God Reforms Us A Service for Reformation Sunday by Rev. Ryan Slifka Greeting Call to Worship (based on Psalm 90) God is our dwelling place from year to year, age to age. And yet, we become complacent, forgetting who we are. God reforms us and makes prosperous the work of our hands! God’s life surges forth through creation, like grass that renews every morning. And yet we prefer to be dust, swept away in the wind of every new idea and new fad. God reforms us and makes prosperous the work of our hands! God turns to us, and has compassion on us, so the great work of our lives manifests Christ’s glorious love to the world. God reforms us and makes prosperous the work of our hands! Processional/Opening Hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” (VU 262) Prayer of the Day Wondrous God: Thirteen billion years ago your creative spark called creation into being. Two thousand years ago you lit a spark of new creation in Christ. Five hundred years ago, your grace reignited the hearts of men and women with names like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Katharina Zell, Ulrich Zwingli, and Argula von Grumbach. Just when we think all is settled, everything is finished, closed, your power and presence explodes on to the scene yet again, bringing newness, bringing life. Fill us with your power and presence, O God, so we may, like our grandparents in faith carry your truth, your beauty, and your justice to the world you so love—a world in such need. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
God Reforms Us A Service for Reformation Sunday by Rev. Ryan Slifka Greeting Call to Worship (based on Psalm 90) God is our dwelling place from year to year, age to age. And yet, we become complacent, forgetting who we are. God reforms us and makes prosperous the work of our hands! God’s life surges forth through creation, like grass that renews every morning. And yet we prefer to be dust, swept away in the wind of every new idea and new fad. God reforms us and makes prosperous the work of our hands! God turns to us, and has compassion on us, so the great work of our lives manifests Christ’s glorious love to the world. God reforms us and makes prosperous the work of our hands! Processional/Opening Hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” (VU 262) Prayer of the Day Wondrous God: Thirteen billion years ago your creative spark called creation into being. Two thousand years ago you lit a spark of new creation in Christ. Five hundred years ago, your grace reignited the hearts of men and women with names like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Katharina Zell, Ulrich Zwingli, and Argula von Grumbach. Just when we think all is settled, everything is finished, closed, your power and presence explodes on to the scene yet again, bringing newness, bringing life. Fill us with your power and presence, O God, so we may, like our grandparents in faith carry your truth, your beauty, and your justice to the world you so love—a world in such need. In Jesus’ name. Amen.