Thursday, September 5, 2013

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

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