October 3, 2021
Below, you’ll find the song lyrics and scripture readings for the live stream on October 3rd (in the order they are needed).
Boundless Love (by john prine)
i woke up this morning to a garbage truck
seems this ol horshoe’s done run out of luck
if i came home would you let me in
fry me some pork chops and forgive my sins
and surround me with your boundless love
confound me with your boundless love
i was drowning in a sea, lost as i could be
when you found me with your boundless love
sometimes my old heart is like a washing machine
it bounces around ‘til my soul comes clean
but when i’m clean and hung out to dry
i’m gonna make you laugh until you cry
and surround me with your boundless love
confound me with your boundless love
i was drowning in a sea, lost as i could be
when you found me with your boundless love
if by chance i should find myself at risk
a’fallin from this jagged cliff
i look below, i look above
i’m surrounded by your boundless love
and surround me with your boundless love
confound me with your boundless love
i was drowning in a sea, lost as i could be
when you found me with your boundless love
you dumbfound me with your boundless love
you surround me with your boundless love
Call to Worship
we have gathered to worship
the Living God
the Eternal One in whom
we live and move and have our being
to enter the story of God
and find our own stories reimagined
that the Spirit might transform our hearts and minds
forming us more fully
in the self-giving love of Christ
that we might live in the way of Christ
Amen
Wayward Ones
we are the wayward ones
liars and beggars, those who betray
we hand you over, deny your name
cast you aside, yet still you say
this is my body, this is my blood
broken and shed to show my love
we are the broken ones
cowards and fools, all filled with disbelief
we forsake you, deny your name
cast you aside, yet still you say
this is my body, this is my blood
broken and shed to show my love
remember me, remember me
come to the table, take and eat
remember me
How Great Thou Art
o lord my god, when i in awesome wonder
consider all the worlds thy hands have made
i see the stars, i hear the rolling thunder
thy pow’r throughout the universe displayed
then sings my soul, my savior god to thee
how great thou art, how great thou art
and when i think that god, the son not sparing
sent him to die, i scarce can take it in
that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing
he bled and died to take away my sin
then sings my soul, my savior god to thee
how great thou art, how great thou art
when christ shall come with shout of acclamation
and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart
then i shall bow with humbled adoration
and there proclaim, my god how great thou art
then sings my soul, my savior god to thee
how great thou art, how great thou art
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
love divine, all loves excelling
joy from heav’n to earth come down
fix in us thy humble dwelling
all thy faithful mercies crown
jesus thou art all compassion
pure unbounded love, thou art
visit us with thy salvation
enter every trembling heart
breathe, o breathe, thy loving spirit
into every troubled breast
let us all in thee inherit
let us find that second rest
finish then, thy new creation
in full bloom, let us be
let us see thy great salvation
lost in wonder, love, and praise
Old Testament Reading
Today’s Old Testament reading is Psalm 8:
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
New Testament Reading
Today’s New Testament reading is Mark 10:2-16:
Some Pharisees came, and to test Jesus they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
Giving
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Every Tree
God is our refuge and strength
an ever-present help in time of need
sure as the ground beneath all being
the comfort of the Eternal’s within your reach
and every tree has its root in the stream
God comes prowling like a thief
through the windows of time to the terrace of your grief
to rid your sorrow of its sting
though it might take a while, there’s a dawn within your reach
for every tree has its root in the stream
so clap your hands and stomp your feet
lift up your voice like the breakers from the deep
to sing of the slaughtered/standing king
by whom death is a vapor and life is a diamond ring
and every tree has its root in the stream
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