First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) A Welcoming Community of Faith in the Heart of the Twin Cities: Come to a place where you can explore, be curious and ask questions even if it is on livestream and Zoom… Sunday, January 31, 2021 “God Is Holding Your Life” Psalm 111 Utrecht Psalter 610 West 28th St., Minneapolis, MN 55408 www.fccmpls.org [email protected] 612.870.1868 Welcome Visitors, Friends and Members! Welcome! …to a place where you can explore, be curious and ask questions. May you find comfort, joy, strength and peace as you worship the Loving and Living Lord with us today. First Christian truly seeks to be a place of welcome to all! Child Ministries: a link to the Sunday School video is available on the home page of our website (fccmpls.org). “Children’s Table”: coloring pages and other activities for kids to have during worship are also available on the home page of our website. Communion: As members of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) we practice weekly open communion. All believers are invited to partake. Use what you have available to join us dur- ing communion. Offering can be mailed to the church office (address below) or you can use the Givelify app to make your gift to First Christian, or use the “Give” button on the FCC website or go to giveli- fy.com. Want to know more about First Christian? Go to www.fccmpls.org and check out our ministries. To find out more about our LGBT ministry, click on Reaching Out. Our denomination: The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), often referred to as The Disciples, is a denomination known for an Open Theology and an Open Table. To find out more about our heritage, check out the DOC page: www.disciples.org. Missed a service? Live stream YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPVq- Q57szyEh8JCtF_8lhiw/live Interested in receiving our newsletter? 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Ministry Team: All Members of the Congregation Dan Adolphson, Associate Pastor, Deb Murphy(cont’d), SHMC Building [email protected] Coordinator, [email protected] Rick Bowman, SHMC Building Manager Rhianna Peterson, SHMC Child Care Deanna Davis, Soprano Section Leader Caroline Povolny, Alto Section Leader Laurie Feille, Senior Pastor, Jack Russell, Tenor Section Leader [email protected] Maria Thieling, SHMC Child Care Martha Harris, Courier Editor, Tanner VanderKrabben – Baritone Section [email protected] Leader & Bell Choir Conductor Deb Murphy, Office Manager & Director of Mike Vasich, Music Director & Pianist Spiritual Formation of Children, Laurie Zaepfel, SH Ministry Center Support [email protected] Office: 612-870-1868 Deb – press 1; Pastor Laurie – press 2; Pastor Dan – press 3 Office e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.fccmpls.org Address: 610 W. 28th St., Minneapolis, MN. 55408 SpringHouse Ministry Center: Website www.springhousemc.org SHMC Telephone: 612-353-6292 If you have a Joy, Concern, or Prayer Request to share, please email Pastor Laurie ([email protected]) or Pastor Dan ([email protected]) right away! WE GATHER Gathering Music Mike Vasich Welcome, Announcements & Greeting Each Other (online) Athena Carlson Prelude Ebb Tide Sigman & Maxwell, arr. George Shearing Threshold Moment Song (All Sing) God Holds Your Life (v. 3) Music Insert (p. 10) Venturing out or coming home, ‘neath heat of day or cool of night, we call the one who hears your voice and comes to heal and keep your life. (Refrain) God is holding your life. God is holding your life. God is holding your life, we believe. (Repeat refrain) Prayer Athena Carlson One: Amazing God, you do wonderful things–big and small–every day. Open us this day to recognize the miracles of life all around us so that we on earth as it is in heaven. Many: We praise you for your continued good works, holding our lives together each day. Amen. Hymn of Praise Let All Things Now Living Chalice Hymnal #717 Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving To God our Creator triumphantly raise; Who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us By guiding us on to the end of our days. God’s banners are o’er us, pure light goes before us, A pillar of fire shining forth in the night: Till shadows have vanished, all fearfulness banished, As forward we travel from light into Light. By law God enforces. The stars in their courses, The sun in its orbit obediently shine; The hills and mountains, the rivers and fountains, The depths of the ocean proclaim God divine. We, too, should be voicing our love and rejoicing With glad adoration, a song let us raise; Till all things now living unite in thanksgiving, To God in the highest, Hosanna and praise. WE PROCLAIM Joys, Concerns, and Prayers Laurie Feille Community Joys & Concerns Response Come and Find the Quiet Center (v. 1) CH #575 Come and find the quiet center in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes, that we can see All the things that really matter, be at peace, and simply be. Prayers of the People One: Let us pray for the leaders of this world, our nation and our church community… Many: God of Justice, hear our prayer. One: Let us pray for those who live in conflict around the world… Many: Prince of Peace, hear our prayer. One: Let us pray for all who are experiencing loss of any kind in this pandemic… Many: Comforting Healer, hear our prayer. One: Let us pray for those who are homeless, hungry and alone… Many: Emmanuel, God-With-Us, hear our prayer. One: Let us pray for those who live in comfort, for Christ-like hospitality and generosity… Many: Transforming Spirit, hear our prayer. One: Holy and Living One, for those we have named and the ones whose names we do not know, Many: hear our prayer. A Version of the Lord’s Prayer (Please pray the version in your heart) Our Creator, who is in heaven, holy is your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen. Response Come and Find the Quiet Center (v. 1 last half) CH #575 Clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes, that we can see All the things that really matter, be at peace, and simply be. Children’s Time Song Sing and Rejoice CH #42 Sing and rejoice, sing and rejoice, let all things living now sing and rejoice. Alleluia, alleluia, peace and goodwill to all, peace and goodwill! Children’s Moment Deb Murphy Anthem I Bring a Heart of Thanks Pepper Choplin SELAH Moment Scripture Reading: Psalm 111 (Lukas Psalter Translation) Athena Carlson Alleluia! I will thank you, ADONAI, with all my heart in the meeting of the just and their assembly. Great are your works, to be pondered by all who love them. Majestic and glorious are your works, and your justice stands firm forever. You make us remember your wonders—you are compassion and love. You give food to those who revere you, keeping your Covenant ever in mind. You reveal to your people the power of your actions by giving them the lands of the nations as their inheritance. The works of your hands are truth and justice, and all your precepts are sure, standing firm forever and ever, and carried out uprightly and faithfully. You have sent deliverance to your people and established your Covenant forever. Your Name is holy and awe-inspiring! Reverence for ADONAI is the beginning of wisdom—those who have it prove themselves wise. Your praise will last forever! Sermon “Whole Heart Hallelujah” Dan Adolphson Visio Divina WE RESPOND +Hymn For Each Day of Life We Thank You CH #605 For each day of life we thank you, God, the giver of all days; and with hearts filled with thanksgiving, we would serve you, now, always. As in days of youthful vigor, may we in all later years know the joys of useful purpose. Free us from our anxious fears. Give us dreams and inner vision of a new world to be gained, where all people live together, by each other's love sustained. May the insights from living be a light upon the way, guiding us, and those to follow, to a brighter, better day. Celebration of Gifts of Self, Tithes, and Offerings Lu Griffin Offering Invitation Offering: Electronic giving is available through the Givelify app or the GIVE button on our website. You may also mail your tithes, offerings, and special offerings to the church office. Special Music: Because Guy D’Hardelot Tanner Vanderkrabben, baritone Doxology: Accept, O God, the Gifts We Bring CH #379 Accept, O God, the gifts we bring of spirit and of clay, Transform them into blessings on those we serve today.