05/26/2024 Service

Bethel Worship Planning Documents
2024 Monthly Worship Calendar
2024 RCL 2 page Summary
Bethel Weekly Worship Planning worksheet
2023 Annual Program Planning worksheet

Topics for Today
Wikipedia is a frequent source
for information in these articles.

Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday
From Discipleship Ministries
Trinity
Trinity Sunday
From Wikipedia
What Is the Trinity?
from Christian Apologetics and
Research Ministry
John Wesley's 25 Articles of Religion
The first 4 relate to the Trinity

The Great Commission
Great Commission from wikipedia
What Is the Great Commission?
What Does it Mean for Us Today?

The Church Year/Seasons
Liturgical/Christian Year
Ordinary Time

Memorial Day
Memorial Day
A History of Memorial Day
8 Things You May not Know about Memorial Day
One of the Earliest Memorial Day Celebrations
History of the Red Poppy
Memorial Day,
article from wikipedia

Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series

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Worship Series: "Ascribe to God"
from www.umcdiscipleship.org

We are entering the longest season of the Christian Year, the Sundays after Pentecost, or what is also called Ordinary Time. For many, it feels rather ordinary, week after week of the long spring and summer and even into the early fall season. Yet, it could be argued that this season is where our faith gets put to the test, where the church takes the stage and seeks to live out all that has been learned as we show to the world what living in the kingdom looks like. We don't walk alone, however, which is why the first series of this long season is about the God we proclaim. Here, in the season after Pentecost, we ascribe to God all the glory, all the wonder, all the joy that is within us. To help us in that task, we turn to the songbook of the Hebrew scriptures, the Psalms and we begin with Isaiah's knee-knocking encounter in the presence of the God we worship.

This Service's Theme: "All Consuming Presence"
Worship Planning Notes

How often do we plan and show up to worship expecting to encounter God? It feels like the right answer should be, "Every week!" But, in reality, I'm sure many of us would prefer not to be scared witless by the glory of God as Isaiah was in today's passage.