Sunday Worship - John Knox Presbyterian Church

Service for the Lord's Day

6/28/2020

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Praising God with music-- Crown Him with Many Crowns, Westminster Abbey

The Readings and the Message

Offertory Music-- The Lord's Prayer, sung by Charlotte Church

The Prayers and the Blessing

Next Sunday we will celebrate the Lord's Supper. You are invited to gather some bread and something to drink so that we may share this meal together. The message will be on the next part of the prayer: "Give us this day our daily bread."

Service for the Lord's Day

6/28/2020

Praise with music
Listen with joy and prayer to the hymn “Crown Him with Many Crowns,” from Westminster Abbey, on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s 50th coronation anniversary.

Call to Worship
In the world we see around us,
Your kingdom come today.
Through your church and through your people,
Your kingdom come today.
In our living every day,
Your kingdom come today.

Prayer
Powerful God,
Your Spirit works daily to bring about your will through the lives of your people. Work in us that we might reflect your principles of love and mercy in all we do, through Jesus our Lord, Amen.

Psalm 103: 1-5
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and all that is within me,
    bless his holy name.
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and do not forget all his benefits--
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
    who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the Pit,
    who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good as long as you live
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Gospel Reading: Luke 11: 1-4
He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name.
    Your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins,
      for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.
      And do not bring us to the time of trial.”

Message

Music and Offering
During this time, or after our prayers, you may make an offering to John Knox by going to our homepage and scrolling to the bottom where you will see a link to online giving. When you give this way, consider giving a little extra to defray the cost of this service. If you prefer, you may mail you offerings to the church directly. Even though we are far apart, the church's expenses remain the same.  We give out of pure gratitude for what God has done.

Listen to this offertory music, The Lord’s Prayer, sung by Charlotte Church, in Jerusalem.

Prayers of the People*
We pray for the church, the world, and all those in need.

When we look at the world, it is easy to see all that does not reflect your vision, O God, and be discouraged. Speak through us and the gifts you have given each of us, so that we may each be a point of light in the great constellation of Christ’s love. Renewing Spirit, hear our prayer

Your creation groans as it brings forth new life out of the dying and destroyed. Revive us all for a new day on this planet, which is our home and lifeline. Renewing Spirit, hear our prayer.

Use us to minister to those in need of all kinds of healing. Send your presence to the lost, suffering, and conflicted, and take special care of all those whom we know need your support, especially those affected in many ways by the pandemic. Renewing Spirit, hear our prayer.

Just as we will one day be gone from this earth, we remember all those who have gone before us, taking inspiration from their example and joy in their memory. Renewing Spirit, hear our prayer.

Receive our prayers; answer our deepest cries, and show us exactly where you need each of us to be, in the name of Jesus our savior, Amen.

Lord’s Prayer
And now with confidence as the children of God, let us pray as Jesus taught his disciples: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever. Amen.

Benediction: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you, and bring you peace. Amen.

Next week: Luke 11: 1-4 Give us this day our daily bread.
Next week is a Communion Sunday, so you're invited to prepare some food and drink ahead of time so that even in our own homes we may share this meal together.

Today’s prayers are from Clergy Stuff Worship Resources, Bloomington, Minnesota, 2016-2019.

Service of the Lord's Day

6/21/2020

To worship at home today, please go to the John Knox Facebook page, where we will be streaming worship live from the sanctuary. The service will begin at 10:30 am, and will be available after that time as well if you prefer to worship later.

Service of the Lord's Day, June 7, 2020

6/7/2020

In lieu of our regular John Knox worship today, we encourage you to join in worship with one of our sister churches, St. Philip Presbyterian. Click here to worship together at 11:00 a.m. You may download their bulletin at the same place. If you would like to participate in the Lord's Supper, please gather some food and drink to have with you during the service. Our regular service will resume next week, June 14, both in person and online.

Service for the Lord's Day- Pentecost Sunday with videos

5/31/2020

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Happy Birthday Church!

Praising God with Music- Every Time I Feel the Spirit, by the Cosmo Warriors

The Readings and the Message

Offertory Music- Spirit of the Living God, performed on piano by Olivia Huisman.

Prayers and Blessing

Service for the Lord's Day- Pentecost Sunday

5/31/2020

Praise with music
Enjoy this opening music, “Every Time I Feel the Spirit,” by the Cosmo Warriors.
(If this sounds a little out of control to you, maybe Pentecost is supposed to be that way!)

Welcome

Call to Worship
Bless the Lord, our God!
   Who sends us the Spirit:
The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
   The Spirit of counsel and might,
The Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
   Bless the Lord, our God!

