October 25, 2020
Below, you’ll find the song lyrics and scripture readings for the live stream on October 25 (in the order they are needed). Also you can find UbcKids Sunday School Videos here.
Waking Life
You’re a hammer blow
To the barricade
That I’ve built up in my mind to separate
That which I hold
With warm embrace
From that which I have reduced to an empty phrase
You’re a falling blade
To the knot I tied
To secure a heavy shade over my eyes
And as if I had never tasted light
The stabbing pain slowly gives way to a truer sight
You’re the waking life piercing sleep
Reality reframing the dream And as I rise, I don’t recognize my speech
Find the garden shed
where I once kept my armory
You’re an ember thrown From a funeral pyre
That infiltrates the cavalcade of an outrage choir
Through the withered aisles of my fevered mind
now the hollow rage is slowly remade into a signal fire
You’re the waking life piercing sleep
Reality reframing the dream And as I rise, I don’t recognize my speech
Find the garden shed where I once kept my armory
Like the waking life piercing sleep
Like reality reframing the dream
I don’t understand what is happening
But somethings changed in a place I cannot reach
And there’s this ache where I once kept my apathy
Like there’s a depth to life and breath and everything
Call to Worship
we have gathered to worship
the God with us
hoping to find steadiness in the ups and downs of our lives
to enter the story of God
and find our own stories woven together
that the Spirit of God might transform our hearts and minds
forming us more fully in the way of Christ
and reminding us of the faithfulness of God with every breath.
Amen
Up On A Mountain
Up on a mountain our Lord is alone
Without a family friends or a home
He cries ooh ooh ooh
Will you stay with me?
He cries oh oh oh
Will you wait with me?
Up on a mountain our Lord is afraid
Carrying all the mistakes we have made
And he knew..ooh..ooh
It's a long way down
Do you know..oh..oh?
It's a long way down
Up in the heavens our Lord prays for you
He sent his spirit to carry us through
So it's true..ooh..ooh
That you're not alone
Do you know..oh..oh?
He came all the way down
So it's true..ooh..ooh
That you're not alone
Do you know..oh..oh?
He came all the way down
Old Testament Reading
Today’s Old Testament reading, and Josh’s sermon text, is Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the LORD showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the Negeb, and the Plain -- that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees -- as far as Zoar. The LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there." Then Moses, the servant of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, at the Lord's command. He was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day. Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired and his vigor had not abated. The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended. Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands on him; and the Israelites obeyed him, doing as the LORD had commanded Moses. Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. He was unequaled for all the signs and wonders that the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants and his entire land, and for all the mighty deeds and all the terrifying displays of power that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
New Testament Reading
Today’s New Testament reading is Matthew 22:34-46
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: "What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David." He said to them, "How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet"'? If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?" No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
Giving
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For Now and At the Hour
O spirit of God
Speak your peace
Speak your peace
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen, amen
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen, amen
Oh merciful God
Forgive us, forgive us
Oh merciful God
Forgive us, forgive us
For all the things
We have done and left undone
For all the things
We have done and left undone
Oh son of God
Rescue us, rescue us
Oh son of God
Rescue us, rescue us
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen, amen
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise him all creatures here below
Praise him above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Amen
Benediction
As we approach this week
May we love God
Embrace Beauty
and Live Life to the fullest
Amen