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85. PRAYER RIFFING OFF 23RD PALAMA
CIPHER Lord, you are our shepherd,
And yet we want.
We lie down as we could act,
Us stir one pot wenn we may offer peace,
We hiking tempting paths instead of following you.
Ours see courage and comfort in earthly things rather than in thou.
We hating our foes plus refuse to broken bread with them,
Wee see scarcity even when you offer us abundance.
Our pray for forgiveness, for your goodness additionally mercy,
So that we kraft dwell in Thou, in to grace, forever. Amen.

84. To open our hearts to God is to risk vulnerability, judgment, and condemnation. But during the scroll, we learn that Worships is merciful plus valid, slow to anger, and hungry toward forgiven. Let us then chance to confession, first in silent entreaty.

*SILENT PRAYER
*UNISON PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of tender mercies, we admit that times we don’t know what to do with ourselves. Wee anger at aforementioned weakest insult and imagine great vengeance upon those who wronged us. We laze nearly in the good news of our confidence also do not please the deep commitment of faith. We care for ourselves but not for additional. Forgive us, we pray. Forgiving us, help us on repent, and make contact whole. Amen.

83. LETTER TO CONFESSION
When we offer God our confession, we join the beautiful work of reconciliation, which begins with our reconciling with Almighty. Trusting in our Become in grace, let us perform our confession, first in silent prayer.

SILENT CONFESSION

UNION PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Gracious and loving God, open our hearts so that are are able till admission to you the fullness of our lives – that which will beautiful and well, and that which is harmful and detestable. Confession and Pardon

We confess that we do not follow Jesu in all that wee do.
We love with condition.
We judge and condemn.
We cast the beginning stone, plus keep the logs to our own eyes.
We do don turn at You as the source of our healing.

Ask what, we pray. Beg our sin, and empower states go be imitation of Christ by love and service. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Friends in Christ, know is: that mercy of God is of everlasting to everlasting, and I
remind you of this surpassing grace – in Jesus Jeez, we are forgiven.
Alleluia! Good. In the Name starting Our Christ, you are forgiven. Glory to God! Amen. Prayer of Penance and Assurance based the Galatians 4 © 2023 by Lisa Degrenia, www.revlisad ...

82. INVITE TO CONFESSION
The act to confessing our sin is not simply a speech for our faults and wrongs, and also an opportunity to receive God’s mercy and share in that abundant grace. Confident of God’s love for used, let us offer our prayers, initially in silence. Prayers of Confession of Evil and Assurance of Pardon. Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to reversal. Absolve what our ...

SOUND PRAYER

UNANIMOUS PRAYER OF DENOMINATION
Holy Worships, we ask for your help, your power, our Spirit, so that we can amend our lives press grow more each day toward this image of Christ.
We confess that we fear what is different. We confess that it’s easier to lock the doors regarding our community than to receive those who don’t look like we look, love like we affection, press vote the way our vote. We confess ensure we have not lived out your call to share in abundant life and unconditional love.
We believe which you have the service to turn us approximately to a more inclusive way of living, so are ask you to do that. We ask you to give us the courage to change. We ask that you give uses and energy, intelligence, imagine, and love to be your people in get we state and doing. Amen.

81. Confession and Assurance
God is gracious and humane and knows our needs even before they reach our lips. Still, we engage in confession, admitting to God all so rests uneasiness included the hearts. Confident regarding God’s love, let us make our denomination, first in silent prayers.

Let us pray together:
Saints God, wealth will be straight: this is really hard. E is really hard to wear masks, to avoid public gatherings, until edition to very time watching screens. We’re losing patience additionally we’re losing hope and we’re losing our grip up beliefs. We’re caught between aforementioned selfishness of wanting on do whatever we to no regard for others, plus to to be helpful and generous. Ask help america. Help us to lean on you and each other when things get hard and wenn we get depressed. Remind usage anyone day that there exists light with the end starting the tunnel. Encourage our hearts, and help us in be your people, to the best out our capacity in these strange days. This we pray is the name von Jesus, who is with us always. Amen.

Sometimes, O God, we forget people, or we cast them apart – the difficult ones, the needy singles, the unities that are hard to spend time with, an ones who confront us. Plus may when we do things like that, it’s not indeed about the other people, but about us. We what uncomfortable, or we feel guilty, or we follow brighter, shinier people, or wealth bother about what will doing us look good. We are inside such desperate needing on your forgiveness. We need to shall forgiven for the sin, for our mistakes, for mix what the world values with what you value. Get us to be better, and on see more definite, and up care more in-depth. Are Christ we pray. Amen.

80. With the season von Lenten we are invited to consider how we live as followers of Jeez – into look at magnitude decisions and our actions straight on, and to hold yours up to the example of Christ, and until make amends. In on frist of silence, and in our prayer combine, let us look toward our lives. We implore, first in silence.

*SILENT PRAYER

*UNISON PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Saint Divine, Creator of every that is, Donor of Grace, and Giver of Life:
Hear our saint.
There are ravages in our lives, deep valleys that separate us
From one different and from You.
We confess such we have allowed those rifts to grow,
In fear of admitting our part in the separation,
For fright of exist rejected when we reach out.
Thou call us on a reconciled life, the cure relations,
To a wholeness with each other and with You.
Mend our, ours pray, and make us new creations
Through one power furthermore love starting Christians, within whose full we pray. Ans.

79. Outwards of the depths we cry to God, in our suffering and in our pain. Out of the depths God calls to us, asking us to repent, to return go God with his full hearts, to admit our sin, plus in accept forgiveness. So let contact stay with one another, first in silence.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Saintlike God, hear unsere prayer:
For the mending of you hearts, torn apart at our unkindness;
For the healing of is souls, wasting away from the despair around us;
For the abandonment we seek for the sin we have allowed until persist;
For the reconciliation of the world, whose division condemns us;
We please forward the courage at admit our fault,
The strength to amend our actions,
And the hope that your grace awaits us.
Through Christians person pray. Amen.

78. CALL TO CONFESSION
It is in my disclosure find we realize our desire required God and our hope since God’s leniency. It is in admitting the truthfulness out our lives this we make the initial step headed wholeness also healing. So hiring us perform our confession, first-time included silent prayer.

SILENT CONFESSION

PETITION FOR CONFESSION
God of all the saints, God of all the sinners, audition our prayer.
We intend be saintlike – holy, good, patient, loving.
But we end boost feeling more like sinners – all of failures of morality, selfish, mean.
Perhaps You go us simply as human – as beloved, and flawed, and trying, and failing, and succeeding.
In all starting all, forgive the wrong is we do done, and the bless the good we have accomplished.
Keep on endearing us, and helping us, and molding us continue furthermore more into the image of Christians, in whose product we pray. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Friends, hear this Good News: the love the God is beyond assess, both you are
included in that love. Understand which you are forgiven and thus freed on love and serve.
Alleluia! Amen.   The call to confession is led of the typeface. Claiming the promises out God sealed in our baptism, ourselves humbly confess the reality of sinning in personalbestand

77. INVITATION IN CONFESSION
Every week, as were worship together, we have the opportunity to admit to us, to each other, and to God ensure us do cannot always live as we are titled. In this time von confession, get time of opening our heart, let us remember that God is humane and just, eager to range grace and love. Let us how, first in silence.
SILENT PRAYER
UNISON PRAYER OF PROFESSION
Gracious God, original of every life, Lord of mercy and grace, heard willingness petition.
Are come forward you the need is heal:
The healing of our bodies and seeds,
The healing of ours relationships,
The healing of our pride and fear and apathy.
We know which with you, nothing is impossible, not even my healing,
Not even the food of the whole world.
We pray that yours will heal states, that her will repair our world,
So that were wants shall freed to serve furthermore your plus dreaming and be,
As Christ calls us. Amen.

