STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Snippet

It is poor prosperity that is blind to the need of Gods favor.

Scripture

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24 NIV

Song

Stairway to Heaven By Led Zepplin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcL---4xQYA

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for.

Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure

'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,

Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,

And my spirit is crying for leaving.

In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,

And the voices of those who stand looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,

Then the piper will lead us to reason.

And a new day will dawn for those who stand long,

And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,

It's just a sprinkling for the May queen.

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run

There's still time to change the road you're on.

And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,

The piper's calling you to join him,

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul.

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to stone.

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last.

When we all are one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Robert Plant spent much of the '70s answering questions about the lyrics he wrote for "Stairway." When asked why the song was so popular, he said it could be its "abstraction," adding, "Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way - and I wrote the lyrics."

The lyrics take some pretty wild turns, but the beginning of the song is about a woman who accumulates money, only to find out the hard way her life had no meaning and will not get her into heaven. This is the only part Plant would really explain, as he said it was "a woman getting everything she wanted without giving anything back." (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=328)

Sentence Prayer

Heavenly Father,

Help me experience the reality

I am the one

Jesus Loves. Amen

RADIO

Snippet

"Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played." — Zayn Malik

Scripture

The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang: “He is good; his love endures forever.” Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud,” 2 Chronicles 5:13

Song 

Radio by Darius Rucker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUOKe1P-SY

Seventeen, the only way I had a car

Is after I dropped my mama off where she needed to go

Four bald tires, with the ceiling falling and the window stuck

But the only thing that I cared about was the radio

We'd turn it on, turn it up to ten, and everybody would jump on in

[Chorus:]

Ridin' down the highway

Who wants to be the DJ

I'll find a spot on the side of the road

You find somethin' on the radio

Like a feel real good song

We'll know it when it comes on

Didn't have no money, no place to go

All we needed was a radio

I'd grab my girl, we'd look for somewhere to watch the stars

The perfect place to put it in park and take it slow

She'd sing along to even the ones that she barely knew

She still sounded good a little outta tune, but we didn't care

I'd look at her, she' d look at me, I'll never forget that melody

[Chorus]

Shhh, hey y'all be quiet

That's my favorite song

Hey, man, turn it up loud

Come on, come on, come on

[Chorus]

All we needed, all we needed now

Was a, was a, was a radio

Sentence Prayer

Father:

Help us to enjoy

The music

 you Bring us today 

 Amen

ALL KINDS OF KINDS

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The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” ― C.S. Lewis

Scripture

All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. 1 Corinthians 12:11 NIV

Song

All Kings of Kinds by Miranda Lambret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02X8bX_EBv4

Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that

Horatio the human cannonball.

A weddin' 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants

Sideshow family oddities and all.

The dog-faced boy howled out with joy

As the tattooed lady was crying.

Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

It takes all kinds of kinds.

Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons

And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.

Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this

Concocted to suppress her appetite.

When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin

And wait for Thomasina to arrive.

Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

It takes all kinds of kinds.

All kinds of kinds.

When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars

I take a break and think about the past.

When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me

And I tossed my test into the trash.

I scratched off my number while hitching out under

That bush league population sign.

Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

It takes all kinds of kinds.

Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger

If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.

That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

It takes all kinds of kinds.

All kinds of kinds.

All kinds of kinds.

Sentence Prayer

God of word and rest and pleasure,

Grant that what we do this week may be for us an offering

Rather than a burden;

And for those we serve, may it be the help they need.

Amen

A New Zealand Prayer Book pg 111

NEW GUY

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“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” ― C. JoyBell C.

