NEC Sunday Worship – 4 PM on 2020-09-06

In today’s worship we have leadership from Bill, Laura, Marilyn, Merle, Steve and all those worshiping, including: Garnet, Lisa, Bev, Bob, Betty, Janet, Betsy…

Have I missed anyone in that listing?


Perhaps just a moment of music as we begin?  HERE

 


MERLE reads Psalm 149
149:1 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

149:2 Let Israel be glad in its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

149:3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.

149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

149:5 Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their couches.

149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,

149:7 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

149:8 to bind their kings with fetters and their nobles with chains of iron,

149:9 to execute on them the judgment decreed. This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the LORD!



LAURA – shares a prayer of praise

 


Morning Has Broken – Page 1

 

Morning has broken    like the first morning,

Blackbird has spoken          like the first bird

Praise for the singing!  Praise for the morning!

Praise for them springing       fresh from the Word!

 

Sweet the rain’s new fall         sunlit from heaven,

Like the first dewfall              on the first grass

Praise for the sweetness          of the wet garden

Sprung in completeness          where God’s feet pass.

 

Mine is the sunlight!              Mine is the morning

Born of the one light              Eden saw play!

Praise with elation                  praise every morning,

God’s re-creation                   of the new day!



MARILYN reads Romans 13:8-14
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers;

the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;

let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.



STEVE – shares a prayer of confession


Precious Lord – Page 18

PRECIOUS LORD Words & Tune:Thomas Dorsey,1938 

Precious Lord, take my hand

Lead me on, help me stand

I am tired, I am weak, I am worn

Through the storm, through the night

Lead me on to the light

Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home

 

When my way grows drear,

Precious Lord, linger near

When my life is al-most gone,

Hear my cry, hear my call,

Hold my hand lest I fall

Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home

 

Precious Lord, take my hand

Lead me on, help me stand

I am tired, I am weak, I am worn

Through the storm, through the night

Lead me on to the light

Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home


BILL reads Matthew 18:15-20
“If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one.

But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”


BILL leads discussion – any commentary we want to share about scriptures/songs?


 

STEVE: Sharing of Joys & Concerns

  • Songs we should add from the songbook?
  • ONGOING PRAYERS
    • COVID-19 – those suffering, health care professionals, caregivers, workers keeping facilities going
    • SCHOOL SYSTEMS – administrators, teachers, students, parents, child care providers, …
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Prayer

  • We may choose to start our prayer along with St. Timothy’s own Ellen Cook HERE
  • continuing with our prayers
  • concluding with The Lord’s Prayer


In the Garden – Page 15

I come to the garden alone,             

While the dew is still on the roses,

And the voice I hear, Falling on my ear,

The Son of God discloses.

 

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

 

He speaks, and the sound of His voice

Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,

And the melody     That He gave to me,

Within my heart is ringing.

 

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

 

I’d stay in the garden with Him        

Tho’  the night around me be falling,

But He bids me go;      Thro’ the voice of woe

His voice to me is calling.

 

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.


STEVE – AS WE CLOSE… (in unison:) 

Friends,

Life is short

and there is precious little time

to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us…

So make haste to be kind,

and be swift to love,

because in every act of love and kindness, the God who first formed us,

reforms and transforms us

again and again.

And certainly for these blessings,

all of God’s people say. 

AMEN!