Live Gospel According to Pop in the Key of Mark

Gospel According to Pop in the Key of Mark

Jesus is baptized and goes into the desert – Awake my Soul – Mumford and Sons  - Megan and Megan

C                           F        C

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes

C                       F            C

I struggle to find any truth in your lies

C                            F              C

And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know

C                           F       C

This weakness I feel I must finally show

C                            F           C

Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all

C                               F            C

But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall

C                       F               C

Lend me your eyes I can change what you see

C                            F       C

But your soul you must keep, totally free

C   F    F   C    C   F    

   C

Har har, har har, har har, har har

         Am             C     F                       C

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die

          F           C     Am              C

Where you invest your love, you invest your life

         Am             C     F                       C

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die

          F           C     Am              C

Where you invest your love, you invest your life

Am       C     Am       C

Awake my soul, awake my soul

Am       C

Awake my soul

Am  G    F    C  Am   G    

 C

You were made to meet your maker

Am       C     Am       C

Awake my soul, awake my soul

Am       C

Awake my soul

Am  G    F    C  Am   G    

 C

You were made to meet your maker

Am  G    F    C  Am   G    

 C

You were made to meet your maker

­­­Tina Turner - Proud Mary    -Kristen

Intro: | D | D | D | D |

Verse 1:

D

Left a good job in the city,

Workin for the man every night and day

And I never lost one minute of sleepin'

Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been

A                           Bm                 G

Big wheel a-keep on turnin' Proud Mary keep on burnin'

D

And we're rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river!

Verse 2:

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans.

But I never saw the good side of the city

Till I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.

Big wheels keep on turnin, Proud Mary keep on burnin

And we're rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river!

                                            G  D       G  D       G  D

Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river, the river, the river, the river

Jesus' family thinks he's a demon or mentally ill, so he rejects them and creates his own family. (Orbiting: The Gospel of the Weepies)

G            Cadd9   D      Dsus4         

You named me Jesus      the day that I was born

G             Cadd9  D     Dsus4           

You asked too much      to fix what you had torn

C          G     Am     C     G    Am

Things got out of hand, now I understand

Chorus:

D           Dsus4       G

    And I'm out of your range

                 Cadd9

Now it's kind of strange

              G            Cadd9  D

How we change orbit in our lives

         Dsus4     G                  Cadd9

You were kind of a moon outside of my room

             G        D

I could just feel you nearby

C     Em       Am

Now I feel you gone

         C         Em          Am

'Cause I know what side you're on

G  (strum once and let ring)

  And it's not mine

G Cadd9 D Dsus4 D

G          Cadd9   D  Dsus4  D       

I walk the line      between now and then

G             Cadd9  D Dsus4  D   

It's deep sea diving   with no oxygen

  C             G       Am

Guess I went somewhere to hide

C     G      Am

Far behind my eyes

C             G      Am

I willed you there to see

C             G       Am

But you never came for me

Chorus

Jesus tells the woman at the well he knows her heart..  (1234: The Gospel of Feist) – Megan and Megan

VERSE:

D       Bm

One Two Three Four

G                A

Tell me that you love me more

D          Bm 

Sleepless, long nights

G                A

That was what my youth was for

D          Bm          G            A

Oh teenage hopes are lying at your door

D          Bm          G                 A   

Left you with nothing But they want some more

CHORUS:

 A- A6-A

Oh-Oh-Oh

       G

You're changing your heart

 A-A6-A

Oh-Oh-Oh

     G

You know who you are

VERSE: (same as before)

Sweetheart, bitter heart

Now I can't tell you apart

Cozy and cold

Put the horse before the cart

Those teenage hopes

Who have tears in their eyes

Too scared to own up

To one little lie

Oh, oh, oh

You're changing your heart

Oh, oh, oh

You know who you are

One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten

Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten

Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

Oh, oh, oh

You're changing your heart

Oh, oh, oh

You know who you are

Oh, oh, oh

You're changing your heart

Oh, oh, oh

You know who you are

·  Healings and miracles.  (Be Ok: The Gospel of Ingrid Michaelson)  - Megan and Kristen

CAPO 4th fret!

