Offering Prayer: Matthew 22: 34-40

With what you see before us, God, we demonstrate our deepest love.
Receive our gifts – our very best – as sweet offerings before you.
May they be the blessing to others that they have been for us. Amen.


— written by Rev. Kaji R. Spellman, a United Church of Christ Pastor who serves as a pastor of Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City.  Posted on the United Church of Christ’s Worship Ways website. Visit that site for other good lectionary-based resources.