SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
9:30am and 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Andante from Sonata in C Major K. 545
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Welcome
*Call to Worship
Leader: We share one faith, one hope, one comfort,
People: We are baptized with one baptism,
Leader: We are one people, united by love and mercy,
People: To be set free and live with joy.
All: Come, let us worship together.
*Opening Prayer
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response Gloria
*Passing of the Peace
Anthem
How Sweet To Reflect
Tune from Harmonia Sacra, arr. Alice Parker
How sweet to reflect on those joys that await me
In yon blissful region, the haven of rest;
Where bright, holy angels with welcome shall greet me,
And lead me to mansions prepared for the blest.
Encircled with light, and with glory enshrouded,
My happiness perfect, my mind’s sky unclouded,
I’ll bathe in the ocean of pleasure unbounded,
And range with delight through the Eden of love.
When angelic legions with harps tuned celestial,
Harmoniously join in the concert of praise,
The saints, as they flock from the regions terrestrial,
In loud hallelujahs their voices will raise.
Then songs of the Lamb shall reecho through heaven,
My soul will respond, To Immanuel be given.
All glory, all honor, all might and dominion,
Who brought us through grace to the Eden of love.
Text by W. C. Tillou
LISTENING FOR GOD’S WORD
1 John 4:7-8, 19-21
Life in the Spirit: Goodness
Rev. Ian Cummins
Sicilienne from Suite Française
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
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God, you have so greatly loved us, long sought us, and mercifully redeemed us. Give us grace that in everything, we may yield ourselves, our wills and our works. A continual thank offering to you. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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.
Closing Music
I Sing the Mighty Power of God (Ellacombe)
that spread the flowing seas abroad and built the lofty skies.
I sing the wisdom that ordained the sun to rule the day.
The moon shines full at God’s command and all the stars obey.
God formed the creatures with a word, and then pronounced them good.
Lord, how thy wonders are displayed, where’er I turn my eye,
if I survey the ground I tread, or gaze upon the sky!
and clouds arise, and tempests blow, by order from thy throne.
While all that borrows life from thee is ever in thy care,
and everywhere that we can be, Thou God art present there.
Carillon from Suite Française
Francis Poulenc
Preacher: The Rev. Ian Cummins
Liturgist: Sandy Prouty
Associate Minister of Music and Pianist: Barbara Hulac
Reader: Elyse Coberly (9:30am)
Reader: Noah Meyerhoff (11:00am)
Soloist: Donald Tallman
Sound: Cate Thieme
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