Easter 6: Sabbath Healing

Sunday, May 22, 2022
10:30 AM 11:30 AM 10:30 11:30

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

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Jesus helps a man who has been longing for healing for 38 years.

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6th Sunday in Eastertide

Sabbath Healing

Acts 16:9-15; John 5:1-9

Union Presbyterian Church

May 22, 2022

Sharing the Light of Christ, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Liturgist: Colin DeLap Preacher: Rev. Pat Raube

Prelude       Chris Bartlette

“I Will Arise and Go to Jesus,” John Carter

Announcements Colin DeLap

Prelude Chris Bartlette

“Learning to Walk,” Joseph M. Martin

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Welcome Rev. Pat Raube

Call to Worship

This is the day that the Lord has made:

Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Six days humanity shall labor, and do all our work:

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord our God.

This is the Lord’s Day, the first day and the last:

Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Hymn  #655 W & R

“Come Away from Rush and Hurry”

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Come away from rush and hurry

To the stillness of God’s peace;

From our vain ambition’s worry,

Come to Christ to find release.

Come away from noise and clamor,

Life’s demands and frenzied pace;

Come to join the people gathered

Here to seek and find God’s face.

In the pastures of God’s goodness

We lie down to rest our soul.

From the waters of God’s mercy

We drink deeply, are made whole.

At the table of God’s presence

All the saints are richly fed.

With the oil of God’s anointing

Into service we are led.

Come, then, children, with your burdens—

Life’s confusions, fears and pain.

Leave them at the cross of Jesus;

Take instead his kingdom’s reign.

Bring your thirsts, for he will quench them—

He alone will satisfy.

All our longings find attainment

When to self we gladly die.

Call to New Life

Prayer for Wholeness and Peace

God of all creation, you made the world, and fashioned all life as we know it, from the tiniest microbe to the massive whale. You made us, humankind, in your own image, and you pronounced your creation good. Then you offered us the Sabbath, a day of rest, as both gift and commandment. We struggle with this gift. We strive to accomplish, we strain to get things done, and we doubt the difference between this day and all other days. God, we ask your help: Help us to rediscover and reclaim the Sabbath.

(a time of silent prayer)

Lead us, God, into this day of joy. Help us, Lord, to anticipate it with excitement. Guide us, Spirit, in remembering, not only with our minds, but with our hearts, with our whole selves. Let us honor the Sabbath and keep it holy. We pray in your holy name. Amen.

Assurance of God’s Love  

With the whole church:

We affirm that we are made in God’s image,

befriended by Christ, and empowered by the Spirit.

With people everywhere:

We affirm God’s goodness at the heart of humanity,

planted more deeply than all that is wrong.

With all creation:

We celebrate the miracle and wonder of life and the unfolding purposes of God, forever at work in ourselves and the world. Thanks be to God. Amen!

Sharing of the Peace

May the peace of God be with you.

And also with you.

Let us share a sign of God’s peace with one another.

Scripture Acts 16:6-15

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them; so, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.

During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.

Children’s Message Rev. Pat Raube

Music: “There Is a Balm in Gilead” (Public Domain)

Scripture John 5:1-9 Rev. Pat Raube

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.” Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.

Response  Holy Wisdom, Holy Word: 

Thanks be to God! 

Meditation “Sabbath Healing” Rev. Pat Raube

Anthem

“Healer,” Larry Olson

Used by permission, CCLI License #CSPL068847

Refrain:

Healer, healer, come and heal this world.

May we all offer up our hands.

May we all together stand.

May we all lay our weapons down.

May we all find our common ground.

May we all offer up our hands.

May we all together stand.

Prayers of the People    Rev. Pat Raube

The Lord’s Prayer   

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. 

Prayer Response  #450 W & R 

“Be Still and Know,” Jack Schrader 

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Be still and know that I am God, 

Be still and know that I am God. 

Call for Offering Rev. Pat Raube

Doxology  

“Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” 

Tune: Public Domain 

Text: Brian Wren  

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Praise God from whom all blessings flow; 

Praise God, all creatures high and low. 

Praise God, in Jesus fully known: 

Creator, Word, and Spirit one. 

Prayer of Dedication Rev. Pat Raube

Hymn  #717 W & R “Go Now in Peace,” Bryan Wren

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Go now in peace; though friends must part,
Your presence lives in every heart.
Your gifts to us no words can tell:
Go now in peace, in Christ go well.

Go now in hope, and hopeful stay,
Though shadowed valleys hide your way;
Through good and evil, joy and pain,
With God, in Spirit, you remain.

Go now in faith, through time and chance,
Until we join the wedding dance
As partners of the Three-in-One,
Where all is ended and begun.

Benediction Rev. Pat Raube

Postlude  Chris Bartlette

“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,” Joel Raney

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