March 30, 2025

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Boon Lin Ngeo

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Prelude:    Debbie Deane

Chalice Lighting:    

We light this chalice to affirm that new light is ever waiting to breakthrough to enlighten our ways:That new truth is ever waiting to break through to illumine our minds:And that new love is ever waiting to break through to warm our hearts.May we be open to this light, and to the rich possibilities that it brings us.

Opening Hymn:   Let it Be a Dance  SLT  311              

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship:  

In love and joy God calls us together.And so we meet this day, as friends, as neighbors, as sisters and brothers. Called together by God, we bring our offerings to God:Our songs, our hearts, our prayers, our lives.Grateful for this opportunity to give and receive, let us worship God

Prayer of Invocation:   

First Sacred Reading:      Exodus 19:1-6

Passing of the Peace 

Sharing of Our Joys & Concerns

Prayers of the People/Pastoral Prayer

Special Music: Erica D’Ancona

Offering & Doxology:    We Give You But Your Own – NCH 785 

We give you but your own, what e'er the gift may be; All that we have is yours alone, we give it gratefully

Second Sacred Reading:     Tao Te Ching chapter 33

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

If you stay at the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

Hymn of Reflection:    Love Will Guide Us  SLT 131

Sermon:          Let’s Come out to Love, to Live, and to Be

Closing Hymn:     I am on my Way SLT  116           

Benediction:                           Rev. Dr. Boon Lin Ngeo

Postlude:                                Debbie Deane

    All Souls Bethlehem Church

An Open and Affirming Congregation

Pastor: Rev. Dr. Boon Lin Ngeo

Ministers: All Members of ASBC

Minister Emeritus: Rev. Bill Nye 

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