Prayer
O Lord,
You send your Spirit to disciples of all times and places. May our ears be tuned to discern your voice and act on the gifts you have given us, for the sake of Jesus Christ, amen.

First Reading Acts 2: 1-4
2When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

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Second Reading   1 Corinthians 12: 1-13
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Message

Music and Offering
During this time, or after our prayers, you may make an offering to John Knox by going to our homepage and scrolling to the bottom where you will see a link to online giving. When you give this way, consider giving a little extra to defray the cost of this service. If you prefer, you may mail you offerings to the church directly. Even though we are far apart, the church's expenses remain the same.  We give out of pure gratitude for what God has done.
Consider the great love and power of God as you listen to “Spirit of the Living God,” played by Olive Huisman on piano.
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me. (x2)
Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me.
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.

Prayers of the People*
Ever living and ever loving God,
We praise you for your loving presence with us.

Come, Holy Spirit,
take and transform our societies--
that broken people find healing;
that lonely people find love;
that bitter people find peace;
that fearful people find hope.

Come, Holy Spirit,
take our world’s leaders and governments and bring renewal--
that communication can be open;
that relationships between hostile people and hostile nations will evaporate;
that a hunger for justice addresses the hunger for food felt by so many.

Come, Holy Spirit,
fill your church--
that our worship will be ever more pleasing to you;
that prayers will change our minds
    instead of trying to get you to change yours;
that our lives will make a real difference to real people in the real world.

Come, Holy Spirit,
fill our lives with your presence--
so that more and more every day,
all that we do and say and hope
will be an act of worship to you and an expression of love to others,
to the glory of your name.  Amen.

The Lord’s Prayer
And now with confidence as the children of God, let us pray as Jesus taught his disciples: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever. Amen.

Benediction: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you, and bring you peace. Amen.

Today’s prayers are from
—Clergy Stuff Worship Resources, Bloomington, Minnesota, 2016-2019.
—Baptist Union of Great Britain website; www.baptist.org.uk/

Service for the Lord's Day- videos

5/24/2020

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Praising God with Music- Revive Us Again, by the Prestonwood Choir

The Readings and the Message

Offertory Music- Rock of Ages, sung by Chris Rice

Prayers and Blessing

Make sure and listen to the end of the service for a special assignment for next week's Pentecost Sunday!

Service for the Lord's Day

5/24/2020

Praise with music
Enjoy this opening music, “Revive Us Again,” by the Prestonwood Choir and Orchestra.

Welcome

Call to Worship
Praise to God, who raises the dead!
   Death has been defeated!
Bringing Jesus back to life,
   Death has been defeated!
Praise our God, the Lord of life!
   Death has been defeated!

Prayer
O Christ,
You have indeed, been raised from the dead. Therefore, let us live as though death no longer holds us hostage, putting our hope in the one who goes before us, both in death and in eternal life, our Savior, Christ, amen.

First Reading John 10: 7-11
So again Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
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Second Reading   1 Corinthians 15: 3-8, 12–26 3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
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12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. 19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. 21 For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; 22 for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Message
I’ve been thinking this week about how very important it is for us to remember God’s love for us during times like this. In the Lunch Bunch study group we’re reading a book called “Tattoos on the Heart”, by Father Gregory Boyle, and he shares the story of his friend Bill, who was caring for his elderly father as he was dying of cancer. Bill’s dad was physically frail but mentally sharp. They had come to be in that position that some of us know where the parent has become the child and the child has become the parent, and one of the things that that included for Bill and his father was that every night he would get his father ready for bed, and Bill would sit in a chair next to his bed and read him to sleep. His father would lie there, staring at his son, smiling. Just like a parent, Bill would plead with his dad to just close his eyes and try to go to sleep, and his dad would apologize and close his eyes, but it never failed that after a couple more sentences he would open them again and smile at his son. It would go on and on like this. And after his father died, Boyle writes, “Bill knew that this evening ritual was really a story of a father who just couldn’t take his eyes off his kid.”
Friends, this is how God is looking at you right now—whoever you are, wherever you are— with pure delight. God gazes at you not with judgment or criticism, but with love. With adoration. Another writer said of God, “Behold the one beholding you, and smiling.” And how important it is for us to remember this, in the midst of the anxiety.

