Worship Prayers for April 15

CENTERING PRAYER:  God of surprising revelations,

I thank you for rest and renewal.  I thank you that when you come to your people, you speak peace and invite faith in you.  Make this new day a time when I will give more thanks for life than I did yesterday.  Give me ears to hear your will for me, hands that are open to others, and eyes to see the beauty in your world; in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

        

CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                           

The bread of life opens our eyes.

           The word of life opens our ears.

The risen one shows us God’s own brokenness,

           and by those wounds we are healed.

Peace be with you.

           And also with you.

Come!  Let us worship the Lord together!

                                                                             

   PRAYER OF CONFESSION                                                                

Good and gracious God, we are creatures of dust, ignorant of your revelation, misunderstanding your life, death, and resurrection among us, needing forgiveness.  We repent of our failure to give as you have given to us.  We beg your mercy for our fallen world. We seek your Word, that we may live with the faith of Jesus.  Be our solace in this life and always.  We ask this as your own children, holy and incomplete.  Forgive us and lead us. Amen.  (Silent Confession)

  

   PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.  Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.  Amen.

[Prayer requests may be given to the pastor before the service.]

† 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.

  

SCRIPTURE READING                                                          Luke 24:36-53

For Angela Kamuyu's sermon "Moment of Truth", click here.