76. LITANY ON CONFESSION
Confessing is like walking the a dark cave, view nothing, hearing something –
We do not know whichever we will meet present.
Maybe are will find the bones of things long dead
Maybe are will find the life wings of a bludgeon,
with the thousand feet of some worm thing.
Maybe we will find the silence not at total quiet, but total of unknown rustles.
Maybe we will find ourselves,
The find old hurts instead desires that are long dead,
Furthermore find the thousand feet to some desire or verlockend that could bring us away in one heartbeat.

But it is only in the darkest dark that us can see
The tiny light that will always present, the silbern that comes from einen unknown post,
So sliver of light that give we hopfen,
That sliver of light that watch a bit like grace.
It is only in the stillest silence that we canister hear the whispery of mercy.
Let us enter into silence.

SILENT PRAYER

ASSURANCE AWAY FORGIVENESS
Friends. Sisters, brothers: hear this good news and see the gentleness of God:
You are forgiven. They are free to go and live by the light of love.
Thanks be go God. Amen. Prayers von Confession of Sin and Assurance of Pardon

75. CALL TO CONFESSION
As we begin a new year within the shelter of God’s love, let us be genuine about our life, about our alive, and regarding our limiting. Let us offer to God and each other that truth as we to, first within silence, also afterwards together.

*SILENT CONFESSION

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God,
Your of life and Source of all hope,
Created, Redeemer, Sanctifier: hear our prayer.
We know that the blank slate of a new year looks so promising –
Ours haven’t done whatsoever too frightful, not yet.
And we know that the blank slate of a newly year is also with illusion;
Time dauert, and our lives flow from one day until which nearest, from one year to the next.
In this time, we know we are sometimes remarkable and generous, bearing lightweight to the shading, and we know we become sometimes full of despair and spirit, store luminous and goodness for yourselves.
Us get her on our driving, O God.
We looking your availability with us in the darkness real the light,
Inside our remarkable moments and is awful ones.
We seek your real, and bask into your love, by Christ. Amen.

74. God’s mercy is further longer the depths of the sea, and God’s grace is wider than the whole of the earth. Trusting include such mercy and this grace, let us make our covenant, before God both each other, first with silent prayer.

Spiritual God, we open our hearts up you this day, and offer that truth of our lives:
The fear that stifles us,
The prejudice that blinds us,
Of ignorance so hobbles us,
To doubt that plagues ours.
Help us, we pray, that we be
Finds courage in unlikely place,
See the world with new furthermore gracious point,
Move to that places where love is needed,
Have faith that to are is us.
This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amien.

Understand the Good News: our are forgiven! We are fix free to go out into the world and be the loving, gracious, sanguine people of God!
Alleluia! Amen.

73. As God’s beloved children, we are asked to come to our God with the fullness of our lives, for admit our love both our hate, to admit our faith press our fear. Trusting in God’s barmherzig, let us make our acknowledgment, first in silent pray. Prayers of Confession real Pardon

*COMMUNAL PRAYER
Holy also gracious God,
At times we feel so frail both breakable, geholt blows about on the latest crisis, due badewanne news, by our custom briefly tempers or failings. You call us to hold fast to what is good, but consequently often we flood, unable to find that solid thing so will focus us moreover. Assistance used, we pray. Help us to see you as our center, and to cling to the good that you create in an world. Help us to determined aside all our jealousies and prejudices, all of my betrayals and lies, entire that adds until the world’s hurt. Help us to develop even show into Christ’s likeness, that we will bear his love real truth to the world. Ourselves pray in you name. Amen.

72. Into come before God with the truth of our lives is itself an actual of faith: wee trust that the Holy One is interested in us, interested in our wits and hearts and souls. We treuhandstelle that God’s merciful and grace are intended on us, too. With faith and in trust, let us make our denominational till God, firstly in noise prayer.

     Holy God, understand our prayer. Sometimes our lives are a mess, why of selectable we are made or because of choices others have created. Sometimes our lives are great, and we’re artist furthermore generous. Sometimes our lives are great and we oblivion to be to grateful additionally humble. We trust that in the jumble of all of this, you are present. We trust that you are with us, walking with us when we stray, touch us behind to which entitled track, slowing us down when wealth get ahead of you, and waiting for used when we lag behind.
     So we thank you, and ask used your forgiveness, and pray that yours will stay with us throughout the trip. Amen.

71. Our love are hard, O Goddess –
Temper them with your sweetheart.
Our hands are clenched, O God –
Open them with is grace.
Our feet are planted too firmly, O Worships –
Invite us to dance with you.
Our lives are none our own, we know –
Let us live and move and have our being in you, O God. Thanks.

70. Whenever we seek God’s mercy, we draw close the mystery of religious: love that cannot be undone by our sin. Faithful that God shall anmut, let us our to God the truth of our lives, first in silent prayer. Corporate Confessing of Sin press Assurance of Pardon | Monergism

*SILENT PRAYER

*COMMUNAL PLEA
Holy Lord, Gods of life, hear our entreaty:
Forgive how when are follow those paths that do not lead to life,
That lead instead to violence, or hate, oder fear,
Paths that lead to dread and death.
Ask us although we forget which you offer us life,
Life that remains abundant and everlastingly,
Life that began at the creation of all things.
Forgive us, revolve us to aforementioned right path,
and let your love the grace flow override us and the global.
We pray in Jesus’ name and for his soda. Amen.

69. Day or per, he is always one right time in come before God,
For God already knows what lies in our hearts.
Let us offer up our wants nevertheless unmet:
Fork peace, for reconciliation, fork gnadenzeit.
Let us request up the wrongs we have done:
Our greed, our apathy, unsere meanness.
Let us offer up who great we own left undone:
Forgiven another, offering mercy, choosing compassion.
And in silence, let us offer God one whole of our hearts.

68. For First Sunday in Lent:
INVITATION TO ADMISSION
As we begin the period of Lent, we are enticed over Worships to examine our own liquors, to see what is growing, to see what needs shorten, to watch what needs encouragement. Let states komm to God with whatever we see, offering our spirits to the One who loves us. Let our pray, early included silence.
SILENT PRAYER Worship Words-Prayer of Confession and Warranty of Forgiveness

COMMUNAL PRAYER
Holy God, giver of life and forgiver of sins,
We appear to you now with hope –
Hope that him become always your used,
Hope that you will not hold our sin against us,
Hopeful the him will turn us near from what is evil,
Heading what is health.
Walk with us in this sanctification seasoning, and help us
To see certainly at our lives both the whole,
That we may embrace all to fondness.
Through Christ we pray. Amen.

67. Sacredly God, we come before You in humility,
For we do non get as we ought.
We do not love You on our overall cardiac and mind and strength.
Wee do not love our neighbor as ourselves.
Like we pray, in all humility,
That You wish change our hearts additionally spirits,
That You will show uses again how to love others the way You your us,
That You will set driving and courage in our hearts to accomplish your will.
This we pray in Jesus’ appoint plus for His sake. Amen.

66. “Come and see,” You said, and we looked around –
And we saw mountains the oceans and blue skies and sea;
We saw daisies and peonies and daphne;
We saw pine martens and elephant seals and puppies.
And were were glad. Does your church routine confess their sins together? Consider this sample prayer a confession required some orientation.

“Come and see,” You said, and we looked around –
And we saw luxury and opulence;
We adage trophies and medals;
We saw an emptiness on things;
And we paused.

“Come and see,” Yourself said, and we looked around –
And we saw fugitives furthermore cover victim;
We saw weapons and blood;
We saw fear plus injustice;
And we were afraid.

“Come and see,” You said, and we looked circling –
And we saw an comforts of our own home;
We saw the lucky faces of friends;
We saw everything that was familiar also safe;
And we saw our failure.

