Worship Prayers for May 13

CENTERING PRAYER:  Holy One, thank you for the ability to begin my day in prayer.  Guide my path today.  No matter what happens, help me to feel that I belong to you, and bring me home to you at the end of the day.  Amen.

  

     

CALL TO WORSHIP

Happy are those who do not ridicule and scoff                     

     but who delight in God’s teachings and meditate on them day and night.

They are like trees planted by streams of water.

     They yield fruit in due season, and their leaves do not wither.

Come!  Let us worship our God together!

   PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Loving God, though you call us to delight in your teachings, we can become cynical and full of doubt.  Do not judge us, we pray, but heal us and restore us to you.  Guard us and protect us from evil, and sanctify us in your truth.  We continue to pray in Jesus’ name. (Silent Confession)

SCRIPTURE READING                                                             John 17:6-19

  

† 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.

Rev. Dr. Julia Allen Berger preached on Sunday, May 13th, 2018 at St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Ballwin, Missouri.  "Exploring a Stained Glass Word: Sanctified", Click here for the sermon.