October 17, 2021
Below, you’ll find the song lyrics and scripture readings for the live stream on October 17th (in the order they are needed).
Wideness
there’s a wideness in god’s mercy
like the wideness of the sea
there’s a kindness in god’s justice
which is more than liberty
there is welcome for the sinner,
the cast-off and the unloved
there is mercy with the savior
there is healing in his blood
for the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind
and the heart of thee eternal is most wonderfully kind
but we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own
and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own
there’s grace enough for thousands of new worlds as great as this
there’s room for fresh creations in that upper home of bliss
there’s plentiful redemption in the blood that has been shed
there’s joy for every creature in the sorrows of the head
for the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind
and the heart of thee eternal is most wonderfully kind
but we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own
and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own
Call to Worship
we have gathered to worship
the Living God
who in wisdom has knit together every creature;
who in wisdom is making all things new
to enter the story of God
and find our own stories reimagined
that the Spirit might form us in the way of Christ
that we might bear
the self-giving love of God
in our ordinary lives
Amen
Pulse
there’s a secret pulse hidden in
the fabric of creation
and the story of every creature is
bone from dust//gift from Gift
reconnect our hearts to that pulse you hid
resurrect the peace we’ve unlearned
and in the wreckage of our selective loves
build a tow’r that can’t be hidd’n
there’s a remedy for the ache
that plagues us all in waves
and the cure for our other-scorning rage
is break my bread//i’ll break your shame
reconnect our hearts to that pulse you hid
resurrect the peace that we’ve unlearned
and in the wreckage of our selective loves
build a tow’r and lock us in
until we find there’s only one kind
of love that won’t break
more than blind, more than selfless in name
it’s open arms either way
’cause there’s a pulse at the heart of all things
that gives life all the same
and a design to the rhythm we breathe:
Holy Name//Give and Take
Because He Lives
God sent God’s son
they called him Jesus
he came to love, heal, and forgive
he lived and died
to buy my pardon
an empty grave is there to prove my savior lives
because he lives I can face tomorrow
because he lives all fear is gone
because I know he holds the future
and life is worth the living just because he lives
how sweet to hold a newborn baby
and feel the pride and joy she brings
but greater still, the calm assurance
this child can face uncertain days because he lives
because he lives I can face tomorrow
because he lives, all fear is gone
because I know he holds the future
and life is worth the living just because he lives
and then one day i’ll cross the river
i’ll fight life’s final war with pain
but then as death gives way to victory
i’ll see the lights of glory and i’ll know he lives
because he lives I can face tomorrow
because he lives, all fear is gone
because I know he holds the future
and life is worth the living just because he lives
Murdered Son (by John Mark McMillan)
you set us up above all the stars
set us on a high place by where you are
and while we were dead you made us your friends
and scattered our debt upon the wind
glory to one
God’s murdered Son
who paid for my resurrection
once from the dust, once from the grave
daughters and sons from the ashes you’ve raised
and hidden our faults, even from your own face
and scattered our debt upon the waves
glory to one
God’s murdered Son
who paid for my resurrection
glory to the one
who overcame in death
glory to the one
who paid for my offenses
glory to the one, glory to the one
Old Testament Reading
Today’s Old Testament reading, and Josh’s sermon text, is Isaiah 53:4-12:
Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.
When you make his life an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
Out of his anguish he shall see light;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
New Testament Reading
Today’s New Testament reading is Mark 10:35-45:
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They replied, “We are able.” Then Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”
When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. So Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
Giving
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Mystery
sweet Jesus Christ, my sanity
sweet Jesus Christ, my clarity
Word Eternal brought low with me
cup of salvation, poured out to drink
Jesus, Mystery
Christ has died and Christ is risen
Christ will come again
sweet Jesus Christ, my Evergreen
sweet Jesus Christ, my Living Peace
love embodied broken for me
trampled redeemer, raised up and free
Jesus, Mystery
Christ has died and Christ is risen
Christ will come again
celebrate his death and rising
lift your eyes, proclaim his coming
and all who walk in dreadful darkness
lift your head, you’re not forgotten
celebrate his death-subversion
recalibrate fear to purpose
and in the face of oppressive power
don’t calm down: sing it louder
Christ has died and Christ is risen
Christ will come again
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise God, all creatures here below
Praise God above, ye heavenly hosts
Praise Timeless, Son, and Holy Ghost
Amen.
Benediction
As we approach this week
May we love God
Embrace Beauty
and Live Life to the fullest
Amen