Liturgy O God from whom every gift derives, we gather to worship you this day. You are a holy and awesome God, greater than our comprehension or our imagination. You are beyond any word we could ever use to describe you. And yet, through Jesus, we know the intimacy of your vast love. We have come to you in thanksgiving […]

Liturgy O God, we trust in your power, even as it is often found in weakness; in your wisdom, even as it is expressed in seeming foolishness; in your wholeness, even as it comes to us amid brokenness. We do not ask this day for displays of strength, exercises of intellectual prowess, or manifestations of miracles. We come only to […]

Liturgy Come to the water, all you who thirst— come drink deeply from the river of life. Come to the water, all you who are weary— come rest in the quiet pools of God’s love. Come to the water, all you who long for a justice— come be renewed in God’s ever-flowing stream. For God is here among us, washing […]

Liturgy What does the Lord require of us? To do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God. What does God command of us? To love God with all our heart, and all our soul, and all our mind, and all our strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. God does not call us to […]

Liturgy God, sovereign and generous, who commands the rise and fall of the nations, who calls and has chosen many peoples, who weeps when they harm each other, who haunts every local culture – including ours – with your will for well-being, who draws close to the powerless and surprises with power via weakness… You are the one whom we […]

Liturgy God of hosts, you invite us to a banquet where the last may be first, and the humble and the mighty trade places. Let us share your abundance with no fear of scarcity; let us greet strangers as angels you have sent. Send your Spirit now so that we may find a place at your table and welcome others […]