We invite you to heal us, and forgive us, We also know that you love us, and forgive us, and call us to forgive others. In this time of silence, and in our prayer together, let us look at our lives. fitting for his call to ministry. These or one of the forms in the services in Common Worship should normally be used. We have forgotten. In 2014,
Stephen M. Fearing, M.Div., M.A.P.T. Very early in the morning, the good news was shared with frightened friends, that Jesus was risen and alive in our midst. Gracious and loving God, hear our prayer. We turn a blind eye to suffering and need and grief. Sometimes a word of thanks brings warmth to a cold heart. Alleluia! O God, hear our prayer. For three years, Stephen served as the
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION 28. Lifting water from the font with both hands, the minister proclaims: Hear the good news! Amen. Amen. Call to Confession Lord, too often we take the easy option. Yes, that is just fine. God's love has been poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit. INVITATION TO CONFESSION And the hope that your grace awaits us. CALL TO CONFESSION Let Ditto to everything said above. A time of silence may be observed for personal confession. We turn our backs when we could embrace. INVITATION TO CONFESSION And you watch us do nothing in response to cries for help. There are too many horrific stories, and not enough hopeful ones. Let us proclaim the Good News: thank you. The writer James asks, Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? You call us to trust in you completely, there isbut we do not. And we accepted your grace. Beth. Blessings in your ministry! For apathy, Forgive us, we pray, through Christ our Lord. We seek your presence, and bask in your love, through Christ. Send us out to be your people. In Christ we pray, Amen. Thank you for sharing them. Loving Mystery, we have tried and succeeded, and we have tried and failed. 3. O Holy God, we know we have fallen short. Take away the source of the pain, we pray: COMMUNAL PRAYER Were losing patience and were losing hope and were losing our grip on faith. Easter Calls to Worship | Spacious Faith Easter Calls to Worship Joanna / March 26, 2013 With Matthew 28:1-10 The earth is shaking. May I utilize one of your confession prayers in our worship July 5, 2020? We would know you better, so that the burden of sin would not weigh us down. PRAYER OF CONFESSION When all we can muster are sighs and groans, the Spirit knows those also. Friends, hear the Good News: the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting. So we thank you, and ask for your forgiveness, and pray that you will stay with us throughout the journey. P: Let all the people praise God with their music and their voices! When we hoard your gifts, 77. And so we live our lives imperfectly, for we are flawed. In this time when there is much sorrow and grief, ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS PRAYER OF CONFESSION and mind and strength. Of course! May I incorporate some of the confessions in worship. When the law was given through Moses, people were exposed to a mirror that reflected their sin and they became aware of their separation from God and their need for mercy and deliverance. We think about yesterday and tomorrow but not today. Gods mercy is deeper than the depths of the sea, and Gods grace is wider than the whole of the earth. Thank you, Craig. the kind word that is a testament to grace; Gods peace to you. Find courage in unlikely place, We ask for your forgiveness for the harm we have caused. Alleluia, amen. Sometimes, O God, we forget people, or we toss them aside the difficult ones, the needy ones, the ones that are hard to spend time with, the ones who confront us. They are appropriately spoken from the baptismal font, perhaps after pouring water into the font. The fear that stifles us, Respecting the Blessed Sacrament; Children's Liturgy of the Word. You heal someones beloved, and we ask, Why not this one too? You shower food upon some who hunger, and we complain that our stomachs are growling. remind you of this surpassing grace in Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. 55. We ask that some of your greatness infuse our smallness. A Baptism Primer. We anger at the slightest insult and imagine great vengeance upon those who wronged us. We are set free to go out into the world and be the loving, gracious, hopeful people of God! You count the hairs on our heads, and call us each by name. Its a delight to me to have the liturgists and the congregation come up to me to say that the words are moving them. Gracious and merciful God, you know us. Call to Confession The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Redeem what is crushing and wrong. To a wholeness with each other and with You. O God who loves us, hear our prayer. Alleluia! forgive what we have been, Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. Holy God, hear our prayer: God promises always to love and forgive us even when dont follow Gods way, or when we do things that hurt others. Eliminate from