Sunday, October 28, 2018
Worship Led by Reverend Dr. Michael Lyle
For Meditation and Reflection:
Like the majority of humankind I don’t know much about wholeness at first hand. It is something that, at most – like Abraham and Sarah and Moses and the rest of them – I have every once in a while seen and greeted from afar, as the author of the Letter to the Hebrews puts it, but that is about all. I like to believe that in a disorganized way it is what I am journeying toward, but the most I have to show for my pains is an occasional glimpse of it in certain people who had clay feet more or less like the rest of us but who struck me as being at least a good deal wholer than I have ever managed to become myself.
(Frederick Buechner, The Longing for Home)
Welcome and Announcements
Opening Prayer (Pastor)
Responsive Call to Worship (Traditional Monastic Liturgy)
Pastor: We wait for the word of the Lord as we wait for the rains.
People: and our God shall come down upon us like gentle dew.
Pastor: The hills and the mountains will be singing praise to God.
People: Every tree in the forest will be clapping its hands.
The Lord will come and rule for ever. Alleluia.
Hymn #1 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
Prayer for Illumination (Pastor)
Today’s Scripture Reading Mark 10:46-52
Sermon Blind Long Enough (Mike Lyle)