for the 23rd Week After Pentecost
November 8, 2020
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This is the 1st week of a 3 week Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries leading into the Season of Advent. The graphics at the top of this page list the topics for the weeks of the Series.
Worship Series: There is Now
from umcdiscipleship.org
Here at the end of the liturgical year, we claim the present reality. We claim the reign of Christ; we claim the indwelling Spirit; we claim the presence of our Lord. The “there” we were looking for is here, now. So, “There is Now” is our theme for these last weeks of the season. Our guide for this experience is the amazing twenty-fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. In this chapter is a unique presentation of the coming kin-dom of God and what it means to be a part of it. In the run up to Reign of Christ Sunday or what many call Christ the King Sunday, we examine what living under the reign of Christ means, not just for the someday of fulfillment but for today, as we are now and not yet a part of that kin-dom. The “there” of the kin-dom becomes the “now” of our living out the call each and every day.
This Week's Theme: "The Shout at Midnight"
This worship experience is both an inspiration to live each day aware of that presence and to acknowledge that all of us are closer to the one we follow than we realize.
Worship Planning NotesPreaching Notes
Lectionary Scriptures:
Joshua 24:1-3a,14-25; Psalm 78:1-7 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:1-13
Suggested Hymns . Music Notes . DM Accompaniments Sources of Music for the following hymns are:
- UMH CD.....UDM - DM Accompaniment..... MM/DD/YY - Recorded Service
Hymns Considered For this week: .Verses - "Soldiers of Christ, Arise"435 -
.Verses - "O God of Every Nation"720 -
.Verses - "Wake, Awake for Night is Flying"722 -
.Verses - "I Want to Be Ready"