatever it be that we are giving.
People: All that we have is yours alone, a trust from you, O God!
All: We return it with joy and gratitude!
*CLOSING HYMN How Can I keep from Singing
My life flows on in endless song, above earth’s lamentation.
I hear the real though far-off hymn that hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that rock I’m clinging
Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing.
Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear that music ringing
It sounds and echoes in my soul, how can I keep from singing?
No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that rock I’m clinging
Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing.
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE How Majestic Is Your Name arranged by Fred Bock.