Crowned with Glory and Honor

Call to Worship

God, how majestic is your name! You create, and through creation, we encounter your wisdom and power.

How majestic is the name of God, our Creator!

You redeem, and through Jesus Christ, we encounter your saving love and grace.

How majestic is the name of God, our Redeemer!

You sustains us, and through your Spirit, we encounter your renewing presence.

How majestic is the name of God, our Sustainer!

Come, let us worship the Triune God!

We gather to worship God, Three-in-One and One-in-Three!

Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, October 2024.

Opening Prayer

God our Potter, God who becomes clay, God who shapes us in the fire, we are made new in your presence. We come seeking your wisdom, crying out our concerns, needing your peace. Use this time to form us as community, connected through your breath, life, and hope that propels us as your body in the world. Amen.

Written by Rev. Dr. Cheryl A. Lindsay on the Worship Ways website at https://www.ucc.org/worship-way/trinity-sunday-c-june-12-2022/.

Prayer of Confession

Great God of all creation,
who are we that you are mindful of us?
You who set the stars in motion,
who launched waves crashing against the shore,
who knows the heights and depths of the world;
Why do you bother with us?
You count the hairs on our heads,
and call us each by name.
You give us your wisdom and you uphold us by your Spirit.
You tend to us and care for us,
and we do not understand why.

We cannot grasp your love for us, O God,
for it is unlike us to be that loving and forgiving.
We become enmeshed
by our own needs and wants and desires
and we fail to see beyond anything but our own little circles.

Turn us around, O God.
Remind us once again of the sacredness
of our ordinary, day-to-day lives.
By your Spirit,
teach us to live truly as beings little lower than angels.
In your mercy, O God,
forgive who we are and bless who we will be. Amen.

Written by Beth Merill Neel, and posted on Hold Fast to What is Good, https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/liturgy/. Re-posted on the re:Worship blog at https://re-worship.blogspot.com/2018/05/prayer-of-confession-psalm-8.html.

Benediction

Go, now, in the blessing of the Triune God who creates all things, redeems all things, and sustains all things so that we may live out the glory of God’s abundance and peace with one another and all creation. Amen.

Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, October 2024.