Worship and Liturgical Tools

Work and worship go hand in hand. Centering our attention on the Triune God, we discern and deepen both our personal and corporate call we learn to love mercy and do justice in church and society. We provide sermons, devotionasl and a weekly chapel service at The United Methodist Building, featuring guest speakers from across the United Methodist connection.

Chapel Worship

Each Wednesday at 12:00 noon, people gather from across Capitol Hill for a time of worship in the Simpson Memorial Chapel in The United Methodist Building. Guest preachers, reading of Scripture, hymns, prayers and celebration of Holy Communion mark this time of weekly Chapel worship. We encourage you to join us in worship community by reading and listening to the sermons preached and following the liturgical prayers offered.

Sermons

Outstanding sermons of timely topics of social concern are offered every week in churches across the world. We encourage you to reflect and share the Sermons delivered at the Simpson Memorial Chapel and in the places where staff travel to preach, teach and advocate for justice.

We invite you to send us your best sermons that deal with aspects of the Social Principles so that we can share them with our networks.

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• Fall Out Continues from Hiroshima
• Genesis 32:22-32

• Bishop Roy I. Sano at Simpson Memorial Chapel,
  United Methodist Building, WDC
  Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 12:10pm
  

• Truth is Greater than Proof
• A man dead and buried for four days, coming back to life.

• Sermon preached by Sam Marullo at the Simpson Memorial Chapel on 3/12/08, based on the text of John 11:1-45 (The raising of Lazarus)
  

• Word from Winkler
• "Turning Away from Evil"

• A sermon preached by Jim Winkler at Quapaw Quarter UMC in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 23, 2007.

• Making Disciples for Jesus Christ
• For the Transformation of the World

• A Sermon preached at the Council of Bishops on May 3, 2007

  • Scriptures: Luke 4:16-21; Philippians 2:5-11
  • Sermon: 2 Corinthians 8:7-9

• Peace and Justice
• God's Gracious Gift of Moral Ambiguity
• A sermon preached at the Simpson Memorial Chapel, The United Methodist Building commemorating Memorial Day.

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Devotional Guides

The church calendar is marked by a series of sacred times and seasons when we give our attention to the stories of God. GBCS staff and seminary interns prepare devotionals for personal and small group Bible study linking timely social and political issues with the very real struggles to work our salvation and assert a vibrant Wesleyan holiness as understood in the Bible. We struggle to listen to God's call for mercy, justice, peace and reconciliation. These devotionals are intended to be used as a tool for reflection but also as suggestions for concrete Christian action.

Global Poverty - A New Year in God’s World

by Alexis Coleman

“A New Year in God’s World” includes five weekly Bible studies with short Scripture reading, questions for group reflection and action, facts on the state of the global poor and congregational prayers.

In His Place

by Lisa Jo Besner

A six week Lenten Devotional Study. Putting our hearts in Jesus’ heart; our hands in Jesus’ hands; moving beyond thinking into the realm of doing