Intro: C  

C                                 D            F         C

I just wanna be ok, be ok, be ok  I just wanna be ok today

C                                 D            F         C

I just wanna be ok, be ok, be ok  I just wanna be ok today

C

I just wanna feel today, feel today, feel today

D            F                C

I just wanna feel something today

C

I just wanna feel today, feel today, feel today

D            F                C

I just wanna feel something today

CHORUS:

E            F        C

Open me open you will see

E               F        Em

I'm a gallery of broken hearts

E                 F        C

I'm beyond repair let me be

F           D                   C

And give me back my broken parts

I just wanna know today, know today, know today

I just want to know something today

I just want to know today, know today, know today

Know that maybe I will be ok

Chorus

BRIDGE:

D            Dm      Am

Just give me back my pieces

D              Dm      Am

Just give them back to me please

D            Dm      Am

Just give me back my pieces

F          D              C

And let me hold my broken parts

I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok

I just want to be ok today

I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok

I just want to be ok today

I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today

I just want to feel something today

I just want to know today, know today, know today

Know that maybe I will be ok

Know that maybe I will be ok

Know that maybe I will be ok 

Jesus questions the order of things…   Megan and Kristen

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love, the love, the love

Story of Peter confronting Jesus -    Be Good Tanyas - Ally

the way your mind works
drivin' so fast, carving your way
through the city
well you can't tell me
you get what you want
you've figured it out
and yer just fine

cuz you're talking to yourself
you don't hear a thing
and all history unfolds before you
but you shut your eyes
but you shut your eyes
it's not happening
we all grew up and
we fend for ourselves
and we fend for each other
we fend for each other
sometimes

but you keep on racin' and runnin'
like something is chasing you
like something's gonna get you
well something's gonna get you someday

·  Jesus says to Peter get behind me Satan:  -Ally

Chorus:

D           Dsus4       G

    And I'm out of your range

                 Cadd9

Now it's kind of strange

              G            Cadd9  D

How we change orbit in our lives

         Dsus4     G                  Cadd9

You were kind of a moon outside of my room

             G        D

I could just feel you nearby

C     Em       Am

Now I feel you gone

         C         Em          Am

'Cause I know what side you're on

G  (strum once and let ring)

  And it's not mine

The Last Supper .  (Save Tonight: The Gospel of Eagle Eye Cherry) – Megan and Ally

Go on and close the curtains
Cause all we need is candle light
You and me and a bottle of wine
Going to hold you tonight
Well we know I'm going away
And how I wish, I wish it weren't so
So take this wine and drink with me
Let's delay our misery

Chorus:

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

There's a log on the fire
And it burns like me for you
Tomorrow comes with one desire
To take me away it's true
It ain't easy to say goodbye
Darling please don't start to cry
Cause girl you know I've got to go, oh
Lord I wish it wasn't so

Chorus:

Tomorrow comes to take me away
I wish that I, that I could stay
Girl you know I've got to go, oh
Lord I wish it wasn't so

Chorus:

Judus Storms Out of the Last Supper and Sells Out Jesus. (Rolling in the Deep: The Gospel of Adele)  - Megan and Megan

Verse 1

Am                  

There's a fire starting in my heart,

F                                                G

Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark

Finally, I can see you crystal clear.

Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare.

See how I leave, with every piece of you

Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

There's a fire starting in my heart,

Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark

Chorus

F                       G

The scars of your love, remind me of us.

Em                      F

They keep me thinking that we almost had it all

F                       G

The scars of your love, they leave me breathless

Em              E

I can't help feeling...

E                            Am                              G

We could have had it all... (I wish you, never had met me)...

F(hold)                                                                         

          G

Rolling in the Deep (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Am                                                                       G

Your had my heart... (I wish you)... Inside of your hand (Never had met me)

F(hold)                                                                         

                                   G

And you played it... (Tears are gonna fall)... To the beat (Rolling in the deep)

Am                    E

Baby I have no story to be told,

           G                            E                              G

But I've heard one of you and I'm gonna make your head burn.

Am                      E

Think of me in the depths of your despair.

 G                                          E                          

                G

Making a home down there, as mine sure won't be shared.

