An Extended Silence

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Montgomery Chapel

Welcome

Call To Worship

Let us worship God, our light and our salvation.

The Lord is the stronghold of our lives.

We desire to live in God’s house

and to seek God in God’s holy temple.

We have come with shouts of joy,

to sing and to make music to the Lord.

Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.

Teach us your ways and make straight our paths

during this time of worship and always.

Let us worship God!

Songs

Surely God is in this place

Surely God is in this place, holy ground;

Surely God is in this place, holy ground.

Bless the Lord, My Soul

Bless the Lord, my soul, and bless God’s holy name.

Bless the Lord, my soul, who leads me into life.

Scripture Reading Psalm 34: 1-10

I will bless the Lord at all times; the Lord’s praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt the Lord’s name together.

I sought the Lord, and the Lord answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Look to the Lord, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

This poor soul cried, and was heard by the Lord, and was saved from every trouble.

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear the Lord, and delivers them.

O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in the Lord.

O fear the Lord, you the Lord’s holy ones, for those who fear the Lord have no want.

The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Silence (10 minutes)

Song Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy On Me

Prayers of the People

Let us offer our petitions and praises to God. Please end your prayer with, “God, in your mercy,” or “God, in your grace,” and the community will respond,

“Hear our prayer.”

The Lord’s Prayer

Please pray in the language and style in which you are most comfortable.

*Hymn VU# 147 What Wondrous Love Is This

*Benediction

*Worshipers, please stand as you are able.

Participants In Worship

Ms. Deborah Arca Mooney, Liturgist

Rev. Dr. Sam Hamilton-Poore, Musician

Mr. Joseph Dai Nguyen, Musician

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Ms. Kitty Lum, Chaplain’s Assistant

Resources:

The Call to Worship was adapted from The Worship Sourcebook, Faith Alive Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 2004; “Surely God” and “Bless the Lord,” from the Taizé Community; “Jesus Christ” by Steven Iverson from “Music for the Contemplative Journey” (DASD).

Rev. Conover Preaches

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Monday, March 5, 2007

Stewart Chapel

Prelude Wondrous Love arr. Paul Manz

Welcome

*Call To Worship

In this Lenten season the Jesus who calls us to worship

is the same Jesus who triumphed over the tragedy of the cross;

the same Jesus who gained victory for us over sin and death;

let us open our hearts to worship Jesus;

and seek to become more like Him.

Let us worship God!

*Hymn PH# 85 What Wondrous Love Is This

Call To Confession

Prayer Of Confession

Loving God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming burden of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change, and open to us a future in which we can change. And grant us grace to grow more and more into your likeness and image through Jesus, the light of the world. Amen.

Assurance Of Pardon

Hear the Good News! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us and Christ prays for us. Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. The old life has gone; a new life has begun. Know that you are forgiven and be at peace!

*Passing Of The Peace

Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us forgive one another.

The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

And also with you.

Prayer Of Illumination

Scripture Reading Luke 4: 1-13

Sermon “Leading Toward Resurrection” Rev. Dr. Robert Conover

*Hymn Of Affirmation PH# 87 The Glory of these Forty Days

*Benediction

*Postlude A Mighty Fortress Marcel Drupré

Participants In Worship:

Rev. Dr. Robert Conover, Preacher

Ms. Dorothy Crockett, Liturgist

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Dr. Daniel Hoggatt, Musician

Ms. Kitty Lum, Chaplain’s Assistant

Resources: The Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Pardon are adapted from The Worship Sourcebook, Faith Alive Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 2004. The Call to Worship and Call to Confession are adapted from the Book of Common Worship.

Peter Preaches Attaining Resurrection

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Friday, March 2^nd, 2007

Montgomery Chapel

Welcome

*Call to Worship

In the name of the Lord we have come,

Awaiting the living Word of God.

Women and Men, young and old, images of God.

God is wider than all our imagination ever will be.

God was before us,

God is with us,

God walks ahead of us,

Above and beyond all borders and walls built by us.

In God, we will overcome

Whatever keeps us apart.

Amen.

