April 21 Order of Service and Announcements

9:00am/10:30am Services April 21, 2024

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SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY Sunday, April 21, 2024 9:00am & 10:30am PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.

GATHERING

PRELUDE

Chorale Prelude on Christ ist erstanden

Healey Willan

Stamp Ministry

Dave Zoetewey

WORDS OF WELCOME MINUTE FOR MISSION

*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

*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.

ANTHEM

Hear, O Israel

Chancel Choir ‫שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד‬ Shema, Yisrael: Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad.

Hear, Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Ancient Hebrew Prayer

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 Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Leader: All:

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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.

*HYMN

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.

Thy Word

OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE OFFERTORY

Holy Is the Lord David, Micah, and Ezra White

*DOXOLOGY

Franz Schubert, arr. John Leavitt OLD HUNDREDTH

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

GROWING SCRIPTURE

Matthew 22:34-40

SERMON

“Oikonomia: Household Management”

*HYMN

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

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GOING *BENEDICTION & RESPONSE

*POSTLUDE

Now unto Him

Prelude and Fugue in F Major (Little)

attributed to J.S. Bach