CENTERING PRAYER - Dear God, thank you for this day. Help me hear others, as I know that you always hear me. Open my heart and help me give myself with grateful praise to things you have set for me today. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen. (Feasting on the Word)
CALL TO WORSHIP
Whether we embrace God’s call in our lives or try to avoid it,
God is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Whether we are long timers or latecomers in the life of faith,
God is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Whether our lives in Christ are comfortable or bring hardship,
God is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
We praise the Lord’s name forever and ever!
Let us worship God together.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of abundant goodness, we confess that we want your grace for ourselves but often wish punishment or exclusion on others. We judge the efforts and motives of others while ignoring the faults of our own. Forgive us, we pray, when we let jealousy overtake us. Forgive us, we pray, when we are petty even in the presence of your generosity. Forgive us, we pray, when we feel slighted by you. May we ask once again for your mercy? Will you help us to be more merciful toward one another? We continue to pray in the name of Christ Jesus, by whose grace we are saved. (Silent Confession)
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Apostles’ Creed)
I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
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