ORDER OF WORSHIP
AUGUST 25, 2024 10:30 AM
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
If you have individual prayer requests, please write them on prayer cards in the pews and bring them up or give them to an usher during the prelude.
**Kindly stand if you are able
PRELUDE Mary Lee Farris, Organ
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP (Adapted from Psalm 84)
Leader: lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
PEOPLE: The soul longs, indeed it faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Leader: Even the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts,
PEOPLE: Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise.
Leader: Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
PEOPLE: As they go through the valley of tears, they make it a place of springs.
Leader: They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
PEOPLE: LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob!
INVOCATION
God of hosts, all blessing glory and honor be unto you as you guide us on our pathways and help us when we stray. You are our foundation, a canopy of light above us and a leading lamp to show us the way of a life in you. To this we praise and adore you, Amen.
**OPENING HYMN “Fairest Lord Jesus” Red #115
CALL TO CONFESSION
We struggle in our lives, in our thoughts, and in our hearts. Let us come to God to relieve ourselves of our guilt, our doubts, and our failings as we come closer to our Creator.
PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING
Gracious Lord, help us to see a better pathway to your way, and may the example of Jesus always be a beacon to our faith and to our lives. May the beauty of your creation flow around us as life-giving water and may we ourselves in one another, reflecting the love of neighbors as ourselves. By the grace of Jesus and the light of the Spirit, Amen.
(a moment for silent personal confession)
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
From time gone by to that time to come, our Lord our God see us as children who are always and without exception forgiven. Amen
**GLORIA PATRI (Avery & Marsh, back cover of the Red Hymnal)
**PASSING OF THE PEACE
**AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – APOSTLES CREED (Traditional)
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.
**HYMN OF PRAISE “The Church’s One Foundation” Red #689
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
Calm us now, O Lord, into a quietness that heals and listens. Open wounded hearts to the balm of your Word. Speak to us in clear tones so that we might feel our spirits leap for joy and skip with hope as your resurrection witnesses. Amen
SCRIPTURE READINGS
OLD TESTAMENT READING Joshua 24: 1, 14-18 Debby/Paul Hill
GOSPEL READING John 6: 56-69
SERMON: To Whom Shall We Turn? John Redman, CRE
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
And Lord we pray for those in our own hearts whose names you already know, for their own healing and comfort, in your name and that of our redeemer Jesus Christ, who taught to pray, saying:
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
OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
It is right to share our abundance with those who have less or need more. May what we offer here help to be the answer of the prayers of others in the name of Jesus, Amen.
OFFERTORY “Taste and See”
**DOXOLOGY (Avery & Marsh, back cover of the Red Hymnal)
**PRAYER OF THANKS
Gracious God, accept our gifts that they may be used wisely in your service for those who hunger, or thirst, or merely seek a greater understanding of your love. This we gratefully pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
**HYMN OF PARTING “Lord, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing” Red #834
BENEDICTION An Irish Blessing
POSTLUDE “Jesus, Light of Joy” Mary Lee Farris, Piano
Blessings!
John Redman, CRE
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