WE GATHER WHERE GOD ALREADY IS (from Psalm 26)
Gracious God,
you have brought us from the rest of the night,
to the light of this day,
to the guiding light of your eternal presence.
Caring God,
we gather to hear the sound of your praise.
We come from the busy-ness of our daily lives
which is sometimes messy as well.
Creating God,
we gather in this place where your glory dwells.
You have been with us in the sticky bits and the smooth,
even when we have felt too burdened or busy to notice.
Sustaining God,
we gather to worship you.
We come to be renewed in your lovingkindness
and strengthened by your faithfulness.
Amen
Psalm 26: As the psalmist pleads his case to God, we are invited to imagine, and perhaps depict in posters/photographs/overhead projections, examples of God's steadfast love (v.2), wondrous deeds (v.7) and glory (v.8). A second group of images might depict the evil-doers and wicked (v.5), the blood-thirst (9), the evil-doers and bribes (v.10). Add a third group: images of the great congregation - your congregation, the wider church, and "so great a cloud of witnesses" - in action in the community, living in the tension between the glory of God and the human circumstance of which we capable.
Mark 10:2-16: As with Week 25 (see my suggestions there) , this Sunday provides an opportunity for children to participate in worship in a variety of ways. If you did that on Week 25, explore what other ways you might engage children in your worship this week.
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| HYMN SEARCH FOR SUNDAY 27 - YEAR B |
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| All my hope in God is founded | TIS 560 | AHB 465 |
| All things bright and beautiful | TIS 135 | AHB 70 |
| Now thank we all our God, | TIS 106 | AHB 14 |
| Thank you for giving me the morning | TIS 162 | AHB 114 |
| What shall I do my God to love | TIS 122 | AHB 50 |
| When morning gilds the skies | TIS 227 | AHB 151 |
| Ye gates, lift up your heads on high | TIS 12 | AHB 286 |
| Your hand O God has guided | TIS 456 | AHB 389 |
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| Job 1:1; 2:1-10 |
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| How firm a foundation, you people of God | TIS 578 | AHB 491 |
| O for a heart to praise my God | TIS 568 | AHB 476 |
| Rejoice in God's saints | TIS 470 | SA 73 |
| What God ordains is always good | TIS 109 |
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| Psalm 26 |
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| God you touch the earth with beauty | TIS 610 | |
| Here in this place, new light is streaming | TIS 474 | |
| I set the Lord before my eyes | TIS 673 | SA 48 |
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| Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 |
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| A man there lived in Galilee | TIS 235 | AHB 176 |
| Christ is the world's light | TIS 246 | AHB 191 |
| Give me the wings of faith to rise | TIS 438 | AHB 360 |
| God has spoken to his people, Hallelujah | TIS 636 | SA 39 |
| Holy Spirit, ever dwelling | TIS 410 |
AHB 323 |
| I know that my redeemer lives | TIS 376 | AHB 132 |
| In great thanksgiving, O love divine | TIS 632 |
SA 49 |
| Join all the glorious names | TIS 205 |
AHB 135 |
| Man more than man | TIS 355 |
AHB 274 |
| My song is love unknown | TIS 341 |
AHB 257 |
| Now to the Lord a noble song | TIS 113 |
AHB 33 |
| Praise and thanksgiving, Father, we offer | TIS 627 |
AHB 569 |
| Praise our God, the great creator | TIS 165 | AHB 110 |
| Praise to the living God | TIS 102 | AHB 7 |
| Rejoice, the Lord is king | TIS 216 |
AHB 147 |
| Spirit divine, attend our prayers | TIS 406 |
AHB 377 |
| The head that once was crowned with thorns | TIS 378 | AHB 301 |
| To us a child of royal birth | TIS 308 |
AHB 230 |
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| Mark 10:2-16 |
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| As man and woman we were made | TIS 645 | SA 7 |
| Dearest Jesus, we are here | TIS 480 | |
| Happy the home that welcomes you, Lord Jesus | TIS 581 | AHB 495 |
| Jesus' hands were kind hands | TIS 236 | AHB 178 |
| Love divine all loves excelling | TIS 217 | AHB 148 |
| Wash, O God, our sons and daughters | TIS 493 | |
| Your love, O God, has called us here | TIS 664 | |
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