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Psalm 67

Leader: 1 May God be merciful and bless us.   May his face smile with favor on us. ALL: 2 May your ways be known throughout the earth,   your saving power among people everywhere.   3 May the nations praise you, O God.   Yes, may all the...

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1 Corinthians 12:1–28 

Leader: 6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. ALL: 7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. Leader: 12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it...

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1 Corinthians 12:1–28

Leader: 6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. ALL: 7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. Leader: 12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it...

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1 John 4:7-16

Leader: 7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. All:  Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.  8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Leader: 9 God showed how much he loved us...

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1 Peter 1:3-4,6a

ALL: 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Leader: In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ALL: 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or...

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1 Peter 2:4–5, 9

4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 9 You...

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Ephesians 2:11-22

Leader: 11a Remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth … 12 you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once...

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Leader: 1 بىزنى بەختلىك قىلغايسەن خۇدا،شەپقىتىڭنى كۆرسىتىپ بىزگە،Leader: 1 May God be merciful and bless us. May his face smile with favor on us. ALL: 2 May your ways be known throughout the earth, your saving power among people everywhere. 3 May...

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Adapted from Psalm 8

Leader: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!ALL:  You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you invite praise.Leader: When I think about your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the...

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Adapted from Revelation 4:2, 6, 8-11

Pastor: At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, and day and night they never cease to say,All: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God...

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Assurance of pardon for a communion Sunday

Brothers and sisters, God does not leave us in our sin and shame. He does not abandon us to our self-centered decision-making. We prefer to starve ourselves on the world’s bread that cannot satisfy. But at this table, our God provides us with the Bread of Life. Jesus...

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Assurance of Pardon from Psalm 51:9-12

The Lord has hidden his face from our sin. He has blotted out all of our iniquity. For Christ Jesus, the Perfect suffered for the imperfect, the sinless became sin for the sinner. We are forgiven and freed to live in a right relationship with God. He has created...

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Based on Isaiah 9

Leader: The people walking in darkness have seen a great light. ​​Jésus tu es la lumière du monde! (French)ALL: Jesus you are the light of the world! Leader: He judges the people with righteousness and defends the cause of the poor.Yesu wewe ni nuru ya...

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Benediction from Psalm 20

1 May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. 2 May he send you help from the sanctuary 4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed, Through Christ our Lord....

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Deuteronomy 16:16c-17

French: 16c On ne paraîtra point devant l'Éternel les mains vides. 17 Chacun donnera ce qu'il pourra, selon les bénédictions que l'Éternel, ton Dieu, lui aura accordées.English: 16c No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17 Each of you...

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Easter Prayer

Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: The tomb is open and empty.Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: Our sins were buried with Him. In Him, we have new life that will never end.Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: The angels of God are rejoicing.Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: He truly is King...

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Ephesians 1:3-14

Leader: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,ALL: We worship him together! Leader: Our God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world,ALL: We worship him together! Leader: Our God adopted us as children through Jesus Christ,ALL:...

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Ezekiel 36:24-27

Leader: The Lord says, 24 I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land. ALL: 25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will wash your sins away, and you will no longer worship idols. Leader:...

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