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10/18: Choose Kindness

Choose Kindness:

Love Your Enemy

8am Service 

Gathering Hymn: Gather Us In

This selection was also selected as the gathering hymn for the contemporary service last month on September 20th. The tune's 6/8 meter and melodic contour give it a striking folk-tune, making it a versatile selection in our music library. 

Hymn of the Day: Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive

Our hymn text effectively emphasizes the message of love your enemies by pointing out the irony in holding resentment toward others in our hearts. "How can your pardon reach and bless the unforgiving heart?" We call upon the Lord to cleanse our hearts, that we may instead spread peace to those who have wronged us.

I was intrigued by the hymn tune, which is called DETROIT (sometimes BRADSHAW) from The Sacred Harp. Having only been loosely familiar with The Sacred Harp, I did a bit of research and learned that this "shape-note hymn collection" was published in 1844 to make hymns more easily teachable to congregations. Instead of representing the pitches with only the traditional circular note heads we are familiar with, the shapes of note heads expanded to rectangles, triangles, and diamonds. Learn more about this unique approach to singing! 

Sending Hymn: Go, My Children, With My Blessing

A comforting assurance of God's continual presence in our lives, our sending hymn reminds us of what we carry with us from our Sunday worship: knowledge of God's love, and the power of the Holy Spirit to sustain us.   

10:30am Service 

Prelude: Reckless Love

This is a new selection for our congregation that the praise team performed last week and the week before. Feel free to join us as we sing together this morning! This will also be our prelude and song of the day on 11/1. Check out the lyric video!

Gathering Song: We Have Come Into His House

We first introduced this opening song in March this year. The simple melody and text remind us of the reasons why we are gathered together to worship. May our gathering song open us to more fully receive the message of our service: Love Your Enemy

Song of the Day: Good Soil

Heeding the call of this (at times) challenging commandment becomes easier when our hearts are open and loving. Our song calls on the Lord to show us the way when we are lost, and to ease the hardness of our hearts when they are like stone.

Sending Song: Send Us Out

"Send us out to teach what God has done!"

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