When Paul talks to the people in Corinth about Jesus’ resurrection, I think he’s trying to remind them of this— that God’s love is so immense that they have nothing to worry about. Paul uses a lot of words to say this, but what it comes down to is this— not only did Christ die for us, but in his resurrection, Christ has conquered death itself, so that it no longer has power over us. He has taken away that fear— the fear of the unknown, the fear of separation from loved ones, the fear of the shadowy place of nothingness. Yes, Christ has even taken away the fear of death itself. Because not only was Christ raised, but we also will be raised into the realm of God at the right time.
Paul says this is what we know— Jesus died, he rose again, he appeared to Peter and the disciples and hundreds more of you and then finally to me, Paul. We have seen him. He is risen. This is how we know who he is. And this resurrection, more than anything else, is what we remember in times of fear. This is what we hold on to— That God loves us SO MUCH that she has destroyed death.
At times during the last few months I’ve been pretty sure that I’m not doing quarantine right. A friend built like four victory gardens, and my nurse cousin is displaying her hard-earned “battle scars”— the marks on her face from the tight mask that she wears for thirteen hour shifts. I, on the other hand, have gone for a full week without wearing shoes. What must God think of that?

So maybe you’ve gone along, business as usual, for the last few months. Or maybe you’ve gained ten pounds from sitting in front of the tv and stress-eating. Maybe you’ve started and completed the four home improvement projects that you’ve been wanting to do, or maybe you’ve huddled under a blanket the whole time. Whatever you’ve done, whatever you’re doing, God can’t stop looking at you and smiling right now.
When you forget this— because we all do— think about the gospel that has been passed down from the disciples to Paul to the Corinthians to the Roman Empire to Christians in the middle ages, to the Reformers, to the pilgrims and pioneers and to us. Think about the cross, and our shepherd laying down his life for us, that we might have life in abundance. And most of all think about that risen Christ and the unsurpassable power that he has— he has conquered even death, and he loves us. Thanks be to God, the father, son and holy spirit, for this unfathomable love. Amen.

Music and Offering
During this time, or after our prayers, you may make an offering to John Knox by going to our homepage and scrolling to the bottom where you will see a link to online giving. When you give this way, consider giving a little extra to defray the cost of this service. If you prefer, you may mail you offerings to the church directly. Even though we are far apart, the church's expenses remain the same.  We give out of pure gratitude for what God has done.
Consider the great love and power of God as you listen to “Rock of Ages,” sung by Chris Rice.

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Prayers of the People*
We pray for the church, the world, and all those in need.
(A brief silence.)
   It seems too good to be true, but you have conquered death, O Lord, and removed its sting. May this truth give us hope, courage, and freedom to live bold lives as your disciples. God of abundant life, hear our prayer.
   As one thing dies, another is born; the cycle of death and rebirth is imprinted into your creation. Teach us to let go of what wants to pass on, so that we might embrace what is waiting to emerge. God of abundant love, hear our prayer.
   Our suffering in this life is but the blink of an eye compared with the eternal joy which awaits us. When trials overshadow us, give us perspective and hope for wholeness perfected in you. Today we offer prayers especially for all who provide health care for us, whether in times of crisis or times of questions. We pray for those who near the end of their lives in this realm, that they may know the good news of life in Christ that never ends. God of love, God of life, hear our prayer.
   Risen Lord, you give us hope in all things, and we entrust our prayers to your grace, knowing that you have heard us. In Jesus’ name, amen.


The Lord’s Prayer
And now with confidence as the children of God, let us pray as Jesus taught his disciples: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever. Amen.

Benediction: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you, and bring you peace. Amen.

A special assignment for this week: Next Sunday is Pentecost, and it is the tradition at John Knox to wear red clothes on Pentecost Sunday. Because we won’t be together on Sunday, put on some red clothes this week and take a picture of yourself— send it to becky@johnknoxhouston.org, or share it to the church’s facebook page, and we’ll post a mosaic of all our pictures together.

Today’s prayers are from Clergy Stuff Worship Resources, Bloomington, Minnesota, 2016-2019.

   Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle, New York, NY, Free Press, 2010.

“Behold the one beholding you, and smiling,” is a quote from Anthony De Mello, as found in Tattoos on the Heart, p. 20.

Service for the Lord's Day- videos

5/17/2020

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Praising God with Music-- Oh Happy Day, by the Combined Choir of First Baptist Church of Glenarden

The readings and the message

Offertory music-- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, by the choir and congregation of the National Episcopal Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Prayers and Blessing

Bonus Music!

More bonus music!

Service for the Lord's Day

5/17/2020

Praise with music
Enjoy this opening music, “Oh Happy Day”, performed by the Combined Choir of First Baptist Church of Glenarden.
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Welcome

Call to Worship
Hear, O people:
   The Lord our God is one!
Hear, O people:
   The Lord our God is love!
Come, you people,
   And praise the God of love!

