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Home Brewed Worship – August 16, 2020
Welcome to this week’s worship resources. This week we encourage you to dive into the scripture and hear again the story of Jesus walking on the water and reflect on how this story meets us this week.
For those of you who feel that you only have cracks and crevices in your week available to intentionally spend time with God we’ve created this material as a kind of playlist for you to use through your week to dive in and out of when you can make space in your work, home, car or whenever you find yourself open to spend time with God.
Perhaps you might choose one prayer to pray daily, or commit to listening to two songs each day, or reading one of the bible verses every two days?
Readings:
Isaiah 56:1, 6-8
Psalm 67
Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32
Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28
Prayers:
Story:
Here are three stories that reflect on the theme of Blessing this week. Perhaps they might be stories to reflect on together at the end of the day this week, or over the course of Sunday.
Singing The Scriptures
This week’s singing the scripture playlist provides many ways to reflect on Psalm 67 and 133, both songs of blessing.
Reflection – On Blessings
Faith At Home
Activities to help you reflect on Blessings at home this week, they would provide good conversation at the table or activities to do with others over the course of the weekend.
Go Deeper:
This week, if you’d like to spend more time on Psalm 67 we’d like to point you to three commentaries on the Working Preacher website.
- Commentary, Psalm 67, James K. Mead
- Commentary, Psalm 67, Nancy Koester
- Commentary, Psalm 67, Rolf Jacobson
If you’d like to reflect ton the other bible readings for this week here are a few other links:
Story – August 16, 2020
This week’s stories reflect the theme of blessing, unfortunately I don’t actually have these books so I’ve found other people reading the books for us.
As you read them together share with each other how you might be able to bless the world around you and how you might make note of and give thanks for the blessings you’ve received.
Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth and Chris K Soentpiet.
A story of blessings…
Boy on the Page by Peter Carnavas
You can hear the author read this wonderful story about the blessing of life and the blessing we can be, the video is on the Storybox Library website, you can have free access to the Storybox Library with your public library membership.
Read it and share with each other how you’d tell the story of your life, of the blessings you’ve experienced and how you’ve blessed others.
Peter’s also written a song of the story, here’s the wonderfully fun and whimsical song.
All-Age Prayer – August 16, 2020
Use this prayer as a daily prayer with your household, be intentional in praying it each evening or every morning as a household.
As you do name the things you’re grateful for.
There is night time and there is day time.
There is darkness and there is light.
There is sadness and there is joy.
There is challenge and there is peace.
There is crying and there is laughter.
Life is a mixed bag.It is exciting yet it can be hard.
Source: Spill The Beans
One thing is certain Lord,
never is your love for us exhausted,
and never does your love for us fail.
You are the God of all emotions;
the companion through both night and day,
darkness and light.
Thank you for being there!
Amen.
Faith At Home – August 16, 2020
This week we’re suggesting three activities for diving into this week’s theme (Blessings &Psalm 67) with your household, or alone.
Sing Aloud
Here are three songs that reflect on this week’s theme, spend some time together singing the songs, sing as loud as you can, and when you’ve finished find some of your favourite songs and sing them with gusto.
Psalm of Blessing
This week we invite you to take the Psalm 67 and rewrite it in your own words. If you’d like write your own psalm of blessing, giving thanks to God for all God’s created and given.
Perhaps you might like to go a little further and put it to music, an old hymn, or tune, or perhaps write one of your own.
When you have finished please send it in to us and we’ll share it in next week’s worship email.
Blessing Prayer
Using the letters in the word “Blessing” write your own prayer of thanks to God for the blessings you’re thankful for and again write a prayer for help in serving your neighbours this week.
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