September 29, 2013

Theme: At Home in the New Creation

Scripture: Psalm 65:1-4

¹ Praise is due to you,
    O God, in Zion;
and to you shall vows be performed,
²     O you who answer prayer!
To you all flesh shall come.
³ When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us,
    you forgive our transgressions.
⁴ Happy are those whom you choose and bring near
    to live in your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
    your holy temple.

Service Order:

Preparing for Worship

Chimes

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude 

Words of Preparation

Hymn of Praise: Red #271 Standing on the Promises  ALL

Call to Worship:

Leader:   Celebrate and rejoice all you people of Christ, for the Lord our God is doing a new thing! The old is gone,
All:         everything is new!
Leader:   Illness, disease and crying and mourning, shall be as a distant memory! Hatred and war shall cease from the earth,
All:         for Christ has risen! Death is defeated! 

              Hallelujah! Amen.

~ posted on Worship Resource Archive.

 

Invocation

The Lord's Prayer

Gloria Patri

A Time for Offering

Call to Offering

Offering Meditation

The Doxology

Prayer of Dedication

We Join in Prayer

Prayer Concerns & Celebrations

Morning Prayer                                                                            

We Contemplate & Live God's Word

Children's Sermon: 

Special Music:


Scripture:

Sermon:

Invitation to Discipleship            

Hymn of Invitation: Red #465 In His Time  ALL

Gathering at the Lord's Table

Call to Communion                                        

Hymn of Communion: Blue #71 This Is Holy Ground  ALL

Prayers of Thanksgiving

Words of Institution

Breaking Bread & Pouring the Cup

Musical Meditation

Partaking of the Lord's Supper

We Depart to Serve

Benediction

Parting Hymn:Red #555 We're Marching to Zion 1, 4

Postlude

September 22, 2013

Theme:  Traveling the Ancient pathways of faith.

Scripture:Jeremiah 6:16

  

Service Order:

Preparing for Worship

Chimes

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude 

Words of Preparation

Hymn of Praise: Red Book 1  Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee....stanzas 1 2 and 4

Call to Worship:

Brothers and sisters, boys and girls-

come and worship!

Even if you're tired and worn out-

come and worship!

Lay down the heavy things you are carrying-

come and worship!

Listen to what Jesus wants to tell you-

come and worship!

See if you can discover how Jesus wants to share God's love with you-

come and worship!

For Jesus is humble and gentle,

and he will give us everything we need to follow him.

 

Invocation

The Lord's Prayer

Gloria Patri

A Time for Offering

Call to Offering

Offering Meditation

The Doxology

Prayer of Dedication

We Join in Prayer

Prayer Concerns & Celebrations

Morning Prayer      ( Idea)

Prayer of Approach

(inspired by Psalm 22:1, Habakkuk 1: 1-4)

Living God,

we come to you now,

in wonder.

We have heard of your works -

as Creator, Upholder, In-dweller,

Lover of all –

and we have known you

in our own times,

in our own lives,

in the lives of our neighbours.

Before the mystery

of your presence all around

and within,

it is right for us to be silent,

and to offer thanks and praise.

Optional sung response, like “Be still and know that I am God.”

But, living God,

we also come to you

in anger and despair.

We look out,

and see children dying of hunger,

see nations torn apart by war,

see greed and corruption blighting

the lives of millions.

And we look within,

and see our complicity in much of this,

see our compromised lives,

see our broken hearts,

our broken promises;

and before the mystery of evil rampant

and injustice unpunished,

we ask, “Where were you, God,

when all this went so wrong?”;

hear us as lift our voices to you

and cry

“O God, why have you abandoned us?”

In silence, then,

before the mystery

both of your presence and of your absence,

we wait upon you now.

Optional sung response, like “Be still and know that I am God.”

~ written by Rev. John Harvey, and posted on the Church of Scotland’s Starters for Sunday website. http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/

                                                                     

We Contemplate & Live God's Word

Children's Sermon:   Jeremiah 6:16   "How Do you Find the Right Road?"

Special Music:


Scripture:  Jeremiah 16:6

Sermon:  "We are looking for ancient paths!"

