Matthew 25:14-30 | As we look to the coming Thanksgiving holiday, some families might bring out special family dishes for the occasion. These dishes – often quite valuable – are meant to be used, to be shared, and to bring joy to a gathering. They’re not meant to be kept locked up on a shelf to collect dust. In the same way, God generously and even recklessly offers us something valuable: first, God’s grace and mercy; and second, the mission of Christ in the world today. So as we prepare to give thanks, we invite you to join us for worship as we open our hands to receive what has been entrusted to us, without fear, and as we consider why or how we are tempted to keep God’s grace, God’s mercy, and the mission of Christ stuck in a cabinet rather than sharing it for the joy of all creation.
Sunday, November 19, 2023, Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost Bulletin
Copyright acknowledgments: Music covered under Augsburg Fortress License #SB135131, CCLI License #1141706, One License #738128-A. Scripture from New Revised Standard Version Bible, © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. Prelude: Be Thou My Vision. Text: Irish, 8th cent.; vers. Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935, alt.; tr. Mary E. Byrne, 1880-1931. Music: Irish traditional. Text and Music: Public Domain. The Light of the World Is Jesus. Text and Music: Mark Hayes. Text and Music: © 2016 The Lorenz Publishing Corporation. Covered under One License subscription. Gathering Song: Christ, Be Our Light. Text and Music: Bernadette Farrell. Text and Music: © 1993, 2020 OCP Publications. Covered under One License subscription. Hymn of the Day: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light. Text and Music: Kathleen Thomerson. Text and Music: © 1970 Jubilate Music. Covered under One License subscription. Offering Song: Come to the Mountain. Text and Music: Scott Tunseth & Kathy Donlan Tunseth. Text and Music: © 1996 Augsburg Fortress Publishers. Covered under One License subscription.
Communion Song: Faithful Servant. Text and Music: Cindy Berry. Text and Music: © 2001 Shawnee Press. Covered under One License subscription.
Sending Song: This Little Light of Mine. Text: African American spiritual. Music: African American spiritual; Horace Clarence Boyer, b. 1935. Text and Music: Public Domain.
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