Friday, August 30, 2024

Worship Service - September 1, 2024

                                            Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
                                                 Sunday, September 1, 2024
                                                                10:00 a.m.

GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE...................................................... “SPIRIT OF GOD,............................. ARR. BY MARK HAYES
                                                               DESCEND UPON MY HEART”1
OPENING

TIME OF CENTERING PRAYER

RESPONSE #2164 (TFWS)...................................................................................................... SANCTUARY”
Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, tried and true.  With
thanksgiving, I’ll be a living sanctuary for you.
 
**CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader:       Welcome, beloved of God!  For you are loved by the God of all creation!
People:       Come, let us worship God who loves us!
Leader:       Whether your week was filled with mountain-high joys or valley-low
sorrows, peace like a gently flowing river, or stress like a stormy gale,
this is the time to worship God who sustains and tends to you.
People:       Come, let us worship God who loves us and tends to us!

Leader:       In a world that pulls us this way and that, God’s love is our True North,

                   guiding us with wisdom through all that life brings us.

People:       Come, let us worship God who loves us and guides us!

Leader:       Beloved, the time for singing has come, because God’s love, care, and

                   wisdom sustain and guide us wherever we go.

All:             Come, let us worship and sing to the God who loves, tends, guides, and

                   sustains us!  AMEN! 

**HYMN #382 (UMH)................................................................................ “HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD!” 

OPENING PRAYER (IN UNISON)

Creating God, you are the source of nature’s splendor—the beauty and

fragrance of delicate flowers, and sweet sound of birdsong.  We come to

you this morning with delight and gladness, grateful for all of your wonders.

As the fields produce their harvest, may your love grow within us, that we too

may produce a harvest of love, hope, and joy.  AMEN.

 

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON, JAMES 1:17-27 (PAGE 229)
Leader:   This is the Word of God for the people of God!
People:  Thanks be to God! 

MUSICAL OFFERING......................... “LARGO FROM SONATA NO.3”1.................... PAUL HUMPHREY

 **GOSPEL LESSON, MARK 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 (PAGE 42)
Leader:   This is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ!
People:  Thanks be to God!

 **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................................... “DIRTY HANDS BUT CLEAN HEARTS”................ REV. ERIC WARNER 

**RESPONSE #2086 (TFWS)................................................................................................. “OPEN OUR EYES”

PRAYER CONCERNS/PASTORAL PRAYER

RESPONSE #2215 (TFWS)................................................................................................. “CARES CHORUS”

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.

OFFERING

OFFERTORY.............................................. “HALLELUJAH”1......................................... PAUL HUMPHREY 

**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

APOSTLES’ CREED AND INVITATION TO HOLY COMMUNION (UMH PAGE 7-8)

GREAT THANKSGIVING

THE LORD'S PRAYER (IN UNISON)

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.


SHARING OF THE BREAD AND CUP

Holy Communion will be served at the chancel rail this morning.  At the direction

of the ushers, you will be invited forward.  You may kneel or stand at the kneelers. 

You will then receive a piece of bread from a communion server.  After eating the

bread, you will receive the juice and after drinking the juice, you will be dismissed

by the pastor to return to your seat.  If you are unable to come forward for Holy

Communion servers will serve you in your seat.

PRAYER AFTER RECEIVING 

**HYMN #572 (UMH)...................................................................................................................... “PASS IT ON”

 **BENEDICTION

Beloved, may God bless you with the uncommon wisdom to know deep in your

hearts the vastness of God’s love for you, and in that knowing, may God’s love

bubble up and overflow from your heart into the world around you.  AMEN. 

**CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE

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..................................................... “MADRID”1.................................... ARR. BY DAVID LASKY

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                           Flowers on the altar are given in celebration of family and friends
                                                               by Lorraine and Rich Jones

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**Indicates the congregation should stand if able

UMH: United Methodist Hymnal (red cover)
TFWS: The Faith We Sing (black cover)
W&S:  Worship & Song (green cover)

1Public Music performance provided for and reported to CCLI Licensing
Copyright License:  #1824650/Recording License:  CSPL148932 




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