Church Without Walls
Centering Practice
We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself.
- Since we’re out in God’s creation, let’s stand together, spread our arms out wide (make some room if you need to!), and take 2 or 3 deep breaths
- Now, look around and see if you can spot something in nature that gives you a sense of peace. Turn to a neighbor and share just the color and one sentence about why it gives you peace!
Call to Worship
God is our strength,
our Rock, and our Refuge.
We trust in God’s faithfulness.
We rest in the peace of Christ,
and seek to become peace-makers,
for the life of the world around us.
Amen.
Worship Song
Called Us Higher
We could just sit
We could just sit and wait for all Your goodness
Hope to feel Your presence
And we could just stay
We could just stay right where we are
and hope to feel You
Hope to feel something again
But You have called us higher
You have called us deeper
And we’ll go where You will lead us Lord
Where You lead us, Lord
And we could hold on
We could hold on to who we are and never let You
Change us from the inside
And we could be safe
We could be safe here in Your arms
and never leave home
Never let these walls down
And we will be Yours
We will be Yours for all my life
Community Prayer
God of the whole earth,
Today we bring You our whole lives —
our beauty and brokenness,
our anxieties and our dreams.
O God, fill us with Your hope.
Your world, and all of creation, is crying out
for justice, flourishing, and peace.
O God, restore us in Your love.
Be near to the suffering in war-torn places
around the word like Gaza and Sudan,
and in the streets of protest around our nation.
O God, comfort the afflicted
and bring Your justice.
Make us instruments of Your peace and love.
Amen.
Announcements
- Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
- June Schedule:
- Next Sunday (6/22) we’re back at Sandburg for a day of Intergenerational worship & service to others (by making care kits for the SD Rescue Mission). You can support this financially through our Tithely!
- Reset Sunday on 6/29 — No gathering at Sandburg, but taking sign-ups for those interested in visiting the WNDR Museum downtown. Please sign up here! For everyone, we’ll send out a worship guide that week.
- Young Adults Bible Study: Pastor David will be starting up a Young Adults Bible study soon, so please keep an eye out for that!
Scripture Reading
Matthew 11:28-30
28 (Jesus said,) “Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
Invited to Rest
Pastor David
Conversation Questions
- What are things in your life that are life-giving that you want to do more of? What is getting in the way of this happening?
- What are the things in your life that are draining? In what ways can you invite the Lord into that space and find ways to find rest and comfort even in those draining spaces?
Worship Song
You Don’t Have to Lose Heart
Hey now, you don’t have to lose heart
Hey now, we are only at the start
Of what God’s doing here
Hey now, you don’t have to lose heart
Hey now, we are only at the start
Of what God’s doing here… He’s here
So let us put our trust
In the One who carries us
So we can let go
Of every disappointment
Let us cling to love
To the hope ahead of us
So we can hold on
To every single promise
Brother, when your troubles weigh you down
Sister, fix your eyes on higher ground
On the peace that’s yet to come…
Let us rest here in the hands
Of the One who made all things
Let us rest here in the plans
Of the One who knows all things
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