Welcome to our online worship for Sunday, February 7, 2021
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The Healing at the Pool ​ 
​ The Season of Epiphany  ​

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Prelude
Brian Turner
This Is A Day Of New Beginnings, Have Thine Own Way Lord
Special Music
Andrea Bailey and Brian Turner
You Keep Hope Alive
Anthony Skinner, Jess Cates, and Jon Reddick

Days may be darkest, but your light is greater.
You light our way, God, you light our way.
When evil is rising, you're rising higher.
With power to save, with power to save.

CHORUS
You keep hope alive, you keep hope alive.
From the beginning to end, your word never fails.
You keep hope alive, because you are alive.
Jesus, you are alive.

Death had a stronghold, but your life was stronger.
Rose from the grave, rose up from the grave. 
When evil is rising, you're rising higher.
With power to save, with power to save.

CHORUS

There's hope in the morning,
Hope in the evening,
Hope because you're living,
Hope because you're breathing.
There's hope in the breaking,
Hope in the sorrow,
Hope for this moment,
My hope for tomorrow.

CHORUS
 The Prayer of Saint Francis
​Lord make me an instrument of thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; 
where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;
 where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. 
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen ​
​Scripture
John 5:1-9 NIV
The Healing at the Pool

5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath
The Healing at the Pool 
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The man that was lying at the pool of Bethesda had been waiting some 38 years to get well. He had placed his hopes on the belief that an angel would stir the water and he would be first to get in the pool. Yet he did not have anyone to help him. Jesus asked him a question. “Would you like to get well?”  Jesus is still “The Great Physician”. He heals physically, emotionally, and spiritually. He desires for you to be made whole. Jesus told the man “Stand up. Pick up your mat and walk!” Instantly the man was healed. Sometimes healing comes when we honestly answer the question “Would you like to get well?”
Message 
Pastor John Fowler
The Healing at the Pool ​

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Offertory
Andrea Bailey, flute
Amazing Grace
NEW BRITAIN
Virginia Harmony, 1831
arr. by Judy Nishimura
Children's Message
Kim Garland
Attributes of God for Kids
Lesson 6
Postlude 
Brian Turner
There's Something About That Name
​arr Kartsonakis
Do not be afraid.
The kingdom of heaven comes to change and transform us,
to reshape the world according to God’s reconciling will.

Go forth to bear witness to this community of love.
May the living presence of Christ be with you,
the life-giving power of God sustain you,
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and the perfect light of the Holy Spirit shine within you,
now and to the end of the age.
Amen.