Opening Prayer: Risen Lord, live in us that we may live in you. We gather to thank you that in your resurrection we are renewed and transformed. We thank you that in your resurrection we ourselves may hope for the end of pain, grief, tears, weakness, and for everlasting life in the beauty of your spirit. Alleluia, we pray in Christ’s name. … [Read more...]

Opening Prayer: Life-giving God, as we continue to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, we pray that we may be bound together in Christian love and that our faith and fellowship may be a witness through which your spirit will bring others into your church. We humbly thank you for your many blessings you have given us. We ask that we may learn how … [Read more...]

Opening Prayer: God of the Risen Christ, you love us so much as to raise Christ from the tomb. In you we find only life and grace. You grant us peace in Christ. You give us forgiveness of sin. You welcome us back when we have been faithless. May we believe that Jesus is the Christ! In the name of the Risen One, we pray. Amen. Prayer of … [Read more...]

Opening Prayer God of Resurrection, bring Easter to our hearts, to our eyes and ears, to our lives, this morning. In the name of Christ, whose life and love could not be stamped out. Whose resurrection hope, is the hope which plants love and laughter in our lives and lures them to sprout and bloom like spring flowers in the morning sun, we say, … [Read more...]

Readings Gospel Lesson - Mark 11: 1-11 NRSV (source) When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. If … [Read more...]

Opening Prayer Hope of the world, hope of all hearts, our hope remains in you especially when hope seems hard. Speak to us through your word. Come to us at your table. And sustain us in the hope of the covenant you have written on our hearts. Amen. Readings Psalm 27 NRSV (source) The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The … [Read more...]

Opening Prayer Holy God, we come before you thankful that you love us as we are. We are creatures of your hand; we are a community formed by your Spirit. You are the potter; we are the clay. With your sure and loving hands, shape us, through the grace of Jesus Christ. Amen. Readings Psalm 91: 1-4 NRSV (source) You who live in the shelter of … [Read more...]

Readings Exodus 16: 1-5 NRSV (source) The whole congregation of the Israelites set out from Elim; and Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the … [Read more...]