june 8, 2025

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Jun 7
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Preacher: Raquel Irizarry

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For Your Meditation:

All things and all humans (original word “men”), so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being.... But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.— Paul Tillich quoted in Your Mythic Journey by Sam Keen (Amended by Raquel Irizarry)

Our opening Prelude invites you into a time of quiet reflection.

Prelude: Richard Harper

Chalice Lighting: Why We’re Here by Erik Walker Wikstrom

Here, today, in this place and with these people,

May we listen so that we can hear;

May we hear so that we can feel;

May we feel so that we can know; and

May we know so that we can change ourselves and this world.

May this chalice we light, Light our Way.

Opening Hymn: Creator God We Sing NCH #39

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship: Love Invites Us by Anastasia Birosh

Love Invites us to honor our Interdependence with all beings, in the web of all existence.

Love Invites us to envision a world where all are free from exploitation and the smallest to the largest are protected and nurtured with care and respect.

Love invites us to revel in our uniqueness using Pluralism as our guide.

Love invites us to recognize all beings as sacred and celebrated. Our differences are appreciated and valued: all are equally sacred regardless of culture, theology, and experience.

Love invites us to counter all forms of oppression with Justice.

Love invites us to dismantle all forms of racism and systemic oppression. All people are worthy of thriving.

Love invites us to participate in our individual and collective Transformation.

Love invites us to cultivate change so we may grow spiritually and ethically. We know that we are perfectly imperfect and never finished growing.

Love invites us to connect by opening our hearts to Generosity.

Love invites us to willingly and thoughtfully share our time, talent, and treasure. Our Generosity connects us in relationships of interdependence and mutuality.

Love invites us to create inclusive, Equitable communities.

Love invites us to know, in our hearts, that all people are inherently worthy and have the right to flourish with dignity, love, and compassion.

Love invites us to worship together.

Prayer of Invocation:

First Sacred Reading: Song “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas 1977

I close my eyes

Only for a moment and the moment's gone

All my dreams

Pass before my eyes with curiosity

… Dust in the wind

All they are is dust in the wind

… Same old song

Just a drop of water in an endless sea

All we doCrumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

… Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind

Oh, oh

… Now don't hang on

Nothin' lasts forever but the earth and sky

It slips away

And all your money won't another minute buy

… Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind(All we are is dust in the wind)

… Dust in the wind

(Everything is dust in the wind)

Everything is dust in the wind

(In the wind)

Passing of the Peace:

Sharing of Our Joys & Concerns/Pastoral Prayer

Offering & Doxology: We Give You But Your Own - NCH #

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: Acts 2: 1-21 (NRSVUE)

The Coming of the Holy Spirit

2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

5 Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” 12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”

Peter Addresses the Crowd

14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Fellow Jews[g] and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

17 ‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.19 And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.20 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Hymn of Reflection: “God’s Eye is on the Sparrow” NCH #475

Sermon: “Bring Many Names” by Raquel Irizarry

Closing Hymn: “Bring Many Names” NCH #11

Benediction:

Postlude: Richard Harper

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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