october 11,2026

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Boon Lin Ngeo

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Prelude:    Richard Harper

Chalice Lighting:   When Times are Dark by Fred LaMotte

When times are dark     

the way becomes clear.

Trust in your breath.     

Rest in your heart.

Bow to the stranger.     

This is the gospel of astonishment.

If we are completely lost       

we come home       

to each other.

Opening Hymn:    This Is My Song             SLT 159

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship:  

Give thanks to God, who is good, 

Whose faithful love lasts forever!

When we are hungry and thirsty, lost in the wilderness, 

God satisfies our thirst, and fills the hungry with good things.

God turns deserts into pools of water, and thirsty ground into springs.

So let us worship God.

Prayer of Invocation:   

First Sacred Reading:  Matthew 13: 44-52

44 ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.45 ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; ⁴⁶on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.47 ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; ⁴⁸when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad. ⁴⁹So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous ⁵⁰and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.51 ‘Have you understood all this?’ They answered, ‘Yes.’ ⁵²And he said to them, ‘Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.’

Passing of the Peace 

Sharing of Our Joys & Concerns

Prayers of the People/Pastoral Prayer

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:    Bodhicaryāvatāra (The Way of the Bodhisattva), 7: 20–22

“That I must give away my life and limbs

Alarms and frightens me”—if so you say,

Your terror is misplaced. Confused,

You fail to see what’s hard and what is easy. 

For myriads of ages, measureless, uncounted,

Your body has been cut, impaled,

Burned, flayed—for times past numbering!

Yet none of this has brought you buddhahood. 

But the pains I now suffer, which lead to awakening, are limited.

They are like the pain caused by the extraction of a thorn from the flesh,

which prevents greater pain.

Hymn of Reflection:      Come, Sing a Song with Me  SLT 346            

Sermon:    What Do You Love Most?

Closing Hymn:         Love Will Guide Us    SLT 131              

Benediction:                           Rev. Dr. Boon Lin Ngeo

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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