We are pleased to share this recording of our entire Worship service from Sunday, April 2, 2017.  The Lenten service was presented in the style of Taize, which includes meditative singing, silence and prayer.  We hope the Music and Words of this recording help bring you peace and provide support for your prayer and reflection.

Acts 4:32-37

Acts 5:1-11

"For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we."  

— John Steinbeck

Acts 1:1-8

Acts 2:1-4

"You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails."  — motto of National Hospice Regatta

Matthew 28:1-10

Matthew 28:11-15

"For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - but how you played the game."  — Grantland Rice

Jeremiah 7:3-11a

Mark 11:15-19

"We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly.  Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967

Psalm 112:1-9

Matthew 13:31-33

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."

— Irish Proverb

Matthew 5:1-16

Matthew 6:5-15

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important.  You have to do the right thing.  It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit.  But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing.  You may never know what results come from your action.  But if you do nothing, there will be no result."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8

Luke 4:16-30

"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.  A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

— Nelson Mandela

Mark 8:27-30

Mark 1:1-15

"You are my child, my beloved:

 With you I am well pleased>" — Mark 1:11b

Psalm 51:1-2, 10-14

Matthew 2:12-23

"Let there be peace on earth

 And let it begin with me." — Jill Jackson Miller

Psalm 148

Matthew 12:1-12

"Arise!  Shine!  Your light has come; the Lord's glory has shone upon you." — Isaiah 60:1 (CEB)

Matthew 1:18-25

John 1:1-18

"There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation."

— Madeleine L'Engle

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people." — Luke 2:10

Malachi 3:1; 4:1-6

Zephaniah 1:1-6, 4-18

"No matter what sort of difficulties, no matter how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster." — Dalai Lama XIV

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."

— Joseph Campbell

Psalm 8

Genesis 1 & 2

"Let these ancient stories be occasions for wonder rather than reasons for argument."  — Boyd Lien

Psalm 1

Deuteronomy 30:11-16

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."

—Psalm 119:105

Ruth 1:1-8, 16-18

Ezra 9 & 10

"There is a crack in everything

 That's how the light gets in."  — Leonard Cohen

Isaiah 40:1-5

Jeremiah 31:31-34

"The nature of God is to create." — Ronald Clements

Amos 5:18-24

Hosea 1:1-10

"In the place where it was said to them:  "You are my people," it shall be said to them:  "Children of the living God." — Hosea 1:10b

2 Samuel 11:1-13

1 Kings 18 1-6

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

— Oprah Winfrey

Joshua 24:1-15

1 Samuel 8:4-19

"It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere.  But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just.  God gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth.  It is an awesome opportunity."

— Cesar Chavez