July 13, 2025
Pine Street Presbyterian Church in the City of Harrisbur g
Pine Street is a Welcoming Church, Glorifying God through Worship, Fellowship and Service in the World.
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
G ATHERING IN THE P RESENCE OF THE R ISEN C HRIST
PRAYER OF PREPARATION
Almighty God, we thank you for planting in us the seed of your Word. By your Holy Spirit, help us to receive it today with joy, and live according to it, that we may grow in faith and hope and love; through Jesus Christ our Lord who dwells among us and who lives and reigns with you forever. Amen.
VOLUNTARY The Gift of Love Hal Hopson (Please use the opening voluntary as a time of silent meditation and preparation for worship.)
SALUTATION
One: Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; Many: righteousness and peace will join hands.
† CALL TO WORSHIP
One: We come with willing hearts and eager minds.
Many: Lead us in your truth, O God of our salvation!
One: We come in our weakness and indecisiveness.
Many: Teach us your ways, O God of our salvation!
One: We come seeking the path of justice.
Many: We are ready to follow, O God of our salvation!
One: Let us worship God!
† Those able are invited to stand Bold text is read or sung by all
David Colestock
† PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Gracious God, Jesus tells us that our lives are enriched by loving you and loving our neighbors. We confess that love is hard for us. We are too selfish or too pessimistic, too hollow or too hardened, or just too tired to give ourselves to love’s demands. Forgive our arrogance and our listlessness. Cleanse our hearts that we might find the strength to do what love requires and the grace to receive what love has to give. We pray in the name of Jesus, whose love has no boundary. Amen.
† SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION † KYRIE
† ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: Mercy ceaselessly flows from the heart. This is good news! Many: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!
† GLORIA
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.
R EADING AND H EARING THE W ORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Lisa Milletics
FIRST LESSON Amos 7:7-17 Old Testament Page 855
One: The Word of the Lord.
Many: Thanks be to God.
† PSALM 82 (All sing the Refrain and read the verses responsively.) THE CRY OF THE POOR
One: God arises in the council of heaven and gives judgment in the midst of the gods: Many: “How long will you judge unjustly, and show favor to the wicked?
One: Save the weak and the orphan; defend the humble and needy; Many: rescue the weak and the poor; deliver them from the power of the wicked. (Refrain)
One: They do not know, neither do they understand; they go about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Many: Now I say to you, ‘You are gods, and all of you children of the Most high; One: nevertheless, you shall die like mortals, and fall like any leader.’”
Many: Arise, O God, and rule the earth, for you shall take all nations for your own. (Refrain)
SERMON
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
“Stating the Obvious”
The Rev. Seelman
from A Declaration of Faith (United States, 1985)
We do not fully comprehend who God is or how God works. God’s reality far exceeds all our words can say. The Lord’s requirements are not always what we think is best. The Lord’s care for us is not always what we want. God comes to us on God’s own terms and is able to do far more than we ask or think. We know that God is not confined to the story we can tell. The story itself tells us God works God’s sovereign will among all peoples of the earth. We believe God works beyond our imagining throughout the universe. To worship God is highest joy. To serve God is perfect freedom.
† THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Many: And also with you.
WELCOME
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THE OFFERING OF TITHES AND GIFTS TO GOD
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ANTHEM Lamb of God
Paris/Larson
Your only Son, no sin to hide, but you have sent him from your side to walk upon the guilty sod, and to become the Lamb of God. Your gift of love they crucified, they laughed and scorned him as he died, the humble King they named a fraud, and sacrificed the Lamb of God. O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God; I love the holy Lamb of God. O wash me in his precious blood. My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. I was so lost I should have died, but you have brought me to your side to be led by your staff and rod, and to be called a lamb of God. O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God; I love the holy Lamb of God. O wash me in his precious blood, till I am just a lamb of God. O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God; I love the holy Lamb of God. O wash me in his precious blood, till I am just a lamb of God.
† PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Christ, all people here below; praise Holy Spirit evermore; praise triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
† PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SEALING THE WORD SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
One: The Lord be with you.
Many: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
Many: We lift them to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
Many: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
… of the universal church and the heavenly choir:
The prayer continues.
… as we share this joyful feast:
INTERCESSION, SUPPLICATION, AND CONSECRATION
One: In your mercy, Many: Lord, hear our prayer.
… now and forever
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.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE BREAD AND CUP
One: The gifts of God for the people of God.
Many: Let us keep the joyful feast.
PRAYER
AFTER COMMUNION
B EARING AND F OLLOWING THE W ORD OF G OD
INTO THE W ORLD
† HYMN 307 God of Grace and God of Glory
† BENEDICTION
† CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Lift High the Cross CRUCIFER
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore his sacred name. Come, Christians, follow where our Savior trod, the Lamb victorious, Christ, the Son of God. Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore His sacred name.
VOLUNTARY Rejoice, O Pilgrim Throng
L EADING IN W ORSHIP T ODAY
The Rev. Stuart Seelman, Pastor
Joseph Garrison, Minister of Music and Worship
Lisa Milletics, Lector
David Colestock, Liturgist
Ellen Kamps, Acolyte
Timothy Lupia, tenor
Benjamin Krumreig, tenor
F LOWER D EDICATION
Schack
The flowers in the sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of our parents John and Wilma Putt and Samuel and Doris Lego by Carol and Michael Putt.
CWM RHONDDA
David
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, July 13– 5th Sun. after Pentecost
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship
Sunday, July 20– 6th Sun. after Pentecost
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship
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Music in the bulletin is used with permission under OneLicense.net # A-743343. All rights reserved.
Liturgy was reprinted and adapted with permission from Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word® Worship Companion copyright 2013, and from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved.
