John 10:1-10 4th Sunday of Easter

I hear the cry from all sides

               come follow

               See how I have put together the facts

               Hear the story I have woven

               airtight

that sounds by all reason

               like truth

I yearn to follow

               but where

I hear the cry from within

               (I have come)

and know that voice

               I see not

               I hear not

the seamless reason

of carefully crafted facts

I know only the one who was

on the cross

               (that you might have life)

Who tasted death

               And life

               Before me

Who has risen

               To bring life to me

               Peace to me

Hope to me

that I may now shout for Joy

and Live

               (life in its fullness)

Life

Psalm 23

Worship Leader: There are times when we need some guidance in our lives.  Without the voice of God, we can easily become lost. 

Congregation: The LORD is our shepherd, we shall not be in want for the Lord makes us lie down in green pastures, and leads me beside quiet waters. The Lord restores my soul and guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 

Worship Leader: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for the Lord is with me; The Lord’s guidance comforts me.

Congregation: For the Lord prepares a table before us in the presence of those who would harm us. The Lord provides us with all we need and our cup of blessing overflows. 

Worship Leader: Surely goodness and love will follow us all the days of my lives,

Congregation: And we will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

10w for May 3rd, NL, Confronting Power.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for May 3rd, NL, Confronting Power. If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard. The song for the day is Invitation to the Unlikely by Heatherlyn from the album Heatherlyn.  Used with permission you can find this and other gifts for ministry at www.heatherlynmusic.com

bollerud · 5.3.20 NL, Confronting Power

10w for May 3rd, Calling By Name

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for May 3rd, Calling By Name. If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard. The song for the day is Child of the Water by Dakota Road from the album All Are Welcome.    Used with permission, you can find this and other gifts for ministry at dakotaroadmusic.com

bollerud · 5.3.20 Calling By Name

Luke 24:13-25 On the road to Emmaus

I don’t know if it’s true

I have my doubts like everyone else

I’m a pilgrim

a stranger

searching for that

for which my soul yearns

and when I hear the Word

and sing the songs

something happens within me

and I begin to feel at peace

there are times the words seem written

for me

and when I hear them

my heart burns with a peace

and love

               and discomfort

I can’t explain

but it is in the coming forward

and taking that piece of bread

               that cup of wine

and hearing the words

               This is my body

               This is my blood

               Given for you for forgiveness

               For life

that my heart leaps

and I know Christ

Psalm 116

Worship Leader:  I love the Lord because the Lord hears my voice, my cry’s, my prayers for mercy and bends down to listen. I will therefore pray as long as I have breath!

Congregation: Death wrapped its ropes around me and the terrors of the death overtook me. In the midst of this mess I saw only trouble and sorrow, but then I called on the name of the Lord: “Please, Lord, save me!”

Worship Leader: How kind and good the Lord is! So merciful, this God of ours!

Congregation: The Lord protects those like me, those of childlike faith, for I was facing death, and the Lord saved me. The Lord let my soul be at rest again, for the Lord has been good to me and has saved me from death, tears, and stumbling.

Worship Leader: So let us walk in the Lord’s presence as we live here on earth!

Congregation: Because I believe in you O Lord, I will come before you and admit that there are times when I am deeply troubled and in my anxiety I cry out to you from the depths of my soul.

Worship Leader: What can we offer the Lord for all the Lord has done for us?

Congregation: We will lift up the cup of salvation and praise the Lord’s name, we will keep our promises to the Lord in the presence of all his people.

Worship Leader: The Lord cares deeply for the loved ones who suffer, O Lord, we are your servants, your children, for you have freed us from our chains.

Congregation: We will offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving, calling upon the name of the Lord and will fulfill our vows to the Lord in the presence of all people.  Praise the Lord!!

10w worship for April 26th, Road Trip.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 26th, Road Trip. If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard.  The song for the day is Missionary by Ed Kilbourne from the album Play It Again. Used with permission, you can find this and other gifts for ministry at edkilbourne.com

10w worship for April 26th, NL, Now I Send You.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 26th, NL, Now I Send You. If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard. The song for the day is The Healing Hand of Jesus by the Jay Beech Band from the album Everyone Who Is Thirsty, Come.  Used with permission you can find this and other gifts for ministry at baytonemusic.com

John 20:19-31 2nd Sunday of Easter

Let me see

(the sun shinning)

I want to feel

(the wind)

How can I know

(a babies smile)

It is you Lord

(the rain)

How can I know

(the joy of another)

You have risen

(the joy of touch)

From the dead?

(my love)

How can I know

(for you)

Love lives

(the warmth I feel when I care

For another)

That was once dead

(prayer)

I can’t know unless I see

(faith)

Opening Litany based on Psalm 16

Worship Leader: Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge.