*Hymn VU #460 All Who Hunger

Prayer of Repentance

Lord, we and our sisters and brothers throughout the world have sinned against you and have harmed our fellow human beings.

We have come with penitent hearts to ask for your forgiveness.

We have disrespected and mishandled creation, the work of your hands.

We have come with penitent hearts to ask for your forgiveness.

Our love for material things has carried us away from your love and as a result we have not loved our neighbors.

We have come with penitent hearts to ask for you forgiveness.

We have adulterated our faith with wrong values and have not worshipped you in spirit and in truth.

Lord, forgive us and lead us to genuine repentance.

Assurance of Pardon

The good news of the gospel is this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, Christ was raised for us, Christ rules in power for us. Whoever is in Christ is a new creation. The old life has gone. A new life has begun. Through Jesus Christ our Lord we are forgiven.

Thanks be to God.

Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Reading Philippians 3:10-14

Communion Meditation “Attaining Resurrection” Mr. Peter Barnes-Davies

Sacrament of Holy Communion

Invitation to the Lord’s Table

The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them up to the Lord.

Let us give our thanks to the Lord.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Loving God, Source of all, we thank you and praise you with our lips and in our lives that, having created us, and all things, through your Word, you welcome our prayer and praise. For the goodness of creation we praise you. For the law of holiness, inviting our obedience, and the call of prophets rebuking our disobedience, we praise you. With the faithful of every time and place, we join in this hymn of praise and thanksgiving:

We gratefully recall and remember the wonder of Jesus’ incarnation, his birth as one of us, his baptism for our sin, his compassion for our suffering, his intimacy with our frailty, his rebuke of our pride, his bearing of the cross with its death, and his rising from the tomb by the power of God. According to his commands and promise of presence, we affirm the mystery of faith.

Loving God, Creative Power, blessing your name, we seek your Spirit. Come to us and bless these gifts of bread and wine that they might be for us the body and blood of Christ, a sign and seal of our forgiveness in Christ and our adoption as children of God. As we eat and drink together, make us one with Christ and one in Christ, a sign of his eternal reign in all the world. This sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving we offer to you, loving God, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God to ages of ages.

The Lord’s Prayer

Please pray in the language in which you feel most comfortable.

Words of Institution

Distribution of the Elements

Prayer after Communion

*Benediction

*Passing of the Peace

Participants in Worship:

Ms. Erin Musolf, Liturgist

Rev Dr. Laurie Garrett-Cobbina, Celebrant

Mr. Peter Barnes-Davies, Preacher

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Dr. Daniel Hoggatt, Musician

Mr. Aric Clark, Chaplain’s Assistant

Communion Servers:

Ms. Suzanne Crouch

Ms. Lynn Dunn

Ms. Mary Richardson

Ms. Petey Thornton

Ms. Leslie Veen

Resources:

Call to Worship and Prayer of Repentance taken from “Celebrate Life” worship book for the 24^th

General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

COMMUNITY OFFERING

The baskets in the narthex are for receiving the offering of the seminary community. At the end of the semester, what has been offered and collected will be donated to a local charity.

Witness to Prayers Answered

PARTICIPANTS’ OUTLINE

(supported by Powerpoint instead of bulletins)

Service of Praise and Prayer

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Stewart Chapel

WELCOME

*GATHERING SONGS

PRAYER OF INVOCATION

LEADER: Come Holy Spirit!

PEOPLE: Be poured out in us.

LEADER: Come Holy Spirit!

MEN: Inspire our prayers.

WOMEN: Step in and pray for us when our words fail.

LEADER: Spirit of knowledge, read our hearts and know our true desire.

MEN: Our desire is for you God.

LEADER: Open our eyes and show us how our prayers have been answered.

WOMEN: The answer to our prayers is you God.

LEADER: Come Holy Spirit!

PEOPLE: Come, Answer to Our Every Prayer!

ALL: Come join our song!

SONG

TIME OF REFLECTION

(Please take this time to reflect upon the signs of God’s answer to your prayers. Listen for the guidance of the Holy Spirit showing you how God is at work in your life.)

