9:00am/10:30am Services
April 21, 2024
PRELUDE
WORDS OF WELCOME
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Sunday, April 21, 2024
9:00am & 10:30am
GATHERING
Chorale Prelude on Christ ist erstanden
MINUTE FOR MISSION Stamp Ministry
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Unless the LORD builds the house,
People: The people who build it labor in vain.
Leader: Unless the LORD guards the city,
People: The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Leader: It is vain for you to rise early, to retire late, and to eat the bread of painful labors.
People: God gives rest to His people.
Leader: Today is a day of rest. Therefore, let us worship the Lord.
*PRAYER OF INVOCATION
*HYMN Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Healey Willan
Dave Zoetewey
*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
Lord Jesus, forgive and correct the wrong we have done. We have permitted pride to blind and anger to burn, and we have failed to live the new life You have given to us. Help us forgive others, that we may live as brothers and sisters. Help us to forgive ourselves that we might experience a newness of life. In Your name we pray. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON (John 3:16-17)
Leader: For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Therefore, let us assure one another of God’s pardon.
All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God.
Shema, Yisrael: Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad.
Hear, Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
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: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God!
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Page 258 Pew Bible
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.
OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY
Holy Is the Lord
David, Micah, and Ezra White
Franz Schubert, arr. John Leavitt
OLD HUNDREDTH
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
GROWING
SCRIPTURE
SERMON
*HYMN
Matthew 22:34-40 Page 1409 Pew Bible
“Oikonomia: Household Management”
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Rev. Jim Noble
GOING
*BENEDICTION & RESPONSE Now unto Him
*POSTLUDE Prelude and Fugue in F Major (Little) attributed to J.S. Bach
