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Sunday 27 - Year B

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

For use in worship, with acknowledgement. © Jeff Shrowder 2003.

A CREATIVE MOMENT
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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Looking for contemporary music and song resources? Try David MacGregor's Together to Celebrate
Or metrical psalms? Try Dale A. Schoening's Sing the Psalms

HYMN SEARCH FOR SUNDAY 27 - YEAR B
 		   
All my hope in God is founded TIS 560 AHB 465
All things bright and beautiful TIS 135 AHB 70
Crown him with many crowns TIS 228 AHB 163
Happy the home that welcomes you, Lord Jesus TIS 581 AHB 495
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

   
Job 1:1; 2:1-10
    
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
  

   
Psalm 26
    
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

   
Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
    
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

   
Mark 10:2-16
    
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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