Worship Service February 7, 2021

 

Let us worship together as we read! Our in-person service is cancelled due to weather but the video will be available on Facebook at 10AM Sunday morning.  https://www.facebook.com/kerrobertunited

For those who are not on Facebook, we will also be posting the video onto our YouTube channel.

Today's service is courtesy of Rev. Jeannine Cline, B.A., M.Div.

OPENING TIME OF WORSHIP, AND LIGHTING OF THE CHRIST CANDLE:

WELCOME & TIME OF GREETING:
God be with you
And also with you.
We welcome all into this circle of
Worship with love and reconciliation. Amen.

OPENING HYMN:
Voices United #79 “Arise Your Light Has Come” 

CALL TO WORSHIP from 1 Corinthians 9:16–23
One: If I proclaim the gospel,
I am given no grounds for boasting,
for an obligation is laid on me,
and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel!
All: For if I do this of my own free will, I will have a reward:
but if not of my own free will,
I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward?
One: Just this: that in my proclamation
I may make the gospel free of charge,
so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
All: For though I am free with respect to all,
I have made myself a slave to all,
so that I might win more of them.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews.
To those under the law I became under the law
(though I myself am not under the law)
so that I might win those under the law.
One: To those outside the law I became outside the law
(though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law)
so I might win those outside the law.
To the weak I became weak, so I might win the weak.
All: I have become all things to all people,
that I might by all means save some.
I do it all for the sake of the gospel,
so I might share in its blessings.
    Herein ends the reading of Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians.

HYMN:
Voices United #595 “The Servant Song” 

CONFESSION:
Voices United pg.869 Psalm 147 Part 1 

WORDS OF ASSURANCE:
God loves us all and accepts each of us as beloved children.
We are a forgiven people. Thanks be to God. Amen.

MINUTE FOR MISSION 
(video link about Black History month)

SCRIPTURES:
Isaiah 40:21-31
Mark 1:29–39
May the words of scripture be a lamp to our feet, And a light to our path.

MESSAGE:

INVITATION TO OFFERING:
Let us give as we have received.

PRAYER OF DEDICATION:
In the name and the spirit of Jesus,
We give our gifts to you, O God.
Help us to draw our strength from your Holy Spirit
and accept gracious healing from your servants. Amen.

JOYS AND CONCERNS

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER:

HYMN:
More Voices #145 “Draw the Circle Wide”   

BENEDICTION:
    Epiphany Prayer Voices United #80
O God, our light, our beauty, our rest:
With the appearance of your Son you have brought us into your new creation. Form us into your people, and order our lives in you;
Through Christ, the Living One. Amen!