us the fear of sin that we might tell this glad story - that Christ is risen, he is risen, indeed! So help us in all of this, so that we truly are your partners in service and mission. Know that we are forgiven, and be at peace. In this week as I walk your path and sometimes stumble, Friends, this is the Good News: Pingback: EChurch@Wartburg 9.11.16 | The Wartburg Watch 2016, Thank you, Beth, for such a wonderful range of Prayers of Confession. Thank you for sharing your gift with us. piano, trumpet, guitar, and handbells. We know you die, and we go on about our usual way. Friends, let us proclaim the Good News: And God loves us. Pain of brothers and sisters and people unknown, The Spirit of the God has brought the fullness of the Lord to the world once again. Absolutely. Holy God, we ask for your help, your power, your Spirit, so that we can amend our lives and grow more each day into the image of Christ. Friends in Christ, know this: the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting, and I We have hoarded. COMMUNAL PRAYER That distance is sometimes a force of evil, when something conspires against us. Forgive us, turn us to the right path, CALL TO CONFESSION The call to confession is always a call to experience Gods mercy. and that again and again you call us back to You, This we pray in Jesus name and for His sake. with all your heart, Call to Reconciliation Very early in the morning, God created all that is good and beautiful. I am preparing for a service where I will be the guest preacher later this month. Amen. This we pray in the name of Jesus, who is with us always. 33. Maybe we will find the living wings of a bat, God is gracious and merciful and knows our needs even before they reach our lips. Call to Worship Leader: See what love has been given to us, that we should be called children of God. I will tweak some a bit to fit and use them with our congregation if I may. Holy God, You sent Your Son Jesus to be our peace, and yet we know so much strife and war, in the world, in our communities, in our churches, and within ourselves. Holy God, hear our prayer. Please feel free to use whatever is useful, and adapt as necessary. Amen. Holy God, we are an imperfect people and we need your love. ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS In the days to come, remind us of your love and grace. When are blind to the good, We are distracted by shiny things, and we get lost. Among the instruments that he enjoys are
Risen Lord, we have seen the empty tomb, and yet we sometimes act as if we have seen nothing. What shall we call you? When we box you in, The God to whom we make our confession is the God who loved us so much that God took on mortality, choosing to limit the divine, in order to understand us and be with us. ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS I want to be transparent with what has come up for me in and through your prayer, in the mind of this text as it speaks to me. An avid member of the marching band, Stephen
Beth, I really appreciate your liturgies. 31. Forgive us when we look at screens rather than sunsets; forgive us when we read about a crisis and do not respond. Amen. On this day which God has made, we are loved and grace awaits us. Let us confess our sins that they may be washed away by the mercy of our risen Lord. Turn us around from that which destroys toward that which heals and brings joy. ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Claiming the promises of God sealed in our baptism, we humbly confess the reality of sin in personal and common life. In our faults, we seek your blessing. Heal your world, and heal us, that we might go out and be people of salvation, not of destruction. Forgive us for that. CALL TO CONFESSION Friends, this is the Good News: The call to confess is the call to lay down the burden you may carry, the burden of guilt, of judgement, of knowing you hurt another. In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Amen. The proof of God's amazing love is this: Mass for the Homebound. When we are weary, O God, give us bread for the journey. Trusting in that mercy and that grace, let us make our confession, before God and each other, first in silent prayer. Forgive us, we pray. And hear us now as in silence we open our heart to you. 81. We offer the confession of who we are, awaiting Gods mercy and love. The St. Modwen Logistics Jobs and Careers Fair will be held on March 7 between 12pm - 5pm at Unit 5, The Cofton Centre, 150 Groveley Lane, Cofton Hackett, Birmingham, B31 4PT. Hear us, forgive us, reshape us, and love us, we pray. In Christ, God brought us back to our true home, to hope, to love, and to life. Forgiving another, offering mercy, choosing compassion. Today we will not hide our wrong doings from you, we confess that we have left vows unfinished, good purposes forgotten, opportunities left unfulfilled, and duties unmet. While attending PC, Stephen continued to
