Welcome to the Red Lodge Community Church
Worship With Us
May 18, 2025
Sunday School
Worship Leader: Laura Ymker
If you are joining us in person, the service is at 10 AM
Worship With Us
May 18, 2025
Sunday School
Worship Leader: Laura Ymker
If you are joining us in person, the service is at 10 AM
Participating in Today's Worship
Worship Leader – Phil Robertson
Liturgist -Martha Brown
Pianist – Lynell Kruckeberg
Choir- Marty Clague, Director, Martha Brown, Julia Childs, Jo Ann Eder, Lori Floyd, Libby Gardner, Steve Hanson, Sharyn McKenzie, Mark Sechler, Karen Simmons, Lanny Hilderman, Kathy Munson
Homebrewed Harmony- Marty Clague, Steve Hanson, Jim Howe, Mark Sechler, Don Redfoot
Serving today:
Deacons...................................................................... Audrey Clark, Helen Mackay
Technology......................................................................................................................... Jay West
Sunday School Director.................................................................................................Zina General
Sunday School Help.........................................................................................................N/A
Nursery Attendant......................................................................................................... Patty Schuessler
Red Lodge Community Church, United Church of Christ
PO Box 786, 308 South Broadway Avenue
Red Lodge, MT. 59068
406-446-1444
www.redlodgecommunitychurch.com
Our Transitional Pastor, Teressa Clark, is available for pastoral care emergencies and is glad to make pastoral care visits to those who are hospitalized or homebound. Please contact her directly by calling or texting 406-717-9745 or by emailing [email protected].
Office Hours: M-Thurs 8am-3PM, Fri 9-1pm
Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg, Music [email protected]
Marty Clague, Director Choir [email protected]
For information on joining Red Lodge Community Church, please talk with any of our deacons, or contact Mark Sechler at 573-415-7722 or [email protected]. Sundays our worship service is recorded with video and audio.
If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Jay West records our Sunday Worship Services. If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Words and/or Music reprinted under OneLicense.net License #A-725904 or CCLI #294875.
Opening prayer by Frances A. Bogle in Before the Amen: Creative Resources for Worship, eds. Tirabassi & Tirabassi (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2007), 233.
Prayers of the People adapted from RCL Worship Resources by Clergy Stuff, May 11, 2025.
Words for Doxology by David W. Yohn, reprinted by permission of the publishers from Touch Holiness, eds. Ruth C. Duck and Mare C. Tirabassi. © 1990 by The Pilgrim Press.
Call to Generosity and Prayer of Dedication by Rev. Ellie Hutchinson, “The Works Testify: Service Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Easter,” Worship Ways, UCC, May 11, 2025.
Worship Leader – Phil Robertson
Liturgist -Martha Brown
Pianist – Lynell Kruckeberg
Choir- Marty Clague, Director, Martha Brown, Julia Childs, Jo Ann Eder, Lori Floyd, Libby Gardner, Steve Hanson, Sharyn McKenzie, Mark Sechler, Karen Simmons, Lanny Hilderman, Kathy Munson
Homebrewed Harmony- Marty Clague, Steve Hanson, Jim Howe, Mark Sechler, Don Redfoot
Serving today:
Deacons...................................................................... Audrey Clark, Helen Mackay
Technology......................................................................................................................... Jay West
Sunday School Director.................................................................................................Zina General
Sunday School Help.........................................................................................................N/A
Nursery Attendant......................................................................................................... Patty Schuessler
Red Lodge Community Church, United Church of Christ
PO Box 786, 308 South Broadway Avenue
Red Lodge, MT. 59068
406-446-1444
www.redlodgecommunitychurch.com
Our Transitional Pastor, Teressa Clark, is available for pastoral care emergencies and is glad to make pastoral care visits to those who are hospitalized or homebound. Please contact her directly by calling or texting 406-717-9745 or by emailing [email protected].