TIME OF WITNESS TO PRAYERS ANSWERED

(Please stand as you feel led and address the community with a brief testimony about recently answered prayers. End your testimony with the phrase “O Loving God” and the community will respond, “We Praise You God!”)

SONG

NEW TESTAMENT READING John 3:16-21

(Scripture will be on Powerpoint in Korean)

COMMUNAL CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

LEADER: God is good!

PEOPLE: All the time!

LEADER: All the time!

PEOPLE: God is good!

LEADER: Now let us go forth in the confidence of God’s goodness. In the assurance

of answers to prayers we have been bold to approach the throne of grace. Let those same feet which have walked in the courts of our Lord take us into the world to be for others the answer to their prayers.

ALL: And may the grace of God, the love of Jesus Christ and the sweet communion of the Holy Spirit rest, rule and abide in our hearts this day and every day. Amen!

SONG

Participants in Worship:

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Dr. Daniel Hoggatt, Musician

Aric Clark, Chaplain’s Assistant

Joshua Dunham, Chaplain’s Assistant

Kate Freeman, Liturgist

Baek Hee, Musician

Derrick Westrom, Musician

JooWon Lee, Musician

Jeff Richards, Musician

Alison Hendley, Musician

Talitha Phillips, Musician

Ki Do Ahn, Musician

Lenten Prayers

Morning Service

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Montgomery Chapel

(Please be sure to pick up one of the prayer cards provided in the narthex)

Welcome

*Call to Worship 

               I will extol the LORD at all times;

                               Praise will always be on my lips.

               Our souls will boast in the LORD;

                               Let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

               Glorify the LORD with me;

                               Let us exalt the LORD’s name together.

*Hymn VU 573                                   Eternal Spirit of the Living Christ

Scripture Reading                             John 2:13-22

Time of Prayer

(During this period of worship you are invited to write prayers on the cards provided. You may wish to use the prayers spoken aloud in the intervals as a guide for your written prayers.)

God be in my head, and in my understanding;

God be in my eyes, and in my looking;

God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;

God be in my heart and in my thinking;

God be at my end, and at my departing. Amen

Hymn VU117 (vs. 1) Jesus Christ is Waiting

Jesus,

Light of the minds that know you,

Life of the souls that love you,

Strength of the thoughts that seek you:

Help us to know you

That we may truly love you,

So to love you,

That we may fully serve you,

Whose service is perfect freedom. Amen

Hymn (vs. 2) Jesus Christ is Waiting

Gracious God,

We pray for your holy catholic church.

Fill it with all truth in all peace.

Where it is corrupt, purify it;

Where it is in error, direct it;

Where in any thing it is amiss, reform it.

Where it is right, strengthen it;

Where it is in want, provide for it;

Where it is divided, reunite it;

For the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our savior. Amen

Hymn (vs. 3) Jesus Christ is Waiting

Lord, open unto me

Open unto me – light for my darkness,

Open unto me – courage for my fear,

Open unto me – hope for my despair,

Open unto me – peace for my turmoil,

Open unto me – joy for my sorrow,

Open unto me – strength for my weakness,

Open unto me – wisdom for my confusion,

Open unto me – forgiveness for my sins,

Open unto me – love for my hates,

Open unto me – thy Self for my self.

Lord, Lord, open unto me! Amen

Hymn (vs. 4) Jesus Christ is Waiting

Thanks be to you, Lord Jesus Christ,

For all the benefits which you have won for us,

For all the pains and insults which you have borne for us.

O most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother,

May we know you more clearly,

Love you more dearly,

And follow you more nearly,

Day by day. Amen

Hymn (vs. 5) Jesus Christ is Waiting

(At this time we invite you to bring your prayer card to the front and hang it on the cross)

God of love,

As in Jesus Christ you gave yourself to us,

So may we give ourselves to you,

Living according to your holy will.

Keep our feet firmly in the way

Where Christ leads us;

Help our lips speak the truth

That Christ teaches us;

Fill our bodies with the life

That is Christ within us.

In his holy name we pray. Amen

The Lord’s Prayer

Please pray in the language and style most familiar to you.