Our Lord and Savior has risen from the grave! ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Amen. as Gods people, forgiven and made whole. In Christs name we pray. The proof of Gods amazing love is this: Come and see, You said, and we looked around We are easily distracted by the next important thing; God knows that, and wants to help us make things right. Know that you are forgiven, and be at peace. Help us to see you as our center, and to cling to the good that you create in the world. No event, no matter how tragic or full of grace, can be viewed through any lens other than that of resurrection. Hi, Justin Im glad you find the prayers useful! Let us come before our God with that which lies heavily in our hearts. I will use the prayer of confession during a service giving you full credit. So shape us, and turn us around, that we will live with blessing and grace and light. Amen. Why must we continue in fear? Enable us to let go of that which does not matter, and to see what does matter. Beyond that, we ask that you would help us turn from our former selves to the persons you have created us to be, full of mercy and grace and love. In this moment as my mind wanders: This we pray in the name of your Risen Son, Jesus Christ. Easter Pandemic Prayer Jesus died. These services will also be streamed. Sometimes our inaction leaves the world in its sorry state. So glad I found your site! 74. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Copyright 2022 Stephen M. Fearing. For fear of admitting our part in the separation, So assure us of your closeness, and your power, and your mercy, and your ability to change our lives for the good. }. Call to Worship (from 1 John 4:7-8, 11-12) Beloved, let us love one another, Because love is from God; Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. I used some of your words in a collage today. And we know that fear stops us in our tracks, hinders our action, and gives excuse for not doing what you call us to do and what you empower us to do. that we might love more fully and more wondrously, I have judged. Awesome material. We ask for your mercy and grace, and we ask for your help, to give us courage and strength to live as you would have us live. I am preaching on the story of the bent-over woman.. Shall I site your writings at in a portion of our bulletin? With our heads bowed and our hearts held high, let us bring to God all that is in our hearts, the whole of our lives. Merciful God, hear our prayer. We would be different, if you would come into our hearts and cleanse them; if you would open our hands and direct them; if you would move our minds and feet to follow you. With our pride, our self-righteousness, and our need for control When we feel that we aren't even worthy to approach God, the Spirit goes before us and with us and God welcomes us with arms open. CALL TO CONFESSION PRAYER OF CONFESSION When our faith stands at the grave, grieving for a stone that's rolled away, forgive us. Amen. Our feet are planted too firmly, O God 80. We ask for your help. INVITATION TO CONFESSION Amen. Great God of all creation, who are we that you are mindful of us? but find it difficult to share this good news with our My apologies for the late response. L: In God's eternal realm, peace and hope reign! INVITATION TO CONFESSION Our church used the Good Friday prayer of confession on Sunday; the line our souls are shredded especially touched my heart. We saw an abundance of things; Blessings to you in your ministry. Hie Bath, Will be using your confession this Sunday. Remind us that there is hope when all we see around us makes us despair. Thanks much, Gretchen Wilson. Amen. 12.17.22 EChurch@Wartburg: Pastor Lew Upchurch: Recapture the Joy (Advent) | The Wartburg Watch 2022, Advent Wreath Liturgies: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love, prayers of the people: come, Holy Spirit, fill the earth, Great Prayer of Thanksgiving based on Luke 1:46-55, Advent Candles 2020: hope, peace, joy, love. The doubt that plagues us. I sense that your heart fills with joy in this opportunity to share this offering of prayers. Attribution is appreciated: Written by Beth Merrill Neel on her blog, Hold Fast to What Is Good. Forgive us, and more than that, To come before God with the truth of our lives is itself an act of faith: we trust that the Holy One is interested in us, interested in our minds and hearts and souls. Forgive us our lukewarm responses. ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS You can select the newsletters you'd like to receive at the link below. I have hated. And we paused. So we ask for your help. With your permission I would like to use some of your prayers of confession for upcoming online worship services recorded for YouTube. And we saw our own minds, so smart yet timid; Bring your offerings! We confess that we have not lived out your call to share in abundant life and unconditional love. For not loving You with our minds, O God; We fill our minds with frivolous things, and allow our hearts to stay blank. Loving Creator, we admit that we like to put You into neat little boxes the God of this, the God of that, the God of these people but not of those people. Let us make our confession. Life that began