Chorus

F                                 G

We could have had it all

Am                          G

Rolling in the Deep

F

Your had my heart Inside of your hand

G

And you played it To the beat

Am (hold)

Throw yourself through ever open door (Whoa)

Count your blessings to find what look for (Whoa-uh)

Turn my sorrow into treasured gold (Whoa)

And pay me back in kind- You reap just what you sow.

Am                             G

(I wish you... Never had met me)

F                                                       G

We could have had it all (Tears are gonna fall... Rolling in the deep)

Am                                                              G

We could have had it all yeah ( I wish you... never had met me)

F(Hold)

It all. (Tears are gonna fall)

                                           G

It all, It all (Rolling in the deep)

Am                                         G

We could have had it all... (I wish you, never had met me)...

F                                                    G

Rolling in the Deep (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Am                      G

Your had my heart... (I wish you)... Inside of your hand (Never had met me)

F                               G

And you played it... (Tears are gonna fall)... To the beat (Rolling in the deep)

Am                                                G

We could have had it all... (I wish you, never had met me)...

F (hold)                                                     G

Rolling in the Deep (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Am                                           G

Your had my heart... (I wish you)... Inside of your hand (Never had met me)

F

But you played it

You played it.

You played it.

           G     End on Am

You played it to the beat.

Gethsemene  -Jesus tells them to stay up and pray

Pray tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

Pray tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

Jesus tells them to stay up and pray

Stay awake tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

Stay awake tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

Jesus tells them to stay up and pray

Stay awake tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

Stay awake tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone

·  Mary watches Jesus on the Cross  -Ally

Chorus:

D           Dsus4       G

    And I'm out of your range

                 Cadd9

Now it's kind of strange

              G            Cadd9  D

How we change orbit in our lives

         Dsus4     G                  Cadd9

You were kind of a moon outside of my room

             G        D

I could just feel you nearby

C     Em       Am

Now I feel you gone

 Mary at the Cross.  (Hit Me Baby One More Time: The Gospel of Britney Spears)  -Megan and Kristen

Am

Oh baby, baby

     E                 C

How was I supposed to know

      Dm               Em    

That something wasn't right here

Am

Oh baby baby

     E                   C

I shouldn't have let you go

     Dm                Em

And now you're out of sight, yeah

Am                       E

Show me, how you want it to be

         C

Tell me baby

                  Dm                Em

'Cause I need to know now what we've got

Chorus:

Am                E

My loneliness is killing me

C                   Dm

I must confess, I still believe

Am                       E

When I'm not with you I lose my mind

C

Give me a sign

Dm          Em

Hit me baby one more time

The women say nothing because they are afraid - The Chain  (three female voices)  All

The sky looks pissed.
The wind talks back.
The bones are shifting in my skin and you my love are gone.

My room seems wrong.
The bed won't fit.
I can not seem to operate and you my love are gone

(Chorus)
So glide away on soapy heals

and promise not to promise anymore

and if you come around again

then i will take, then i will take the chain from off the door

I'll never say, I'll never love
but I dont say a lot of things and you my love are gone

(Chorus X6)

Travel Faithfully: Muir Woods at Pentecost

Pastor Megan Rohrer visits Muir Woods in California to talk about Pentecost and our interconnectedness.

80's Mass for the Season of Easter

80’s Easter Mass

Arranged by Pastor Megan Rohrer

for the Community of Travelers 4/15/2012

PERFORMmusic  and Worship Cast License#6400

Gathering

Participants seek to bring their full selves into the space.

True Colors by Cyndi Lauper

Am              G

You with the sad eyes

C              F9

Don't be discouraged

Dm Dm7   C

Oh I realize

        G

It's hard to take courage

C           Dm

In a world full of people

    C          F

You can lose sight of it all

        Am             G

And the darkness inside you

        F             C

Can make you feel so small

Chorus:

                  F     C

But I see your true colors

    G

Shining through

            F   C

I see your true colors

       F          C

And that's why I love you

Am            Em      G         F

So don't be afraid to let them show

        C    F

Your true colors

  C    F          G

True colors are beautiful,

         F

Like a rainbow

           Am   G

Show me a smile then,

 C          F9     Dm    Dm7

Don't be unhappy, can't remember

 C         G

When I last saw you laughing

C              Dm

If this world makes you crazy

     C                   F

And you've taken all you can bear

     Am     G

You call me up

             F            C

Because you know I'll be there

Repeat Chorus

Prayer of the day is said by the presiding pastor.

