Here's a prayer of confession for 12/13/09 that I made, using some images I found through Jonny Baker's blog and some text I added to them. Try it out loud to see if I put in adequate time for the congregation to read the text in unison.

I don't think we should do these all the time, but I think we can do things like this whenever it makes sense. Also, I'm thinking that we can do this sort of thing during our prayer time. There may be times when we want to guide the congregation through prayers for certain people or certain places in Lebanon or around the world. We can call those prayer times "praying with our eyes wide open."

Worship schedule for the rest of the year

8/23/09 Singles Psalms 117 & 118
8/30/09 Kids Psalm 22
9/6/09 Peter Real Community
9/13/09 Sharon Real Worship Worship in the Park — print out passages
9/20/09 Patty Real Life Sunday school begins
9/27/09 Peter Real Mission Everyone invite one Sunday
10/4/09 Sharon Phil. 1:1-11 World communion — lots of kinds of bread from around the world
10/11/09 Patty Phil. 1:12-30 For me, to live is ______ ?
10/18/09 Peter Phil. 2:1-11
10/25/09 Sharon Phil. 2:12-30 Reformation
11/1/09 Patty Phil. 3:1-11 All Saints/Daylight Savings time ends/mentor Sunday
11/8/09 Peter Phil. 3:12-4:9
11/15/09 Sharon Phil. 4:10-23
11/22/09 Patty Jeremy and Maria Chase
11/29/09 Peter Hope Advent 1 — tree (empty manger)
12/6/09 Sharon Peace Advent 2 — doves?
12/13/09 Patty Joy Advent 3 — lights
12/20/09 Peter Love Advent 4 + evening service

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Music for May and June

May 10th (Mother's Day)
Organ: PH#369-I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
*Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)
*Better is One Day in Your House
*Open the Eyes of My Heart

May 17th:
Organ: #150 Come, Christians Join to Sing
*Heart of Worship
*Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble
*We Fall Down

May 24th: (Memorial Day Weekend, Seth preaching)
Organ: #526, For All the Saints
*Majesty
*Step by Step
*Holy is the Lord
*You are My All in All

May 31st: (Pentecost)
Organ: #288-I Sing the Mighty Power of God
*Every Time I Feel the Spirit (#315)
*Blessed Be Your Name
*Days of Elijah
*You are Holy

June 7th:
Organ: #483 Sing Praise to God
Communion: Breathing the Breath
*I Could Sing of Your Love
*Only You
*All Creatures of Our God...

June 14th:
Organ: #442 The Church's One Foundation
*Indescribable
*I'll Fly Away
*You Alone
*I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord

June 21st (Father's Day, in Century Park)
~These may change if a small group ends up planning this as a "Summer Psalms" service.....
*Every Move I Make
*What a Friend We Have in Jesus
*Shine, Jesus, Shine
*Forty

Easter 09

Here's what we already have planned for Easter:

4/12
Easter
Organ: Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Communion: I Exalt Thee
I Danced in the Morning
Changed
/??
Sanctuary

But Jake came by today and shared a song with me that he just wrote that would work really well during communion. It brings together death, resurrection, and this life of taking up our crosses and following Jesus and does it with a good tune. So, let's bump "I Exalt Thee" down two slots and have it after "I Danced in the Morning." How does that sound?

Ash Wednesday 09

Intro — "Parce Mihi" played over the sound system as people enter. Signs on doors ask for silence upon entry. The song is 6:42 long. It will be playing a couple minutes prior to 7:00 and needn't be played all the way through.
Prayer (leader: Peter?)
Meditation (Peter)
Prayer (Peter)
Imposition of Ashes (Peter) — "O Solutaris Hostia" played over sound system as people come forward (4:35)
Psalm 51 (Sharon or Wendy, reader) — Patty on cello
"Change My Heart, O God" — would this work to be led my cello and voice only
Litany of Penitence
"40" — Peter on guitar
Psalm 103 (Sharon or Wendy, leader)
Peace (Peter)

The BIG cross

I've been looking through the Bible for passages to go with the different panels of the cross that will be built on the chancel. Here are some to get us started.

