{"id":2214,"date":"2021-06-04T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2021-06-04T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:16:47","slug":"worship-for-the-second-sunday-after-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/04\/worship-for-the-second-sunday-after-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship for the Second Sunday after Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady<br \/>\nWorship for the Second Sunday after Pentecost<\/h1>\n<h2>June 6, 2021<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Page-2-Image-2-2.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Zach Long<\/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>\u201cGod of Love, Center us here\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>\u201cLord of the Dance\u201d by Charles Callahan<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lord of the Dance by Charles Callahan\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aABPR2M-p9I?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: From the depths of despair,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: we have cried out for God.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: From the heights of wonder,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: we have shouted our praises.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: From the midst of our living spaces,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: we have worshipped.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: In the midst of the people of God,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: we have worshipped.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: Our humanity cries out for God.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: Our very beings need to worship.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-003.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #68: <em>When In Our Music God is Glorified<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 68: When in Our Music God Is Glorified\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PoqmG4pH1A8?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\/flexscore\/GG2013\/641\/Accompaniment.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Connecting in Prayer<\/h2>\n<h3>Shared Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSteadfast Love,<br \/>\nYou who created us, love us.<br \/>\nWe are so grateful.<br \/>\nYou who give us life, wish for us to live abundant.<br \/>\nWe are so grateful.<br \/>\nYou who offer us love, offer it to all people.<br \/>\nWe are so grateful.<br \/>\nWe seek, with all our hearts, to be expressions of your steadfast love<br \/>\nfor all people.<br \/>\nGuide us, please, Holy One.<br \/>\nAmen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Silent Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-004.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Pastoral Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><em><br \/>\nSteadfast Love that Endures Forever,<br \/>\nHow good you are to us.<br \/>\nYou put in place a rhythm, a schedule to life that brings abundance to life.<br \/>\nYou ask us to separate work from rest,<br \/>\nto take time for recovery,<br \/>\nto connect with you and each other.<br \/>\nYou commanded Sabbath,<br \/>\na rest,<br \/>\na break,<br \/>\na different day from the other 6.<br \/>\nYou commanded us to take a gift you<br \/>\ngive to us.<br \/>\nScriptures are full of words of worship,<br \/>\nshowing us how deep the human need to connect to you<br \/>\nand each other<br \/>\nis in our souls.<br \/>\nWe give you thanks for worship, in its many formats and styles,<br \/>\nas a break,<br \/>\na respite,<br \/>\na gift.<br \/>\n6 days a week we seek to build your kindom,<br \/>\ntoday we seek to let it be build in us.<br \/>\nMay it be so. Amen<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Our Father (Creator) 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<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Page-5-Image-5-2.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Word and Reflection<\/h2>\n<h3>Choir Anthem<\/h3>\n<p><em>Simple Gifts<\/em> Shaker Folk Song<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simple Gifts - Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/baNueuDCue0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture: Psalm 130<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Psalm 130\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvawephrWH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Children&#8217;s Time: Just Like Me<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Just Like Me\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbXQp6l9voI?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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-005.jpg\"><br \/>\n<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><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #92: For the Beauty of the Earth<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 92: For the Beauty of the Earth\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CaYmAB6OEU8?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\/91\/low\/92\"><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture Reading &#8211; Mark 3:20-35<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mark 3:20-35\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKbAIX9t4uM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Sermon: \u201cOnly Love Can Do That\u201d by Rev. Sara E. Baron<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Only Love Can Do That\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSTXXR2QXow?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: \u201cEverything Possible\u201d by Fred Smith<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everything Possible I Boston Gay Men&#039;s Chorus\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3cC6f64d_Nc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Prayer of Presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Wellspring of Love,<br \/>\nYou have given us so many gifts, including time to rest and time to worship. We are grateful and wish to respond as we can. Please accept the gifts of our presence when we are able to connect, our financial gifts when we are able to give, our service when it is possible to serve, our witness of love, and our lives devoted to your kindom. Bless all that we offer, to make it useful for your work -and your rest. Amen<\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #496: Sweet Hour of Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 496: Sweet Hour of Prayer\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsYnpRltjnU?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\/OLOF2018\/221\/low\"><\/p>\n<h3>Benediction<\/h3>\n<p>The God of Love is capable of transformation. Neither anger nor hate can stand against the power of God&#8217;s love. May God&#8217;s transformational power be found in you and through you! Amen!<\/p>\n<h3>Postlude<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe Heavens Declare the Glory of God\u201d by Benedetto Marcello<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Heavens Declare the Glory of God\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bzkjy_Oek38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-007.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady Worship for the Second Sunday after Pentecost June 6, 2021 Photo by Zach Long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/04\/worship-for-the-second-sunday-after-pentecost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worship for the Second Sunday after Pentecost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","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\/2214","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=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}