38A - Easter 7A — 40A - Trinity Sunday
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CALL TO WORSHIP (from Ps. 104:33-35)
Come and worship the God of all creation
I will sing to the LORD all my life
and celebrate my God with music as long as I live.
Come and worship the God who gave you breath
May my meditation please the LORD,
as I have delighted in the LORD God.
Bless the LORD, O my soul.
Hallelujah!
ADORATION AND CONFESSION (from Psalm 104:1-9)
Great and gracious Lord God
arrayed in glory and majesty,
we praise you and bless you.
Creating God,
you stretched out the heavens like a tent
and set your dwelling place over the water
You are carried on the clouds, and on the wings of the wind;
the winds are your messengers, and flaming fire your servants.
You set the earth on its foundations,
never to be moved.
The deep waters covered even the mountains,
but at your voice they fled,
coming to rest where you had appointed,
beyond the boundary you set,
never to cover the earth again.
Bless the LORD, O my soul.
O LORD, my God, you are very great.
Your works are many and varied
and in wisdom you have made everything.
Loving God,
in our human condition you know who we are, and what we are;
you know our awkwardness with ourselves, with each other,
and with you.
(a time of silence)
help our unbelief;
give us the boldness, by the presence of your Spirit,
to believe in your possibilities for us,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PRAYER OF ADORATION AND CONFESSION (from Ps. 104:24-31)
O LORD, how many things there are that you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is filled with your creatures.
And there is the sea, vast and stretching in all directions,
teeming with creatures beyond number;
living things both small and great.
Ships go there, and the largest of creatures which you fashioned to play in it.
All of them look to you in hope
&to give them their food as they need it
You give to them, they gather it up;
You open your hand, their needs are more than satisfied.
You hide your face, they are terrified;
You take away their breath, they die
and revert to the dust from which they came.
You send forth your breath; they are created;
and you give new life to the land.
You look at the earth and it trembles.
You touch the mountains and they pour out smoke.
May your glory endure forever, LORD God;
may you find joy in all that you have made. LORD God, your love for us is everlasting . . .
For our eagerness to see what is wrong with our world,
when we might have embraced change in our own lives
Lord have mercy.
For our eagerness to help others pick up the broken pieces in their lives,
when we might have sat down and wept with them.
Christ have mercy.
For our eagerness to trust our own endeavours
when we might have waited on your Spirit,
Lord have mercy.
Lord God, forgive us and renew us.
In the name of Christ. Amen
A CREATIVE MOMENT
Click here for some ideas for worship at Pentecost gleaned from the pages of “On the Move” (now out of print) originally published by the Joint Board of Christian Education, Melbourne, Australia.
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
(A prayer to gather the spoken and silent concerns/joys/thanks expressed by the congregation and lead into a more structured Intercession with connection to the lections for the day. Sometimes this prayer borrows lightly from other sources e.g. Uniting in Worship 2 or publications of the Iona Community.)
Holy and lively Spirit of grace,
mystery of God;
rejoice with those who rejoice and give thanks today,
draw near to those who are weighed down with grief
and comfort those whose troubles are known only to you
for the sake of Jesus
whose way of loving we would follow
and in whose name we pray…
(The Prayers of the People continue)
Looking for contemporary music and song resources?
Try David MacGregor’s Together to Celebrate
| HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR PENTECOST | |
| Numbers 11:24-30 (alternative reading) | |
| Come, Spirit blest, our hearts inspire | TIS 425 |
| Forth in your name, 0 Lord, I go | TIS 571 |
| Acts 2: 1-21 | |
| O breath of life, come sweeping through us | TIS 409 |
| A prophet-woman broke a jar | TIS 696 |
| Christ is alive! Let Christians sing | TIS 387 |
| Christians lft up your hearts | TIS 423 |
| Come, Holy Spirit, our souls inspire | TIS 396 |
| Come, Holy Spirit, come! inflame our souls | TIS 422 |
| Come down, O Love divine | TIS 398 |
| Come, Spirit blest, Creator, come | TIS 397 |
| Filled with the Spirit’s power, with one | TIS 411 |
| God has spoken by his prophets | TIS 158 |
| Great God, your Spirit, like the wind | TIS 416 |
| Holy Spirit, come, confirm us | TIS 413 |
| Lord God, the Spirit blest | TIS 404 |
| Now we come, our heavenly Father | TIS 462 |
| O Spirit of the living God | TIS 405 |
| O breath of life, come sweeping through | TIS 409 |
| Praise the Spirit in creation | TIS 415 |
| Spirit divine, attend our prayers | TIS 406 |
| The sounds in God’s world all agree | TIS 176 |
| Your words to me are life and health | TIS 430 |
| Psalm 104:24-34,35b | |
| All things bright and beautiful | TIS 135 |
| Did you ever see a kookaburra laugh | TIS 175 |
| For the beauty of the earth | TIS 137 |
| For the fruits of all creation | TIS 168 |
| Joyful, joyful we adore you | TIS 152 |
| Let all creation dance | TIS 187 |
| Praise the Lord, 0 my soul | TIS 65 |
| Sing a new song, sing a new song | TIS 166 |
| This is my Father’s world | TIS 149 |
| Where wide sky rolls down and touches re | TIS 188 |
| 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 | |
| A prophet-woman broke a jar | TIS 696 |
| All praise to our redeeming Lord | TIS 442 |
| Christ, from whom all blessings flow | TIS 440 |
| Come, Holy Spirit, come | TIS 422 |
| Come, risen Lord, and deign to be our gu | TIS 524 |
| Far beyond our mind’s grasp | TIS 542 |
| Holy Spirit, ever dwelling | TIS 410 |
| Like the murmur of the dove’s song | TIS 419 |
| Made in God’s likeness, moved by the Spirit | TIS 671 |
| So God loved the people of the world | TIS 241 |
| We are your people, Lord, by your grace | TIS 468 |
| Where the Spirit is, there’s freedom | TIS 421 |
| John 20:19-23 | |
| Breathe on me, breath of God | TIS 407 |
| Christ is alive, with joy we sing | TIS 393 |
| Come, God’s people, sing for joy | TIS 391 |
| God! When human bonds are broken | TIS 683 |
| Holy Spirit, go before us | TIS 420 |
| In suffering love the thread of life | TIS 177 |
| Light’s reddening dawn gleams through th | TIS 360 |
| Loving Spirit, loving Spirit | TIS 417 |
| My daughters and my sons hear tell | TIS 363 |
| Now let us from this table rise | TIS 530 |
| O breath of God, breathe on us now | TIS 408 |
| Peace with the Father, peace with Christ his | TIS 466 |
| John 7:37-39 (alternative Gospel reading) | |
| As the deer pants for the water | TIS 703 |
| Fill my whole life, O Lord my God | TIS 596 |
| O let the Son of God enfold you | TIS 655 |
| Jesus Christ is waiting | TIS 665 |
| Refresh my heart, Lord | TIS 744 |