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5th Sunday after Epiphany
02/08/2025 - 10:30 pm
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
MINUTE FOR MISSION “Loaves & Fishes” Sharon Krhoun
CENTERING MUSIC “My Father’s Favorite” Patrick Doyle
MOMENT OF HOPE
CALL TO WORSHIP
God our Maker. You call us to be your presence in the world. Here, through our hands and prayers, bring healing, hope and peace.
Amen.
*HYMN #401 Gather Us In
Here in this place the new light is streaming; Now is the darkness vanished away;
see in this space our fears and our dreaming’s brought here to you in the light of this day.
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken; gather us in, the blind and the lame;
call to us now, and we shall awaken; We shall arise at the sound of our name.
We are the young, our lives are a mystery. We are the old who yearn for your face.
We have been sung through-out all of history, called to be light to the whole human race.
Gather us in the rich and the haughty; gather us in, the proud and the strong;
give us a heart, so meek and so lowly; Give us the courage to enter the song.
Here we will take the wine and the water; here we will take the bread of new birth.
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters, Call us anew to be salt for the earth.
Give us to drink the wine of compassion; give us to eat the bread that is you;
Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion lives that are holy and hearts that are true.
Not in the dark of buildings confining, not in some heaven, light years away:
Here in this place the new light is shining; now is the kingdom, and now is the day.
Gather us in and hold us forever; gather us in and make us your own;
gather us in, all peoples together, fire of love in our flesh and our bone.
PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE
One: Jesus, people came to you when they were in trouble or pain.
Friends carried them,
Strangers told you about them;
Some invited you into their homes or met you walking on the road.
People: You listened to them, you prayed with them, and you brought hope and healing into their lives.
One: So today we bring into our minds and hold in God’s presence those for whom we have been asked to pray.
People: God our maker, Jesus our healer, Holy Spirit of love and life, hear our prayers. To those who seek you, to all who need you, to the world you cherish, bring healing, bring wholeness, bring peace. Amen.
MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER
SONG OF RENEWAL #155 Raise a Song of Gladness
Raise a song of Gladness, peoples of the earth.
Christ has come, bringing peace, joy to every heart.
Alleluia, alleluia, joy to every heart!
Alleluia, alleluia, joy to every heart!
CELEBRATION OF GOD’S GRACE
This is the Good News: God is the God of healing, for each of us, for all of us, for all time. God is here offering love, wholeness and peace. Thanks be to God. Amen.
*PASSING THE PEACE
Leader: The peace of Christ be with you.
People: And with you also.
Leader: Let us pass the peace of Christ.
People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)
ANTHEM “Lift Every Voice and Sing” arr. Craig Courtney
BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY
This Little Light of Mine
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 Baptism of Jesus”
Kathleen Krentz & Peter Cloven
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.
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Psalm 51:1-6, 16-17
John 11:1-44
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 Going On A Squeegee Hunt Pastor Brabara
MOMENT FOR QUIET REFLECTION
*HYMN OF REFLECTION #797 We Cannot Measure How You Heal vs. 1,3
We cannot measure how you heal or answer every sufferer’s prayer,
Yet we believe your grace responds where faith and doubt unite to care.
Your hands, though bloodied on the cross, survive to hold and heal and warn
to carry all through death to life and cradle children yet unborn.
So some have come who need your help and some have come to make amends,
As hands which shaped and saved the world are present in the touch of friends.
Lord, let your Spirit meet us here to mend the body, mind, and soul,
To disentangle peace from pain and make your broken people whole.
MOMENT OF THANKS
OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY
Praise God whose breath fills all the earth
Whose love reveals our sacred worth
Whose Spirit forms one family
Whose grace brings peace and harmony. Amen.
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Bless to us, O God, the stars that are above us, the earth that is beneath us, your image deep within us, the rest that is before us.
Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN #792 There Is a Balm in Gilead
Refrain:
There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.
Sometimes I feel discouraged, and think my work’s in vain,
but then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again.
Don’t ever feel discouraged, for Jesus is your friend,
and if you lack for knowledge, he’ll not refuse to lend.
If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul,
You can tell the love of Jesus and say, “He died for all.”
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE “The Old Rugged Cross” George Bernard