Sunday Worship – July 22, 2018

NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

PART 1:  

  • The Ringing of the Bell
  • Words of Welcome – Rev. Joel Weible, Pastor
  • Prelude:  “Veni Creator Spiritus” – Nicolas de Grigny

PART 2:  

  • Call to Worship:  Don Whitehouse and congregation
    • Leader:    The Spirit of God calls to us,
    • People:   With sighs too deep for words.
    • Leader:    The Spirit of God calls to us,
    • People:   Claiming us,
    • Leader:    Summoning us to become more than we are now.
    • People:   Calling us by name:  God’s Children
    • ALL:      LET US CLAIM THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD!
  • Hymn 327:  “O Word of God Incarnate” – MUNICH
  • Call to Confession and Prayer (unison)
    • Caring and compassionate Creator, we enter this place set apart for your worship, knowing that we have failed to see you in other places.  We have ignored your beauty around us, in earth and sky, in plants and creatures, in the people who surround us.  We have chosen to live more by our fears than by our faith, to be weighed down by what we do not have, rather than rejoicing in your gifts to us.  In these moments together, draw us so close that we cannot help but know every day that you are with us, wherever we go.  Enlarge our capacity to care, so we may see you in all we meet.  Hear our silent prayers of return …
  • Assurance of Pardon
    • Leader:    God loves us and frees us from all that we do to turn away from the transformative power of belief.
    • People:   God hears our cries and questions, and promises to remain in covenant with us.
    • Leader:    In the name of the Risen One, who came, who comes, and who is to come again, the heavy weight of our doubt is lifted.
    • People:   We are forgiven and may begin again to love as Christ loves.
    • ALL:      ALLELUIA!  AMEN.
  • Response 298:  “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy” – IN BABILONE
  • Passing of the Peace

PART 3: 

  • Musical Offering:  Duet:  Annie Weible and Nick Metry – “Find Me Faithful” – R. Stevenson

PART 4:  

PART 5:  

  • Hymn 330:  “Deep in the Shadows of the Past” – SHEPHERD’S PIPES
  • Affirmation of Faith:  “The Apostles’ Creed”
    • I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
    • I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.  Amen.

PART 6:  

  • Time of Giving Thanks – Rev. Joel Weible, Pastor
  • Announcements
  • Prayers of the People and the Lord’s Prayer
  • Call to Offering and Offering

PART 7:  

  • Offertory:  “A Sacred Harp Setting:  Jefferson” – arranged by J. Boeringer
  • Doxology 592:  “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
  • Prayer of Dedication (unison)
    • One and Eternal God of time and space, we respond to you with joy as we lift up our tithes and offerings.  The opportunity to share is a blessing for which we are very thankful.  Your generous provision for our needs prompts us to be generous in return.  Accomplish your purposes, we pray, through these gifts and in our lives.  Amen.

PART 8:  

  • Hymn 507:  “I Come with Joy” – DOVE OF PEACE
  • Charge and Benediction – Rev. Joel Weible, Pastor

PART 9:  

  • The Ringing of the Bell
  • Postlude:  “Grand Choeur in G” – Theodore Salome

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