Welcome to Sunday afternoon worship at NEC and homes via Zoom!

What a blessing to be in worship!

Let us greet one another by spotlighting and naming each of us worshiping God…

MUSIC TO PREPARE FOR WORSHIP…

BILL reads Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22

O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, those he redeemed from trouble

and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;

they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress;

he sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.

Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.

And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices, and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.

NEC THEATER ROOM LEADS US IN OUR UNISON Prayer of Adoration

We praise your abiding guidance, O God,
for you sent us Jesus, our Teacher and Messiah,
to model for us the way of love for the whole universe.
We offer these prayers of love
on behalf of ourselves and our neighbors,
on behalf of your creation and our fellow creatures.

Put Your Hand in the Hand – Page 11

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water

Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea

Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently

By putting your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee

Every time I look into the Holy Book, I wanna tremble (TREMBLE)

When I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple

For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellers than what I profess to be

And it causes me shame to know I’m not the person I should be

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water

Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea

Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently

By putting your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee

Momma taught me to pray before I reached the age of seven

She said, there’ll come a time when there’ll probably be room in Heaven

But I’m feelin’ kinda guilty ‘bout the number of times, we do what we shouldn’t do

When we forget what He said and then we beg Him that He’ll still make room.

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water

Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea

Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently

By putting your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee

SHERI reads Ephesians 2:1-10
You were dead through the trespasses and sins

in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ–by grace you have been saved–

and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God–

not the result of works, so that no one may boast.

For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

LAURA – shares a Prayer of Confession

Love Lifted Me – Page 19

I was sinking deep in sin Far from that peaceful shore

Very deeply stained within Sinking to rise no more

But the Master of the sea Heard my despairing cry

From the waters lifted me Now safe am I

Love lifted me love lifted me