June 14, 2020 FBCDC Worship - Passion and Peace
Gathering Time (hosted by Kelly Magee-Prichard & Taylor Pennington-Russell)
Meditation: Holy Contradiction: Passion and Peace
Scripture Text: Philippians 3:8-14, 4:6-7
June 7, 2020 Worship - Cultivating Wonder
Gathering Time (hosted by Chelsea Clarke)
Congregational Hymn: For Such a Time As This (with Chancel Choir)
Pastoral Prayer (Pastor Alyssa)
Scripture Text: Psalm 8 (read by Linda Salmon)
Meditation: Cultivating Wonder (Pastor Julie)
Holy Communion: Please bring elements to represent the bread and wine.
Sending Words: Rebecca Vander Veer
Sending Hymn (with faces of FBC folk): God Be with You Till We Meet Again
Organ Postlude: Every Time I Feel the Spirit, arr. Robert Dinda (Lon Schreiber)
May 31, 2020 Pentecost Sunday Worship
Meditation: Our Common Language (Pastor Julie)
Texts: Acts 2:1-21 (read in many languages); Genesis 11:1-9 (read by Pastor Julie)
Congregational Hymn: Wind Who Makes All Winds That Blow (with Chancel Choir)
Visual Pastoral Prayer with Music: Spirit of the Living God (Chancel Choir)
Organ Postlude: Every Time I Feel the Spirit, arr. Robert Dinda (Lon Schreiber)
May 24, 2020 FBCDC Worship
Meditation: High and Lifted Up (Pastor Julie) Texts: Acts 1:1-11 (read by Nolan Watts); Ephesians 1:15-23 (read by Pastor Alyssa) Pastoral Prayer (Pastor Joel) Choral Anthem: More Love by Sid Davis (Chancel Choir; Lon Schreiber, accompanist; Aurelio Dominguez, sound engineer)
May 17, 2020 FBCDC Worship - Jonathan Merritt
An Extra Measure (Pastor Joel) - May 9-10, 2020 Pre-Recorded
Worship with the help of this simple, pre-recorded liturgy with music, scripture, a children's moment, a contemplative practice and a brief devotional message by Pastor Joel. Click the video above.
Order of Worship:
Welcome, Announcement and Mother's Day Blessing (Pastor Julie)
Children's Moment (Pastor Kelly)
Choral Anthem: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Lon Schreiber & the Chancel Choir)
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 4:1-7 (Pastor Alyssa)
Meditation: An Extra Measure (Pastor Joel)
Contemplative Practice: Beginner's Mind (Pastor Julie)
Benediction (Pastor Joel)
Sending Words (Christina Whitehouse Suggs & Daughter)
Our Good Shepherd - May 3, 2020 FBCDC Worship via Zoom
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Weekend Worship - April 25-26, 2020
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Meditation: Pastor Alyssa
Text: Luke 24:13-35 (read by Didier Ahimera)
Music: Kelly Curtin, Kevin Biggins, Lon Schreiber & Philip Hawkins
Children's Moment: Pastor Kelly
Contemplative Prayer Practice: Pastor Julie
Breathing Out, Breathing In - April 19, 2020
Meditation (Pastor Julie): Breathing Out, Breathing In
Texts: John 20:19-22 (Pastor Joel); Psalm 23 (Rosemary Plovnick)
Music: The Suggs family
Easter Worship Via Zoom - April 12, 2020
Message: Stronger Than Death Texts: 1 Corinthians 13, John 20:1-18 (Readers: Abigail Adigun & Aurelio Dominguez) Testimony: Katie Stewart Music: Lon Schreiber & Chancel Choir
Palm Sunday Communion Service Via Zoom April 5, 2020
PALM SUNDAY WORSHIP - April 5, 2020 11am (via Zoom) Message: Love and Lament; Scripture Texts: Luke 19:37-44; Zechariah 9:9-10 Communion: Please br...
Palm Sunday Communion Service
Remember Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem and his last meal with his friends in the upper room.
Planting Gardens During a Pandemic - March 29, 2020 ( zoom.us webinar )
Message by Pastor Julie: Planting Gardens During a Pandemic Text: Jeremiah 29:4-14 Additional Texts: Psalm 46 (read by 13 people by video); John 11:17-27 Whe...
Facebook Live Worship March 22, 2020 Alyssa Aldape
Christ Encounters: An Observant “Other” - March 15, 2020
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“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self—to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”
~ Barbara Brown Taylor (An Altar in the World)
Christ Encounters: A Surreptitious Seeker - March 8, 2020
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There is a voice inside me that urges caution.
It tells me to be careful, to keep my head,
not to go too far, not to burn my boats.
I don't want to be carried away with any resolution
which I shall afterward regret,
for I know I shall be feeling quite different after breakfast.
This is my endless recurrent temptation—
to go down to that sea, which is God,
and there neither to dive nor swim nor float,
but only to dabble and splash,
careful not to get out of my depth, and to hold onto
the lifeline that connects me with my temporal things—
the lifeline that proves to be my deathline."
~ C. S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)
Christ Encounters: The Wilderness - March 1, 2020
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and
began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles…
~ Mary Oliver, “The Journey”
Ash Wednesday - Pain and Healing - February 26, 2020
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O Lord, who hast mercy upon all, take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of thy Holy Spirit. Take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a heart to love and adore Thee, a heart to delight in Thee, to follow and enjoy Thee, for Christ's sake, Amen
~ St. Ambrose of Milan (AD 339-397)
Get Up and Do Not Be Afraid - February 23, 2020
Even with us something like that happens once in a while. The face of a man walking his child in the park, of a woman picking peas in the garden, of sometimes even the unlikeliest person listening to a concert, say, or standing barefoot in the sand watching the waves roll in, or just having a beer at a Saturday baseball game in July. Every once and so often, something so touching, so incandescent, so alive transfigures the human face that it's almost beyond bearing.
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~ Frederich Beuchner
Good News: God Isn’t Fair - February 16, 2020
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Gracious God,
In your loving heart there
is room for everyone—
without exception.
Give us courage to be so
at home in you that we
dare make room for others.
Let your world be a place
of delight and homecoming
for all creation.
~ Congregational prayer, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco