ORDER OF WORSHIP - MAY 25TH, 2025
- Union Church
- May 21
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
MAY 25TH, 2025 10:30 AM
SIXTH SUNDAY IN EASTER
**Kindly stand if you are able
PRELUDE Mary Lee Farris, Organ
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP (Adapted from Psalm 67)
Leader: May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us.
PEOPLE: that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations.
Leader: Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you.
PEOPLE: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.
Leader: The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
PEOPLE: May God continue to bless us; let all the ends of the earth revere him.
INVOCATION
O Christ, you are the bright morning star. You herald the dawn before we wake. We fall asleep awaiting your ascent over the eastern horizon. Yet all the night long, your light is rising in our hearts. Rouse us from our slumber, open the eyes of our souls, to see you as never before in our rejoicing of your life and love. Amen
OPENING HYMN “God of Grace and God of Glory” Red #669
CALL TO CONFESSION
In our own stumbling fashion, we fail to live up to God’s call and commandments. Yet we look for a greater understanding of infinite grace and love. Let us come before God as we pray together.
PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING
God of Love, we confess how casually we tend to take the fact of eternal life, and how easily we ignore what this enormous gift truly means. Bring to us a deeper understanding of your grace and love. Waken us to a new reality of what we have received through Christ and deepen our appreciation and responsiveness to His message in ministry to the world.
(a moment for silent personal confession)
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Even though our limits can never bring us full understanding of your vast creation, by the breath of the Holy Spirit our faith rises with us and we are 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 “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” Red #694
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
O Lord, your Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Give us grace to receive your truth in faith and love, and strength to follow on the path you set before us, through Jesus Christ. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READINGS
READING FROM ACTS: Acts 16:9-15 Cathy McCarty
NEW TESTAMENT READING: Revelation 21:22-22:5
GOSPEL READING: John 14:23-29
SERMON MESSAGE “My Peace I Give to You” 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:
Let us all consider what we have been blessed with and how we can best share it with those in
greater need, even as we gift our church for its greater work to the Glory of God and the undying love of Jesus. Amen.
OFFERTORY “Come Down, O Love Divine”
**DOXOLOGY Traditional
** 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 “Holy is the Lord” Red #831
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “Shall We Gather at the River?” Mary Lee Farris, Piano
John Redman, CRE
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