*Hymn VU 664 What A Friend We Have In Jesus

*Benediction

Now may the peace of God,

Which passes all understanding,

Keep guard over our hearts and minds

In the knowledge and love of God,

And of God’s Son, Jesus Christ our Lord;

And may the blessing of God almighty,

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Remain with us always. Amen

Participants in Worship:

Ms. Suzie Herman, Liturgist

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Mr. Nick Larson, Reader

Ms. Deborah Arca-Mooney, Reader

Mr. John Scott, Reader

Ms. Laura Weber, Reader

Ms. Heidi Skidmore, Musician

Dr. Daniel Hoggatt, Musician

Mr. Aric Clark, Chaplain’s Assistant

Resources:

Call to Worship adapted from Psalm 34.

The Prayers used in the Time of Prayer come from the Book of Common Worship, with the

exception of the final prayer which was taken from Voices United.

The Benediction was taken from the Book of Common Worship.

Bishop Pascua Brings Greetings

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Monday, February 26^th, 2007

Stewart Chapel

Welcome

Prelude Ümawit Kang Masaya (Sing Joyfully) Lucio San Pedro

Arr. Ed Avila

*Call to Worship

We have gathered in the presence of God our creator,

who sets before us the ways of life and death.

We have gathered in the presence of Jesus the Christ,

who calls us to accept the cost of discipleship that we may know its joy.

We have gathered in the presence of the Spirit, who sustains us in trial and rejoicing.

In our living and our dying, we belong to God.

In the shadow of God’s wings, we sing for joy.

Let us worship God.

*Hymn PH#101 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Prayer for Peace

Suffering God, from the wondrous cross light spills into our world revealing places of deepest shadow where your justice and your peace wait to be realized. In this time of Lent we are especially conscious of those living in the shadow who look to you as their hope and their salvation against the horrors this world inflicts upon them. Hear us God:

We hunger for your justice. We thirst for your peace.

In the Philippines today, O God, hear the cries of the afflicted and victims of injustice, those marginalized, the poor peasants and workers and those of our people struggling to live out their faith as your witness in spreading the good news of love and peace here on earth; uplift and comfort them and stand in protection against all the evils of this world. Always be with us in solidarity with our people as we know you are the God of history, justice and freedom. Hear us God:

We hunger for your justice. We thirst for your peace.

Alleviate your people’s suffering, Lord, we pray, but also we know that it is from these places of darkness that your justice and your peace ultimately spring. We have confidence that you are already at work and that the darkness cannot stand, but your kingdom will be established and so we have courage not only to wait and to pray, but to labor with you. Let our hands be your hands. Let our voices speak your word. Let our lives be for you and for all who suffer. Hear us as we pray:

Grant, O God, That your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that the barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear,

And hatreds cease, and that, with our divisions healed,

We might live in justice and peace;

Through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Special Music Pagka't Ang Diyos Natiý Diyos ng Pagibig

(Because Our God is a God of Love) Elena Maquiso Arr. Ed Avila

Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Readings 2 Corinthians 4:7-12

Luke 13:1-5

Sermon “Faith under Fire” Bishop Pascua

*Hymn Kung Pista sa Nayon ("This is Our Fiesta")

1. Kung pista sa nayon ay nagsasayawan,

kay ganda-gandang pagmasdan ang maliliit na hakbang,

at ang manga basong may taglay na ilaw

sa ulo't mga kamay may ingat na nakalagay.
Ningas na taglay ng mga ilawan
Sa liksi ng pagsasayaw, ni isaý walang napatay,
di bumabagsak si gumigiwang
kay ganda-gandang pagmasdan walang kasing pantay..

This is our fiesta! Come and see the dancers;
every dainty step that they make adds a little more as they make
tapestries of magic, movement, light, and music
Oh! What skill to keep the lamp so steady on their heads and hands.
Yes, it's wonderful, quite incredible
even when they twirl round about, not a candle falls or goes out!
Share their sense of fun, many seeming one
praise to God who shows the way with such a bright gift of dance.

