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Worship | Thanksgiving Service | November 21

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Gathering with Gratitude

Prelude

Welcome

Land Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Peace Candle

VT 806 | Called by Earth and Sky

Giving From Our Abundance

Scripture | Litany of Thanksgiving

Children’s Time

Offering for Clintonville Resource Center

Offering/Dedication Prayer

Sharing Our Stories

VT 419 | Great Is Thy Faithfulness | v.1

Gratitude Reflection | Mary Yoder

VT 419 | v.2

Gratitude Reflection | Kyle Kerley

VT 419 | v.3

Gratitude Reflection | Ruth Leonard

Silent Reflection

VT 114 | Nun danket alle Gott (Now Thank We All Our God)

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer

Leaving with a Thankful Heart

Passing the Peace

Extinguishing the Peace Candle

Announcements

VT 436 | O Lord My God/How Great Thou Art

Benediction

Christian Education | 11:00 am

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Reflections | Mary Yoder, Kyle Kerley, Ruth Leonard

Worship Leader | Lavonne van der Zwaag

Music coordination | Katie Graber

Musicians | Amy Glick, Katie...

Worship | Voices Together and the worlds worship creates | November 14

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Sermon: Under the Protective Veil

Texts: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Romans 8:38-39

Speaker: Joel Miller

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, writing in the middle of the 20th century, made the bold statement that “the Bible is more concerned with time than with space.” He pointed out that while the religions of the ancient world tended to locate the deity in particular places – “mountains, forests, trees or stones,” a shrine, a sacred image - that the Jews experienced God as primarily present within history, within time: deliverance from Egypt, the giving of the Torah at Sinai, Sabbath which he called “a cathedral in time.” Heschel wrote: “The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information (or things), but to face...

Worship | Voices Together and the worlds worship creates | November 7

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Hans Denck: Polarization, Pestilence, and Divine Love
Texts: Matthew 5:1-10; 1 John 4:7-8

Speaker: Joel Miller

January 21, 1525 – That’s the date most frequently cited as the beginning of the Anabaptist movement. That’s the day a group of mostly young dissidents met in a home in Zurich, Switzerland. It was a tumultuous time – religiously, politically, economically. After discussion and prayer, this small group decided this was the day each of them was going to be baptized – re-baptized. Their infant baptism had joined them to a church they could no longer claim as their own. It was their conviction that this second baptism, as free-willing adults, was a public statement of their commitment to follow the way of the gospel and to live out its economic, political, and religious implications.

That very same day, January 21, 1525, over 250 miles away in Nuremberg, Germany, a young headmaster at a...

Worship | Voices Together and the worlds worship creates | October 31

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Order of Worship | Worship and Visual Art

Prelude

Welcome

Land Acknowledgement | VT 878

Call to Worship | VT 13 | Isaiah 2:3-4

Peace Candle

VT 44 | We Long to Know Her

Children’s Time

Offering/Dedication Prayer

Scripture | Psalm 19:1-10

Reflections on Worship and Visual Art

VT 12 | Tree of Life by SaeJin Lee

VT 11 | Mountain of God

VT 104 | Sing the Goodness by Meg Harder

VT 103 | Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

VT 230 | We Owe Them a Complicated Debt by Rachel Epp Buller

VT 229 | Unexpected...

Worship | Voices Together and the worlds worship creates | October 24

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Worship and Names for God

Texts: Genesis 1:1-5; Genesis 3:8-10; Isaiah 42:13-16; John 3:1-5

Speaker: Joel Miller

The American theologian Marcus Borg liked to say: “Tell me your image of God, and I will tell you your politics.”

Mary Daly, an early feminist theologian, wrote: “If God is male, then the male is God.” (Beyond God the Father, 1973).

The writer Anne Lamott proposed: “You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do.” (Bird by Bird, 1994).

What these writers are naming is something we already know on a gut level: The images and language we use for God matter. They shape us from a young age and follow us into adulthood.

Very few if any of us have a blank slate when it comes to God-language. We’re either repeating, rejecting, or...

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