Sunday, August 1, 2021
The 10th Sunday after Pentecost
PRELUDE
Andrea Shakespeare (8:30 am)
I Will Enter His Gates (He Has Made Me Glad) with This is the Day
[arr. by Mark Hayes]. [#2270, Tune: Leona, and #657, Tune: This is the Day]
Rebecca Nelson, Piano (11:00 am)
WELCOME FROM THE PULPIT
CALL TO WORSHIP BOOK OF WORSHIP
L: Lead a life worthy of the calling
to which you are called:
P: We cannot do this alone,
we dare not try this alone,
so we gather as God’s people.
L: Lead a life worthy of your calling,
a life filled with service and grace.
P: We come to build up Christ’s Body,
in humility and gentleness,
with patience and love.
L: Lead a life which reflects your calling,
that life of peace grounded in the Spirit.
P: We rejoice in our oneness in Christ;
we would share the grace offered to us.
L: Live a life worthy of the calling
to which you have been called.
P: We gather as God’s family
to bless the world with our service and ministry
All: Amen
HYMN
Shine, Jesus, Shine TFWS #2173
[by Graham Kendrick]
Refrain:
Shine, Jesus, shine fill this land with the Father’s glory,
blaze, Spirit, blaze, set our hearts on fire;
flow, river, flow, flood the nations with grace and mercy,
send forth your word Lord, and let there be light.
Lord, the light of your love is shining
in the midst of the darkness, shining;
Jesus, Light of the world, shine upon us,
set us free by the truth you now bring us.
Shine on me, shine on me. (Refrain)
Lord, I come to your awesome presence
from the shadows into your radiance;
by the blood I may enter your brightness,
search me, try me, consume all my darkness.
Shine on me, shine on me. (Refrain)
As we gaze on your kingly brightness,
So our faces display your likeness;
Ever changing from glory to glory,
Mirrored here may our lives tell your story. (Refrain)
CHILDREN’S TIME (11:00 am)
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE…PASTORAL PRAYER….LORD’S PRAYER*
Our God 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 trepasses, 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.
PRAYER RESPONSE
This is Our Prayer UMH #487
[Sally Ahner, 1983]
This is our prayer.
This is our prayer, O God.
SCRIPTURE READING
Laura Dinges, Liturgist (11:00 am)
PSALM 51:1-12
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
and blameless when you pass judgment.
Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.
You desire truth in the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your holy spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and sustain in me a willing spirit.
HYMN
Since Jesus Came into My Heart TFWS 2140
What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought
since Jesus came into my heart!
I have light in my soul for which long I had sought,
since Jesus came into my heart!
Refrain:
Since Jesus came into my heart, since Jesus came into my heart,
floods of joy o’er my soul like the sea billows roll,
since Jesus came into my heart.
I have ceased from my wand’ring and going astray,
since Jesus came into my heart!
And my sins, which were many, are all washed away,
since Jesus came into my heart! (Refrain)
I’m possessed of a hope that is steadfast and sure,
since Jesus came into my heart!
And no dark clouds of doubt now my pathway obscure,
since Jesus came into my heart! (Refrain)
There’s a light in the valley of death now for me,
since Jesus came into my heart!
And the gates of the City beyond I can see,
since Jesus came into my heart! (Refrain)
I shall go there to dwell in that City, I know,
since Jesus came into my heart!
And I’m happy, so happy, as onward I go,
since Jesus came into my heart! (Refrain)
SCRIPTURE READING
Laura Dinges, Liturgist (11:00 am)
Ephesians 4:1-16
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Therefore it is said,
“When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive;
he gave gifts to his people.”
(When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.
SERMON
“A Letter from a Friend“
Pastor Mark Cordes
WORSHIP WITH TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY
Andrea Shakespeare (8:30 am)
How Beautiful
[by Twila Paris, Setting by Lloyd Larsen]
Jennifer Alcover, Soprano
Rebecca Nelson, Piano (11:00 am)
DOXOLOGY AND DEDICATION
Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow UMH #94
[WORDS: Thomas Ken MUSIC: Ralph Vaughn Williams]
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise God, all creatures here below:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
HYMN
In Unity We Lift Our Song TFWS 2221
[WORDS: Keen Medema MUSIC: Martin Luther]
In unity we lift our song of grateful adoration,
for brothers brave and sisters strong.
What cause for celebration!
For those whose faithfulness has kept us through distress,
who’ve shared with us our plight, who’ve held us in the night,
the blessed congregation.
For stories told and told again to every generation,
to give us strength in time of pain, to give us consolation.
Our spirits to revive to keep our dreams alive,
when we are far from home and evil seasons come;
how firm is our foundation.
For sacred scriptures handed down, a blessed trust and treasure,
which give us hope when hope is gone and make us weep with pleasure.
And when our eyes grow blind and death is close behind,
we shall recite them still whose words our hearts can fill
with hope beyond all measure.
For God our way, our bread, our rest, of all these gifts the Giver.
Our strength, our guide, our nurturing breast whose hand will yet deliver.
Who keeps us till the day when night shall pass away,
when hate and fear are gone and all our work is done,
and we shall sing forever.
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
Andrea Shakespeare (8:30 am)
Allegro
[by H. Purcell]
Rebecca Nelson, Organ (11:00 am)
FLOWERS
The flowers on the altar are given by Irene Muster in memory of Raymond Muster and Berniece Silva.