Prayer
O God,
You have shown that all we truly need is to love. Expand our hearts to embrace your world and show ourselves as children of a compassionate God, for the sake of your Son Jesus, amen.

First Reading Mark 12: 28-31
28 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
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Second Reading 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Message
I follow a website called “Humans of New York,” in which Brandon Stanton photographs people and they tell him about their lives. In this week’s stories there was one about a girl named Chloe and her assistance dog Ted— this is what she says:
   “…There are two options when you get an assistance dog. You can get a dog that’s already been trained. Or you can train the dog yourself—and that’s what I wanted to do. Because I needed something. I have this genetic disease. It weakens every part of my body, but it didn’t get bad until my teenage years. …It reached a point where I couldn’t see a reason to live anymore. I needed something to focus on besides my health. And Ted gave me that. I watched all the training videos I could find. I read all the books. I reached out to people and asked for help. It gave me a reason to talk to people again. I hadn’t done that in so long.
   … From day one—we’ve been so in sync. He can fetch me anything. He helps me get undressed. He even watches me when I sleep, and wakes me up if I’m having night terrors. My mom was having to help me with everything before I got Ted. And she loves me so much. But she has two other children, and I know she was getting so tired. But Ted doesn’t get tired. He loves to help. He’s so excited to help. He’ll pick up the same thing seventeen times. It makes him so happy. He’s my world—really. He saved my life. He made me happy again. And he takes so much pressure off my family. He gives me a break from being the disabled child. From being the focus of everyone’s attention. He lets me be a daughter. And a big sister. He lets me be Chloe again.”

   Paul is writing to the Corinthians in this reading and he’s not happy with them. They’re quarreling with each other, they’re behaving in immoral and unethical ways, and they’re not being good witnesses to the gospel.
   We’ve all been there, and maybe you feel it now in this time of elevated anxiety. Maybe you see that we’re not being very good witnesses to the God we know.
   So here’s what he tells them: Be more like Chloe’s dog. Be like Ted. Be patient. Be kind. Be gentle. Be faithful. Quit complaining and be the responsible, helpful adults that God knows you can be— that God already knows you ARE, in your very essence as the ones God created.
   Paul says it can be hard because you can’t see how everything is gonna turn out, but love never ends. And if you live out of your faith, and if you can be hopeful for the future, and most of all if you show love for God and for your neighbor, you’re gonna start to see glimpses of God’s reign, right here and now. Faith is abiding here; hope is living with you; love is in your house. And the greatest of these is love. Amen.

Music and Offering
During this time, or after our prayers, you may make an offering to John Knox by going to our homepage and scrolling to the bottom where you will see a link to online giving. When you give this way, consider giving a little extra to defray the cost of this service. If you prefer, you may mail you offerings to the church directly. Even though we are far apart, the church's expenses remain the same.  We give out of pure gratitude for what God has done.

Listen with joy to “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling,” sung by the choir and congregation at the National Episcopal Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Prayers of the People
We pray for the church, the world, and all those in need.
(A brief silence.)
   When our words and deeds are impressive but our hearts are empty, we are useless to others, O Lord. May we learn to begin all things in love, and allow our actions to follow. Loving God, hear our prayer.
   Everything that we know, own, accomplish and treasure will all come to an end one day. Teach us again and again that the only thing which truly endures across years, miles, and other barriers is love. May we live as though it is so. Loving God, hear our prayer.
   Love bears and endures all things, even those times when we doubt our ability to withstand adversity. Grant us your Spirit’s strength, and give your healing breath to all who need it, especially to all those who are sick, out of work, or struggling with isolation. Loving God, hear our prayer.
   Your holy saints devoted their lives to loving as Jesus showed love, and we long to reflect this in our lives as well. Join us forever in unbreakable bonds held together by you, dear Creator. Loving God, hear our prayer.
   In you we live and have our being, O God. Accept and grant these prayers which we bring before you, by the grace of Jesus Christ our savior, Amen.

The Lord’s Prayer
And now with confidence as the children of God, let us pray as Jesus taught his disciples: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever. Amen.

Benediction: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you, and bring you peace. Amen.

A bonus piece of music:
All You Need is Love, by the Beatles.

And one more bonus song: God and doG, by Wendy J. Francisco

Next week: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-26, Death is destroyed.
Today’s prayers are from Clergy Stuff Worship Resources, Bloomington, Minnesota, 2016-2019.
The story about Chloe and Ted is from Brandon Stanton at humansofnewyork.com, May, 2020.