November 9, 2025
Pine Street Presbyterian Church in the City of Harrisburg
Pine Street is a Welcoming Church, Glorifying God through Worship, Fellowship and Service in the World.
Twenty-second Sunday After Pentecost
PRAYER OF PREPARATION
God of grace, you have given us eternal comfort and good hope. You have shown us the glorious splendor of your majesty and the wonder of your works. Join our work with your own, that by the grace in which we trust, we may be brought to the resurrection in which we hope, by the faithfulness of your wondrous love. Amen.
GATHERING IN THE PRESENCE OF THE RISEN CHRIST
RINGING OF THE CARILLON
VOLUNTARY Thou Shalt Bring Them In George F. Handel (Please use the opening voluntary as a time of silent meditation and preparation for worship.)
SALUTATION
One: Stand firm and hold fast to your faith. Many: God will strengthen us in word and deed.
† Those able are invited to stand. Bold text is read or sung by all.
INTROIT Come and Worship Karen Marrolli
Come and worship, worship here, blest community of love! Come just as you are, come near! Come and worship God above. Here below we see God’s face in each precious child of grace. Come just as you are, come near! Come and worship, worship here!
† CALL TO WORSHIP
One: The Lord is just and kind, near to all who call.
Many: Take courage, all you people, for I am with you, says the Lord.
One: The Lord has made known his victory; do not be quickly shaken or alarmed.
Many: Take courage, all you people, for I am with you, says the Lord.
One: Stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught.
Many: Take courage, all you people, for I am with you, says the Lord.
One: And may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who loved us and gave us a good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work.
Many: Let us take courage, for God's Word is with us. Let us worship God!
O God, you call us to faithful living, giving ourselves to you and to one another after the example of Jesus. Yet sin prevents us from following your directions. We pursue our own goals, worship our own gods, and place our hope in things that cannot last. Wash us anew. Forgive us again. Give us ears to hear your call and faith to follow where Christ leads.
† ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: Stand firm in the gospel. Stand firm in the goodness and mercy of our God. Stand firm and be refreshed by God’s refreshing love. This is good news!
Many: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
† GLORIA
READING AND HEARING THE WORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
FIRST LESSON Haggai 1:15b-2:9
One: The Word of the Lord.
Many: Thanks be to God.
Old Testament Page 878
† HYMN 42 Your Faithfulness, O Lord, Is Sure (Psalm 145) WINCHESTER NEW
SECOND LESSON 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
THIRD LESSON Luke 20:27-38
New Testament Page 206
New Testament Page 84
SERMON “Good Hope” The Rev. Seelman
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH from the Confession of 1967
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission. His human life involves the church in the common life of all people. His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of human well-being. His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need. His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations, and the awful consequences of the church’s own complicity in injustice. In the power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong. The church follows this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action. So to live and serve is to confess Christ as Lord.
† THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Many: And also with you.
WELCOME AND PARISH LIFE (Please sign the Friendship Register)
Daniel Coles
THE OFFERING OF TITHES AND GIFTS TO GOD
ANTHEM Sing Praise to the Lord
C. H. Parry, setting by Robert Hobby
Sing praise to the Lord! Sing praise in the height; rejoice in God’s word, you angels of light; O heavens, adore him by whom you were made, and worship before him, in brightness arrayed. Sing praise to the Lord! Sing praise upon earth, in tuneful accord, all you of new birth; O praise him who brought you his grace, O praise him who taught you to sing of his love. Sing praise to the Lord, all things that give sound; each jubilant chord, re-echo around; loud organs, his glory tell out in deep tone, and trumpets, the story of what God has done. Sing praise to the Lord! Thanksgiving and song to God be outpoured all ages along: For love in creation, for heaven restored, for grace and salvation, sing praise to the Lord! Sing praise to the Lord!
† 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
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NVITATION
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.
he prayer continues.
… and the heavenly choir
INTERCESSION
One: In your mercy
Many:
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 feast.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
BEARING AND FOLLOWING THE WORD OF GOD INTO THE WORLD
HYMN 361 O Christ, the Great Foundation
BENEDICTION
† CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Lift High the Cross
AURELIA
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 Allegro Maestoso
L EADING IN WORSHIP T ODAY
The Rev. Stuart Seelman, Pastor
Joseph Garrison, Minister of Music and Worship
Daniel Coles, Lector
George F. Handel
Marty Gruver, Liturgist
Benjamin Coles, Acolyte
The Chancel Choir
FLOWER DEDICATION
The flowers at the pulpit are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of my sister and her husband, Linda and Tim Hinchee, and brother-in-law, Bill Hutchins, by Marna Holt.
The flowers at the lectern are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Marie Herbert by her daughter, Nancy Herbert Roman.
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, November 9
9:00 am- Café Conversations
9:00 am- Faith Formation
9:00 am- Chancel Choir Warm-up
10:00 am- Worship
11:30 am- Stewardship Forum
12:00 pm- Board of Deacons Meeting
3:00 pm- Worship Committee Meeting
Sunday, November 16
9:00 am- Café Conversations
9:00 am- Faith Formation
9:00 am- Chancel Choir Warm-up
10:00 am- Worship
4:00 pm- MAPS Concert Organist Eddie Zheng
C OPYRIGHT NOTICE
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.