Office Hours: M-Thurs 8am-3PM, Fri 9-1pm
Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg, Music [email protected]
Marty Clague, Director Choir [email protected]
For information on joining Red Lodge Community Church, please talk with any of our deacons, or contact Mark Sechler at 573-415-7722 or [email protected]. Sundays our worship service is recorded with video and audio.
If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Jay West records our Sunday Worship Services. If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Words and/or Music reprinted under OneLicense.net License #A-725904 or CCLI #294875.
Opening prayer by Frances A. Bogle in Before the Amen: Creative Resources for Worship, eds. Tirabassi & Tirabassi (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2007), 233.
Prayers of the People adapted from RCL Worship Resources by Clergy Stuff, May 11, 2025.
Words for Doxology by David W. Yohn, reprinted by permission of the publishers from Touch Holiness, eds. Ruth C. Duck and Mare C. Tirabassi. © 1990 by The Pilgrim Press.
Call to Generosity and Prayer of Dedication by Rev. Ellie Hutchinson, “The Works Testify: Service Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Easter,” Worship Ways, UCC, May 11, 2025.
Second Sunday of Easter May 18, 2025
Red Lodge Community Church
United Church of Christ
PO Box 786, 308 S. Broadway Ave., Red Lodge, MT 59068
www.redlodgecommunitychurch.com
406-446-1444
GATHERING MUSIC Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg
WELCOME Laura Ymker
PRELUDE
*CALL TO WORSHIP Martha Brown
One: Unhappy Mind! Distressed Soul!
Many: Why do you hide your face before your Creator?
One: Return, fugitive! Return to us,
Many: and God will receive you!
One: Runaway soul, be strong,
Many: and put on the armor of light.
One: Run to us,
Many: follow the footsteps in which you will never fall with us as your companions,
ALL: and God will heal you.
*OPENING PRAYER (unison)
Holy Spirit, quickening life,
moving all things, the root in all creation,
who washes all things of impurity,
removing sins and soothing wounds
who is shining light and laudable life,
wakening and rewakening all things.
Move in our midst today.
In Christ’s name we pray, Amen.
*HYMN “Oh Splendor of God’s Glory Bright” NCH # 87
*PASSING THE PEACE
Greet one another with a sign of Christ’s peace.
TIME WITH THE CHILDREN
PRAYER OF OUR SAVIOR (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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
SCRIPTURE Exodus 19:18-19; Hebrews 12:26-29;
Isaiah 60:19-20; I John 1:5-7
“The Giving of the 10 Commandments”
Exodus 19:18-19
Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.
As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.
“A Reflection on the Giving of the 10 Commandments”
Hebrews 12:26-29
At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”
This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe;
for indeed our God is a consuming fire.
Two Readings on God is Light
Isaiah 60:19-20
The sun shall no longer be
your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
give light to you by night;
but the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.
Your sun shall no more go down,
or your moon withdraw itself;
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your days of mourning shall be ended.
I John 1:5-7
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;
but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
One: The Word of God for the People of God.
Many: Thanks be to God.
SERMON “God is Fire and Light”
HYMN “Arise, Your Light Is Come” NCH # 164
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Living Light, speak to us. Help us make good servants of our minds, gazing at the light of the sun rather than the shadow of the shadows.
…
Specific requests
…
Living Light, who reveals miracles, help us flee darkness and soar like eagles in the Light of the Sun. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
JOYS AND CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH
INVITATION TO GENEROSITY
In the words of Saint Hildegard, “Do not become tired of good works either! Instead, keep your hand on the plough with the strength of your mind. Feed your flock justly, as well as you can, with God’s help. With all your strength, run with the eagle that gazes at the light so that you are not snatched away by listlessness.”
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY TUNE: OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God from whom all grace flows forth!
Praise Life, all creatures here on earth!
Praise Light, who guides us on our way!
Praise Love, who forms us day by day.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison)
Living Light, we offer these gifts to you, asking that you multiply them to feed a hungry world. Let us never tire of good works. Amen.