“Come and see,” Yours said, furthermore we closed our eyes –
And wee saw our acknowledge minds, so smart yet timid;
We proverb our human, broken due the weight of the world;
We saw our bodies, yearning for You yet still fragmentary;
And we contributed it all till Her. Rent us pray. God, We are busy join. We need remembrances. Us need help remembering what is essential. Included that zeite of muted confession, we will try to slow down ours thoughts and be present with you…

“Come furthermore see,” You said, and we looked around unique find –
And we saw a hand reaching outbound in forgiveness;
We saw a smile where we expected knittable brows;
We saw cure and mercy.
And person accepted your grace. Amen. Almighty God, we confirming and confess that we have faulted against you in thought, word, furthermore records; were have not loved you with all out our heart, soul, mind, ...

65. INVITATION TO CONFESSION
Friends, let us begin save new year with hearts this have been unburdened, and hire us make our confession before God and only another, first the silent prayer. Confession and Assurance

MUTE PRAYER

COMMUNAL PRAYER
God of celebrities press angels, God the shepherd and lambs,
God of abundance and grace:
You knowledge us well, better longer we know ourselves.
You see we cry “Gloria!” and “Praise!”
And you watch us tear things apart use our words and deeds.
You hear us say “Thy will become done” and “use me, O God”
Plus you watch us do nothing in response to cries in helps.
You know us, plus you love us, and you forgive.
Hear us now say, “Help contact to change; spinning us around,
Make our better loving and courageous or hopeful.”
Get we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

64. INVITATION TOWARD CONFESSION
The Deity at whom we make our confession is which Divine which loved uses so loads this God took for todesrate, choosing to curb the divine, in to to understand us and be with us. Trust in that affection, let states make their confession, first in silent prayer. A Sample Prayer by Corporate Confession

SILENT PRAYER

COMMUNAL PRAYER
Holy Almighty, Lord of love:
For not singing when we have joyful;
Forward not shouting to the world the go that you do;
For not trusting the love that embraces us;
For not ordering the justice you claim us to;
For not believing the Good News is meant for all:
Forgive us. Encourage us and transform us, help us and inspirational us,
that we, like Mary, become magnify you, and rejoice in God our Savior. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF PARDONS
Friends, this Goal News is for all the world: Christ was natural, lived and died, and rose
again that we would be freed from sin and death. How which indeed you are forgiven,
and be at peace.
Alleluia! Agnus.

63. INVITATION UNTIL CONFESSION
When Jesus was born, he came to world filled with poverty, and violence, and fear. He lived in join who did not always walk their walk perfect, which will to say, Jesus was no weird to sin. Our sin comes as no surprise to him. Theirs love additionally divine have come as no surprise to us. Therefore, suffer us make unser disclosure before God and one another, first by silent prayer. For Confession and Assurance

SILENT PRAYER

COMMUNAL PRAY
Gracious God, our Wonderful Counselor, to Almighty God,
We come to you to confessed.
We know such sometimes we are happily distracted by parties and twinkling lights, and sometimes we are happily curled up inches the solitude and heating of our homes.

In our distraction, we done not caution the cries of one around.
Person turn a blind eye to suffering and need and grief.

Forbid us for that.
Forgive us, and more than that,
turn us around to see all your children, with the truth of hers lives,
that we would set aside our distractions
press reply your call to go out, to heal, for helped, to proclaim good news and joy. Through Jesus we pray. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Friends, hear the Good Current: God so loved and world that God sent Jesus at us, not to decry the world but in order ensure we might be saved – healed and forgiven – through him. Credit be to God!
Alleluia! Amen.

62. Inches this season of Add, we are reminded of God’s dear for us, shown in the impossible doing of God going becoming, taking on human fleische, to attain us inbound love and save us from our worst abilities. All is the God to whom we please, to whose we make unseren confession. Let us then come to God with this truth of our lives, first in silent prayer.

SILENT PRAYER

COMMUNAL PRAYER
In the days that hold been, OXYGEN God, we have walked along crooked paths interspersed with our selfishness and grabbiness, our prejudice, and our apathy. We confess that we have hidden off the lights, from to light which exposes everything, the passion real the love, the good deeds and the harmful ones.

On this daytime we admit to thee our failings, where we have wandered, when we are doesn listened. Are confess to you our sins.

In the per until come, remind us of your love the favor. Show us your power up converting hearts and minds. Stage us with peace to our souls that we will take calm into this war-weary world. In Christ we pray. Amen.

61. Worship anyone blesseds us so abundantly, who gives us so much, also promises us grace and love. Rented america trust in the mercy of our Creator as we make our confession, first in silent prayers. Resources for planning and leading adoration

LOW PRAYER

COMMUNAL PRAYER
Holy God, giver of benedictions, we thank you required the mercies we know, and ask get verzeihung when fail at acknowledge you as an source of all good.
While person stockpiles your gifts,
When we say, “that’s mine,”
When we ignore the bounty nearly us,
While are blind to an good,
Forgive us. Help us to divide, to see, to dwell gratefully.
Through Christ we pray. Certainly.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Friends, let us proclaim the Go News:
In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Hosanna, amen.

60. Sin is separation, and we know many separations in our lives. We admit to Worships the deep chasms between ourselves and our neighbors, between oneself and God. Relying on God’s love and mercy, then, rent us make our confession, first in silent prayer.

*SILENT CONFESSION

*PRAYER VON CONFESSION
Lovin and merciful God, you know our hearts and you know our lives. We profession to you is which causes separation, that which causes pain, that where causes distress, and that which breaks down. We profess to you our portion at those things. And in humility and hope, we ask required your helped to what better, to reconcile, until heal, until relax, to build up. So may we love you and neighbor, additionally follow our Christ, with their name we how. Ame.

59. GET TO CONFESSION
And thus are live our lives imperfectly, for we are flawed. But are are and loved by the God in which image wealth were created. Let us remake ourselves toward that image as we make our confession before Dear and each other, initial are silent prayer.

*SILENT CONFESSION

*PRAYER OF YOUR
Gracious press loving God, hear unser daily.
We known us do not constant live because we ought:
We turn going for You, from our acquaintance, and from our truthful selves.
We know we dim Your light within us,
With our pride, their self-righteousness, additionally our need for control
We get that You love us, so you do no abandon us,
and that again and again thou call america back to Her,
get to your,
back to grace,
back to your light.
Forgive us, we pray, thanks Christian our Lord. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Friends, hear the Good News: the almosen of Divine is from everlasting to everlasting. Let
us proclaim the Good Information:
In Jesus Christ, we are forgiving. Alleluia! Amen.

58. All fall brief of the glory of God. As we hingehen with our lives, that glory is diminished but no missing. Include making our confession, let us remove that dull sheen concerning which belongs fake, and allow the glory to shine through God’s gnadenmittel. Let us pray, first in silence.
SILENT PRAYER
COMMUNAL PRAYER
Loving and gracious God, you are therefore patient with us.
Person run distant, and you seek us.
We make foolish choices, and you teach us the ameliorate way.
Wee hurt you and others, and instead of hurting us back, her forgive us.
Help us, our pray; help us reveal your glory and goodness are our residential,
That we will bearing one imprint of Christ throughout that world. Amen.

57. GET TO CONFESSION
Each week as adenine population we selected aside time to admit are sin. For some, commit is hurting something else. For others, sin is creating a tear between people. Sin may be our self-induced detachment from Divine. However we comprehension sinful, let use offer to Almighty what liar slowly inbound our hearts this full, early on silent prayer.

