{"id":1739,"date":"2020-09-27T04:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T04:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2020-10-04T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T02:06:14","slug":"worship-for-the-sixteenth-sunday-after-pentecost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/27\/worship-for-the-sixteenth-sunday-after-pentecost-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady<br \/>\nWorship for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost<\/h1>\n<h2>September 27, 2020<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-2-Image-1-1.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Alice Nash<\/p>\n<h2>Getting Centered<\/h2>\n<p>It may help to center yourself into worship by lighting a candle, as a symbol of God&#8217;s presence with you during the time of worship.  You may also want to pay attention to lighting, the position of your body, and the availability of distractions.<\/p>\n<h3>Breath Prayer<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThank you, God \/ Help us, God\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Breath prayers involve breathing in the first phrase, and breathing out the second.<br \/>\nYou may wish to simply pray for a moment before starting, or you may wish to pray while listening to the prelude.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Prelude<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u201cRondeau in B Flat\u201d by David Lasky<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prelude: &quot;Rondeau in B Flat&quot; by David Lasky\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWnpEkOxv4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Call to Worship<\/h3>\n<p>One: Listen, dear ones, for the voice of God.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: May our hearts be tuned for God&#8217;s voice.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: The ways of God are not always what we expect.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: May our hearts be tuned for God&#8217;s love.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: The wonders of God abound.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: May we savor them, and share them.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-3-Image-2-3.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Anne Phillips<\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #156: <em>I Love to Tell The Story<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Love To Tell The Story - Ang Mo Kio Methodist Church Online Worship\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qhNJUzONzKs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/page\/fetch\/UMH\/156\/low\/156\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/page\/fetch\/UMH\/157\/low\/156\"><\/p>\n<h2>Connecting in Prayer<\/h2>\n<h3>Shared Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><strong>God,<br \/>\nYou are the One We Center In,<br \/>\nYou are the Source of Goodness and Love,<br \/>\nYou are the authority we turn to,<br \/>\nthe moral guidance of our lives.<br \/>\nHelp us.<br \/>\nHelp us hear you.<br \/>\nHelp us follow you.<br \/>\nHelp us see as you see,<br \/>\nand love as you love.<br \/>\nAmen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Silent Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-4-Image-3-3.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Anne Phillips<\/p>\n<h3>Pastoral Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><em>You are welcome to read this out-loud or silently.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGod, Our Center,<br \/>\nWe have known heaviness this year.<br \/>\nHeavy hearts.<br \/>\nSometimes, even, heavy limbs,<br \/>\nencumbered by the weight of the world around us.<br \/>\nYet we remember that you are with us, even as we are weighed down.<br \/>\nYou are lightening even our heavy loads.<br \/>\nYou are willing and able to carry our loads with us.<br \/>\nWe hand to you our grief.<br \/>\nWe hand to you our stress.<br \/>\nWe hand to you our worries.<br \/>\nWe hand to you our overwhelmed.<br \/>\nWe hand to you our underwhelmed.<br \/>\nWe hand it to you, trusting you to take it,<br \/>\ntransform it,<br \/>\nand hand us back something we can handle.<br \/>\nWays of responding.<br \/>\nWays of living.<br \/>\nWays of making it.<br \/>\nWays of helping each other.<br \/>\nWays of finding moments of rest and hope.<br \/>\nTrusting you, O God, we hand you all that we have,<br \/>\nand ask for your help.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Our Father who art in heaven,<br \/>\nHallowed be thy name.<br \/>\nThy kingdom come.<br \/>\nThy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.<br \/>\nGive us this day our daily bread.<br \/>\nAnd forgive us our trespasses,<br \/>\nas we forgive those who trespass against us.<br \/>\nAnd lead us not into temptation,<br \/>\nbut deliver us from evil:<br \/>\nFor thine is the kingdom, and the power,<br \/>\nand the glory, for ever. Amen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Word and Reflection<\/h2>\n<h3>Choir Anthem<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Call<\/em> &#8211; Z. Randall Stroope<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Call - Z. Randall Stroope - ACS w QMS\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GNhIIpI37HM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture &#8211; Psalm 78:1-4,12-16<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Psalm 78:1-4. 12-16\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9cPpRDdPQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Mission Moment &#8211; Jan Huston<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Poem: &#8220;Cope&#8217;s Lookout at Sunset&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nRecently I was going through some old papers of my parents and found this poem written by my father in 1964. Cope&#8217;s Lookout is in the Mohonk Preserve in Ulster County. I feel that it expresses the feelings that many of us are having as we are able to experience nature.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-5-Image-4-3.png\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Cope\u2019s Lookout at Sunset<\/strong><br \/>\nA place where nature fashions lofty thoughts,<br \/>\nwhere heavens and earth unite near close of day.<br \/>\nHere height lends elevation to the mind<br \/>\nand lifts it from the little things of life.