Congregation: We said to the LORD, “You are our Master! Every good thing we have comes from you.” The godly people in the land are our heroes and we take pleasure in them!

Worship Leader: Troubles seem to multiply for those who chase after other gods.

Congregation: We will not take part in their sacrifices or pretend to follow in their ways for the LORD alone is our inheritance, our cup of blessing.

Worship Leader: You guard all that is ours. The land you have given us is a pleasant land and a wonderful inheritance!

Congregation: We will bless the LORD who guides us; even at night our hearts instruct us to follow the ways of the Lord. Therefore we know the LORD is always with us and we will not be shaken, for the Lord is right beside us at all times.

Worship Leader: No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. I rest in safety knowing the Lord walks with us and will not leave us to the powers of death.

Congregation: The Lord will show us the way of life, granting us joy of living in the presence of the Lord forever.

10w worship for April 19th, Ant Bites.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 19th, Ant Bites.  If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard.  The song for the day is We Still Believe by the Jay Beech Band from the album, One Body Alive.  Used with permission, you can find this and other gifts for ministry at baytonemusic.com

10w worship for April 19th, NL, No Walls.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 19th, NL, No Walls.  If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard.  The song for the day is Fill The Earth with a Joyful Noise by the Jay Beech Band from the album, Everyone who is Thirsty, Come.   Used with permission you can find this and other gifts for ministry at baytonemusic.com

Matthew 28:1-10 Easter

Watching from the margins

From the dark edges of the world

As the representatives of power

Guard the rock

Not letting anything happen by chance

Lest the people

In hope

Longing for something better

In the darkness of the morning

Know hope…

The earth rattles

The stones roll

The guards freeze

And hope is born

Watching from the margins they see it

Mary and Mary

Still and silent

They see the open tomb

They see the angel appear

They see the Messiah raised

They see the future of a universe

That has never been

And can never

Return

To what was.

Mary and Mary

You and I

Don’t freeze

Don’t hold on

Don’t stand still…

Run and tell…

And the church is born

To Run and tell.

Give Thanks to the Lord (Psalm 118)

Worship Leader: Give thanks to the Lord who is good, whose love endures forever.

Congregation: Let everyone say, God’s love endures forever.

Worship Leader: Open the gates of righteousness and we will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

Congregation: They are the gates through which I may enter and give thanks for the Lord has become my salvation.

Worship Leader: I marvel when I see that which was rejected by the world, has become the foundation of humanity

Congregation: This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Worship Leader: Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, 

Congregation: with boughs in hand we will join the festal procession.

Worship Leader: You are our God and we give you thanks and exalt your name

Congregation: Give thanks to the Lord who is good and whose love endures forever.

Good Friday John 18:1-19:42

Who is this man

They cried

This one

--welcomed just three days ago

as the Messiah

the one who would bring peace to the nation

peace to the world

who is this man

who claims to be the Son of God

who would dare to tempt

the systems we have set in motion

we are

--they cried with a voice united

civilized people

we have our laws and order

--and our punishments for those

--who like our friend here

--choose

----(or are chosen)

----to be more than we have room for

this Jesus from Nazareth

hung up there

in pain and death

--just like any common

--------------(scapegoat)

------------------criminal

the King of Jews

with no kingdom of this world

and few to follow

Our

--------(law and order)

------------------Justice has a way

to keep things from getting

out-------------of----------------control

with anyone

------(God)

who would disrupt

this life of ours

who

-------is this Jesus of Nazareth

-------(Father)

that he should come here

where we have things

as we want them

-----------(forgive them)

and want nothing more

------(for they know not what they do)

10w for April 12th, Resurrection Life.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 12th, Resurrection Life.  If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard. The song for the day is Rise Up With Christ by the Jay Beech Band from the album Everyone Who is Thirsty, Come.  Used with permission, you can find this and other gifts for ministry at baytonemusic.com

10w for April 12th, NL, On Your Way.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 12th, NL, On Your Way. If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard.  The song for the day is Sunrise by John Michael Talbot from the album The Ultimate Collection.   Used with permission, you can find this and other gifts for ministry at johnmichaeltalbot.com

10w for April 10th, Good Friday.

The following is a 10 or more minute worship for April 10th, Good Friday. If you find this worship experience helpful, please share with friends and family. You can also find these audio worship services as well as Gospel poems and Opening Litanies on the Facebook page, "Lutheran Flannelboard or on Twitter @lutheranflannel or #lutheranflannelboard.  The song for the day is Father, I Put My Life in Your Hands by John Michael Talbot from the album The Ultimate Collection.  Used with permission, you can find this and other gifts for ministry at johnmichaeltalbot.com