GREETING
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE................................................... “DANZA
RUSTICA”1................ BY
LOURI GRICHETCHKINE
INTROIT..................................... “WE
HAVE COME INTO THIS HOUSE”1.................... CHANCEL
CHOIR
OPENING
TIME
OF CENTERING PRAYER
Leader: Beloved,
God’s voice of Wisdom calls to us from the street corner, the
grocery
store aisle, the noisy dinner table, and the quiet places of our hearts.
Will
you listen?
People: Yes, with God’s help, we will listen!
Leader: Wisdom calls to us with hard truths,
showing us where we’ve strayed in our
hearts and as a community and
urging us back onto God’s path. Will you
follow?
People: Yes, with God’s help, we will follow!
Leader: Wisdom’s call persists through the twists
and turns, the rough patches, the
barely discernible paths
forward, and the moments we feel completely lost.
Will you hold onto Wisdom
wherever she takes you?
People: Yes, with God’s help, we will hold onto
Wisdom!
Leader: Then
Beloved, let us worship God together as we cling to wisdom on our
journey
along the path of salvation paved with God’s love.
All: Yes! Let us worship God together! AMEN.
**HYMN #577 (UMH)...................................................................... “GOD
OF GRACE AND GOD OF GLORY”
We all make mistakes, many of them. We hurt ourselves, we hurt others, we hurt God with
our words and deeds, with our silence and inaction. Let us confess to God our sins, trusting
in the One who blesses us with mercy…
We long for wisdom, O Lord, but prefer that it be our own. We turn away from the
ideas of others and ignore the possibility and promise that come from life together with
you. Most of all, we drown out your gift of Wisdom as she seeks to get our attention,
for we believe that we know better or would prefer to decide where we make her
welcome. Forgive us, loving God. Bring an end to the self-righteousness that ignores
you, and awaken us anew to the Wisdom that comes only from you. Show us how to
walk in your ways and listen to
your promise each and every day. AMEN.
SILENT PRAYERS OF
CONFESSION
Leader: With
gentleness, God speaks to us; with graciousness, God forgives us;
with
joy, God embraces us.
People: With
our lips, we praise God; with our words, we thank God; with our
silence,
we find God in our hearts. Thanks be to
God, we are forgiven!
AMEN.
MUSICAL OFFERING............................. “BE THOU MY VISION”1............................... CHANCEL
CHOIR
**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................................
“A GOOD LIFE PART 2: A GOOD MIND” ................. REV.
ERIC WARNER
**RESPONSE #2004 (TFWS)....................................... “PRAISE
THE SOURCE OF FAITH AND LEARNING”
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
OFFERTORY................................................. “REVERIE”1........................... ARR. BY
WILLIAM SHERWIN
**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
#601 (UMH).................................................................................................. “THY
WORD IS A LAMP”
**CHORAL
BENEDICTION....... “THE LORD BLESS
YOU AND KEEP YOU”1............... CHANCEL
CHOIR
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............................................... “HYMN
TO JOY”1.................. ARR.
BY CHARLES CALLAHAN
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**Indicates the congregation should stand
if able
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