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WELCOME                                                                                     Pastor Stephanie Price & Brandon Cauthon

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP (Call & Response)

ONE: What of the Gospel can heal us?

 In times of sickness and sorrow,

ALL: what does it mean to be made well?

ONE: Finding ease in the creatureliness of our bodies,

ALL: we live our questions with our lives.

ONE: Treasuring our interdependence,

ALL: we live our questions with our lives.

ONE: Holding both beauty and grief as sacred,

ALL: we live our questions with our lives.

ONE: Let us worship God, who accompanies us in our questions

ALL: and lures us towards collective flourishing.

 

*OPENING HYMN                               O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing                                         W&S 3001

 

CHILDREN'S MESSAGE                                                                                                                                      

 

CENTERING HYMN                                              Close to Thee                                                                   UMH 407

                  

PASTORAL PRAYER

      

SUNG RESPONSE                                                   Transfigure Me                              Songs for the Holy Other

Transfigure me so that I might be

More like Jesus, more like Jesus;

Transfigure me so that I might be

More like Jesus, Jesus my light. (2x)

 

Take me up to the mountain

Shine your light down on me

’Til the person you’ve always intended

Is the person everybody can see

 

CHORUS

 

Jesus my light… (3x)

 

SCRIPTURE: Romans 12:1-8Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

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MESSAGE                                                                                                                                         Brandon Cauthon

 

OFFERTORY PRAYER (Unison)

In response to the love You have given us, God, we offer here what we have, what we do, and even more who we are, that our generosity might transform the world. Amen.

    There are many options for contributing financially to our ministry.                     

    You can text an amount to 720-606-2727 or visit                             

    highlandsumc.com and click “Donate Now.”  

 

MUSIC OFFERING.                                                                                                                  Sue Williamson, organ

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*DOXOLOGY                                                                                                                                                        UMH 94

 

*Prayer of Dedication (Liturgist Only)

Compassionate One, with these offerings we also bring our anxieties and uncertainties, skepticisms and the great aches that leave us cynical about change. Meet our vulnerabilities with your own, O God. Root our faith not in coercion nor suppression, but in authentic connection and solidarity. That we may rise as a community to the calling of these days. Amen.

 

*CLOSING HYMN         Impartial, Compassionate, God of All Lives                  Songs for the Holy Other

[Verse 1]

Impartial, compassionate

God of all lives,
In Christ you have shown us

Your love actualized,

Incarnate and weak
In the arms of the poor,

Destroying all systems
That keep closed the door. 

 

[Verse 2]

Unholy, unjustified
Fear we incite,
When we shun our neighbors

Yet cling to our rights.
Your children still wander

The streets left in pain,
We pass laws against them

To prove our disdain 

“Hymn of Self Acceptance” 

 

[Verse 3]

Creator of beauty,
We stand not in pride,

We do not assume
You will stay on our side.

For yours is the sacred,

Untarnished by sin,
A refuge for outcasts

That all may come in 

 

[Verse 4]

Our Hope is your freedom

For both great and small,

To strive for perfection
And know all means all
We challenge and question

Each law without grace,

Affirming the image 

Of Christ on each face. 

 

[Verse 5]

All honor we give you,

O help us to see,
Your children are worthy

To claim victory 

And so let our actions

Flow out of our praise,

To seek transformation,

Your Kindom to raise. 

 

*SENDING PRAYER (Call & Response)

ONE: To be people of peace

we must be people of justice.

ALL: To be people of justice,

we must share in risk

and draw upon our faith when we are afraid.

ONE: For God has not given up on this world.

ALL: May we not give up on each other.

ONE: The ancient promise is this: there is

no power nor principality that can keep

the Spirit of Christ from rising again. 

 

*BENEDICTION