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Posted on January 2, 2021

Sunday, January 3, 2021

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”
~ Harold S. Kushner

“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cannot change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
~ Charles de Lint 

“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
~ Jana Stanfield

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prelude

Joyce Rhodes, organ

“Impression on ‘We Three Kings’ ”~ arr. Alfred V. Fedak

“The March of the Wise Men” ~ transcribed by Charles Black

“We Three Kings” ~ arr. Andrew Fletcher

Call to Worship


We come, for God gathers us here,
with that community called faith:
where the hungry are served first,
where the thirsty drink life’s water.

We come, for God welcomes us here
into that home called grace:
where the naked are clothed in robes of hope;
where the stranger is embraced as the long-lost prodigal.

We come, for God reunites us here,
sisters and brothers in that family called love:
where the imprisoned model justice,
where the sick are cradled in God’s peace.

– written by Thom Shuman

Hymn

Sue Livingstone

“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” ~ #UMH 384 vs. 1, 4

Time for Kids

Scripture

Ken Kasper, reader

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Pastor Dave Wolf, Pastor Emeritus LGUMC

“The two shall be one”

Offering Prayer

As we offer our gifts to you, Holy God, may we remember those who are forgotten by us too many times – the hungry, the lonely, the homeless, the vulnerable – yet are important citizens in your kingdom of grace, justice, and hope. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
–  written by Thom Shuman

Offertory

Joyce Rhodes, organ

“O Love, That Will Not Let Me Go” – tune – “St. Margaret”  

 ~ arr. Sharon Elery Rogers  

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

Celebration of Holy Communion

Communion Prayer

Holy are you, God of Wonder,
and blessed is Jesus Christ your Son.
Your heart, your soul,
your mind, your strength,
he was willing to love you enough
to become one of us;
loving us as much as he loved himself,
     he endured the battering of the world,
          and stripped of his glory and grace,
he was left by the side of the world.
   
As we remember his life of great love,
we praise you,
that as we break the bread of life,
and drink from the cup of grace,
we know the risen Christ is among us.

We come to this Table
looking for answers to our questions
and for healing for our brokenness.
So, pour out your Spirit upon your children,
and upon the gifts of the bread and the cup,
that nourished and fed by you,
     we might we strengthened
          to serve our sisters and brothers around us.

Partaking of the elements


As we get up from our seats at your Table,
     may we stand up for the rights of the lowly.
As you pour out your grace upon us,
     may we wrap it around the orphans and weak;
as you whisper your dreams for us,
     may we speak out on behalf of the poor;
as you offer us the bread and the cup from your hands,
     may we reach down and lift up those
          who have fallen through the cracks of our society.

Hymn

Sue Livingstone

“The Gift of Love” ~UMH #408 (all three verses)

Sending Forth

Go now and embrace the hope to which God has called us.
Recognize Christ in friend and stranger,
and as Christ has been gracious to you,
so be gracious to those in need.
We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
……..In the name of Christ. Amen.

– written by Nathan Nettleton

Postlude

Joyce Rhodes, organ

“The Birthday of A King” ~ W. H. Neidlinger

“Partita on ‘O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright’ ”

– tune – “Wie Schon Leuchtet” ~ Phillipp Nicolai, sett. Michael Burkhardt

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