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Matthew 20:1-16

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wonderful works. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually. Remember the wonderful works he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, O offspr...

2. Indeed the Lord Has Risen!

Luke 24:13-35

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Let it be clear that we shall always know Jesus is among us in the breaking of the bread! Collect God who is hidden and walks with us on the way, reveal yourself fully to us today. Amen. Prayer Of Confession In your name we resolve to share your blessings, breaking bread with strangers, showing hospitality, and walking patiently with those who have not yet heard you are Lord and ...

3. It All Depends On Faith

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship (Unison) You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with glad cries of deliverance. (Psalm 32:7) Collect Lord, it is your will to save all the world. Your love is for all people and your ministry is for all people. Challenge us so we might widen the circle, so that we might learn to live and care for others more than ourselves. Amen. Prayer Of Co...

4. No Trapping God

Matthew 22:15-22

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Come before your Lord with no other intent except to praise and worship God! Collect For this precious hour of peace we praise your name. Open our hearts and minds to the comforting - and convicting - words of salvation in your book. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, forgive me for every time I have skeptically bargained with you, not content with the gift of grace but determined ...

5. A Cup of Cold Water

Matthew 10:40-42

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship God is not the God of security. God calls us to risk all so that all may have had the chance to hear the message of love and salvation. Collect In plenty and in want, in fullness and hunger, Lord you have dealt bountifully with us. In gratitude we accept the lessons of our difficulties as well as the blessings of that measure of prosperity that is ours. Call us to share your bless...

6. A Cup Of Cold Water

Mark 9:38-50

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: God's kingdom will come in a perfect future. All: God's will shall be done in a perfect time. One: God reigns now, and his kingdom is perfectly in our midst. All: May God's will be our will in all we do. One: Let us seek this kingdom, and God's righteousness, that all things may be added to us. All: Let the peace of God dwell richly in us today and always. Collect Lord, grant...

7. A Deserted Place

Mark 1:29-39

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Slow down. Slow ... down. Hear ... the ... Lord. Collect Deserted. Desert. Arrested. Arid. Spare. Bare. Stranger. Danger. Strife. Life Life? Life in deserted places and spaces. Retreat! And stay. Pray. In the midst of God's mission and the cares of the world we carve out a niche, kneel with our Lord, and pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession We gather together as sisters and brothers,...

8. A Gazillion Dollars

Matthew 18:21-35

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: The Lord is calling. All: After all we have sinned, he still calls us? One: The Lord has forgiven us. All: After all we have been forgiven, he has more grace to share? One: The Lord is healing us. All: Let us come together to become God's people in prayer and praise this day. Collect Patient and loving God, you astound us with the depth of your forgiveness. May we demonstrate...

9. A Great Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light - All: Those who lived in a land of deep darkness - on them light has shone. Women: You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. Men: For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his sho...

10. A Hasty Execution

Mark 6:14-29

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers. (Psalm 24:1-2) Collect Glorious Lord, we praise your name. Rulers come and go, but you are our rock, our fortress, our shield. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God of history, the Herods of this world hold the power of life and death i...

11. A Heartening Treasure

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-20

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Nothing and everything. Nothing from the world. Everything from God. We take nothing with us. We gain everything through the cross. Nothing and everything. Loss is gain. Welcome to the upside down Kingdom of Christ. Collect Lord, with bowed heads we humbly offer up to you our brokenness, so that in our weakness your undeniable strength will shine before the world, leading others t...

12. A Holy Kiss

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Greet one another in Christ in comfort and trust, sharing the blessing while passing on the promise. Collect We thank you for this living community, Spirit of God, where we are loved, comforted, challenged, and nurtured. We thank you, Heavenly Father, for the world where you have planted us. We thank you, Son of God, for the redemption which comes to us through your cross and resu...

13. A Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-8

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: If it had not been the Lord who was on our side All: let all God's people now say - Women: if it had not been the Lord who was on our side Men: then the flood would have swept us away. All: Blessed be the Lord. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. (based on Psalm 124) Collect Lord who made the platypus and the aardvark, you seem to delight in variet...

14. A Love Feast

John 13:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Frank Ramirez

A: The Examination Service Call To Worship O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 117 KJV) Unison Prayer Lord God, this day we are gathered to share fellowship, service, and suffering. Let us be true to you, kneeling as Jesus knelt, girding ourselves with a...

15. A New Name, The Right Name

Psalm 103:8-12, Hosea 2:14-20

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship O that we should look past our idols, our distractions, and see God as God! Collect We have pruned our vineyards down to bare branches. Call us to new life. We claim that covenant you made for us with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground. We renounce the bow, the sword, and war in our land, as you have willed, so that all might lie down in ...

16. A Nice Piece of Fish

Luke 24:36b-48

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship (Unison) Answer me when I call, O God of my right! You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer. How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? Selah. But know that the Lord has set apart the faithful for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him. When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponde...

17. A Refuge of Strength

Matthew 7:21-29

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. All: Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah. One: There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. All: God is...

18. A Seldom Heard Encouraging Word

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Tell me the beautiful story of Jesus who will return. Sound the trumpet. Raise the shout. Rise in worship! Collect Not in ignorance but with the delightful knowledge of the Lord's return, we pray God of Hope that you will grant us all opportunities both within our community of faith and beyond in a suffering world to tell the glorious story to those who have not heard. Amen. Pray...

19. A Sense Of Past And Future

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Once again a new year, once again the old favorites of fierce winter and warm fires. Once again a new season, once again familiar words that call to us your people. Once again a new life, once again the perspective that comes with trust in your seasons, trust in your presence, trust in your word! Collect A time to be born and a time to die? We thank you for them both! A time to we...

20. A String on God’s Finger

Isaiah 49:8-16a, Matthew 5:48

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Collect Redeemer, our salvation comes not in our own imagined perfection, but in your molding, your shaping, your redemption which you offer to us. As you have saved us, challenge us through our worship today to perfect others by redeeming their lives as well. Amen. Prayer Of Confession The world wants so much. You, Lord ...

21. A String on God’s Finger

Isaiah 49:8-26

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. All: But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me." One: Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not for...

22. A Tangled Web

Psalm 14:1-7, 2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Let whoever is without sin stand in judgment. Come, all the rest of us, as we contemplate the sins of the world, which we all share deeply, but not too deeply for God's forgiveness. Collect Open our eyes, Lord, not to our opportunities for sin, but to the possibilities for service in your name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession One: Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are...

23. A Very Transparent Veil

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Can it be any clearer? The light shines in the darkness. Tear off the veil. Come get a look! Collect God of light, shine a little longer. We are about to descend into the dark veil of Lent. You will be veiled, the divine in human form. Though we should bow, we will be angered by your words that challenge us. We will lay hands on you and nail you to the tree. God of light, shine a ...

24. Abraham Believed God

Genesis 15:1-18

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Frank Ramirez

If you've traveled with small children in a car, you've probably heard this conversation more than once. Sooner or later, whether the journey is half an hour or half a day, someone asks, "When do we get there?" "Soon." "How much longer?" "A few minutes." How long do we have to wait? It is an essential question asked in scripture. Job, the psalmist, and God's people wonder over time how long th...

25. Across The Waters

Psalm 25:8-10, 1 Peter 3:18-22

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Jesus Christ, at the right hand of the throne, calms the storms and rules the angels. Push past the storms to adore. Collect Your sufferings are not in vain, Christ Jesus. As we offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for our rescue in the midst of the flood of sin, we pledge to take hold of resurrection by sharing with the cross as well. Amen. Prayer Of Confession One: Good...

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