AWAKENED HEARTS OF WORSHIP: Invocation. The world tempts us to follow after our human desires and to pursue selfish goals. Our hearts are tempted to be conformed to the patterns of this world. God has given us the gift of worship so that when we gather together in His name, we find ourselves in His presence. He reorients our hearts to become awakened to His transformative power, grace, and love. Worship is not a good work that we accomplish to please our Lord, it is a tangible encounter with the Divine that reshapes our lives and refocuses our hearts!
Sunday, October 26th – Proclamation. There are a few moments in human history that change everything. One of those is the Reformation. The Reformation placed God back in the center of the church. Our scripture passages today remind us that the treasure of God’s Word is worth more than everything we have, and we praise God that it comes to us for free and accomplishes His purpose. This Word of God is the fuel and source for our entire lives.
Use the following scripture to prepare for worship:
Sunday, October 19th – Response: Practice makes perfect. We’ve heard that phrase in so many different aspects of life, but the reverse is actually true in worship. Perfection makes us practice. Only God makes perfect. In response to the perfection that God has given us, we practice lifting our eyes to see the world from a divine perspective. We give our praise to Him. We give our offering to those around Him, because as God so graciously blesses us with salvation He removes our reservations.
Use the following scripture to prepare for worship:
Weekly Awakening: What new song have you sung lately?
Sunday, October 12th – Confession & Absolution: Amazon has the second largest revenue stream of any company in the world. And they are the only company in the top 10 that is less than 50 years old. How? We want the good stuff to come to meet us where we are. At the beginning of our worship that’s what God does. We enter his presence, he enters ours, and meets us in the mess we are in. We are so far from his Holiness, but God meets us at the door with all our unholiness, and forgives us.
Use the following scripture to prepare for worship:
- Psalm 51
- 1 John 1:5 – 2:6
- John 20:19-23
- Generations Deuteronomy 13:4
Weekly Awakening: Share a time when God’s forgiveness changed your life.
Sunday, October 5th – How do you begin? You begin your day by waking up. You begin a race at the sound of the gun. You begin a football game at the kickoff. And you begin a world in the name of the Trinity. It’s just the way you begin. There really is no other option. We see this in the story of Scripture by the Trinity’s presence at creation. Then again as Jesus commands us to recreate lives into a new world through that same name in Baptism. So what else should we begin in the name of the Trinity?
Use the following scripture to prepare for worship:
Weekly Awakening: Why do you come to worship?