October 13Orderof Service and Announcements

9:00am/10:30am Services October 13, 2024

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SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY Sunday, October 13, 2024 9:00am & 10:30am PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.

GATHERING PRELUDE WORDS OF WELCOME

MINUTE FOR MISSION

Buildings and Grounds

*CALL TO WORSHIP (from Psalm 122) Leader: People: Leader: People: Leader: People: Leader:

I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; “May those who love you be secure.

May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels.”

For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

Let us seek the Lord in prayer.

*PRAYER OF INVOCATION

*HYMN

Amazing Grace

Jim Ruud

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (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 on 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 the life everlasting. Amen.

*GLORY BE TO THE FATHER

PRAYER OF CONFESSION O God, You have made us for human companionship, but we have chosen our own lonely way.

You have called us to make commitments and to live by them, but we have violated Your promises and made excuses for ourselves. You have created us to reflect Your glory, but we have turned away from the example and sacrifice of Christ to seek our own way. Turn us back from our limited vision and hardness of heart to become more fully Your own people. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON (1 John 1:9) Leader: If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Therefore, let us assure one another of God’s pardon.

All:

In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God.

ANTHEM

Only by Grace

Gerrit Gustafson

Chancel Choir Only by grace can we enter, only by grace can we stand, not by our human endeavor, but by the blood of the Lamb.

Into your presence you call us, you call us to come, into your presence you draw us and now by your grace we come.

Grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that will pardon and cleanse within; grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that is greater than all our sin.

Now by God’s grace we come.

PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION Spirit of God, speak once again through the Words of Scripture that our listening ears may hear Your voice. Help us to place Your Word in our minds, treasure it in our hearts, choose it with our wills, and live it through our bodies. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.

SCRIPTURE Leader: All:

Ephesians 2:1-10

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This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God!

CARING PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE 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.

*HYMN

I Surrender All

OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE

OFFERTORY *DOXOLOGY

OLD HUNDREDTH

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

GROWING SCRIPTURE

Romans 6:15-23

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SERMON

“Grace Alone”

Rev. Jim Noble

*HYMN

How Firm a Foundation

GOING *BENEDICTION & RESPONSE

*POSTLUDE

Now unto Him