2. Kung pista sa nayon ay nagsasayawan,
kumikislap ba ilawan ay parang bituing kumikinang,
sa pagsasayaw ay matatag ang ilaw
at nakangiti sila na parang walang anuman;
Tayoý magsayaw sa Diyos na mahal
nagkikislap ang ilawan sa hakbang natin ang gabay,
sa 'ting pagindak manga ilawan ay
pakaingatan na ito ay di bumagsak.

This is our fiesta! Come and see the dancers;
every twinkling trace that they leave
adds a little more as they weave
Tapestries of magic, movement, light and music;
happy faces smile and shine, feet find one rhythm for tonight (today)
Let us now join in, gladly celebrate: may the Lord inspire us to dance
give us grace to bold fast our lampos,
teach us how to pray as we leap and sway,
when we’ve caught the Spirit's flame, there is no end to the light.

*Charge & Benediction

Pagka't Ang Diyos Natiý Diyos ng Pagibig

(Because Our God is a God of Love) Elena Maquiso Arr. Ed Avila

Participants in Worship:

Bishop Eliezer Malihan Pascua, General Secretary of the United Church of Christ of the Philippines

Rev. Edgar Avila, Musician

Mr. Arn Lou Mutia, Liturgist

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Dr. Dan Hoggatt, Musician

Mr. Aric Clark, Chaplain’s Assistant

Resources:

Greeting taken from the Book of Worship: United Church of Christ, adapted from Hebrews 12:2.

Call to Worship taken from the Book of Worship: United Church of Christ.

A portion of the Prayer for Peace adapted from The Book of Common Order.

Rev. Love Tells Us Her Side of The Story

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Friday February 23^rd, 2007

Montgomery Chapel

Welcome

*Call to Worship

Listen O’ Israel, today God asks us to remember our covenant,

the covenant we made with God.

Listen O’ God, we cry out to you remembering

the covenant that you made with us.

Listen O’ Israel, God has heard your call and is waiting for your answer.

God waits as one waits for the prodigal child.

Listen O’ God, thank you for waiting.

Thank you for waiting for us. Let us worship you now.

*Hymn PH 422 God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession

Gracious and Holy One,

We come full of much that clutters and distracts us. Sometimes the events of our days stifle us, burden our hearts. Other times we are paralyzed by a gnawing dissatisfaction, or anxious imaginings. Then there are times when we are driven to settle old scores, or we are deceived by the arrogance of being right. So many different ways to lose our way! Forgive us, kind one. Empty us of that which is not of you, so that we may can receive that which you hold out for us.

Assurance of Pardon

To all who turn from sin in sorrow, to all who turn to God in hope, this is God’s Word of grace; We are accepted, we are forgiven, we are loved. This gift we have from God.

Thanks be to God.

Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Reading Genesis 17:1, 15-19 and James 1:17-18

Communion Meditation “The Trouble With Grace” Rev. Julie Anderson Love

Sacrament of Holy Communion

Invitation To The Lord’s Table

The Great Prayer Of Thanksgiving

The Lord be with you

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts

We lift them up unto the Lord

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God

It is right to give God thanks and praise

Great and wonderful are your deeds, O God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O Ruler of the ages. We give you thanks, for you have created all things, and by your will they exist. You have delivered your people from bondage, and you have given to us Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, Savior of the world, who has won for us the victory over sin and death and all evil. Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with the heavenly choirs and with all the faithful of every time and place, who forever sing to the glory of your name:

Glory to you, O Christ, for you departed from your heavenly throne to tabernacle among us, showing us what it is to be truly human. You healed the sick and ate with the outcasts. You multiplied the fish and the loaves and you taught about God’s coming reign. You were slain, and by your blood you ransomed for God people of every tribe, tongue, people and nation. You have made us a people to serve our God. Great is the mystery of faith:

Spirit of God, touch our lives deeply, and make us truly yours; and bless these gifts of bread and the fruit of the vine. O living Christ, bright morning star of this darkened world, come and be our guest. Name us, mark us, and claim us as your own. Free us from bondage to the powers of this world. Glory be to you!