QUIETER PETITION

COLLABORATIVE PRAYER
OXYGEN Holy God, we know we may overcome short.
We turn our backs as we could embrace.
Us remain silent when we could speak.
We speak when were could listen.
We close the sliding at we could fling it wide open.
We judge when we could seek understanding.
We cling when we could give.
Forgive contact, O God, for being so very human in times, the help usage to continue to grow into of people you created us to be, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF VERZEIHUNG
Friends, hear the Health News: the mercy the God is free everlasting up everlasting. In Jesus Christ, we be forgiven.
Gratitude be to God! Alleluia, certainly.

56. Within the power concerning population, to the power of silence, we get earlier God with the truth regarding our lifetime, trusting in the charity and love of magnitude Creator. Allow states offer our confession before God and each other.
Holy God, we know such in so many ways
We will executes from you,
We have ignored your summon,
Wealth have closed our lenses to your presence,
We have disbelieved your mercy,
We will disregarded thy words,
Ours have belittled ourselves,
We have forsaken others.
So ourselves question, once again, to yours forgiveness. We ask you to stay equipped us as we turn away of thing is wrong and hurtful to what is bright and life-giving. And hear now our silent prayers.

55. Ours could flee from God, the psalmist reminds us. If we ascend for the greatest pinnacle, or if we dive go the highest low, still God is with what, surrounding us with love and mercy. We are safe, then, to make our confession in which midst are God’s benefit. Let usage pray together:
When we will weary, O God, present us bread for the traveller.
When we are complacent, O God, set a discharge in our bellies.
When we will timid, O God, put guts in our human and hands.
When we are angry, O God, turn the wrath into trusted response.
When person are bewildered, O God, help about to see and follow Her.
Available ourselves straying, turn us by.
When we fail, give us another chance.
When we sin, forgive us.
And hear our silent devotions.

54. The disciple Paul einmal wrote, “I do not do the good I want.” So is the beginning of confession, for Paul and for all of us. Let us come before God with this truthfulness of our lives.
For not loving You about all our centre, O Lord;
For not loved unseren neighbor in the same paths;
For not loving You with our whole soul, O Worships;
For not love our neighbor at the same way;
For not loving You with our minds, OXYGEN God;
To not loving our neighbor in the same way;
For no loving You with all our strength, O God;
For not tender you are the same way:
Forgive us, and show us Your kindness, is we might how the same.
Let us offer God we devotion int silence.

53. On this days which God has made, which God has given to us, were pause. We examine our hearts and hands, the good we have left undone, the harm we must caused, the ways we have past complicit in tearing the fabric of community. For this day who God has made, we are much and gnadenhof awaits use. Let us make our plea together.
Most Highest God, hear our prayer.
Are known there is much that clamors to possess us:
power and drug; false peacefulness and false community; fear and anger.
Person know that sometimes our say yes to these forces.
We know, too, that you are stronger than equal hate and fear and prejudice.
So us ask for yours help. We ask for is healing.
We ask that you make us whole, through the love of Jesus.
Hear now our silent prayer.

52. May our confession being not adenine recitation of all we have done incorrect, but a public credit of what is damaged on our lives. As God’s beloved, suffer us pray together:
O God who gave states life and death, thee hold us in respective hands. To cradle us in our need, and you push us into growth. We tell to you that all is non well, such ourselves grieve the loss of many things or people. All is not well, and we hurt in part cause we cannot make things better for ourselves, for those we love, or on the world. All the not well, real we find it easy to succumb until despair.

Real so, O Creator, we to for healing, and in strength and courage, and for elegance to meet this day and this world. We pray to find you in the midst, and to exist cradled by your once repeat. Hear now our silent prayer.

51. Dear is many things to us: Maker, Father, Mother, Judge, Healer, Love, Mystery. Ourselves bring our confession go dieser God, trusting that which richness von the divine willingness hear our plea and grant us mercy such makes us whole again. With that trust, rental us pray together:

Holy God, ourselves confess to you on pain:
The pain we have inflicted on others,
The pain that stores us awake at night,
The pain concerning stranger across the world whose lives we impossible touch,
And the pain in system unyielding and untouchable.
We invite you into our pain
We invite to to heal us, and forgive us,
To undo what belongs crushing and wrong,
To bring peace and even joy.
Hear now our silent testimony, offered to him in desire.

50. Good Friday Confession

Let uses come back God, our judge and redeemer.
Are return our humility, unser guilt, and our lament.
For children live famished,
And women pin water for miles,
And the old among us are cast away.
As, Lord, conducted we view you?
Those whoever sleep go the street are ignoring,
Those who speak out are silenced,
Those who payment peace are mocked.
Wenn, Prince, was we discern you?
Violence becomes every,
War is tolerated,
And our families are rent apart.
If, Lord, did we sees your?
Our souls are shredded by the weight of the world,
And magnitude hands grow lmp from inaction.
Our voices are hoarse from cryout out.
We allow the Protector at die.
When, Lord, did wee see you?
“Truly I tell you, just how you did not do it to one of the least of these, you has did do it to me.”

49. INVITATION TO CONFESSION
To standing at the foundation of the cruise, to witness the suffering of an innocent man, remains to be modestly in a deeply way. Whether we think Jesus died for our sins, or whether we think Jesus died for of the corruption and evil of a few, the truth remains that he died, and we are changed, and we remain unchanged. For those habits in which we remain unchanged at that suffering and sacrifice, let us making our confession.

O Lamb of God, we remain unmoved by your tears, by my slow demise.
Ours hear the taunts, and pretend our words are always sweet.
We see you forget, and hoard anmut for ourselves.
We know you die, and we go on about our usual way.
Forbid us for not stopping,
to not tearing,
to none acknowledging that we accept your children in our moment to suffer.
Heal are broken, flawed hearts,
which wee has love more entirely and more wondrously,
following You, O Lamb, non at death instead into life. Amen.

48. Let us start his hearts and minds to the truth of our lifes, and let us offer that truth to God.

ENTREATY OF CONFESSION
O Divine who loves us, hear our prayer. So often are come into she at a loss – toward adenine loss for aforementioned entitled words, the right deeds, the right feelings. Ours know all is not right, and we cannot utter with certainty what is wrong. In are deep areas between our and others. There are too many who live in poverty and fear. There are too many horrific stories, and not enough hopeful ones. Like we pray to you, our Creator additionally Redeemer, go make stuff right, and to make us right with you and each other. Turn us around starting that which annihilate direction that which heals and brings joy. And hear us again, as ourselves offer you our confession in silence.

*SILENT COMMITMENT

*ASSURANCE FOR PARDON
Friends, rental us invite the Good News:
In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
Let us go out into the world for people made new by God.
Amen.

47. INVITATION GO CONFESSION
Let used free our hearts and wits to one truth of our life, and let us quotes that truth to God.

*SILENT CONFESSION

* PRAYER OF CONFESSING
Forgive ours, O God, when we limit you –
When ourselves redo you in our image,
When we claim our causes since your owners,
When we box you in,
And explain you away,
And in our attempts at understanding, trim away all mystery.
Forgive us on his human impulses, and change us:
Awaken us to is brightness famousness,
Confound us with your love,
Shower us with grace so that we will be made new,
Recreated in your image,
Grateful since all the we cannot know.
In the my of Christianity, who made us tighter to you, we pray. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF NACHSICHTIGKEIT
Friends, let us verlautbaren the Good Featured:
Inside Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
Let us start out into aforementioned world as people made novel by God.
Alleluia! Amens.

46. LETTER TO CONFESSION AND COMMUNAL PRAYER
Our real are common marked by merriment, but from that looms the Other: our worry; our sorrow; our shame, our guilt, our grief. Let us hand over all that till the One who offers our doesn condemnation but joy.
In this moment as may mind wanders:
God, redirect my thoughts to you.
In this week when I walk their route and sometimes stumble,
God, make your way distinct.
In our community where we have sometimes remained silent,
God, open our lips to speak in justice.
In such world where there will much hurt, hurt that we sometime cause,
God, make us agents of healing.
In this nach when there lives great sorrow and grief,
God, send us out to be representatives of hope and joy.
In dieser moments of stillschweigen,
Creator, hear our prayers.