INRI (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews) — John 19:19
Thorns — Matt 27:29/Mark 15:17/John 19:2.5) and Gen 3:18; Is 7:23; Matt 13:22
Palms — John 12:13 and Lev 23:40; Rev 7:9
Cup — Matt 26:39/Mark 14:36/Luke 22:42 and Is 51:17, 22; Jer 25:15 (and two vinegar passages Ps 75:8; 69:21)
Nails/feet — No actual reference to the nails in the gospel accounts; Is 52:7 (beautiful feet); Ps 22:16 (pierced feet and hands); Is 53:5 (pierced for our transgressions); Zech 12:10 (mourn for the One they pierced)
Hands (two panels) — Is 49:16 and Ps 22:16 (also above)

That's what I have so far to get us started.

Also, let's change some of the songs in Lent to be "cross" songs. They don't all need to be. But the songs earlier in the service when we'll be doing our Lenten readings and confession should pull from the "Take up your cross and follow me" theme.

First quarter music

1st Quarter (plus Palm Sunday and Easter) 2009 Music
1/18
organ: O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing
Our set:
Indescribable
You Are My All in All
You Alone
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
New Sending Song: Sanctuary

1/25 (Cameo gone)
Organ: A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Our Set:
These are the Days of Elijah
How Majestic is Your Name
All Creatures of Our God and King (w/ organ)
Everlasting God
Sanctuary

2/1 (Seth preach)
Organ: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Our set:
O Worship the King
In Christ Alone
How Great is Our God
Sanctuary

2/8 (Cindy gone)
Opening: Listen, God is Calling
Organ:
Communion: Majesty (Stuart Garrity version)
Our set:
Ancient Words
Let the Earth Resound (with organ)
Sanctuary

2/15 (Cameo gone)
Organ: This is My Father’s World
Our set:
Raise up the Crown
You Are Holy/Prince of Peace
Heart of Worship
Shout to the Lord
Sanctuary

2/22 (Love Inc talk?) (Cameo and Steve gone)
Organ: The Church’s One Foundation
Our set (Peter leads/plays):
40
Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone
Psalm 133 original song
Sanctuary

2/25 Ash Wednesday??

3/1 (Cameo gone)
1st Sunday of Lent
Organ: How Great Thou Art
Communion: Breathe
Our Set:
Did you Feel the Mountains Tremble?
Hungry
In the Secret
Sanctuary

3/8
2nd Sun. of Lent
Organ: To God be the Glory
Our Set:
Everlasting God
O Lord You’re Beautiful
Blessed Be Your Name
Sanctuary

3/15
3rd Sun. of Lent
Organ: ???
Our set:
O Sacred Head Now Wounded PH 98
O Worship The King
???
Sanctuary

3/22 (Jake Gone)
4th Lent Sunday
Organ: Crown Him with Many Crowns
Our set:
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (with organ)
What Wondrous Love is This PH 85
???
Sanctuary

3/29 (Jake gone)
5th Sun of Lent
Organ: How Great Thou Art
Our Set:
I See the Lord
Here I am to Worship
???
Sanctuary

4/5
Palm Sunday
Organ: ???
Communion: Fall (Jake lead)
Our Set:
Hosanna LUYH 145
How Great Is Our God
???
Sanctuary

4/12
Easter
Organ: Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Communion: I Exalt Thee
I Danced in the Morning
Changed
/??
Sanctuary


Other communion song idea: One Bread, One Body

Music for January 11

I Will Give you all my worship (You're worthy of my praise)
You are my all in all
You Alone
You Are my King

We will do you alone in E but am also sending a copy for Cindy in D and she can 'capo' the piano.

Hymn: O Worship the King.

Back to 1 Samuel

1 Sam. 16:1-13 — THIS SUNDAY (1/4/09) (Peter)
Samuel commits treason by anointing a new king while the current king is still living. Samuel is able to hear from God but lacks “vision” in that he sees as everyone else does, by externals, not by the heart. David is the forgotten/ignored son, the 8th son (as opposed to the 7th son of a 7th son), and is unnamed until the end of the story. He has all the good looks of a king, but is chosen “unseen” (while he’s not present before Samuel). The Spirit of Yahweh comes on him in power, the Spirit which makes him king, enabling him to rule the people of God.

1 Sam. 16:14-23 (Patty?)
The Spirit of the LORD departs from Saul to be replaced with an evil spirit from God. This is not the demon possession we see in the NT, but a torment of mind/heart that can be soothed by the natural means of music. David departs Jesse’s household and becomes a part of Saul’s household — from this point on Saul will be he “father” and the only time Jesse is mentioned is as a curse by Saul, reminding David that he’s actually someone else’s son. This story actually follows the next but is a pair with the first part of the chapter and explains some of the things in the next, hence the storyteller’s dischronology.

