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Pastoral Welcome
Welcome to Faith Chapel this morning.
I’m Pastor Lewis one of the Pastors at Ankeny First.
Call to Worship
The goodness of the Lord passes before us;
The name of the Holy One is proclaimed for all to hear.
God is gracious and merciful to whomever God chooses;
Show us your glory, O Lord, we pray!
Pastoral Prayer
God, Help us to know You more and to love You better.
We pray that we may learn to spend more time simply sitting at Your feet, listening to Your Word and communing with You in Your presence.
We pray that You will capture my heart, and ignite our imagination, teach us Your ways and draw us ever closer to You, so that we may learn more of You and the eternal truths of Your precious Word.
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
We come to you in need today.
We are hurting physically
and we need your healing touch on our bodies.
We are hurting emotionally
and we need your special presence and comfort
as we walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
We are hurting spiritually
as we suffer through a long, dark night of the soul,
and we need your light to guide us out.
We are hurting relationally
and we need your wisdom to guide us to know how to forgive
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
Lord God we lift us the many people who lead us through life
Bless our leaders who have big responsibilities to carry:
· the leaders of our city, our state, and our country
· the leaders of the churches,
· the leaders of our congregation
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
God we lift up those that feel distant from you
Distant from your body the church
Distant from a relationship with you
Distant from the love that you have for them
God would they be known by you, they might be transformed by your love
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
God we confess of the sins that have separated us from you
We confess of the things that we know that we do
but God we also confess of the ways that we hurt people and we weren’t even aware of it.
Oh God we stand in awe of your grace that we don’t deserve and certainly couldn’t earn.
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
Lord in this moment of closeness with you and with each other.
Give us a child-like anticipation and joy of coming into Your presence each day, an ever deepening awareness of the future inheritance that you have prepared for us in heaven that will never fade or spoil.
Give us a closer walk with You we pray, and may my daily fellowship with You become my dearest priority in life.
We pray all of this in the name of the one who has taught us to pray by saying:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
WCR
Offering Talk
Sermon Intro
If you are anything like me over the last year there are certain words that you are just sick hearing.
And it doesn’t mean that their not important, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t take them seriously, but there are some words and phrases that if you are like me just make sigh a little bit.
Trying Times
Pandemic
Crises
Public Health
But probably the term that I cringe the most at and again this isn’t saying this isn’t important.
But the term that cringe the most at do you know what it is?
.....distance
Distance has become almost like a dirty for me
I’m sick of distance I don’t want to be distant any more
Even when I first heard the term social distancing there was just some grief that had.
Maybe physically distancing but not socially distancing.
Throughout the last year this has been true.
Going to the grocery scared to even look anyone in the eyes because of fear that I would get in a conversation with them
The first times after pandemic that I saw people that were really meaningful to me
There were friends that I knew that I didn’t have an opportunity to connect with for an entire year that I saw and we had to learn once again how to be close to each other
This past year has changed how I understand relationships
In-person vulnerability is a challenge
Being close is a challenge
Being distant feels comfortable
I’ve forgotten how to be close to people and I’m just talking about physical closeness
Our ability to be close with each other has shifted
Our ability to be closer to God might have shifted
We understand our relationship with God in light of the relationships that we have with others
Have we let our relationship with God become distant?
Perhaps have we ever experienced closeness with God?
Scripture
We were made in the image of God
The trinitarian God made us in the image of community
We are told throughout scripture “I will be their God and they will be my people”
Scripture Context
Moses (with God’s help) is leading the people out of slavery in Egypt and into the promised land
The pillar of cloud lead them by day and a pillar of fire by night
Moses was leading the people through the dessert
Moses leaves to go receive the 10 commandments
When he is gone the people make the Golden Calf
When he returns he obviously gets mad about this, but even more than getting mad he goes back to the tent of meeting to talk to God about this.
When We are seeking Distance God is Seeking Closeness
God wants to be close to us - Sentence this week
How crazy is it that God has absolutely every reason to be far from us and doesn't
God is like the coolest kid in school times 1,000 and yet sits at our lunch table
There is an emphasis through Moses’ to know God
Do you know God? that might be a question that you have asked
God help me to know you
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