God thank-you for sending your son to take our place We know we are sinful and aren’t able to stand up to your standards We accept your grace Help us learn to live in it Help us not hoard it Thank-you for loving us because of who we are and not what we do We …
God, thank-you for your blessings Thank-you for our wealth Thank-you for our community Let us not turn your blessings into curses Let us not hoard your wealth as if it’s ours Let us not focus on ourselves but each other God, thank-you for this story Thank-you for the barns we already have Thank-you for our …
May we be the kind of community where Wives love their husbands and Husbands love their wives and where Husbands and Wives mutually sacrifice and submit to one another May we be the kind of community where Parents listen to their children Children obey their parents and where Children and Parents seek understanding and not …
God, Let us wait well While we wait, we will restore with you While we wait, we will redeem with you While we wait, we are transformed by you Jesus, Let us wait well While we wait, we hope for your presence While we wait, we pray for peace in tension While we wait, we …
God, we ask for forgiveness, we repent For complaining about our trivial circumstances For caring about our own needs before others For ceasing to be the church and a sign of your news For depending on ourselves for fulfillment For depending on our purchases for peace For depending on money for security May we seek …
May we have perspective And count our accomplishments not May we understand your story And count our failures not May we see your unfolding plan And be found firmly within it May we participate in your redemption And be redeemed ourselves May we rejoice And keep on rejoicing May we embrace you As you embrace …
Today we remember when you walked into Jerusalem on a donkey. We get excited because in many ways this means we have won. This is a sign of victory and you are our king. So we yell with the crowds ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’ and ‘Blessed is the …
Lord forgive us, for we are hypocrites We believe one thing and do another We say one thing and never back it up Our lives are a mess One contradiction after another We believe that you died We believe that you rose We believe that you will save us We believe that you reign We …
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The revolution confronts us every day Do we want to join in? Will we live as if Jesus is alive and well today? Or will we sit back take in the sites? Will we hope that believing it happened is good enough? God has been orchestrating a story It is so grand that it doesn’t …
God forgive us for not truly living in your kingdom. Whether it be through our money, time and relationships We always tend to make it about us We never think twice Before following blindly what we think is normal God forgive us for being dictated by our cashflow For feeling secure when we have money …