Wednesday Evening Prayer: Bedtime Stories 5, Joseph's Last Dream

Wednesday, April 6, 2022
7:00 PM 8:00 PM 19:00 20:00

Union Presbyterian Church 200 E Main St Endicott, NY, 13760 United States (map)

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Scripture tells of two dreaming Josephs. This night we remember the father of Jesus, whose dreams introduce him to angels who guide the way.

Join us for this last Wednesday Evening with Bedtime Stories. Worship with us in our sanctuary, or watch the video from home or the road. You are invited!

PLEASE NOTE: Due to technical difficulties we were not able to live-stream this service. The video should be available within 24 hours.

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Wednesday Evening Prayer

Union Presbyterian Church, Endicott, NY

Bedtime Stories 5: Joseph’s Last Dream

April 6, 2022

Liturgist: Claire Bombard Preacher: Rev. Pat Raube

Prelude “I Surrender All” with “Depth of Mercy,” Janet Vogt Colin DeLap

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Call to Worship Claire Bombard

Stay with us, Lord, for it is evening,

and the day is almost over.

Tell us again a story of dreamers,

of the ways God guides us home.

You, O Lord, are all compassion and mercy,

slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.

Hymn #232 W & R “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” (verses 1 and 3)

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Let all mortal flesh keep silence,

And with fear and trembling stand;

Ponder nothing earthly minded,

For with blessing in his hand

Chris our God to earth descendeth,

Our full homage to demand.

Rank on rank the host of heaven

Spreads its vanguard on the way,

As the Light of light descendeth

From the realms of endless day,

That the powers of hell may vanish

As the darkness clears away.

Scripture Matthew 2:19-23  Claire Bombard

When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And after being warned in a dream, he went away to the district of Galilee. There he made his home in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He will be called a Nazorean.”

Response Holy Wisdom, Holy Word:

Thanks be to God!

Meditation Rev. Pat Raube

Music Meditation “A Quiet Reflection,” R. Kevin Boesiger, Colin DeLap

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Prayers Rev. Pat Raube

The Lord’s Prayer (Unison)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 

Hymn #456 W & R “Thy Holy Wings”

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Thy holy wings, O Savior, spread gently over me

And let me rest securely through good and ill in thee.

Oh, be my strength and portion, my rock and hiding place,

And let my every moment be lived within thy grace.

Oh, wash me in the waters of Noah’s cleansing flood.

Give me a willing spirit, a heart both clean and good.

Oh, take into thy keeping thy children great and small,

And while we sweetly slumber, enfold us one and all.

Blessing   Rev. Pat Raube

Bless the Lord. 

God’s name be praised! 

May God bless us in our sleep with rest, 

in our dreams with vision, 

in our waking with a calm mind, 

and in our souls with the friendship of the Holy Spirit, 

this night and every night.  

Amen! 

Postlude “Give Me Jesus,” Mark Hayes Colin DeLap

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