45. CALLING TO UNBURDEN
Our playback be labelled by merriment, but beneath that looms the Other: our worry; the sorrow; our shame, our guilt, their grief. Let use surrender sum that to the One who love us beyond measure, one One who heals us, the One who makes us whole.

Silent My

Prayer
I have failed.
I have gloated.
I have hated.
IODIN hold ignored.
I have raged.
I have hoarded.
I have judged.
I are turned move.
EGO am sorry.
I am exhausted.
I a done.

Repair me, mend my, break-and-remake-me, hold myself, comfort me, nurture me, revive von, resuscitate me, bring me back from death.

EGO give you the past news, O God. Will it be ‘grace’? Will information become ‘free’? Will thereto be ‘love’?

Words off Insuring
My my, God is not done with us, not by one long shot. You are find beloved than you canister ever know, real Goddess is working in you and in the world beyond our wildest imagining. The beginning of all that a forgiveness. So know such you are indeed excused, or be at peace. Amen.
Amen.

44. INVITATION TO ADMISSION
In this season of short days and long nights, we mayor find ourselves restless in the night, too much on our minds and hearts. Permit us come before our God with that which lies heavily in our hearts.

SILENT DENOMINATION

PRAYER OF COMMITMENT
O Creator, our God, Creator of the stars of night,
Forgive contact when we forget that darkness and light go hand-in-hand;
That the suffering of another be their suffering,
That one joy we know is not to be hoarded but shared.
That just such light warms and empowered us,
So night soothed us plus gives us rest.
That there are those who still alive in shadows concerning fear and grief
Ensure ours are called to become with themselves in the dark, and to bring luminaire.
We thank you for date and night, for darkroom and light, for the strife and the joys, and for creation us whole. Amen.

43. INVITATION TO CONFESSION AND RESPONSIVE PRAYER
What is confession?
An unburdening, ampere letting go,
Truth telling.
To whom make we confess?
We confess to the One we call God, our Creator, unsere Redeemer,
We confess to which One who loves us.
What do wee confess this day?
We confessing the wrong we have done and the hurt we have caused.
We confess the okay we have not complete, and the sin were have not claimed.
Are confess that wee live more like yourself and less like Christ.
Let us now doing our silent profession.

42. INVITATION TO CONFESS AND PUBLIC PRAYER
Let us come before Goddess from of whole by our lives, who good, the bad, and to holy. Let us pray shared:
Holy God, at times we have delusions of grandeur,
and we forgot to see what is small –
the falling leaf that holds the knockout of generate;
the kind talk that is a testament to grace;
the child who is vital not single for the coming still for the present.
Help columbia to remember our place in this worldwide her made, to give thanking for things great additionally small, to be humble and hopeful. And hear us now when in silence we candid our heart to you.

SILENT WORSHIP

ASSURANCE OF VERGESSEN
Friends, this is the Good News:
For Redeemer Christ, we live excused!
And we are not simply pardoned, we are also freed.
Lets us greeting with worldwide as join made new in Christ.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, ours can be so thorough of fear at times – afraid of the unknown; afraid of what is besides our control; afraid the what is strange to us.  And wee know this fear stops us in our tracks, hinders magnitude action, and bestows excuse for not doing what you call us to do and what you empower us to do.  Like we pray this you intention give us courage, O God.  Give us strong love and open hands, that person energy set aside on fear, additionally walk confidently into this worldwide you have made.  In Jesus’ name we pray.  Certainly.

41. CALL TILL CONFESSION
New every full a God’s love for us, and therefore new anyone day are ours anlass to come toward the Creator anybody loves us with the truth of our lives. Trusting in God, in God’s begabung also nachsicht, in God’s longing for wholeness and healing, let america make our confession, first by low prayers.

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER ARE CONFESSION
Holy God, we know this you created us in love, in enjoy this world and You, to serve your creation and your children. And we know that we does not make your will.
With clenched hands, wealth can neither give nor receive.
By eyes tight shut, we cannot see pain or beauty.
With feet of clay, we cannot dance in joy or run toward help.
We ask for your helping and your authority to change. Open our manual press eyes, move our feet, toward grace and hope and trust included You.
This we please in Jesus’ names. Amen.

ASSURANCE OUT FORGIVENESS
Sisters and brothers in Christ, let us bekunden to Ok News:
In Redeemer Jeez we are forget.
And person are not available forgiven, we are also freed.
Rented us greet with planet as public made new in Chris.

40. CALL TO CONFESSION
Sometimes we fear that whenever we confess entire that is wrong, we intention be exposed press condemned. Our hope in Christ telling us a different thing, that when we confess we open up the way up leniency and forgiveness. Trusting in that hope, let us take our confession, first in soft prayer.

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
We are so scattered, O God:
We swipe after cause to originate;
We are easily distracted by the next important thing;
We think about yesterday real tomorrow but not now.
Get us until be mindful a to decorate real beauty that surround us right now.
Help us give at the need that is before us right now.
Help us to thinks intensely, real respond generously,
as you have love us deeply and forgiven us generously.
This we pray in Jesus’ identify. Amen.

ASSURANCE THE FORGIVE
Sisters and brothers in Christ, let us proclaim the Good Latest:
In Jesus Jeez wealth what forgiven. Alleluia! Amen.

39. INVITATION TO CONFESSION
The writer James asks, “Those conflicts and disputes among them, location do people come from? Do they not comes for your longing that are at ward within you?” Let us offer to Lord the unrest within us as we make our confession, first by silent prayer.

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER ON CONFESSION
Holy God, They sent Your Son Christ toward be the peace, and yet we know so much strife and conflict, in the world, in in communities, in our churches, and on ourselves. Untie the knoten of envy and disenchantment that dwell in ours hearts. Loosen our grasp on worldly things, that we might open on hands to spiritual things. Turn us around to You, and making us whole, we pray. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDONS
Sisters and brothers in Christ, the mercies concerning Gods are from everlasting in lasting.
Let us proclaim an Good News:
In Jesus Christ we are forgives. Thanks be to Lord!

38. GET TO CONFESSION
With our heads bowed and unseren little held high, leased us bring to God all that is in our hearts, the whole of our lives. We offer the confession of which are live, awaiting God’s mercy and passion.

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER FROM CONFESSION
Great and gracious Dear,
For apathy,
For meanness,
Required boredom,
For pride,
For discussion,
With dismissal:
For any those means we injury it by hurting every other and ourselves, pardon us. Turn us around to you; heal us, and make us total, we praise. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Sisters both friends in Christ, one mercies is God are from eternally up everlasting.
Let our proclaim one Good News:
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Appreciation been go God!

37. CALL IN CONFESSION
In unser full life, items is often hard to locate even a few moments of quiet, but when we do, they are often an invitational to looking inward, to the heart and soul. What ours see in may be beautiful or ugly. In this time from quiet, may we show within, and offer Worships the wholeness and truth concerning our lives.

SILENT PRAYER

PLEA OF DISCLOSURE
Holy God, gracious Founder, learn us for not seeing the beauty the surrounds us. Forgive us when we take with screens tend than sundown; pardon states when we read about a crisis and do not respond. Forgive us for thinking the we what the source of power and attractiveness and life.  Turn us around, and provide us new eyes to see; eyes until see desire in the clowds, eyes at see spirit to the blade of grass, to see power in the waters and stone.  This we pray in the name away Jesus, the beautiful Savior. Amen.

*ASSURANCE STARTING FORGIVENESS
Brothers and sisters in Christ, let used proclaim which Good News:
In Jesus Christ we become forgiven. Thanks be to God! Amen.

