Live stream with Pastor Sue Ostrom
Accompanied by worship assistant Dave Mercer
Accompanist Andrea Llafet
Mill Plain UMC 10 a.m.,
Sunday, February 20,2022
Songs
That’s why we praise him
For the healing of the Nations
One thing remains.
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Sunday February 20, 2022
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Worship Assistant: Blessed are those who trust in the Lord
People: They shall be like a tree planted by the water
Worship Assistant: Blessed are those who trust in the Lord,
People: The tree shall not fear when heat comes and its leaves shall stay green.
Opening Prayer
Blessed are you, O God of the Universe; you have given us the grain of the fields and the fruit of the vine, of bread and juice and vegetables in our gardens. We know the bounty of the earth are full now, we are laughing and satisfied. Teach us to see the blessedness of the hungry and the poor, of those who mourn. Open our eyes to recognize your grace in those who have less than we do and to share our wealth with them. In the name of Jesus who hungered and thirsted. Amen.
Young Disciples Moment
Song That’s why we praise him
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s prayer
Offerings
Doxology
New Testament
I Corinthians 15:15-20
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. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.
Reading from the Gospel
Luke 6:11-26
But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Now during those days, he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.
Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. “Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. “Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.
Song: For The Healing Of The Nations
Message: Beatitudes for the Twenty-first Century
Prayer
Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.
Where there is apathy, let me provoke;
Where there is compliance, let me bring questioning;
Where there is silence, may I be a voice.
Where there is too much comfort and too little action, grant disruption;
Where there are doors closed and hearts locked,
Grant the willingness to listen.
When laws dictate and pain is overlooked . . .
When tradition speaks louder than need . . .
Grant that I may seek to do justice than to talk about it.
Disturb us, O Lord.
To be with, as well as for, the alienated.
To love the unlovable as well as the lovely.
Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.
(Author unknown)
Song: One Thing Remains
Benediction
The blessings of God, Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, be with you.
Amen.