Caring for Land Animals & People
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION John 1:1-4Reader: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Allthings came into being through him, and without him not one thingcame into being. What has come into being in him was life, and thelife was the light of all people.All: Gracious God, as we open the scriptures today,…
Caring for Animals of Water & Air
FIRST READING Genesis 1:20-23 20 And God…
Caring for Earth & Waters
FIRST READING …
Caring for Air & Sky
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATIONJohn 1:1-4Reader: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Allthings came into being through him, and without him not one thingcame into being. What has come into being in him was life, and thelife was the light of all people.All: Gracious God, as we open the scriptures today,…
Created to Care
FIRST READING1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God.The skies display God’s craftsmanship.2 Day after day they continue to speak;night after night they make God known.3 They speak without a sound or word;their voice is never heard.4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,and their words to all the world.God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.Psalm 19:1-4…
BRING-YOUR-BIBLE-TO-CHURCH
INTRO TO THE READING Reader: The grass withers, the flower fades, All: but the Word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40:8) FIRST…
Holy Trinity Sunday
FIRST READINGIsaiah 6:1-86 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on athrone, high and lofty, and the hem of his robe filled thetemple. 2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings:with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered theirfeet, and with two they flew. 3 And one called to another and said,“Holy, holy, holy is the…
Pentecost: Gifts of the Spirit
Acts 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak…
The 7th Sunday of Easter
1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57 Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain. 3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in…
The 6th Sunday of Easter
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so…