ORDER OF WORSHIP - JULY 20th, 2025
- Union Church
- Jul 16
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
JULY 20th, 2025 10:30 AM
SIXTH 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 19)
Leader: The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament [a] proclaims his handiwork.
PEOPLE: Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.
Leader: There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard;
PEOPLE: their voice [b] goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world.
Leader: In the heavens [c] he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a strong man runs its course with joy.
PEOPLE: It rises from the end of the heaven and its circuit to the end of them, and Nothing is hid from its heat.
Leader: The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul;
PEOPLE: the decrees of the Lord are sure, making wise the simple;
ALL: The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
INVOCATION
Wonderful God, who has blessed us so greatly with Jesus, open our hearts and minds to the enormity and awesomeness of your gift to us in him, and lead us to know better about how we live within all your creation through him and within him. In his name we pray, Amen.
**OPENING HYMN “My Lord! What a Morning” Red #279
WELCOMING A NEW MEMBER:
This morning we welcome Nancy Mann into our congregational family.
CALL TO CONFESSION
We too often lose sight of the unity and the redemption promised to us through the message of Jesus Christ. Let us be reminded in our prayer together:
PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING
Forgiving God, our fragmented and sometimes pointless lives mark our own lack of knowing the full measure of your grace. Help us to come to you through the words and message of Jesus Christ for a fuller understanding of your unbounded love and what it means to be your beloved children, each and every one of us. Amen.
(A moment for silent personal confession)
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Living with us in his flesh, Jesus abolished the barriers between heaven and earth, even as we dwell with Christ in the grace of eternal forgiveness our creator. By this we are forgiven.
**GLORIA PATRI Traditional Red #807
**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 “Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee” Red #112
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
Gracious God, give us humble, teachable, and obedient hearts, that we may receive what you have revealed, and do what you have commanded. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READINGS
OLD TESTAMENT READING: Isaiah 43: 1-7 John Safran
NEW TESTAMENT READING: Colossians 1:15-20, 27-28
GOSPEL READING: Luke 10:38-42
SERMON MESSAGE: Martha and Mary at Home John Redman, CRE
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE CHURCH
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 “Come, Come Ye Saints” Red #595
**DOXOLOGY Traditional Red #808
** PRAYER OF THANKS
We thank you, our Lord for those gifts to us that we send to you for your work and ours in congregation, community, and culture. Guide us in good use as we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen
**HYMN OF PARTING: “God Be in My Head” Red #837
BENEDICTION:
POSTLUDE “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” Mary Lee Farris, Piano
Blessings!
John Redman, CRE
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