Invitation to Discipleship            

Hymn of Invitation: blue book,  number 1   In the Bulb there is a Flower

Gathering at the Lord's Table

Call to Communion                                        

Hymn of Communion:  red book,  number 41   God is Good

Prayers of Thanksgiving

Words of Institution

Breaking Bread & Pouring the Cup

Musical Meditation

Partaking of the Lord's Supper

We Depart to Serve

Benediction

Parting Hymn:red book 47,  "God will take care of you.....stanzas 1 and 4

Postlude

Septemer 15, 2013

Theme: From Old Sin to New Creation

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
¹¹ Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. ¹² We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. ¹³ If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. ¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
¹⁶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here! ¹⁸ All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.Service Order:

Preparing for Worship

Chimes

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude 

Words of Preparation

Hymn of Praise: Red #92  Love Divine, All Loves Excelling   1, 3, 4

Call to Worship:

Sing a new song to the Lord!

Let the whole earth sing to the Lord!

Each day proclaim the good news that he saves.

Publish his glorious deeds among the nations.

Tell everyone about the amazing things he does.

For great is the Lord!

He is worthy of our praise!

-Christine Longhurst

Invocation

The Lord's Prayer

Gloria Patri

A Time for Offering

Call to Offering

Offering Meditation

The Doxology

Prayer of Dedication

We Join in Prayer

Prayer Concerns & Celebrations

Morning Prayer                                                                            

We Contemplate & Live God's Word

Children's Sermon: 

Special Music:


Scripture:

Sermon:

Invitation to Discipleship            

Hymn of Invitation:Red # 4  How Great Thou Art  1,2

Gathering at the Lord's Table

Call to Communion                                        

Hymn of Communion:Blue #10  Come Share the Lord   ALL

Prayers of Thanksgiving

Words of Institution

Breaking Bread & Pouring the Cup

Musical Meditation

Partaking of the Lord's Supper

We Depart to Serve

Benediction

Parting Hymn:Red #515  Since Jesus Came Into My Heart   1

Postlude

September 8, 2013

Theme:

Note: We will be recognizing and celebrating Amy's Music Ministry as we say good-bye.

Scripture:Isaiah 42:5-9

This is what God the Lord says—
the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out,
    who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it,
    who gives breath to its people,
    and life to those who walk on it:
⁶ “I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness;
    I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you
    to be a covenant for the people
    and a light for the Gentiles,
⁷ to open eyes that are blind,
    to free captives from prison
    and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

⁸ “I am the Lord; that is my name!
    I will not yield my glory to another
    or my praise to idols.
⁹ See, the former things have taken place,
    and new things I declare;
before they spring into being
    I announce them to you.”

Service Order:

Preparing for Worship

Chimes

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude 

Words of Preparation

Hymn of Praise: Red #18 Come We that Love the Lord   1,4,5

Call to Worship:
Leader: The Spirit is here to bless us all with a new song:
People: Let our joy be complete!
Leader: Gifts for the good of all, poured out on all to teach us a new song:
People: Love one another!
Leader: Strangers and neighbors, foreigners and family will join in the new song:
People: No longer servants but friends!
Leader: Come, let our worship make a joyful noise,
People: Rejoicing in the friendship of God!
-Susan A. Blain 

 

Invocation

The Lord's Prayer

Gloria Patri

A Time for Offering

Call to Offering

Offering Meditation

The Doxology

Prayer of Dedication

We Join in Prayer

Prayer Concerns & Celebrations

Morning Prayer                                                                            

We Contemplate & Live God's Word

Children's Sermon: 

Special Music:


Scripture:

Sermon:

Invitation to Discipleship

Hymn of Invitation: Red #2 Come Thou Fount of Ever Blessing  1      

Celebration of Ministry and Farewell for Amy Gillingham as our Music Minister

Gathering at the Lord's Table

Call to Communion                                        

Hymn of Communion: Red #322 In Remembrance of Me    ALL

Prayers of Thanksgiving

Words of Institution

Breaking Bread & Pouring the Cup

Musical Meditation

Partaking of the Lord's Supper

We Depart to Serve

Benediction

Parting Hymn: #462 Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us    1,2

Postlude