Tag: You cannot serve both God and money.

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gathering Music    Scottish Medley – Sea Raven, Celtic Harp

Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship

One:    We are here to face the truth, about ourselves, about this faith we love, and the ways it presently serves others and the world.

All:      As well as to open ourselves to ways it can better, and more joyfully, reflect our potential and core values.  We want to know the ways we are bound to one another, as well as to larger religious movements normally beyond our sight and vision.

One:    We say we are open and diverse.

All:      Yet it is too easy to feel stuck in old paths and stubborn habits reflecting not so much tradition as our comfort.

One:    We want to answer the call to service, to a world that needs our message, our hope, our revived energy –

All:      We are gathered to learn, to unlearn, to hear, and to move forward.  Amen.

– Stephen Kendrick,

“Lifting Our Voices, Readings in the Living Tradition.”

Opening Hymn:  For the Fruit of All Creation           # 425