Word

Tune:  Jenny 867-5309 by Tommy TuTone

Ha – Le – Lu –Jah  and praise be to Christ

The Gospel is read

Ha – Le – Lu –Jah  and praise be to Christ

Homily & Gospel According to Pop

Prayers

To the Tune of the Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)

Verse 1:

Cm                             Ab       G

We pray for the leaders of our faith,

And all who are stewards of this place

For their time and talents we say thanks

Because everybody needs prayers for something

Verse 2:

Some of them want to do healings

Some of them want to be healed by you

Some of them want to love you

Some of them want to be loved by you

Chorus:

Our prayers like incense, raise to God

Our hearts and intentions, raise to God

Worries and sorrows, raise to God

False impressions, raise to God

Our thanksgivings, raise to God

Verse 3:

We pray for those in need of peace,

And all who struggle with disease  

Or from addiction need release

Because everybody needs prayers for something

Verse 2 and Chorus

Verse 4:

We pray for our minds, hearts and health,

Help us to learn to love our selves

Free us from debt and share our wealth

Because everybody needs prayers for something

Verse 2 and Chorus

Meal

The Offering is Collected and the Eucharist is Shared

 

Blessing

To the Tune of The Police’s Every Breath you Take

G

Every breath you take

                   Em

And every move you make

                C                     D

Every vow you break, every step you take

                   Em

God is blessing you

              G 

Every single day

                  Em

And every word you say

                 C                    D

Every game you play, every night you pray

                   G

God is blessing you 

               C

Oh, can't you see

               G

God has set you free?

                      A

And acts through your hands and feet

                     D

And is everyone you meet

Dismissal

To the Tune of A-Ha’s Take On Me

A   E/G#  F#m  D 

Go  in    peace  (go in peace)

A   E/G#  F#m  D 

Go  in    peace  (go in peace)

A   E/G#  F#m  D

Christ is Ris’n

           A  E/G# F#m D

Hallelujah

Easter Vigil Video: Exodus 14:10 - 15:1

Audio transcription: Last week on The Exodus God chose Moses to lead the Israelites who are known in our story as the forgetful, ungrateful grumpy people. With the Israelites trapped in slavery in Egypt, God teaches Moses a few tricks more impressive than the Pharaoh’s magicians. Finally God struck the Pharaoh with ten plagues designed to use natural disasters, attack the Egyptians fertility and demonstrate that the Israelites' God was more powerful that the gods of the Nile.

Now, I’m sure you remember all ten plagues, so feel free to shout them out now.[pause]

Church geeks and those good at reading, good for you. Now everyone else, here’s a recap.

First, water is turned to blood and the fish die.

Frogs. Cute, but also smelly and slimy.

Lice, not just in their hair, but everywhere. *cough* STD

Flies. Doesn’t sound scary, but it worked… until God hardened Pharaoh’s heart again.

Diseased livestock, probably from germs on the flies.

Boils that never heal *cough* STD

Hail, fire and thunder rained down from the sky. This works too until God again hardens Pharaoh’s heart. Whose side is God on anyway? [video of Locusts plague on screen]

Darkness. So dark you could feel it. Pharaoh says that the Israelites can go, but he wants to keep their stuff. Moses says “no.”

Death of the firstborn humans and animals. Pharaoh finally lets the Israelites go, because he’s afraid he may be killed next.

And now back to our story…

On their way out of Egypt, the Israelites turn back (like Lot’s wife in Sodom) and in their fear they cry out to God, which in this story means, they grumbled to Moses.

They said, ‘Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, “Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians”? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.’

Which was essentially the Israelites snarky way of mocking Moses by saying: Did we really have to go on such a long hot trecherous walk if we were just going to suffer the same fate as everyone we watched die in those plagues? This guy he never listens, we tell him over and over and he never listens. I’d rather be a slave than be dead.