Scripture

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 2 Corinthians 5:16-19 NIV

Song

Mr New Guy by Tekulve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrbn8MZHdfY

No Lyrics for Available

Sentence Prayer

Jesus

Take My heart

And write into your heart

And erase the evidence of sin

That you may release your

New creation.  Amen

GUINEVERE

Snippet

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

― Walter Scott Ivanhoe

Scripture

Catch for us the foxes,

    the little foxes

that ruin the vineyards,

    our vineyards that are in bloom. Song of Solomon 2:15 NIV

Song

"Guinevere" By ELI Young Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvbzd5688l4

She's got a bumper like a billboard

Covered in stickers of her favorite bands

She's got a handful of records that she turns to

When she needs to land

She's a Saturday night parade through the streets

That all eyes come to see including me

She carries memories around like souvenirs down in her pockets

She should have let some go by now but can't seem to drop it

Says forgiveness ain't nothing but a lifeless tire on the shoulder of her soul

That never rolls

For as much as she stumbled she's runnin'

For as much as she runs she's still here

Always hoping to find something quicker than Heaven

To make the damage of her days disappear

Just like Guinevere

Just like Guinevere

She don't hold onto nothin' new for very long

Yeah she writes you in as just one more tale

and then you're gone

'Cause she once fell hard 'cause she dropped her guard

And no one gets to stay it's just too late

For as much as she stumbled she's runnin'

For as much as she runs she's still here

Always hoping to find something quicker than Heaven

To make the damage of her days disappear

Just like Guinevere

Just like Guinevere

For as much as she stumbled she's runnin'

For as much as she runs she's still here

For as much as she stumbled she's runnin'

For as much as she runs she's still here

Always hoping to find something quicker than Heaven

To make the damage of her days disappear

Just like Guinevere

Just like Guinevere

Lean into me Guinevere

Be mine tonight Guinevere

Sentence Prayer

Father

Undo the damage of our little sins

To the love of our life

Through the blood of Jesus

May we learn to love

Our lover as passionately

As Christ loves the church.

Amen

BROTHERS KEEPER

Snippet

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.” ― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

Scripture

Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.” Genesis 4:8-12

Song

In The Ghetto By Elvis Presley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En0ZyjQgU4

As the snow flies

On a cold and gray Chicago mornin'

A poor little baby child is born

In the ghetto

And his mama cries

'cause if there's one thing that she don't need

it's another hungry mouth to feed

In the ghetto

People, don't you understand

the child needs a helping hand

or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day

Take a look at you and me,

are we too blind to see,

do we simply turn our heads

and look the other way

Well the world turns

and a hungry little boy with a runny nose

plays in the street as the cold wind blows

In the ghetto

And his hunger burns

so he starts to roam the streets at night

and he learns how to steal

and he learns how to fight

In the ghetto

Then one night in desperation

a young man breaks away

He buys a gun, steals a car,

tries to run, but he don't get far

And his mama cries

As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man

face down on the street with a gun in his hand

In the ghetto

As her young man dies,

on a cold and gray Chicago mornin',

another little baby child is born

In the ghetto

Sentence Prayer

Father;

You have made all of mankind into your image

Forgive me for my brothers blood cries out

For, my indifference, my apathy and my zealous hatred

Of your children.

In your Son Jesus may their finally be peace and redemption.

Amen

ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING

Snippet

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.

CHIEF SEATTLE OF THE SUWAMISH TRIBE, letter to President Franklin Pierce

Scripture

The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? Psalms 24:1-3 KJV

Song

All Creatures of our God and King David Crowder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cObXwn-EgGY

All creatures of our God and King

Lift up your voice and with us sing

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Thou burning sun with golden beam

Thou silver moon with softer gleam

Oh, praise Him

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Alleluia

Alleluia

Thou rushing wind that art so strong

Ye clouds that sail in heav'n along

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Thou rising moon in praise rejoice

Ye lights of evening find a voice

Oh, praise Him

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Alleluia

Alleluia

Let all things their creator bless

And worship Him in humbleness

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Praise, praise the Father praise the Son

And praise the Spirit three in one

Oh, praise Him

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Alleluia

Alleluia

Praise, praise the Father praise the Son

And praise the Spirit three in one

Oh, praise Him

Oh, praise Him

Alleluia

Alleluia

Alleluia

Sentence Prayer

Father;

The heavens are telling of Your glory,

And all creation is shouting for joy!

May man come, to dance in the forest,

come, to play in the field,

And sing, to the glory of the Lord! 

Amen

(Prayer Based on Marty Haugen Canticle of the Sun Lyrics)