GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE....................................... “AMAZING GRACE”1.............................. ARR. BY LANI SMITH
OPENING
TIME OF CENTERING PRAYER
Leader: Beloved, when sorrow and hardship abound
and events across an ocean and
down the block shake our
resolve and make us question what good the
Good News is doing, God calls
to us to…
People: Open our hearts to Jesus who is the truth
and the life.
Leader: When
fear and misinformation infiltrate our relationships, and we don’t
know
who to trust or how to do the next right thing, God calls to us to…
People: Open our hearts to Jesus
who is the truth and the life.
Leader: When joy overflows, and we witness the
fruit of grace all around us,
transforming our lives and our
communities into places of connection and
flourishing, God calls to us
to…
People: Open our hearts to Jesus who is the truth
and the life.
Leader: May this time of worship be for each of us
a time to listen to God’s call to
open our hearts and accept the
divine invitation to say yes to Jesus.
All: God, we open our hearts to Jesus,
knowing you hold us securely in the
palm of your hands that we
might have the courage to live in community
with you and one another. AMEN.
**HYMN #2147 (TFWS)......................................... “THERE
ARE SOME THINGS I MAY NOT KNOW”
We sometimes let fears control us and doubt becomes the way of life for us. If we but look,
we will see our lives, and our world, cradled in God's loving hands. Let us confess our lack
of faith, even as we trust the One who has promised to listen to our words, as well as our
hearts. Join me as we confess our
sins together, saying…
Holy God, hear our prayer. There is pain and there is sorrow, there are broken
relationships and broken hearts. Sometimes we are the cause of those things. We have
caused pain. We have broken the relationship. Sometimes we are simply a part of
them – we are the ones who suffer, we are the ones who are broken. So we ask for your
forgiveness, and we ask for your healing. Beyond that, we ask that you would help us
turn from our former selves to the persons you have created us to be, full of mercy and
grace and love. Through Christ, who is our example, we pray. AMEN.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION
Leader: With calming words, with a peaceful
Spirit, with overflowing love and
hope, our God forgives us and
fills us with faith.
People: Our God affirms for us who we are - those
whose brokenness is made
whole, whose sin is forgiven,
whose lives overflow with faith. Thanks
be to God! AMEN.
MUSICAL OFFERING.......... “TOUCH YOUR PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN”1.............. DARRIN PETERS
**RESPONSE #2119 (TFWS)................................................... “WHERE
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS”
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is peace; where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
love. There is comfort in life’s darkest hour; there is light and life, there is help and power
in the Spirit, in the Spirit of the Lord.
SERMON................................ “NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT” ...................... REV. ERIC WARNER
**RESPONSE #519 (UMH).................................................................. “LIFT
EVERY VOICE AND SING”
PRAYER CONCERNS/PASTORAL 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.
AMEN.
I cast all my cares upon you, I lay all of my burdens down at your feet, and anytime that
I don't
know what to do, I will cast all my cares upon you.
CALL TO OFFERING
**DOXOLOGY #95 (UMH)........................... “PRAISE
GOD, FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW”
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all
creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye
heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost.
Amen.
**OFFERTORY PRAYER
**HYMN #514 (UMH).................................................................... “STAND UP, STAND UP FOR JESUS”
Children of God, today is the day of salvation! May you go from this place carried by the
grace and peace of the Triune of God who holds you, surrounds you, and keeps you as we
learn to love God, neighbor, self, and all creation in our sorrow and in our rejoicing. AMEN!
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together, bind us
together in love.
POSTLUDE............................................. “FANFARE”1.................................. JEAN JOSEPH MOURET
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Flowers
on the altar are
and my husband, “Roscoe” Haley, by Dean Haley
Flowers on the organ are in loving memory of our mother, mom-mom and
great mom-mom, Ruth McKeown Deibert, on her 104th heavenly birthday,
given lovingly by her family
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**Indicates the
congregation should stand if able
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