July 28, 2024

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

10:20AM

Prelude

There’s a Light Upon the Mountains

Mewherter/Worstenholm

Welcome/Announcements

Opening Music

Hymn Sing

Call to Worship  (based on Psalm 145)

L: Let everyone bless God.

P: We shall speak of God’s power and glory.

L: God’s kingdom is everlasting, enduring throughout the generations.

P: God is faithful and gracious to all.

L: God’s justice is seen in all the world.

P: God is near to all who call upon God’s name.

Opening Prayer

*Hymn #20

All Things Bright and Beautiful

*Call To Confession

*Prayer Of Confession

Holy One, we come before you with contrite hearts. You know what we’ve done and left undone. You know who we’ve betrayed and excluded. Yet you love us still. We do not mean to hurt or cause harm, yet we easily cover up our wrongs. We bow before you in hope and trust that you won’t push us away but will draw us home once more into the arms of your never-failing love. Amen.

*Silent Prayer Of Confession

*Assurance Of Pardon

*Gloria Patri

Children’s Chat

Prayer For Illumination

first Lesson

See insert

Psalm 145:10-18

Second Lesson                                  

          See insert

Ephesians 3:14-21

Meditation

Rooted and Grounded in Love

Rev. Marie Bacchiocchi

*Affirmation of Faith                                                                          The Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

*HYMN #819

Be Still My Soul

Sharing Our Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer

The Lord’s 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 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.

Call To Offering

Offertory

Improvisation on Crimond

June Nixon

*Doxology #606

* Prayer of Dedication

Merciful God, there is nowhere we can go—in the heavens above, or the earth and ocean below—to escape your loving care. Receive today the offering we make and bless our gifts, that they may be a blessing. In the name of Christ, we pray. Amen

*Hymn #300

We Are One in the Spirit

*Benediction

*Choral Amen 

Jesus calls us in, sends us out
Bearing fruit in a world of doubt,
Gives us love to tell, bread to share:
God (Immanuel) everywhere!

Jesus lives again; earth can breathe again;
Pass the word around: loaves abound!
Jesus lives again; earth can breathe again;
Pass the word around: loaves abound!

Postlude

Variations on No. 4 in D Major

William Walond

Today’s liturgy was adapted from Ministry Matters, the Abingdon Worship Annual and Worship Ways.