at the creation of all things. This we pray in Jesus name. Amen. We dont always get everything right, and when that happens, sometimes we hurt other people or ourselves. Used with permission. We humbly confess that, while we know the story and believe it, I will be doing it againand again. O LORD, be my helper! We know all is not right, but we cannot say with certainty what is wrong. . and we forgot to see what is small Call to Reconciliation The psalmist declares that God who creates us - God who loves us, God who redeems us - searches us and knows us completely. In this time of quiet, may we look within, and offer God the wholeness and truth of our lives. That we may embrace all with love. Alleluia! Thank you. Prayer of Confession (John 3) All: Gracious God, we come before you in need of forgiveness and grace. Will it be free? We have gloated. We look for what is broken, and not at what is being mended. We have disbelieved your mercy, Amen. So help us, dear Lord. Amen. I came across your site and saw your beautiful, heartfelt prayers! PRAYER OF CONFESSION In admitting the truth of our loves to our loving Creator, we open ourselves to the experience of grace and healing. The old life has gone; a new life has begun. Enlarge our hearts, souls, and minds so that we let go of the need to define You so that we can embrace the joy of letting You be the One who loves. We prefer to think about you instead of getting to know you. We laze about in the good news of our faith and do not consider the deep commitment of faith. Amen. Help us set aside our prejudice and bias. Im glad these are useful. 64. In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! *PRAYER OF CONFESSION We hear the taunts, and pretend our words are always sweet. We confess that we fear what is different. God is many things to us: Creator, Father, Mother, Judge, Healer, Love, Mystery. That would be a great blessing to people. P: Though the way may be difficult, God will be with us. Christ reigns in power for us, This we ask in the name of Jesus, who came to show us the way. Help us commit to the need that is before us right now. Lost and afraid, we become stubborn and intractable. CALL TO CONFESSION document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); I write, I think, I sing and dance while I make dinner. We would be saintlike holy, good, patient, loving. I would like to use some in an upcoming service. All is not well. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. As we go about our lives, that glory is diminished but no absent. Every week, as we worship together, we have the opportunity to admit to ourselves, to each other, and to God that we do not always live as we are called. 8. Amen. So that we will be freed to serve and love and dream and be, Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier: hear our prayer. We pray, first in silence. Volunteer with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Volunteer for Elected Service at the General Assembly Level. 56. PRAYER OF CONFESSION We hold grudges for a long time, and we do not reconciliation with those from whom we are estranged. We saw pine martens and elephant seals and puppies. Let us pray, first in silence. Amen. Help me to live that way. Trusting in Gods mercy, let us make our confession, first in silent prayer. In this time of confession, this time of opening our hearts, let us remember that God is merciful and just, eager to offer grace and love. 13. Loving God, you pick us up and brush us off and take us home. We come before you in need of healing: Confession and Assurance In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Help us, we pray, that we will We do thing we know will hurt others and act as though we are blameless. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Forgive us when we put rules ahead of people, and choose legality over kindness and judgment that lacks mercy. We would know you better, so that the freedom of your mercy would enable us to fly. Help us be a people of resurrection not just on this day but all days. Leading the Call to Confession from the Font and Table, Leading the Prayer of Confession from the Font and Table, Leading the Declaration of Forgiveness from the Font. Sate us with peace in our souls that we will take peace into this war-weary world. It is in our confession where we realize our desire for God and our hope for Gods mercy. God, open our lips to speak for justice. PRAYER OF CONFESSION God bless you! 41. And we saw mountains and oceans and blue skies and sunsets; Geoff, thank you for your kind words! We would rather debate our equals than defend the vulnerable. For peace, for reconciliation, for grace. We are safe, then, to make our confession in the midst of Gods grace. I have gloated. Also, I see you writing for the PCUSA. We invite you on our journeys, O God. 45. INVITATION TO CONFESSION AND RESPONSIVE PRAYER We confess to the One we call God, our Creator, our Redeemer, *ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Sometimes get it right, and sometimes we dont. We confess that we have allowed those rifts to grow, The musical stars John Schneider, Chonda Pierce, Caroline Clay, Colin Alexander, Kristina Miranda Stone, Geoffrey Davin and Caitlin Borek. Your words are so powerful and beautiful. And we saw luxury and opulence; Prayer For judgment, We saw our hearts, broken by the weight of the world; While we were sinners Christ died for us. