Liturgical Color: Green

Gospel: Matthew 24:1-14

Theme: Signs of the End.

Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration
One pastor began this way: "We are here to celebrate the presence and power of God; we prefer to celebrate God's comforting; we also, however, celebrate God's confronting. We can't have one without the other. We can't have the crown without the cross."

You may want to continue with this litany between pastor and ministers:
Pastor: You have heard it said that God is dead, or at least, absent. I say to you that God is living and is here.
Ministers: Praise be to the living God.
Pastor: God is here! Do you hear God's truths?
Ministers: We know God through the word, spoken and sung, in the Scriptures and the hymns, in laughter and in joy, in hurt and in sadness.
Pastor: God is her…