Worship Service Bulletin

A Service for the Lord’s Day

10th Sunday after Pentecost

(*Please stand in body or in spirit)

The Instrumental Prelude and Time for Meditation

Announcements, Rev. Hana Elliott

Celebrations and the Birthday Song,

  Happy birthday, happy birthday, your friends are all singing.

May the year that is coming bring gladness to you.

   May it teach you to be helpful, kindhearted, and loving.

     Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.

*Call to Worship: (1)

Leader: Sing to the Lord a new song!

People: We sing a song of peace and hope!

Leader: Sing to the Lord a song of strength.

People: Our strength is in the Lord of hosts!

Leader: Sing to the Lord a song of joy!

People: We sing a song of service and faithfulness.

*Hymn #31 “To God Be the Glory”

*Call to Confession:

Try as we might to follow Jesus, at some point we always fail. But our failure does not have the power to separate us from God. Trusting Christ’s grace, let us confess our sin together, first in silence, and then aloud together.

*Prayer of Confession: (2)

(Begin with individual silent prayer before joining in unison)

Ever-loving God, we confess that we are not always ready to trust your love. You call us to step forward in radical faith, but we cling to what is familiar, comfortable, and non-controversial. You are eternally at work in the world, but we struggle to discern your presence in the signs of the times. Forgive us, O God. By your grace, give us courage to stand for what is right and good, and to risk love and justice even when it is unpopular. Teach us faithfulness and perseverance for the road that we would travel by your grace.

*Assurance of Forgiveness: 

We are the body of Christ, the family of faith, all of us both saints and sinners. The grace we receive in baptism washes away our shame and brokenness and unites us with one another in bonds of love and kinship. Proclaim the good news with me. Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God!

*The Gloria #108, In Unison

  Glory be to the Father  And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost

As it was in the beginning,  Is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen

*Passing of the Peace:

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. To this peace we are called as members of a single body. May the peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.

Prayer for Illumination:

Holy God, your Word is like fire. By the power of your Spirit, illumine our sight and enflame our hearts, that we may live lives more faithful to your will. Amen.

First Scripture Reading: Hebrews 11:29-12:2 (pg. 1887)

Second Scripture Reading: Luke 12:49-56 (pg. 1630)

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord

People: Let our thanks and praise be to God!

Children’s Time: Ms. Kayla Hendrix

Sermon:

*Hymn #589 “O Jesus, I Have Promised”

*Affirmation of Faith: (3)

We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the Church.

The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the Church.

In a broken and fearful world the Spirit gives us courage to pray without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask idolatries in Church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long silenced, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace.

In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying, “Come, Lord Jesus!”

Call to Offering:

The earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it. Let us return to God the offerings of our life and the gifts of the earth.

Offering: Monetary gifts may be placed in the offering plates as they are passed through the pews.

*Doxology #109

  Praise God from whom all blessing flow,

Praise God all creatures here below,

   Praise God above ye heavenly host,

     Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Prayer of Dedication:

Let us pray: God of the ages, surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, we faithfully add our gifts to those who have gone before us through the generations. Bless these gifts, that they may yield an increase

Prayers of the People:

…Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Choral Response,

  Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord,

Incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace. Amen

*Hymn #26 “The God of Abraham Praise”

*Charge & Blessing:

*Choral Response: “Go, My Children, with My Blessing”

  Go, my children, fed and nourished, closer to me.

Grow in love and love by serving, joyful and free.

   Here my Spirit’s power filled you;

     here my tender comfort still you.

       Go, my children, fed and nourished, joyful and free.

*The Choral Amen:

  Amen, Amen, Amen.

(1) from ministrymatters.com (2) adapted from Virginia Bairby, © Presbyterian outlook, 2025