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… [this one or one of Bill’s choosing 🙂 ]

MARILYN reads Psalm 4
Answer me when I call, O God of my right! You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.

How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? Selah

But know that the LORD has set apart the faithful for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.

When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.

There are many who say, “O that we might see some good! Let the light of your face shine on us, O LORD!”

You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and wine abound.

I will both lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O LORD, make me lie down in safety.

NEC THEATER ROOM LEADS US IN OUR UNISON Prayer of Adoration

Living God,
long ago, faithful women
proclaimed the good news
of Jesus’ resurrection,
and the world was changed forever.
Teach us to keep faith with them,
that our witness may be as bold,
our love as deep,
and our faith as true. Amen.

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 1 John 3:1-7
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.

Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

SHERI – 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