MORE PEOPLE MORE LIKE CHRIST
9:00AM/10:30AM Services
June 15, 2025
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Sunday, June 15, 2025 9:00AM & 10:30AM
PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.
GATHERING
PRELUDE
WORDS OF WELCOME
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Come, travelers and sojourners; there is a place for you here.
People: God grants bread for our journey and offers places of refuge on the way.
Leader: Blessed are those who hope in the Lord, and avail themselves of God’s ever present help.
People: God reigns in righteousness forever and ever; we will sing God’s praises as long as we live.
Leader: Let us prepare our hearts for worship in prayer.
*PRAYER OF INVOCATION
*HYMN Guide Me, O Thou Holy Spirit
*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
Eternal God, in whom we live and move and have our being, Your face is hidden from us by our sins, and we forget Your mercy in the blindness of our hearts. Cleanse us from all our offenses, and deliver us from proud thoughts and vain desires. With lowliness and meekness may we draw near to You, confessing our faults, confiding in Your grace, and finding in You our refuge and strength, through Jesus Christ Your Son. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Leader: And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. Therefore, let us assure one another of God’s pardon.
All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God.
ANTHEM
If Ye Love Me
John A. Stallsmith Women’s Choir
If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter. If ye love me, keep my commandments. Amen.
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!
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Page 1646 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.
*HYMN Shine, Jesus, Shine
OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE
OFFERTORY
Holy, Holy, Holy John Cisler, soloist
*DOXOLOGY OLD HUNDREDTH
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SCRIPTURE Galatians 5:16-25 Page 1662 Pew Bible
SERMON
“The Holy Spirit Transforms our Lives” Rev. Jim Noble
*HYMN Here I Am, Lord
GOING
*BENEDICTION & RESPONSE Now unto Him
*POSTLUDE
