Why Do We Sing?
Sunday, August 10, 2025
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Community is shaped by the conversations we share. These questions and reflections are a tool to help you meaningfully engage with the themes of this week's teaching.
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CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 48
MUSIC Curated by Kevin Borst
Phil Wickham - This Is Our God
John Mark McMillan - Heart's Delight
Bethel Music - God I Look To You
Cody Carnes - Simple Kingdom
EUCHARIST INVITATION
Written by Bobbi SalkeldThe Eucharist is where we remember the ritual of Jesus’ last meal with friends.
This ritual meal is a practice of embodiment. Through small embodied gestures of receiving bread and grapes, eating to remember, and praying simple prayers of gratitude, we are open to this profound profession –
We live and move and find our being
with the God of the universe
who nourishes all of life.This is true when days are bright and beautiful, and it is true when darkness and death are close at hand.
On the night Jesus was betrayed,
He took bread, blessed it, broke it, and said, This is my body – a body given for your healing and wholeness. Eat to remember.In the same way,
Jesus took the cup, blessed it, poured it out, and said,
This cup is filled with my life – and it is poured out for many.
Drink to reconcile.
Come, when your body is anxious, to be made new in love
Come, when your body is afraid, to be made strong in faith.
Come, when your body is regretful, to be made whole.
As Jesus said a prayer before sharing, let us pray too.
Creator God, present at this meal,
the bread that we break and the cup that we share
are places where our Saviour meets us.
Broken, we are being made whole.
Poured out, we are filled with joy once again.
Holy Spirit, bless these elements of community.
Amen.
And so …
Come forward together and know –
God nourishes your body and soul
now and always. Amen.
SERIES BUMPER
Sacred Practice