<br \/>\nThe far hills stand in quiet dignity,<br \/>\nand cast their lengthening shadows back across<br \/>\nthe broad valley below. Beyond all,<br \/>\nthe setting sun sinks down below the earth,<br \/>\ncontent for awhile to let the twinkling stars<br \/>\nshed their soft light upon a slumbering world.<br \/>\nBut in the beauty of its afterglow<br \/>\nlies hope and promise of a bright new day.<br \/>\nHere \u201ctwo or three gathered together,\u201d in silence<br \/>\ncan be alone with the Maker of all they see.<\/p>\n<footer>Ernest W. Baker, March 1964<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Children&#8217;s Time<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If You Plant a Seed\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZ1kMXxyeb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Passing of the Peace<\/h3>\n<p><em>If you are worshiping with others, please pass the Peace of Christ.<br \/>\nWhether you are alone or with others, please take a moment to find God&#8217;s peace within, and then to share it with the world. You may want to reach out to speak peace to another during this week.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-6-Image-5-2.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Anne Phillips<\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #100: God, Whose Love Is Reigning o&#8217;er Us<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 9-20-20\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nq4x7858hZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nGod, whose love is reigning o&#8217;er us,<br \/>\nsource of all, the ending true;<br \/>\nHear the universal chorus<br \/>\nraised in joyful praise to you:<br \/>\nAlleluia, Alleluia,<br \/>\nworship ancient, worship new.<br \/>\nWord of God from nature bringing<br \/>\nspringtime green and autumn gold;<br \/>\nMountain streams like children singing,<br \/>\nocean waves thunder bold:<br \/>\nAlleluia, Alleluia,<br \/>\nas creation&#8217;s tale is told.<br \/>\nHoly God of ancient glory,<br \/>\nchoosing man and woman too;<br \/>\nAbram&#8217;s faith and Sarah&#8217;s story<br \/>\nformed a people bound to you.<br \/>\nAlleluia, Alleluia,<br \/>\nto your covenant keep us true.<br \/>\nPhoto by Anne Phillips<br \/>\nCovenant, new again in Jesus,<br \/>\nstarchild born to set us free;<br \/>\nSent to heal us, sent to teach us<br \/>\nhow love&#8217;s children we might be.<br \/>\nAlleluia, Alleluia,<br \/>\nrisen Christ, our Savior he!<br \/>\nLift we then our human voices<br \/>\nin the songs that faith would bring;<br \/>\nLive we then in human choices<br \/>\nlives that, like our music sing:<br \/>\nAlleluia, Alleluia,<br \/>\njoined in love our praises ring!<\/p>\n<h3>Scripture Reading: Matthew 21:23-32<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthew 21:23-32\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZpmESj86r8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Sermon &#8211; &#8220;Hunger&#8221; &#8211; Rev. Sara E. Baron<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"By Whose Authority\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rElbZv-trA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Responding<\/h2>\n<h3>Offering<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-7-Image-8.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Alice Nash<br \/>\nIf you wish, you are welcome to use this time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eservicepayments.com\/cgi-bin\/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=3_CMn6vY3gbXWj2GvkW32xVh5LubqSJdgKX6KHFre1VuMdS3Q8kj_eIJXGJN8RG-0gmHZvX_Lw1ha8ZXgn-54Krv7ImQMfM68o70RRXIZtDlvXRu7Icp8meYpri-7vHbdSHJK5fST8PKv5rD7H0pV4u2FYADh6CtWzBcTpjLo9qDxBXK0S3J8MPHZwZCFVXkDJkCUTrur4Wm694FEfvylg==&amp;ver=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make a donation to the church online<\/a>, or to put a check in the mail.<br \/>\nThe time of offering is not only about our financial gifts to the church, it is about offering our lives to God and the building of the kindom. This is a time for reflection: What is being asked of us? What is being given to us? What are we able to offer? What do we need?<\/p>\n<h3>Offertory Anthem<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cO Clap Your Hands\u201d &#8211; Victor C. Johnson<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CGE316 O Clap Your Hands   SATB - Victor C. Johnson\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tugy1v30AU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nO clap your hands all ye people. Lift up your voice, sing alleluia!<br \/>\nShout and rejoice, give praise to the Lord. Sing with jubilation.<br \/>\nLet all the earth now cry out with joy, and raise a hymn of exaltation. Alleluia!<br \/>\nShout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Break forth into jubilant song.<br \/>\nLet the mighty rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing together with joy.<br \/>\nO sing out with joy!<br \/>\nRefrain.<\/p>\n<h3>Prayer of Presentation<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>God, Our Center,<br \/>\nWe have a deep human need<br \/>\nto give.<br \/>\nWe need to respond to goodness, life, and love,<br \/>\nwith generosity, hope, and blessings.<br \/>\nPlease receive our gifts,<br \/>\nand guide those who make decisions about them,<br \/>\nto use them wisely,<br \/>\nso that our need to give<br \/>\nmeets the world&#8217;s needs to receive.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Hymn #405: Seek Ye First<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4FuurRAJkZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Benediction<\/h3>\n<p>May God guide us all to be more able to make decisions in love. Amen<\/p>\n<h3>Postlude<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFestive Trumpet Tune\u201d by David German<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Postlude: &quot;Festive Trumpet Tune&quot; by David German\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_li0CL3qPV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-8-Image-7-1.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Anne Phillips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady Worship for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 27, 2020 Photo by Alice Nash &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/27\/worship-for-the-sixteenth-sunday-after-pentecost-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worship for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}