Psalm 114
After Israel came out of Egypt,
and the house of Jacob departed from a barbaric people
Judah became the LORD's holy place, and Israel God's dominion.
The sea looked and ran; the Jordan turned back.
The mountains leapt like rams, the hills like lambs of the flock.
Why, sea, would you run away? Why, river, would you turn back?
Mountains, why leap like rams, and hills why leap like lambs?
O land, tremble with the pangs of childbirth, in the presence
of the LORD,
in the presence of the God of Jacob.
who transformed the rock into a pool of water,
and flint into a spring of water
Materials/Preparation:
(a) large sheets of newsprint - about 3 metres long (perhaps from a roll remant, but sheets from your daily newspaper, stuck together would also work) - as many sheets as aisles in your church,
(b) have one or several members of the congregation paint the newsprint - a metre of blue, a metre of sandy brown, and a metre of blue.
(c) attach the newsprint between the front pews so that the sandy brown is on the floor between the pews and the blue sections rise up the pew ends.
As the congregation comes forward to receive communion, they walk the walk of the people of the exodus, and experience a reminder of one of God's saving acts often mentioned in the communion liturgy.
If this is not a communion Sunday in your church, perhaps you could locate (during the last hymn?) an appropriately sized "divided Reed Sea" at the door between the nave and the narthex.
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HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR SUNDAY 24 - YEAR A |
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| Do not be afraid, I am with you |
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SA 28 |
| Father of heaven, whose love profound | TIS 131 |
AHB 60 |
| Forgive our sins as we forgive | TIS 635 |
AHB 564 |
| Holy Spirit, come confirm us | TIS 413 |
AHB 327 |
| I danced in the morning when the world was be | TIS 242 |
AHB 183 |
| O for a heart to praise my God | TIS 568 |
AHB 476 |
| O for a thousand tongues to sing | TIS 210 |
AHB 141 |
| Praise, my soul, the king of heaven; | TIS 134 |
AHB 68 |
| Safe in the shadow of the Lord | TIS 644 |
SA 74 |
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Exodus 14:19-31 |
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| Come, God's people, sing for joy | TIS 391 |
SA 26 |
| Guide me, O my great Redeemer | TIS 569 |
AHB 478 |
| Now we come, our heavenly Father | TIS 462 |
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| Our God, our help in ages past | TIS 47 |
AHB 46 |
| Shalom to you now | TIS 778 |
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| Through the Red Sea brought at last | TIS 384 |
AHB 622 |
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Psalm 114 OR Exodus 15:1b-11,20-21 |
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| Come, God's people, sing for joy | TIS 391 |
SA 26 |
| Glorious things of you are spoken | TIS 446 |
AHB 374 |
| God of many names | TIS 180 |
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| Lord of earth and all creation | TIS 672 |
SA 62 |
| The day of resurrection | TIS 361 |
AHB 277 |
| Through the Red Sea brought at last | TIS 384 |
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Romans 14:1-12 |
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| At the name of Jesus | TIS 231 |
AHB 170 |
| God be in my head | TIS 549 |
AHB 456 |
| Help us accept each other | TIS 648 |
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| In you is gladness | TIS 200 |
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| Jesus lives! your terrors now | TIS 372 |
AHB 294 |
| Let him to whom we know belong | TIS 563 |
AHB 146 |
| Lord Jesus, we belong to you | TIS 686 |
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| Lord in the strength of grace | TIS 483 |
AHB 408 |
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Matthew 18:21-35 |
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| All praise to our redeeming Lord | TIS 442 |
AHB 367 |
| Come, God's people, sing for joy | TIS 391 |
SA 26 |
| Forgive our sins, as we forgive | TIS 635 |
AHB 564 |
| Help us accept each other | TIS 648 |
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| Make me a channel of your peace | TIS 607 |
SA 66 |
| O the deep, deep love of Jesus | TIS 232 |
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| We are marching in the light of God | TIS 666 |
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