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Oasis Worship
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Season of Music
This is a 30-minute staff and volunteer led service focusing on mid-week rest, renewal, and reflection. This coming season will challenge the idea of church music by taking a secular (non-religious) song each week and seeking the Divine. Are there undertones of spirituality, faith, prayer, peace, reassurance, acceptance, love, or hope in a song we’ve known for years but categorically considered NOT church music? While recognizing a Christian meaning may not have been the songwriters’ intention, we, as a community of faith, may still find that some of the words and melodies provide connection and meaning when we need it most if we choose to find God in it.
Consider making Oasis part of your Wednesday evening at St. Luke's where we're always saving you a seat. No matter who you are or where you come from, you are welcome here.
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September 11, 2024
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Welcome
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Opening Song
"My Hope is In You"
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Prayer
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Song
"Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross"
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Gospel: Mark 8:27-38
Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
The Word of the Lord…Thanks be to God.
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Med in Word
"Three Little Birds"
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Med In Prayer
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Med in Song
David Huntsman
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Med in Silence
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Closing song
"Mighty to Save"
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Go in peace, serve the Lord!
Thanks be to God!
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