Watchword for the Week
ORGAN PRELUDE
WELCOME and CALL to WORSHIP
Praise God!
We will sing praises to God.
Praise God!
We will seek God’s strength and presence
Praise God!
We will remember God’s wonderful works
throughout the ages.
Praise God!
For it is right to give God thanks and praise.
Hymn 106 Bring to the Lord a glad new song
(Hymn of the Month, August 2014)
OPENING PRAYER
God, you meet us where we are, and gently guide us to where we will be. When we miss one sign, you send us another until we are compelled to respond in wonder and awe. In our time together we know that you will continually guide and lead us in surprising and unexpected ways, for we know that you are with us always, as we dream dreams of a new heaven and earth. For all the ways we hold fast to what is convenient, easy, or agreeable instead of what is good, forgive us.
Hymn 776 * Kyrie eleison
People’s Choice Hymns are marked with an asterisk (*)
For all the ways we love for personal gain and satisfaction instead of mutuality, forgive us.
Hymn 776 * Kyrie eleison
When we lag in zeal, are poor in spirit and undisciplined in our prayer instead of being persistent in prayer and hope, forgive us.
Hymn 776 * Kyrie eleison
When we judge those who rejoice and chastise those who weep instead of showing compassion, forgive us.
Hymn 776 * Kyrie eleison
When we seek vengeance and strife instead of understanding and love, forgive us.
Hymn 776 * Kyrie eleison
ASSURANCE of PARDON
In all we do, let our love be genuine; for if we love, as God has taught us, we will not be overcome by evil, but we will, by the grace of God, overcome evil with good. Thanks be to God. Amen.
Hymn 65 * Jubilate, everybody
CHILDREN’S TIME
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
(Children may leave for Kids’ Church in the halls next door)
Exodus 3:1-15 OT p. 58
Hymn 779 * Listen now for the Gospel!
People may stand for the Gospel reading.
The word of God: Thanks be to God!
Hymn 198 * Let us build a house
SERMON Rev. James Brown
Hymn 528 * Make me a channel of your peace
(Offerings are gathered and brought forward)
DEDICATION PRAYER
We love because you first loved us.
We share because you first blessed us.
We pray because you first believed.
May what we love, what we share,
and what we pray for all help to build
your great commonwealth of love. Amen.
NOTICES and PRAYERS for OTHERS
Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Hymn 167 * Guide me, O thou great Jehovah
BLESSING and Threefold Amen (No. 819)
ORGAN POSTLUDE