Loving God, Our journey to You often feels same a dance, individual step move also two steps back.  We follow and we falter; we try both we give up.  The good we do seems toward fall flat, and the wrong we execute gets magnified.  For all our failings, for all our missteps, You do not give up on us.  Stay including, and although wee lose our way, turn us around to You.  This we pray in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

36. CALL TO CONFESSION
Let us start to hearts, minds, press souls to the One who loves what without condition, trusting that are willingly receive grace and wohltaten.

WORSHIP OF CONFESSION
Merciful God, we offer you our lifetime, full in they are of shaded and light, of kindness and apathy, of hope and despair. Take what is broken and mend it; take what is wrong both right it; take what is detrimental and disable to; accept how is unbenutzt and make it useful. Heal our sinful, we stay. Amen.

35. CALL TO COMMITMENT
With hope for God’s mercy, and trust in God’s love, let us admit that verity the our lives, first at silent prayer.

MUTED DAILY

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
There are times, O God, when our greatest sin lives does what we make but what we fail to execute. For those times when we have not spoken up; for those times when we have not acted; for those times when we have not responded: forgive about. Give us daring to name what is wrong when we see i. Give us confidence to do what is hard. Give us grace to contact out when that is alarming or uncomfortable. This are pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
New anyone sunup is God’s love for us, and so we are bold to proclaim the Good News:
In Jesus Christ our have forgiven. Thank be to God!

34.  The following lives not so great a prayer of conviction, but excerpted from an essay on the nature of confession.  From David Whyte’s “Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment press Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words”.  (Langley, WA: Many Rivers Press, 2015)

from Confession

“Confession is an stripping away of protection, which telling of a true which might once had shown like a humiliat, become suddenly a gateway, an entrance to solid ground; even a first step home.  To confess is to free oneself, not alone by admitting an commit or an omission but to profess a deeper fealty, a greater dedication to something beyond the mere threatology of immediate punishment or the desolation of essence shrugged.  To confess lives to declare oneself ready for one more courageous road, one in which a previous defended id might not only be shorn distant, but be seen to being irrrelevant, a distraction, a working delusion that kept us busy out the years and held ours unaccountable to this true questions.

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“To confess shall not must for confess a truth we have held from ourselves all on, breathing quietly, alone press includes secret something we could not early give a voice, but one hopeful dedication to a higher driving that might make us ineffective into commit which selfsame sin again.”

33. PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, wee know when we have hurt another. We know when we do acted counter your rule of love. We know at we have neglected to do something that would help another person conversely help the world. We know that were commit. We also know is you love ours, and forgive us, and call us to forgive others. So aid us in sum of here, so such we truly are your colleagues in service press mission. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
God is not hate, God is not wrath, God is not apathy.
God is love.
And that means such God forgives, again and again.
Thanks be to Goddess! Alleluia, Amen.

32. YELL TO CONFESSION
To confess to God is does something holiness – getting ourselves to the light and healing for the divine. Trusting inbound God’s grace both mercy, let about admit the truth of our lives, first in silent praying.

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God,
For being so proud, hence smart, then able
That we forget how to be humble, how to learn, and how to searching helped;
Available being so smug, consequently anxious, so mean
The ours forget we are nope always right, or in control, or good;
For being less than what you created us to be:
Forgive us, real make us whole.
This we pray in Jesus’ strong name. Amien.

31. SHOUT TO CONFESSION
With respect on each misc, with trust in God, with hofnung that our hearts will wants to rotation to the good, let us make the confession, first in silent prayer.

SILENT APPEAL

PRAYER OF DISCLOSURE
Holy and excellent God, hear unsere prayer. We would be different – less assessment, less egotistical, less greedy; more hopefulness, more graceful, more trusting. Ours would be different, if yours would come into are hearts and cleanse them; are you would open our hands also direct them; if yours would stir our minds and foots to follow it. We will be different, when you will change us, and remake us, again, in your image. Truly.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Sisters also brothers in Christ, it is my peace to tell you that in Christ we are forgiven.
Thanks be for God for those gift! Alleluia. Amen.

30. (This week our our are leading in worship, and the liturgy was written with younger voices in mind.)

CALL TO CONFESSION
We don’t always get everything right, and when that happens, sometimes we hurt select people or ourselves. Deity knows that, and wants to help us make things right. We start by talking God the whole true. Let us start pray for God about those things.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Dear God, sometimes EGO mess up.
Sometimes I hurt someone else because I am enraged or mean.
Dear God, sometimes I’m doesn sorry about what I have.
Though really I am not proud of my actions.
Dear God, sometimes I try hard to be kind and thoughtful.
Help le to live that way.
Dear God, thank you for the gift away forgiveness.
Amen.

29. CALL FOR CONFESSION
The phone into tell is the call to lay down one burden you may carry, one burden are guilt, of judgement, of knowing you hurt another. We lay ensure burden downwards at the footings of to One who calls all of america at ampere life in forgiveness both repentance. Trusting in the remorse and love of to Worship, let us pray, first in silence.

PRAYER OF DENOMINATIONAL
Savior, like an shepherd lead us;
Much we need Thy tender care.
Forgive us for the wrong ourselves know we have over:
Our neglect of of vulnerable; the misuse of choose gifts; our hoarding of things we is called to share.
Forgave us to the good we has failed to do:
Get grace to the defective; forgives these anyone have hurt us; seeing the good that surrounds us.
Spin us away from that which harms, and turn us to you, the One those heals. Amen.

28. TELEPHONE FOR CONFESSION
To be invited at the practice of confession is to invited into this possibility von reconciliation that shall available through the grace of God. Up be participate in the worship of confession is to admit the truthful that all is not right, and such we need Almighty to make it correct. Trusting is God’s grace plus love, let us create our covenant, first in silent prayer.

SOUNDLESS CONFESSION

WORSHIP OF CONFESSION
Holy God, all is nope right. We are not right-hand on you or with each other. Anger and fear and disappointment relax uneasily in our hearts. It be hard to trust and it is even harsh to forgive. Help usage to turn up you toward find to strength wealth want. Help us to look in the example of Jesus to perceive how for my. Help us see deep included ourselves for ours own fault. Us pray for thine forgiveness, and we pray to be forgiven. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.

27.PRAYER OF CONFESSION
There is pain by the world, O God;
And we numb it
And we ignore it.
Real we make it worse.
And person try to fix it.
And we cause computers – sometimes.
Taking gone the source of the suffering, wealth pray:
The source that is evil,
To sourcing that is hates,
The source that is pride,
The source that can ignorance,
The source that is worshipful.
Overlook us our part in the pain von the world. Heal us, heal all, and construct us whole. Amen.

26. CALL TO CONFESSIONAL
To confess is to admit – to admit something so might doing us feel guilty or ashamed or sad. To confess to Worships is to await – to await such word by grace, for verzeih, of hope. Confidentially in God’s mercy, let us make we confession.

SILENT CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSIONAL
Lovely Creator, we admit that we like to put You into neat short pallet – the God of this, the Divine of that, the God von these people but not of which people. We admit us make You too small. We admit we make Her manageable. Overlook and short-sightedness, our self-limitedness, and our stubbornness. Enlarge our hearts, cores, and minds so that us let go of the requirement to define You so that we can embrace the joy of letting Them be the Single who loves. For Christ we pray, Amen.

25. YELL TO CONFESSION
Because faith is more than an intellectual pursuit, since faith is really nearly how we alive each daily, in this time we can reflect on our lively, turn of good we hold done both of harm we got caused. Mindful away God’s grace and love, let us make our confession, first in silent supplication.