*HYMN “I am the Light of the World” NCH # 584 verses 2-4
*BENEDICTION
And my soul desires that the Light from the Light will shine within you and pour over your eyes and awaken your spirit to Divine truth so that your soul may be crowned by it, as God so wishes. May the sweetest fragrance be in you. May you never tire on the path of justice. Amen.
*SENDING SONG “Halleluja” NCH # 236
Red Lodge Community Church
United Church of Christ
PO Box 786, 308 S. Broadway Ave., Red Lodge, MT 59068
www.redlodgecommunitychurch.com
406-446-1444
GATHERING MUSIC Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg
WELCOME Laura Ymker
- Red Lodge Community Church
- Your name
- Liturgy and prayers inspired by Saint Hildegard, a mystic who lived in the 12th century
PRELUDE
*CALL TO WORSHIP Martha Brown
One: Unhappy Mind! Distressed Soul!
Many: Why do you hide your face before your Creator?
One: Return, fugitive! Return to us,
Many: and God will receive you!
One: Runaway soul, be strong,
Many: and put on the armor of light.
One: Run to us,
Many: follow the footsteps in which you will never fall with us as your companions,
ALL: and God will heal you.
*OPENING PRAYER (unison)
Holy Spirit, quickening life,
moving all things, the root in all creation,
who washes all things of impurity,
removing sins and soothing wounds
who is shining light and laudable life,
wakening and rewakening all things.
Move in our midst today.
In Christ’s name we pray, Amen.
*HYMN “Oh Splendor of God’s Glory Bright” NCH # 87
*PASSING THE PEACE
Greet one another with a sign of Christ’s peace.
TIME WITH THE CHILDREN
- xxxxx
- xxxxx
- xxxxx
PRAYER OF OUR SAVIOR (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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
SCRIPTURE Exodus 19:18-19; Hebrews 12:26-29;
Isaiah 60:19-20; I John 1:5-7
“The Giving of the 10 Commandments”
Exodus 19:18-19
Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.
As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.
“A Reflection on the Giving of the 10 Commandments”
Hebrews 12:26-29
At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”
This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe;
for indeed our God is a consuming fire.
Two Readings on God is Light
Isaiah 60:19-20
The sun shall no longer be
your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
give light to you by night;
but the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.
Your sun shall no more go down,
or your moon withdraw itself;
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your days of mourning shall be ended.
I John 1:5-7
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;
but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
One: The Word of God for the People of God.
Many: Thanks be to God.
SERMON “God is Fire and Light”
HYMN “Arise, Your Light Is Come” NCH # 164
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Living Light, speak to us. Help us make good servants of our minds, gazing at the light of the sun rather than the shadow of the shadows.
…
Specific requests
…
Living Light, who reveals miracles, help us flee darkness and soar like eagles in the Light of the Sun. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
JOYS AND CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH
INVITATION TO GENEROSITY
In the words of Saint Hildegard, “Do not become tired of good works either! Instead, keep your hand on the plough with the strength of your mind. Feed your flock justly, as well as you can, with God’s help. With all your strength, run with the eagle that gazes at the light so that you are not snatched away by listlessness.”
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY TUNE: OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God from whom all grace flows forth!
Praise Life, all creatures here on earth!
Praise Light, who guides us on our way!
Praise Love, who forms us day by day.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison)
Living Light, we offer these gifts to you, asking that you multiply them to feed a hungry world. Let us never tire of good works. Amen.
*HYMN “I am the Light of the World” NCH # 584 verses 2-4
*BENEDICTION
And my soul desires that the Light from the Light will shine within you and pour over your eyes and awaken your spirit to Divine truth so that your soul may be crowned by it, as God so wishes. May the sweetest fragrance be in you. May you never tire on the path of justice. Amen.
*SENDING SONG “Halleluja” NCH # 236
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