1 Sam. 17 (Sharon?)
The Philistines attack again. Israel’s mostly volunteer army includes David’s three older brothers (the ones named in the previous chapter). People are impressed with Goliath’s technology, his armor. Saul, the tallest man in Israel and champion of the people, doesn’t face the tall champion of the Philistines because he no longer is filled with the Spirit’s power and authority of kingship. Saul offers a fairy tale reward of a daughter in marriage and the hero’s family exemot from taxes. Where all were impressed with Goliath’s armor, Saul gives his away to a unknown shepherd boy who rejects it. The real battle takes place when Goliath and David call on their gods — this isn’t a story about David and Goliath, it’s a battle between the gods and the “battle belongs to the LORD.” All along, David knows what he’s going to do in combat. This is how he killed wild animals. He never wanted the armor. He never intended hand-to-hand combat. Goliath’s impressive technology is no match for David’s simple tech, except when it comes to cutting Goliath’s own head off. David carries around the head all day long — there’s no mistaking who the hero of the day is.

1 Sam. 18
David’s fame with Jonathan, the army, the people, and with Michal. Michal is the only woman in all of Scripture who is said to be in love and she’s in love with David. (Men fall in love all the time in Scriptre, not women.) Saul becomes afraid of David because of this popularity and attacks him twice. Saul also doesn’t bargain properly and reneges on his offer of his daughter Merab in marriage to David. But then he uses Michal as a trap, tricking David into agreeing to the match and then requiring 100 Philistine foreskins as the bride price. David pays double. Just what every woman wants for her wedding gift.

1 Sam. 19
Jonathan and Michal protect David from their father Saul. Saul and his men chase David to Ramah but the Spirit zaps them and they all prophesy ecstatically.

1 Sam. 20
Saul wants to kill David. Jonathan protects him, using an in-depth plan. David and Jonathan have a deep friendship and make a forever covenant.

1 Sam. 21-22
David flees to Nob and collets the sign of his hero status, Goliath’s sword. David and his men are holy warriors and are treated as such. David flees to Gath (Goliath’s city) and is recognized as Israel’s “king” but escapes by pretending to be insane. In the desert, malcontents and debtors join his rag-tag band. He arranges for protection for his parents in Moab (remember, his great-grandma Ruth came from Moab). Doeg of Edom tattles on the Nob priests and they are slaughtered by Saul’s men. Abiathan escapes the slaughter and brings the ephod to David and becomes David’s priest.

David psalms
BOOK 1 (Psalms 1-41) — 3 (Absolom), 4-6, 7 (Cush the Benjamite), 8, 9, 11-17, 18 (when delivered from Saul and all his enemies), 19-29, 30 (temple dedication), 31, 32, 34 (pretended to be insane and fled Abimelek), 35-41
BOOK 2 (Psalms 41-72) — 51 (Nathan, Bathsheba), 52 (Doeg tattles on Nob priests), 53, 54 (Ziphites tattle on David), 55, 56 (seized in Gath), 57 (fled from Saul into the cave), 58, 59 (Saul’s men watch David’s house), 60 (fought Aram Nahamraim and Aram Zobah and killed 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt), 61, 62, 63 (in the desert), 64, 65, 68-70
OTHERS — 86, 101, 103, 108-110, 122, 124, 131, 133, 138-145

1/4/09 Peter 1 Sam 16:1-3 David anointed
1/11/09 Patty 1 Sam 16:14-23 Spirit leaves Saul; David enters Saul’s household Baptism of the Lord
1/18/09 Sharon 1 Sam 17 Goliath, Saul, and David
1/25/09 1 Sam 18
2/1/09 Seth
2/8/09 1 Sam 19
2/15/09 1 Sam 20
2/22/09 1 Sam 21-22 Transfiguration
3/1/09 1 Sam 23 1st Sunday of Lent
3/8/09 1 Sam 24 2nd Sunday of Lent/Daylight Savings
3/15/09 1 Sam 25 3rd Sunday of Lent
3/22/09 1 Sam 26 4th Sunday of Lent
3/29/09 1 Sam 27 5th Sunday of Lent
4/5/09 Palm Sunday
4/12/09 Easter