Our gracious Father, from whom all fatherhood derives its name, we thank You for our family. We thank You for children, grandchildren, parents, and grandparents. We thank You that we are allowed to break bread across generations like this, and we are grateful for the hands that prepared this food for us. Father, we ask …
Great Things for Your Kingdom
Father and God, we thank You and praise You for all Your goodness to us, and we thank You for all Your kindness to us throughout the week. We ask You to bless this arriving Lord’s Day as well, and ask that You would accomplish great things for Your kingdom on the foundation of worship …
A Widow’s Cruse of Oil
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Father and God over all, we gather before You to honor Your name, and so that You might bless us, Your people, as we seek to honor Your name. We come before You as an empty people, but we come in order …
Impatient and Restless
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Our Father and great God, we assemble before You as You have summoned us to do. We gather in the name of Jesus, in accordance with Your Word. We are brought together in the power of Your Spirit, poured out so liberally …
Yet Another
Father, we thank You for yet another Sabbath, where we may sit down together with friends and other members of our family in order to prepare our hearts to worship You in the morning. We thank You for connecting us to one another the way You have done, and we pray that a spirit of …
In the Kind Name of Jesus
Our gracious Father, Lord of all creation, we approach You now in the kind name of Jesus. We are grateful for all that You have done for us this last week, built on the foundation of last week’s Lord’s Day, and we look forward in faith to the kindness You will show to us in …
Our Communion Parable
Father and Lord, we come to You in the name of the Lord Jesus, and ask You to hear our prayer. We are thankful for our food, for the wine, for another Sabbath, and for the opportunity to worship You tomorrow together with all Your people. We thank You for the communion of saints, and …
Thanks for the Overflow
Lord and Father, God and Savior, we know that gratitude in the heart needs opportunities for ritual expression, and we thank You for this chance to show our thanks to You. Father, we thank You that the Sabbath is not a fast day, but rather a feast day. We thank You that we have the …
Please Build This House
Father and gracious God, we thank You for all the Lord’s Days you have given to us, and we thank You for this opportunity of Sabbath rest. We are grateful that this commandment was made for us, and that we were not made for it. We are so grateful for the opportunity to build the …
Show Us the Covenant
Our Father and God, You are the God who has promised to show us the covenant. We thank You that we are in the covenant, but we seek more than this—we ask that You would show us the covenant, in accordance with all Your promises. We sit down at this meal, ready to thank You …