06/23/2024 Service

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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
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John Wesley's Birthday (June 28)

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Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series

This is the First service of a 3 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries
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Worship Series: "Open Your Heart"
from www.umcdiscipleship.org

This Ordinary Time worship series invites us to consider how we live open-heartedly in a risky world and at a contentious time. Does opening our hearts mean being more naïve or wearing rose-colored glasses in the face of hard truths? Whether we're talking about love of God or love of neighbor or even love of country, we are invited to live into reality with a hope for kin-dom values and the promise of eternity. It is not always easy to be a person of faith, but we come closer to Christ when we open our hearts.

This Service's Theme: In Sorrow and in Rejoicing"
Worship Planning Notes

As we enter this three-week stretch focusing on Paul's second letter to the church in Corinth, we also focus on what I think is one of the key questions of Ordinary Time; namely, how do we live our faith day after day after day?

Liturgical Resources
Preaching Notes

Lectionary Scriptures:
1 Samuel 17:(1a,4-11,19-23)32-49; Psalm 9:9-10; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41

Sources of Music for the following hymns are:

- UMH CD.....UDM - DM Accompaniment..... MM/DD/YY - Recorded Service

Hymns Considered For the UDM service this week: