Blacksburg Presbyterian Church

Neither this world nor your life is so broken that God cannot restore it to wholeness. In the name of Jesus, our sins are forgiven. Thanks be to God! ` from Touch Holiness

The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Come, and be knit back together, Come, and remember your place in the web of being, Come and trust the words of Jesus: I have come so that you may have life, and have it abundantly! Come, let us worship together!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

This is a space and time where we can celebrate beauty, lose ourselves in awe, grow in gratitude, lift up lament, and be re-rooted in the Source of Life who makes all things new. Come, let us worship!

See how good, how pleasant it is for kinfolk to live together as one! It is like precious oil on Aaron’s head running down on his beard, running down to the collar of his robes. It is like the dew of Mount Hermon, falling on the hills of Zion. For that is where God bestows the blessing— life that never ends. _ Psalm of the Day from The Inclusive Bible

My soul is troubled within me therefore I will remember you. Deep calls to deep in confusion and all your waters sweep over me. Yet by day God’s love assures me; come night, a song leaves my lips, a prayer to the God of my life. I ask God, ‘Why have you forgotten me?’ Why should I walk like a mourner, being taunted, ‘Where is your God?’ Why am I sunk in deep misery? Why am I lost and distressed? I...

Praise God! Praise God, O my soul! As long as I live I’ll sing praise to my Maker. Do not put your trust in human leaders, in mortals who cannot save you. When they stop breathing, they return to the earth; on that day their plans perish. Those whose joy knows no bounds find their help and their hope in God. God made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all they contain. God keeps faith, deals...

Psalm 130 & 131 For you, my God, I wait with hope born of the Word. Like sleepless ones who long to dream I wait and call my Lord. Lord, hear my pleading voice, and let me know you hear! As sleepless ones feel rest approach, I know my God is near. If you should list my faults, the sins of heart and hand, like sleepless ones who groan at dawn I know I could not stand! For even from the deep I k...

“God chose what the world considers foolish to shame the wise. God chose what the world considers weak to shame the strong. And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing.” —1 Corinthians 1:27-28

Psalm 118 This is the day that God has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! It is good to give thanks to God; God’s goodness will last forever. Open the gates of righteousness that I may praise my Maker. I thank you, for you answered me; you have become my salvation. This is the work of God; it is marvelous in our eyes. - - Psalm 118 selection adaptation from Iona Abbey Worship Book .

Psalm 103, selected text (Adapted from The Iona Abbey Worship Book) God brings justice to those who are oppressed, as shown to Moses and his people. God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, constant in love. God will not always be the accuser or keep anger hot forever. God does not deal with us as we deserve, nor punish according to our sins. God’s love for all faithful people is as high and v...

Psalm 116 (adaptation from the Iona Abbey Worship Book ) I love the Lord who listens to me; my prayers are heard in heaven. Death and hell laid hold of me; I was desperate, distressed, and in anguish. Then I called on the name of God: Save me! Save my life! God is gracious and merciful; I was rescued from all that oppressed me. My life was delivered from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stu...

Holy Spirit, You’re present all the time. Awaken us to that reality, so that we may see you, feel you, know you, follow you. Amen.

You lift up the soul, O God, and make the eyes sparkle.  You give health and life and blessing. -- Ecclesiasticus 34:20

“We seem to think that God speaks by seconding the ideas we've already adopted, but God nearly always catches us by surprise. If it's God's Spirit blowing, someone ends up having feathers ruffled in an unforeseen way. God tends to confound, astonish, and flabbergast.” – Sue Monk Kidd,  When the Heart Waits

“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.” ― Meister Eckhart

God of our journeying, inviting us to travel with you, forgive us when we cling to outworn security, afraid to let go of what is safe and familiar. Give us courage to take the risk of answering your call into joyous adventure. - from Bare Feet and Buttercups, Ruth Burgess, Wild Goose Publications

God of all creation, you loved us into being, yet we often flee our rightful place in your creation. We confess that we exploit the gifts you place around us and dominate the richness of the natural order. Forgive our greedy grasping. We confess our part in the devastation of our planet home, mirrored in the violence of cities, and the brokenness of hearts. Forgive and restore us, O God. Nurturing...

When Pentecost Day arrived, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound from heaven like the howling of a fierce wind filled the entire house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be individual flames of fire alighting on each one of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them to speak. In the last days, God...