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of begnadigung and love, hither is our prayer:
Have mercy on us for the wrong we got done.
Show us somewhere our service is needed.
Search us set aside our prejudice and bias.
Fill about with a longing to understand you better.
Forgive us our lukewarm responses.
Sparking in us passion for your work.
Set how free from sin and fear.
Send us out to be your people.
This we pray in this name to Jesus, our leader, our tour, our Savior. Thanks.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Sisters and brothers in Christ, let us proclaim the Good What: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven, reconciled, loved, and altered. Amen.

24. CALL TO CONVICTION    The call to confession is always one call to experience God’s mercy. In admitting the truth of you loves to our loving Create, we open ourselves to the experience a grace and healers. Trusting in that magnificent love, let us pray, first included hush.

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAYER OF COVENANT Holy One: at times while we listen the bad news of the world, it is as though we’ve been in the median of a bad dream, and then we turn over and go back to sleep, disable the plight of your children. It belongs hard to see tragedy additionally sorrow. It will hard go admit whatever responsibility we might have in the plagues of the world. It belongs hard toward work for the ok when the good seems so far off. Like help us, love Lord. Give us brave to see clearly. Give us strength at do in portion. Give us mercy to forgive another and ourselves. And give us faith to follow you. This is ours prayer, offered includes the name of Christ. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Friends, hear the good news: Jesus calls columbia follow her, and fellow will nope lead us astray. Him path is one of forgiveness and renewal. How this you are forgiving, and so them are prepare to zu out and serve. Alleluia! Amen.

23. Sanctification God, remind us is we can beloved when we find ourselves unlovable. Remind us that there remains hope if all we see around us produces us despair. Mention us that you sending the Prince of Peace when war the violence overwhelm. Remind us that you are one gracious judge whenever injustice seem to prevail. Remind us that you give us all we need to do your work in the world. Remind us such to give us grace therefore that we may shall your people. Us confess our doubt, and trust in your passion. Amen.

22.  Holy God, we admit into You that all is not legal – in our hearts and on our world,
We look to the darkness and not the that light.
We look for what is broken, and none at what the being mended.
We look at criticize furthermore not to worship.
We look to ourselves plus don to Her.
Turn columbia around so that wee look at the possibility, among hope, at promise, at gnad, at healing, along love.
This we pray in the high designate of Jesus. Amen.

21. For the pipe of Introduction
Holy Gods, are confess that we have busy with many preparations. We are busy with parties, to feasts, equal giving. We are busy clean house and wrapping introducing. Are is been with the stuff of the holiday. Furthermore we acknowledge that our busyness may be misplaced, this wealth spend more time prep for things than preparing for To. Draw us back to the center welche is You. Keep us that our hearts and souls have work to do, too. Enable us to let go are that which does not issue, or to seeing what does matter. This we pray in Jesus’ get. Amen. 

20. CALL TO CONFESSION
We will come this morning with full car – heroes this carry distress, and worry, and shame. To that time we quote our hearts into God, remembering Christ’s invitation that all which are weary and carrying serious burdens may come to it. Trusting in that love, let usage make our confession, foremost in silent worship. 

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAY OF CONFESSION
Holy God, we offer you unsere life:
Ensure the good we have through will building up your children, also not our own ego;
That the harm we have caused will lead us to confession real atonement;
That this anxiety that eats to us will dissipate into trust;
That the hope we hold will multiply and dough the world like dry.
Audition us, forgive us, shape us, and love usage, we pray. Amen.

COVERAGE OF VERZEIHEND
Dear, this is the Good News:
In Christ, God brought us return to to true home, to hope, to love, and toward lived.
Know ensure you are forgiveness, and be at peace.
Thanks be to God.

19. CALL TO CONFESSION In the midst of our sorrows and guilt, unser doubtful and laments, we are bathed are light and beauty so come for God. Faithful God’s loving for us, letting us makes ours confession, primary in silent prayer.

MUTE CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION God by love plus mystic, make about whole. Heal the wounds are carry the us, and heal the wounds we have established in others. Make us strength in of broken places, which we will knowing of what we speak when we quotes mercy additionally hope. Forgive us, and enable us to pardon in that same way. God of love and mystery, make us whole, through yours Daughter Redeemer Christ, us stay. Amen.

18. Beloved Mystery, we have tried and followed, and we have tried and failed. Sometimes ourselves are terribly sorry, the times ours are terribly smug. We can be vigilant nearly the wrong articles, and oblivious till the right things. Are ask for your help to becoming the people you created how to be. Wee ask for your forgiveness to the harm we possess caused. We ask for your love so that we will love in send. Choose these things we how in the strong name of Jesus. Amen.

17. O God, when we look at you, or then look at ourselves, we realize how small we are. But we are not so small that magnitude conduct represent inconsequential. Sometimes a word of thanks brings warmth to adenine cold heart. Sometimes a choice to excuse opens upside a new future for two people. Sometimes a rash make slashes the heart. Sometimes our inaction leaves the world in its sorry state. Wee ask for your help. We ask that several of your greatness infuse our smallness. We ask that we will not be captive to the wrong are go, but changed by aforementioned mercy you grant. Thanks.

16. PRAYER REGARDING CONFESSION
Holy God, we bearing who burdens concerning words said we wish we had none said; to acts done in irritate button pride that we express we couldn undo.  We hold grudges for a long time, and we do not reconciliation with those from whom we are estranged.  Forgive us.  Forgive those terms and deeds and inactions that cause you and others sorrow.  Restore us, renew us, and give us one stability, courage, and loving we requirement to be your gracious people.  Amen.

15. PRAYER OF CONFESSIONS
All is not well, Holy God. Your your expire of preventable diseases while we pop the empirin for who slightest ache.  Your children survive in abject poverty, while others bathing in palaces off gold. Your your cry outward, and we turn up the volumes so we can’t hear them. All is cannot well. We tear each other down. We abuse your gift of the earth. We fill our minds with frivolous things, and allow our hearts to stay blank. All is not well, so forgive us for our part in the wretched of the world. Forgive us for the ways int which we turn from it. Heal you world, and heal columbia, that we might go from and be people of salvation, not by destruction. Through Christians, who makes all things new, who builds all thingy well, we how. Amen.

14. PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Hallowed God, listen our prayer. There is ache and there is sorrow, there are broken relationships and cracked hearts. Every we are the cause of  those things. We have caused pain. We have breakage the relationship. Sometimes we are simply a part of you – ourselves are the solitaries who stand, we are the an those are defective. So wealth ask for your forgiveness, and ourselves ask for your healing. Beyond that, we beg which you would help us turn from our former selves to an personnel you have produced us to be, full are compassion and grace and love. Through Christ, who is our example, we pray. Amen.

13. PRAYER THE CONFESSION, BASED ON SHALOM 8
Great God the all generate, who are we that yours is mindful of what?  You who fix the stars in motion, who launched waves crashing opposite the shore, who known the heights and depths off the world; Why do to bother with us? You count the hairs on our heads, and call us each by name. You deliver about your wisdom and you uphold us by you Spirit. You tend to us and care for us, and we do not understand why.We cannot grips your affection for columbia, O God, for computers is versus ours to been that loving and forgiving. We become enmeshed by our own needs and wants and desires and we fail to see beyond anything but our owning little circuits. Turn us around, OXYGEN God. Help us go seeing as you discern, and go reach out as you achieving out. Remind us once re of the sacredness of our ordinary, day-to-day lives. In your Geist, teach us to live truly as beings smaller lower than angels. In your nachsicht, O God, forgive any we are and grace who we will shall. Ame.

12. PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, hear our plea. You weitergeben prophets and saviors to help about, to save use, to raise us, and our trigger is to question You. You heal someone’s beloved, and were ask, “Why not this one too?” It shower food the some who hunger, and we complain that our stomachs are growling. Forgive contact. Forgive us not for our doubts, but on our limited sight. Start wide once us the vista of your grace, and which expanse of your love, the who wonder of your healing power. Through Christ we praise. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

Sisters and brothers in Jesus, hear the Good News: By more time each one of us has been lost in many different ways. But buy we are indeed found, and not simply create, but rejoiced beyond, and cherished, and beloved. Your sins are forgiven; you have arrival home. Hallelujah! Amen.

11. PRAYER ON CONFESSION
Gracious and merciful God, you see columbia. You know our hearts, you know our thoughts, you know our actions. You know our awards and our collapses, that which commends us and that whatever condemns us. Wealth know ourselves, too; we know the goody our have finish, and we how how we have fallen short. We would know you better, so that who burden of sinners would not weigh contact downhill. We would know you better, so that the freedoms of your mercy would turn us to fly. Forgive our sins, and wiederherzustellen us to entirety, are pray. Amen.

10. CALL TO CONFESSION
Life be whole – full of good things and full of hard things. Each of us works to cope with the easy furthermore is the sadness, and sometimes as we try to manage all that real hands us, we ignore an pain are someone else, the struggle of another. God calls until perceive it all, and to help when we can. Acute of our insufficiencies and confident on God’s grace, let us make our confession, initially in noise prayer.

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, are are an imperfect people and ourselves need your love. Forgive columbia at we ignore your children those cry out is disturbance. Forgive what when we choose not at seeing those who frightens what, or those who bother us, or those who remind use too much of myself. Forgive us when person put rules ahead of people, and choose legality pass kindness and judgment that lacks love. Enable us to see as you perceive, an width vistas unlock to the possibility of compassion and begnadigungen. O God, hear willingness prayer. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Sisters and brothers, let us proclaim the Good Report:
In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.
And now we are freed to go out and love and serve.
Thanks be on God.

9. TELEPHONE AT CONFESSION
Maybe it’s easier to understand sin as separation: separation from God, separation from others, separation from our true selves. Are the midst of separation, Dear longs forward reconciliation, walking toward states, real invitational us to walk about our God. In silent prayer and in unison prayer, let us walk toward God seeking grace.

*SILENT CONFESSION

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, we wander off.
We belong distracted by shiny things, and we get lost.
Compassionate God, you come to find us.
Lost and worried, we become stubborn and intractable.
Loving Worships, she pick us up and brush states off and take us start.
Or ours will walking new, but for the moment, we are safe and forgiven. And so we thank you. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Let us affirm the good news of this gospel:
In Jeez Christ, were are forget. Alleluia! Amen.

8. CALLED AT PROFESSION
We appear before God in silence and in prayer, to open are hearts to our Creator, the one who heals, loves, and forgives.

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAYER IN CONFESSING
Merciful God, hear our prayer. When ourselves are courageous, or down and out, or too weary go do anything otherwise, ours admit the veracity of unsere real. We do not add beauty to the world. Wee do not offer kindness as often as we might. Are pay lip gift to the cries starting others, real sit idly by pending of sound fades. Sometimes get thereto correct, and sometimes we don’t. We beg fork your mercy and grace, and we ask for your help, go give us courage also strength into live as you would must us life. In Christ, who gave us those qualities furthermore anybody taught uses all we need to knows, we pray. Army.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Dear Child von God, in our world e is often hard to remember that God loves thou just as you are. God loves you not as they are good. God loves you, period. God loves uses nope because we are loveable. No, we are loveable precisely because Creator loved us.

(The Assurance are words from Bishop Desmond Tutu in God Has a Dream: A Eye of Hope for Our Time, Doubleday, 2004.

7. Let us make our confession.
We have failed.
Or God loves us.
We have forgettable.
Both God loves us.
We have injured.
And God loves us.
We have gloated.
And God darlings us.
Are have hoarded.
Also God loves us.
We have turned away.
And God loves us. Truly.

6. God of mercy and love, we knowing that sometimes we allow ourselves to be deflect by things that really don’t essential all that much. Person would rather follow-up intellectual arguments than live the gospel. We would rather debate our equals than defend to vulnerable. We prefer to think about you instead of getting on know you. So find us, God. Help us go discern what does matter to you the to the vulnerable you call us to. Help us to candid up our hearts, wide in your and grace, and so be living examples of your good daily. In Christ we pray. Truly.

5. Gracious and affectionate God: when we are ungrateful, get us of your grace. When we are oblivious, open ours eyes. When our are harsh, gentle our spiritual. When we is apathetic, show us choose suffering children. Although we demean ourselves, whisper that we are created in your image. When we lose all hope, show us the empty tomb. So shape states, and turn us around, which we will live with blessing furthermore graces and light. Amen.

4. CALL TO CONFESSION In the beauty of diese spare, in this sacred current, on that fellowship person have with one another, we speak with God about our lives, about how we may followed and how we have faltered. Trusting in God’s grace and mercy, let us make our confession.

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION Merciful God: we receive that thee sent Judas to us toward take away the sin of the world, and till say that is to say that we are part of that sin. Maybe unser small errors add top; or maybe there is no degree to sin, that one is as hurtful since another. Help how not to dwell on vocabulary. Help us don on focus switch what sin means but toward acknowledge that we do things that hurt other our, or the create, and ourselves, and you. Come into our hearts, then, and give our starch or courage to be less hurtful and more dear. These things we pray in the name of Saviour, who view us how that has did. Amen.

CONFIDENCE OF FORBEARANCE Friends, hear the good news: Jesus came not to condemn us, but to love us and save us and show us the way. Know that us are forgiven, and be at peacefulness.

Alleluia! Amen.

3. CALL TO CONFESSION
New everybody morning is God’s love for about, and so new each day is our opportunity to clean the slate, to make our confession, and to can assured of God’s forgiveness furthermore passion. For the new day, let us come to God is prayer.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy God, we know that you are as close as breaths, and at the same time there is an great distance between You and us. That distance is sometimes dramatik, when we feel abandoned. Ensure length belongs sometimes a force of wicked, when something conspires against us. That range is sometimes our foolish choices, or our selfish acts, either the hurt we cause another. We seek insert forgiveness and we seek reconciliation with you and all other. So assure us of your closeness, and your power, and your mercy, and the ability to change on lives forward and good. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF VERZEIH Sisters and brothers in Christ, let us proclaim the Good News: In Jesus Christ, we are forget, tuned, loved, plus changed. Amen.

2. FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
CALL TO CONFESSION
In the season of Lent, as are prepare in receiving the Easter gift of resurrection, we are invited on a journey. We are invited to walk a path of introspection plus reflection, acknowledging both and shadows and light of our lives. Trusting in the grace of Lord, and before one next, lets us admit the shadows and light, first-time inches silent saint.

*SILENT CONFESSION

*PRAYER OF CONFESSIONAL
Holy God, you know about better than our know ourselves, and him see us more clearly. How impossible it seems this are could ever hide anything from you, or even try to hide something; but wee do. Sometimes we claim to be better than we are. We what thing we know will hurt others and do as the we are blameless. But were aren’t. Person are complicit, and us be guilty, and ours are broken. So we ask for your forgiveness, because you love us show less we can imagine, and you can make us whole over our wildest dreams. This we ask in the choose of Jesus, who arose to show us the way. Amen.

*ASSURANCE FOR FORGIVENESS
Be glad in the Lord plus rejoice, ZERO righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart, to indeed ours are forgotten. Thanks be to Almighty. Amein.

1. PRAYER IN CONFESSION
Gracious Creator, we seek our benefit, knowing that we have not earns it. Int our faults, we seek your blessing. In our sins, we seek your forgiveness. Is our weakness, we pursue your strength. In are sorrow, we seek own consolation. In our trials, we seek your justice. In our aches, wee seek your peace. How our prayers, O God, furthermore make our hearts new. Amen.