St. Andrew’s United Church

1. May 4, 2014 St. Andrew’s United Church “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

2. Opening our Doors Prelude Danielle Aaron Welcome & Announcements - COT Peace Project after the service - Book Study: Tuesday @ 7 pm * Passing the Peace * Hymn “Come Touch our Hearts” More Voices # 12 & Screen

3. Come touch our hearts that we may know compassion, from failing embers build a blazing fire; love strong enough to overturn injustice, to seek a word more gracious, come touch and bless our hearts. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

4. Come touch our souls that we may know and love you, your quiet presence all our fears dispel; create a space for spirit to grow in us, let life and beauty fill us, come touch and bless our souls. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

5. Come touch our minds and teach us how to reason, set free our thoughts to wonder and to dream; help us to open doors of understanding, to welcome truth and wisdom, come touch and bless our hearts. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

6. Come touch us in the moments we are fragile, and in our weakness your great strength reveal; that we may rise to follow and to serve, steady now our nerve, come touch and bless our hearts. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

7. Come touch us now, this people who are gathered, to break the bread and share the cup of peace; that we may love you with our heart, our soul, our mind, our strength, come touch us with your grace. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

8. * Call to Worship • Aggie Campbell-Rogers • One: You call us out to praise you, the God who gave us birth, to gather in communion, and treasure your whole earth; • ALL: we are your living story, to hear and to be heard;we praise your name, who writes us, the author and the word. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

9. One: For varied hues and textures, new patters, still you search, to weave your seamless garments, the fabric of your church; • ALL: our tattered faith you cherish, reclaim from wear and moth;we praise your name, who twines us, the weaver and the cloth. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

10. One: The church that speaks forgiveness, confesses its own need; the church that feels its hunger, finds grace to care and feed; ALL: our famished world is crying, its future filled with dread;we praise your name, who fills us, the baker and the bread. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

11. One: The church that offers healing, discerns its wounds and loss; the church that faces dying, shares life beyond the cross; ALL: to people torn and broken, your mercy is revealed;we praise your name, who loves us, the healer and the healed. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

12. One: Our single voices struggle, to sing your justice clear; the world has sunk in silence, each discord echoes fear; ALL: one voice alone is ragged, together we are strong;we praise your name, who breathes us, the singer and the song. AMEN. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

13. Opening our Hearts Joys & Concerns Silent Prayer & Candle Lighting Lord's Prayer "The Lord's Prayer,“ Parker Palmer Heavenly Father, heavenly Mother, holy and blessed is your true name.

14. We pray for your reign of peace to come, we pray that your good will be done; let heaven and earth become one. Give us this day the bread we need; give it to those who have none. Let forgiveness flow like a river between us, from each one to each one. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

15. Lead us to holy innocence beyond the evil of our days — Come swiftly Mother, Father, come. For yours is the power and the glory and the mercy: forever your name is All in One Presentation of Tithes & Offerings Offertory Danielle Aaron “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

16. * Song “God of Love” (sung to the tune of ‘Edelweiss’) God of love, hear our prayer, bless this offering we bring you. May our lives do your will, guide and guard us forever. Give us courage to stand for truth, help us care for others. God of love, hear our prayer, bless this offering we bring you. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

17. * Prayer of Dedication * Hymn “Spirit of God” Voices United # 378 & Screen Spirit of God, descend upon my heart; wean it from earth, through all its pulses move; stoop to my weakness, strength to me impart, and make me love you as I ought to love. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

18. I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies, no sudden rending of the veil of clay, no angel visitant, no opening skies, but take the dimness of my soul away. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

19. Have you not bid me love you, God and king; all, all you own, soul, heart, and strength and mind? I see your cross: there teach my heart to cling. O let me seek you and O let me find! “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

20. Teach me to love you as your angels love, one holy passion filling all my frame, the baptism of the heaven-descended dove, my heart and altar and your love the flame. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

21. Opening our Minds Children’s Time: “What do You Believe?” Rev. James Ancient Wisdom: John 20:19-30 Song “Though I May Speak” Voices United #372 & Screen Contemporary Wisdom Joe Dispenza Message “Seeing Is Believing” Rev. James

22. Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all in spire, and have not love, my words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

23. Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess, but not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

24. Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole. Let inward love guide every deed; by this we worship, and are freed. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

25. Opening our Minds Children’s Time: “What do You Believe?” Rev. James Ancient Wisdom: John 20:19-30 Song “Though I May Speak” Voices United #372 & Screen Contemporary Wisdom Joe Dispenza Message “Seeing Is Believing” Rev. James

35. Opening our Lives * Congregation Prayer Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;and where there is sadness, joy.

36. * “Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness” Voices United # 375 & Screen Spirit, spirit of gentleness, blow through the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

37. You moved on the waters, you called to the deep, then you coaxed up the mountains from the valleys of sleep; and over the eons you called to each thing: wake from your slumbers and rise on your wings. • Spirit, spirit of gentleness, blow through the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

38. You swept through the desert, you stung with the sand, and goaded your people with a law and a land; and when they were blinded with their idols and lies, then you spoke through your prophets to open their eyes. • Spirit, spirit of gentleness, blow through the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

39. You sang in a stable, you cried from a hill, then you whispered in silence when the whole word was still; and down in the city you called once again, when you blew through your people on the rush of the wind. • Spirit, spirit of gentleness, blow through the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

40. You call from tomorrow, you break ancient schemes, from the bondage of sorrow the captives dream dreams, our women see vision, our men clear their eyes, with bold new decisions your people arise. • Spirit, spirit of gentleness, blow through the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea. “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

41. * Benediction • * Song “Take, O Take Me as I Am” • Take, O take me as I am; summon out what I shall be; set your seal upon my heart and live in me. • Take, O take me as I am; summon out what I shall be; set your seal upon my heart and live in me. • * Postlude Danielle Aaron “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe

42. Have a great week! “Doubt grows with knowledge.” Goethe