Sunday Worship Bulletin, Nov 9 2025

Veradale United Church of Christ

An Open & Affirming Congregation

Worshiping God in Christ – Welcoming All – Working for Justice & Peace

“No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here!”

Nov 9, 2025

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10:20 Gathering and Prelude

Wayne Shull, Music Director and Worship Leader

Tom Cuilla, Usher Coordinator

Joe McSwain, Usher 

Jerry Brines, Usher

Maureen Carroll, Scripture Reader

Kelly Cuilla, Candle Lighter

Sue Ferrozzo, Fellowship Set-up

Naomi Hanvey, Fellowship Clean-up

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

Rev. Gen Heywood, Pastor

10:30am    Welcoming the Light of Christ and Worship Begins

We worship on the unceded traditional territory of the Spokane, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Coeur d’Alene, and other tribes. We acknowledge the history of indigenous genocide, removal, and erasure that continues to this day.  We recognize the role that Christian communities played in these injustices, and we recommit ourselves to seeking more peaceful, just, and neighborly ways of sharing this land with all who call it home.

Community Affirmation

God lives through us...all the time!  All the time...God lives through us!

Service and Fellowship Opportunities

Next Sunday: Isaiah 65:17-25, Luke 21:2-19 

“Change Happens”

Bible Study, Monday 7:00pm

Silent Prayer, Tuesday 9:00 to 9:30am

String-A-Lings,Wednesday, 5:30pm 

Sing-A-Lings, Wednesday, 6:30pm

This month’s community giving: Salish School

Opening Hymn: “To God Compose A Song of Joy” 36 (NCH)

Armistice Day Remembrance

Recognizing all who have served

Prayer: God of all the Nations, we remember that without justice, there can be no peace. We thank you for the people who have given their youth and often their lives in the service of our country. We call upon your blessings that justice may prevail for our veterans. Fill our nations leaders with true compassion not just hollow words of praise. May these leaders act with honor toward the living not just toward those who have died. May the words of praise for our veterans turn to actions that are just and insure that food, shelter, and medicine are easily provided to all who need it. Amen. 

Community Prayer

 “Eagle’s Wings” 775 (NCH)

And God will rise you up on eagle’s wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of God’s hand.

Prayers of Gratitude

song

Prayers of Concern

song

Silent Prayer

song

 The Lord’s Prayer use the translation which is meaningful to you or

 Our Father (Creator) 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.

Response: “Lord, You're Worthy” 305 RB

Lord, you're worthy to be praised and I worship you. Lord, you're worthy to bow down to and I bow down to you. Lord, you're worthy to be worshipped and I worship you. I praise you, I bow down to you, I worship you. 

Lord, you are worthy to be honored and I honor you. Lord, you're worthy to believe in and I believe in you, Lord, you're worthy to be trusted I put my trust in you. I honor you, I believe in you, and I put my trust in you. 

Lord, you are worthy to be loved and I love you. Lord, you're worthy of my life I give my life to you. Lord, you are worthy, O so worthy, I give my all to you. I love you. I live for you. I give my all for you.

A Time of Offering

 An Invitation to Share 

Offering of Music “You’ll Never Walk Alone” soloist, Marvin Wilson

Dedication Hymn: “This Is My Commandment” 241 RB

This is my commandment that you love one another that your joy may be full. This is my commandment that you love one another that your joy may be full. That your joy may be full. That your joy may be full. This is my commandment that you love one another that your joy may be full.

Dedication prayer: Sovereign of the Universe, we are grateful and make these offerings of time, talent, and treasure to the work of your Spirit through us. Bless all that we are and all that we give that it may, one day soon, be on Earth as it is in Heaven. Amen.

Listening for God

Psalm 98

O sing to the Lord a new song,    for God has done marvelous things.God’s right hand and God’s holy arm    have gotten God victory.² The Lord has made known God’s victory;    God has revealed God’s vindication in the sight of the nations.³ God has remembered God’s steadfast love and faithfulness    to the house of Israel.All the ends of the earth have seen    the victory of our God.

⁴ Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;    break forth into joyous song and sing praises.⁵ Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,    with the lyre and the sound of melody.⁶ With trumpets and the sound of the horn    make a joyful noise before the Sovereign, the Lord.

⁷ Let the sea roar and all that fills it,    the world and those who live in it.⁸ Let the floods clap their hands;    let the hills sing together for joy⁹ at the presence of the Lord, for God is coming    to judge the earth.God will judge the world with righteousness    and the peoples with equity.

Luke 20:27-38 ²⁷ Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him ²⁸ and asked him a question: “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, the man^[a] shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. ²⁹ Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman and died childless; ³⁰ then the second^[b] 31 and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. ³² Finally the woman also died. ³³ In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.”

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage, ³⁵ but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ Indeed, they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. ³⁷ And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ³⁸ Now he is God not of the dead but of the living, for to him all of them are alive.”

Message: God of the Living

Meditation in Music

Announcement Reminder

Our Light moves into the World God Loves

Closing Hymn: “Steal Away” 599 (NCH)

Refrain: Steal away. Steal away. Steal away. Steal away to Jesus. Steal away. Steal away home. I don’t have long to stay here1. I hear God calling, God calls me from the thunder. The trumpet sounds within my soul. I don’t have long to stay here. (Refrain)2. Green trees are bending, poor sinner stands a-trembling. The trumpet sounds within my soul. I don’t have long to stay here. (Refrain)3. I hear God calling. God calls me by the lightening. The trumpet sounds within my soul. I don’t have long to stay here. (Refrain)4. Tombstones are bursting, poor sinner stands a-trembling. The trumpet sounds within my soul. I don’t have long to stay here. (Refrain)

Benediction 

Communal Blessing

Be Yourself.

Grow in Christ.

Live with Compassion