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Season After Epiphany 2018 Worship Planning Series

It's the Season after Epiphany. Midway through, it's also Black History Month. The historic and ecumenical purpose of the Season after Epiphany is to help your congregation "rise up" and get ready for its work of accompanying people on their journey to baptism or restoration in the life of the church during the Season of Lent.

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January 2018

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Epiphany/Baptism of the Lord 2018, Year B

God is Speaking

The opening movement in our full service order can be an effective overture for this service and series. It announces the series theme (Rise up!) and introduces a recurring feature of this series, the...

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January 2018

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Second Sunday After the Epiphany 2018, Year B

Listen

The second week of this epiphany series leads us to the theme of listening. Listening, of course, is a critical part of the Christian path. There are many angles in which to approach this theme of lis...

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January 2018

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Third Sunday After the Epiphany 2018, Year B

Move

The core response to today’s theme is found in the prayers of the people. Prayer becomes the primary way we begin to embody the action of “Move” in worship today. We pray with people who must move, or...

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January 2018

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Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany 2018, Year B

Answer

While Moses is assuring the people of God’s plan to provide for a new leader, he also gives them guidelines that the leader must follow. These guidelines are now in the people’s awareness as they prep...

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February 2018

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Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany 2018, Year B

Focus

We can listen for God’s voice, get on the move, and develop confidence in God being one who truly answers us. But these processes, whether foregrounded or running in the background of our lives, may n...

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February 2018

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Transfiguration of the Lord 2018, Year B

God is Speaking!

We who follow Jesus follow where he leads. And he most often leads into places of suffering and death, including his and potentially our own death. We’ve been learning what it is to listen, to move, t...

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