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Even the obstacle of death has been removed between us and God. 70. Absolutely! We have come this morning with full hearts hearts that carry sorrow, and worry, and guilt. Amen. 23. We hurt you and others, and instead of hurting us back, you forgive us. Holy God, we will be honest: this is really hard. Very YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO USE OR ADAPT ANY OF THESE LITURGIES. We confess to the One who loves us. Forgive us, help us to repent, and make us whole. We come today asking for the courage to run to you instead of away from you when we are in trouble. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, The tomb is before us. Amen. We trust that in the jumble of all of this, you are present. Beth, these prayers are beautiful. Holy God, Lord of love: Heal our broken, imperfect hearts, Offering grace to the imperfect; forgiving those who have hurt us; seeing the good that surrounds us. Out of the depths God cries to us, asking us to repent, to return to God with our whole hearts, to admit our sin, and to accept forgiveness. We have belittled ourselves, We seek your forgiveness and we seek reconciliation with you and each other. God of love and mystery, make us whole, through your Son Jesus Christ, we pray. You know our successes and our failures, that which commends us and that which condemns us. Audrey. Each week as a community we set aside time to admit our sin. Loving and gracious God, you are so patient with us. 24. Help us to look to the example of Jesus to see how to love. Invite us to dance with you. and stressed, give us the energy to serve your creation; For not loving You with our whole soul, O God; We are complicit, and we are guilty, and we are broken. Give us grace to forgive others and ourselves. Our Blessed Mother Mary calls each of us to pray the rosary daily to combat temptation & evil, & to pray for the conversion of sinners & world . Required fields are marked *. Please tweak and use them and grace and peace to you! Amen. For all those ways we hurt you by hurting each other and ourselves, forgive us. CALL TO CONFESSION The source that is apathy. Much we need Thy tender care. SILENT PRAYER. I was searching online for some good alternative Confessions when I came across your site. The following is not so much a prayer of confession, but excerpted from an essay on the nature of confession. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy One: at times when we hear the bad news of the world, it is as though weve been in the middle of a bad dream, and then we turn over and go back to sleep, ignoring the plight of your children. When we lose all hope, show us the empty tomb. Forgive us. In Christ we pray. Savior, like a shepherd lead us; Amen. Let us greet with world as people made new in Christ. With eyes tight shut, we cannot see pain or beauty. You know the sins we carry, secretly or openly, the way they crush us, the weight of them. We bring our confession to this God, trusting that the fullness of the divine will hear our plea and grant us mercy that makes us whole again. Forgive us, and show us Your kindness, that we might do the same. We ask you to give us the courage to change. The pain of systems unyielding. And women lug water for miles, So darkness calms us and gives us rest. CALL TO CONFESSION 67. the child who is vital not only for the future but for the present. and like the breeze rustling our leaves. We avoid the Christian family. To confess is to admit to admit something that might make us feel guilty or ashamed or sad. So let us make our confession, first in silent prayer. Make us more loving and courageous and hopeful. In your mercy, And in silence, let us offer God the whole of our hearts. We have a number of international students from all over the world participating. When, Lord, did we see you? We cast the first stone, and keep the logs in our own eyes. 4:16. We speak when we could listen. Each of us works to cope with the easy and with the sad, and sometimes as we try to manage all that life hands us, we ignore the pain of someone else, the struggle of another. To be participate in the prayer of confession is to admit the truth that all is not right, and that we need God to make it right. This we pray in the name of Jesus, our leader, our guide, our Savior. Have mercy on us for the wrong we have done. We lay that burden down at the feet of the One who calls all of us to a life of forgiveness and repentance. So often we come to you at a loss at a loss for the right words, the right deeds, the right feelings. You who set the stars in motion,who launched waves crashing against the shore, who knows the heights and depths of the world; Why do you bother with us?