Now let us pray in song, the prayer that Jesus taught us:

Sung Lord’s Prayer

Words Of Institution

*Distribution on the Elements

*Prayer after Communion

*Charge and Benediction

*Passing of the Peace

Participants in Worship:

Rev. Julie Anderson Love, Preacher

Mr. Nicholas Valadez, Liturgist

Dr. Daniel Hoggatt, Musician

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Mr. Joshua Dunham, Chaplain’s Assistant

Fat Tuesday

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Tuesday February 20^th, 2007

Montgomery Chapel

Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? – Isaiah 58:5

Welcome

*Call to Worship

People of God, are you ready?

We’re ready!

Are you ready to meet the Lord? People of God, are you ready?

We’re ready!

Are you ready to greet the Lord? People of God, get ready!

We’re ready!

Get ready and wait for the Lord. Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall soar with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not grow faint. People of God, get ready! (Isaiah 40:31)

We’re ready! Let us worship God!

*Processional Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Scripture Reading Isaiah 58:1-5

Song VU642 (vs. 1,2) Be Thou My Vision

Scripture Reading Isaiah 58:6-9a

Silent Reflection

Scripture Reading Isaiah 58:9b-12

Song Take, O Take Me As I Am

Scripture Reading Isaiah 58:13-14

Silent Reflection

Prayers of the People

Please end your prayers with “God in your grace” or “God in your mercy”

and the community will respond with “Here our prayer.”

The Lord’s Prayer

*Benediction

*Hymn Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Participants In Worship:

Ms. Heidi Skidmore, Reader

Ms. Rachel Medema, Reader

Ms. Cynthia Harris, Reader

Mr. Joshua Dunham, Liturgist & Chaplain’s Assistant

Dr. Dan Hoggatt, Musician

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Resources:

Call to Worship from This Far By Faith (1999)

Paraphrase Readings from The Message (2002)

The Dean Sets Our Minds Spinning

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Friday, February 16, 2007

Montgomery Chapel

Welcome Chaplain Charles Marks

*Call to Worship

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord, our God, you are very great.

You are clothed with honor and majesty, wrapped in light as with a garment.

You stretch out the heavens like a tent. You make the clouds your chariot.

You ride on the wings of the wind. You make the wind your messengers,

fire and flame your ministers. You set the earth on its foundations,

so that it will never be shaken. You cover it with the deep as with a garment.

O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all.

Bless the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord!

Come, let us worship God!

*Hymn VU # 264 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession

Creator God, you have made yourself known in all your creation and in your Word, Jesus Christ. Even so, we comprehend so little. Forgive us our stubborn refusal to see and to embrace your love. Standing in awe of you and of your great love for us, we come before you, silently confessing our sins against you and your creation:

A time for silent confession.

Amen.

Assurance of Pardon

This is the good news of the gospel: God, who created us, loves us and forgives us. Give thanks to God: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Amen.

*Passing of the Peace

As God has given us peace through Christ, let us share the peace of Christ with each other. The peace of Christ be with you.

And also with you.

Music If I Have My Ticket Lord, Can I Ride? Arr. by Donald Moore

Seminary Singers

Prayer for Illumination

First Scripture Reading Job 38:1-7

Second Scripture Reading Hebrews 5:7-10

Communion Meditation “Nothing Spinning” Rev. Dr. Jana Childers

Sacrament of Holy Communion

The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Lord be with you,

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts,

We lift them up to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

.....We forever sing to the glory of your name:

...great is the mystery of faith:

....through your Son who taught us to pray:

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father in heaven, hallowed 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. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for yours is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen

Words of Institution

*Communion of the People

*Prayer after Communion

*Charge Benediction

Participants in Worship

Rev. Dr. Jana Childers, Dean, Preacher

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain, Co-Celebrant

Mr. Andrew Hoeksema, Liturgist

Dr. Dan Hoggatt, Musician

Communion Servers:

Ms. Dorothy Crockett

Ms. Nori Miyagawa

Ms. Michelle Walker

Mr. Aric Clark

Mr. Nick Kolivas

COMMUNITY OFFERING

The baskets in the narthex are for receiving the offering of the seminary community. At the end of the semester, what has been offered and collected will be donated to a local charity.