Worship Service – Live Stream

Online Friendship Pad

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Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’ (you do not have to have a FaceBook account to watch). If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

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Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’ (you do not have to have a FaceBook account to watch). If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

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Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’ (you do not have to have a FaceBook account to watch). If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

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Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

Once the service starts, we recommend watching the service via Facebook Live (left) by clicking on ‘Watch Now’. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

We recommend watching the service via Facebook Live. If for some reason you are unable to do so, you may also view the service using this link here via Zoom. The service is viewable in any browser.

Click here for bulletin.

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If you are unable to access the service via FacebookLive above you may use this link here to access the service directly via Zoom. The service is viewable via any browser.

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At-Home Virtual Communion

As part of our normal worship practice on the first Sunday of the month, and because we know that Jesus met people where they were and he continues to meet us where we are, our church family will celebrate At-Home Virtual Communion this Sunday.

During our online worship, the pastors will preside over the elements in their respective homes, offering the Invitation to the Lord’s Supper, Prayer of Thanksgiving, and the Words of Institution. We ask that each family then share the Lord’s Supper together, using whatever elements you may have available, just as we often do on mission trips.

We encourage you to prepare for worship with the following ideas:
• Create a worship space, perhaps at the kitchen table or a coffee table. Feel free to place anything on the table that has special meaning for you, such as a special memento that reminds you of church or witnessing God in the world. Last week in worship, we talked about lighting a candle before worship each week as a reminder that God is with each of us wherever we are, therefore, we are all together through the Spirit.
• Remember how the pastors often say during the Lord’s Supper, that Jesus uses ordinary things for extraordinary purposes? Well, this is one of those times that common things can represent God’s grace to us. Please do not feel the need to purchase special bread or juice, we do not want to place that burden on you nor is it necessary. Use whatever you have in your home already – sliced bread, crackers, cookies, pretzels, any sort of juice, wine, water, or even a coke. You may consider placing the elements in cups and on a plate that is special to you.
• You may designate one person to serve or gather in a circle to pass the elements to one another. As you share the bread, you may say, “The bread of life” or “The body of Christ.” As you share the cup, you may say, “The cup of salvation.”

As Presbyterians, we believe that the Lord’s Supper enacts and seals what the Word proclaims: God’s sustaining grace offered to all people. The Lord’s Supper is at once God’s gift of grace, God’s means of grace, and God’s call to respond to that grace.

Through the Lord’s Supper, Jesus Christ nourishes us in righteousness, faithfulness, and discipleship. Through the Lord’s Supper, the Holy Spirit renews the Church in its identity and sends the Church to mission in the world. This is what we celebrate when we gather around the table – and in these days, though our tables are in many different places, our hearts and lives are bound together through Jesus’s great love for each of us and all of us.

If you have any questions about celebrating the Lord’s Supper in your home, feel free to reach out to one of the pastors.

MUSIC SELECTIONS

Prelude – Festive Fanfare – Dale Wood

Offertory – Zion, at Thy Shining Gates

Zion, at thy shining gates
Lo! the King of glory waits;
Haste thy monarch’s pomp to greet,
Strew thy palms before His feet.

Christ, for Thee their triple light
Faith and Hope and Love unite;
This the beacon we display,
To proclaim Thine advent day.

Come, and give us peace within;
Loose us from the bands of sin;
Take away the galling weight
Laid on us by Satan’s hate;

Give us grace Thy yoke to wear;
Give us strength Thy cross to bear; Make us Thine in deed and word,
Thine in heart and life, O Lord.

So, when Thou shalt come again,
Judge of angels and of men,
We, with all Thy saints shall sing
Hallelujahs to our king.

Postlude – Grand Recessional – Dale Wood

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Note about safe and compliant worship this morning:

Saint Luke’s is pleased to offer online worship this morning safely and in compliance with all local ordinances pertaining to the church and individuals. 

• The three worship leaders and one technical producer this morning are keeping safe social distance from one another at all times, using sanitized equipment and surfaces. 
• Worship online this morning is in compliance with the Dunwoody “Shelter in Place” ordinance issued yesterday afternoon. However, we recognize that we can keep one another and our community even safer during these times by moving to videoconference-based worship led from leaders’ homes. We expect that style of worship to be in place for Sunday, 4/5, and all of Holy Week thereafter.  
• Worship is also in compliance with the municipalities in which its leaders reside.  Saint Luke’s staff who reside under Dekalb County’s jurisdiction, and have been ordered to “stay in place,” are participating in worship from their homes.
• We hope these assurances can help us all exhale and breathe in the experience of worshipping together this morning!

Links to example recordings of today’s hymns (some may contain ads):

Morning Has Broken – 664
My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less – 353

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Text of the tune on which the organ prelude is based:

How Can I Keep from Singing? Robert Lowry

My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentations,
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation;
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear its music ringing;
It sounds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?

Although the tempest loudly roars,
I hear the truth, it liveth!
But though the darkness ’round me close,
Songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I’m clinging;
Since love is lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

When tyrants tremble, sick with fear,
And hear their death-knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near,
How can I keep from singing?
In prison cell and dungeon vile,
Our thoughts to them are winging;
When friends by shame are undefiled,
How can I keep from singing?

Links to recordings of today’s hymns (some may contain ads):
Let All Things Now Living
Healer of Our Every Ill
God be With You