Adapted from Psalm 36:5-7

Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, 

Your faithfulness to the skies. 

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, 

Your justice like the great deep. 

You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. 

How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! 

People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 

We celebrate your incredible love today. 

Submitted by Austin D. Hill

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Adapted from Psalm 86

Leader: Come, Let us worship.

People:  Teach us Your ways, O Lord, that we may walk in Your truth; give us undivided hearts to revere Your name.

Leader:  We give thanks to You, O Lord our God, and we will glorify Your name forever.

People:  For Your love is great towards us; …You are merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Leader:  Let us worship, let us praise, let us give thanks!

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Adapted from Psalm 92:1-2

It is good to praise the LORD

and make music to your name, O Most High,

to proclaim your love in the morning

and your faithfulness at night.

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Adapted from Psalm 103:1-5

Praise the Lord, my soul;  

All my inmost being, praise his holy name.  

Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits 

Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 

Who redeems your life from the pit, 

And crowns you with love and compassion,  

Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 

Submitted by Austin D. Hill

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Adapted from Lamentations 3

Leader:  Your steadfast love, Lord, never ceases,

People:  Your mercies never come to an end;

Leader:  They are new every morning; so let us proclaim –

All:  Great is Your faithfulness.  Great is Your love.  Great is Your mercy.  And greatly is Your name to be praised!

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Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:1-8

Pastor: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

All: Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Pastor: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

All: Love never ends.

Submitted by Dustin Ray

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Adapted from Ephesians 3:18,19

And I pray that you

Being rooted and established in love

Together, with all the Lord’s holy people,

To grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

And to know this love that surpasses knowledge –

That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Lord, we echo the words of Paul’s prayer as we worship you today. Help us all to know your love.

 Submitted by Austin D. Hill

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Adapted from Colossians 3:14-17

Leader: Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 

All: Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 

Leader: And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. 

All: Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

Leader: Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 

All: And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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Adapted from Romans 5:6-82 & Corinthians 5:21

Leader: God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

People: You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Submitted by Dustin Ray

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Adapted from 1 John 4:7-15 (WEB)

Beloved, 

Let us love one another; for love is of God

And everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God.

(WEB, adapted for liturgical use)

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For the beauty of human love

Brother, sister, parent, child.

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild;

Lord of all, to thee we raise,

This, our hymn of grateful praise.

We come to you, today, Lord, to offer our thanks for all you do.

 Submitted by Austin D. Hill

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Adapted from Psalm 63:1, 3, 4, NRSV

ONE:

O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

ALL:

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

I will bless you as long as I live.

I will lift up my hands and call on your name.

Lisa Degrenia

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Adapted from Psalm 103:1-4, New Living Translation

Leader: Let all that I am praise the Lord;

People: With my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.

Leader: Let all that I am praise the Lord;

People: May I never forget the good things he does for me.

Leader: He forgives all my sins

People: and heals all my diseases.

Leader: He redeems me from death

People: and crowns me with love and tender mercies.

Submitted by Cody Sandahl

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 Adapted from Psalm 107

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

    for his steadfast love endures forever.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,

    those he redeemed from trouble

and gathered in from the lands,

    from the east and from the west,

    from the north and from the south.

Some were sick through their sinful ways,

    and because of their iniquities endured affliction;

they loathed any kind of food,

    and they drew near to the gates of death.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,

    and he saved them from their distress;

he sent out his word and healed them,

    and delivered them from destruction.

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,

    for his wonderful works to humankind.

And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices,

    and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.

Adapted by Stuart Strachan Jr.

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We are gathered once again hear the good news of God’s Kingdom

For our hearts to be filled with the love of the Father

For our actions to be shaped by the teaching of the Son

And for our words to be filled with the Spirit of hope

 

We come in our smallness

Trusting that your love will continue to grow in our lives

We come to praise you God, the giver of all good things

Fill our hearts with your love

So that it would overflow through us to all your people

Amen

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