Moses responds to them saying: “Do not be afraid” and “peace be still.” These words will later be plagiarized by another prophet when his 12 forgetful, ungrateful grumpy disciples become scared of the sea, but that’s another story.

Moses tells the Israelites the Egyptians will all be killed by God if they can manage to stand completely still and get out of God’s way.

Then God responds to the Israelites, which in this story means he talks to Moses, and says why are they grumbling to me? Keep them moving. Then you will lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, say hocus-pocus, divide the sea, and have the Israelites walk through it on the dry ground. Well, maybe God didn’t say the bit about hocus-pocus. But God did say that God would harden the hearts of the Egyptians so they will chase the Israelites and God will show the Egyptians, the Pharaoh, the chariots and the chariot drivers who is boss. There was an angel of God walking in front and behind the Israelites. Did I forget to mention that before? Well there was. And, it was super dark. And there was a pillar of cloud, which then moved both in front and behind them and lit up the night and kept the Israelites and the Egyptians separated all night long.

Then Moses stretched his hand over the sea and God divided the water all night long with a strong East wind. The Israelites walked across the sea, on dry land, with walls of water on both sides of them. The Egyptians went into the sea after them.

Then, either on the last military watch of the night, or the first watch of the morning, God in a pillar of fire looked at the Egyptians and it freaked them out and they began to panic and try to run away from the Israelites. But God clogged the wheels of their chariots. It does say how, but I think it was really muddy. Never the less it was really heard for the chariots to turn around and they were heard screaming “Run away, run away God is fighting for the Israelites against Egypt.

Then God told Moses to stretch out his hand in order to dump the water back on the Egyptians. So, he did and by dawn the water had returned to normal. As the Egyptians ran away from the water, God tossed the Egyptians into the sea and the water returned to its normal depth and covered them completely. Every single Egyptian died. But the Israelites were saved because they had walked on the dry ground with the water on either side of them. And that’s how God saved the Israelites and the Israelites saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.

Israel saw what God did to the Egyptians, so like the Pharaoh who had been afraid God would kill him, the people saw God’s great works and were very afraid. But it also caused them believed in God and God’s slave Moses.

And so this episode ends with Moses and the Israelites singing this song to God: I will sing God, for he has triumphed gloriously, horse and rider he’s thrown in the sea.

Or perhaps it was it bit more like: Nanner, nanner, nanner our God is cooler than yours.

Lent 4B: Change the World - a response to the Christian PTSD of Lent

Today's Gospel text in John (3:14-21) is talking about making tough dark and light decisions. As Jesus moves closer and closer to his death, the question of who is in and who is out become more important. Like times in our lives when we have felt on the margins or close to an all or nothing, life or death decisions it is very human to limit ourselves to the company of those who agree 100% with us. In times of life and death it is important.

Nellie McKay's "Change the World" draws out the way it feels to be in the midst of this kind of decision.



Her political satire and playful humor also reminds us that this is not a way to live every day. As the community trying to live ethical Christian lives in the aftermath of Jesus' brutal death, we must be aware of the PTSD that we care from reenacting and retelling this Lenten story every year. Most importantly, we must remember that this act happened in the past and it is not happening now.

While it may be easier to justify decisions that are all or nothing in times of war, terror and trauma, Lent should be a time of remembering, not retraumatizing!

So this Sunday, we take a peak into what it is like to make decisions in Lent, but we also stay in touch with our present realities, families, communities and remember that this is a story about Jesus - not us or our church. While the words of the Gospel text may speak to a much more emergent time, it is not a life or death decision for others to agree with us, believe just as we do or to hide away in dark rooms only with people who agree with us.

In fact, if we don't want to get into a Lenten situation again, where people are required to agree to religious and political ideology or end up on a cross, it would seem that tolerance and compassion would be our way to avoid that fate.

I've always wondered why people have tried so hard to do exactly as Jesus did, when the story so clearly ends badly for him (at least in the story that ends at Good Friday - as the oldest version of the Gospel of Mark do).

God is dynamic and learns by interacting with creation. I propose that we follow that example. Let us be people who are dynamic and learn by interacting with God.