Worship for July 18th, 2021: Come Away and Rest Awhile
Question: Where is your deserted place, away from the frantic pace?
Place Finders: Welcome 0:22 Readings 11:17 Sermon 16:41 Prayers 33:07
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Worship for July 11th, 2021: What's Needed to Heal
‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ Mark 6:31
Place Finders: Readings 12:33 Sermon Dialogue 18:00 Prayers 46:01
Sermon Notes: For more reading on why multiple moral viewpoints are helpful to absorb Covid, read Fareed Zakaria’s A New Key to Covid Success, Not States but Societies. And for the importance of the exhale, listen to the whole interview of Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett, What’s Happening in our Nervous Systems? Such helpful perspective.
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Worship for July 4th, 2021: What's your Country Song?
Jesus left that place, and came to his hometown… Mark 6:1
Place Finders: Readings 11:22 Sermon 15:15 Prayers 33:23
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Worship for June 27, 2021: Jesus on the Loose
…Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live. Mark 5:23
Place Finders: Readings 13:28 Sermon 20:20 Prayers 37:41
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Worship for June 20, 2021: A Father's Day Special
…And: "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
-2 Corinthians 6:18
There are no printed prayers or song lyrics available this week. They will return next week :)
Place Finders: Readings 12:18 Dialogue Sermon 17:14 Prayers 38:06
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Worship for June 13, 2021: Trust. In spite of ourselves.
…the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how - from Mark 4:27
Place Finders: Readings 11:58 Sermon 17:59 Prayers 33:07
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Worship for May 30, 2021: The Essential Trinity
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. -Romans 8:14
Place Finders: Readings 10:14 Sermon 17:06 Prayers 34:46
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Worship for May 23, 2021: Little Rooms Where New Worlds are Made
The Holy Spirit = God in the present tense, here and now.
Place Finders: Readings 11:58 Sermon 20:12 Prayers 36:40
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Worship for May 16, 2021: Jesus Prays for Us
The forgiven person becomes the forgiving person. The healed person becomes the healing person. And the loved person becomes the loving person.
Place Finders: Readings 11:40 Sermon 17:39 Prayers 35:47
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Worship for May 9, 2021: No Greater Love
“I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” -John 15:11
Place Finders: Readings 12:35 Sermon 17:28 Prayers 32:13
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Worship for May 2, 2021: The Gardener, the Vine, and the Branches
“I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit...” -John 15:5
Place Finders: Readings 9:38 Sermon 17:22 Prayers 34:35
Worship for April 25, 2021: The Good Shepherd
Our guest pastor for today’s service is Wendell Brown, a friendly and frequent presence in the pews and the pulpit of Bethel Lutheran Church.
Place Finders: Readings 9:50 Sermon 15:41 Prayers 35:29
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Worship for April 18, 2021: "You are witnesses of these things."
Today our guest pastor is Rev Dr. Marjorie Funk-Pihl from the Southwest California Synod. She is the Assistant to the Bishop for Congregational Mission & Director of Evangelical Mission.
Place Finders: Readings 10:07 Sermon 17:07 Prayers 30:01
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Worship for April 4, 2021: Easter Sunday
Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with two online worship services: one led by our youth as well as a traditional service.
Place Finders: Readings 10:08 Sermon 15:01 Prayers 32:53
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Worship for April 2, 2021: Good Friday
Good Friday worship includes a dramatic reading from Matthew 26 and 27 recounting the arrest, crucifixion, and burial of Jesus.
Place Finders: Readings 7:31 Readers' Theatre 13:05 Prayers 37:28
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Worship for March 28, 2021: Palm Sunday
Place Finders: Readings 9:56 Sermon 19:33 Prayers 34:10
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Worship for March 21, 2021: Forgive Us as We Forgive
Place Finders: Readings 10:22 Sermon 15:03 Prayers 34:05
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Worship for March 14, 2021: An Antidote to Anxiety
Place Finders: Readings 10:31 Sermon 17:04 Prayers 38:58
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Worship for March 7, 2021: Thy Kingdom Come…
Place Finders: Readings 9:19 Sermon 16:11 Prayers 34:12
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