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Today’s Meditation Verse: “Weren’t our hearts on fire when He spoke to us along the road and when He explained the scriptures for us?” —Luke 24:32
Welcome... Pastor Charles
Prelude... Lorie Courier / “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” by J. S. Bach
*Call to Worship (based on Luke 24:13-35)... Rebecca Glancy
We need Your presence on the long road, Lord. The road between fear and hope, the road between the place where all is lost and the place of
resurrection. Like the disciples walking the road to Emmaus, we need Your company! Jesus, stand among us, in Your risen power; let this time of worship, be a hallowed hour.
—written by Carol Penner, posted on Leading in Worship
*Hymn... “This Is the Spirit’s Entry Now” (UMH #608)
The Twenty-third Psalm (A Native American version)... Rebecca Glancy
The GREAT FATHER above a SHEPHERD CHIEF is. I am His and with Him I want not.
He throws out to me a rope and the name of the rope is love and He draws me to where the grass is green and the water is not dangerous, and I eat and lie down and am satisfied. Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down, but He lifts me up again and draws me into a good road.
His name is WONDERFUL. Someday, it may be very soon, it may be a long, long time, He will draw me into a valley.
It is dark there, but I’ll be afraid not, for it is between those mountains that the SHEPHERD CHIEF will meet me and the hunger that I have in my heart all through life will be satisfied. Sometimes he makes the love rope into a whip, but afterwards He gives a staff to lean upon.
He spreads a table before me with all kinds of foods. He put His hand upon my head and all the “tired” is gone.
My cup He fills till it runs over. What I tell is true. I lie not.
These roads that are “away ahead” will stay with me through this life and after; and afterwards, I will go to live in the Big Teepee and sit down with the SHEPHERD CHIEF forever.
—From the West Michigan Conference, January 2010
Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations
Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer... Pastor Charles
First Lesson: Acts 12:14a, 36-41... Rebecca Glancy
Choral Anthem... “Birdsong,” by Paul Reed
Gospel Lesson: Luke 24:13-35... Pastor Charles
This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
Sermon... Pastor Charles / “The story isn’t finished”
*Hymn... “Lord, I Want to be a Christian” (UMH #402)
*Words for the Journey... Pastor Charles
Postlude... Lorie Courier / “This Is My Father’s World,” arranged by Mark Hayes
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