“Enter Into His Gates with Thanksgiving & Praise”
CONGREGATIONAL SINGING
September 19, 2021
Verse 1 There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; It sounds like music in my ear, The sweetest name on earth.
OPENING “Lord, Keep Me Day By Day” By: Dorothy Norwood “Psalm 1” Response: Walk in the light of God’s counsel; delight in the law of the Lord. Leader: People: Leader: People: Leader:
People:
Blessed are those who do not walk in the counsel of the wicked; or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on God’s law they meditate day and night. They are like trees planted by streams of water that yield their fruit in season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.
Response: Walk in the light of God’s counsel; delight in the law of the Lord. Leader: People: Leader: People:
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment; nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
“O How I Love Jesus” By: Frederick Witfield
Verse 4 It tells of One whose loving heart Can feel my deepest woe, Who in each sorrow bears a part, That none can bear below. Chorus O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, Because He first loved me! (Verses 2 & 3 omitted.)
THE OLD TESTAMENT READINGS Proverbs 31:10-31 Psalm 1
THE NEW TESTAMENT READING
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THE WORD FOR TODAY Dr. Sherry L. Daniels
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRY THROUGH TITHES AND OFFERINGS By: Rev. Dr. Ken Sloane Director of Stewardship & Generosity, Discipleship Ministries, The United Methodist Church Gracious God: Grant us the grace to be extravagant in the gifts we give to you. Help us to be wise and just in how we live with the resources we keep. Guide us in the way to lives that bear the fruit that is pleasing to you — lives full of mercy and compassion. Free us from envy and selfish ambition that leads us away from you, that we might draw near to you. We pray in the love and hope that is Jesus, our Savior. Amen. (James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a)
BLESSING AND SENDING FORTH Go in peace. “You Brought Me Through This” By: Rev. Timothy Wright
James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a
THE GOSPEL READING Mark 9:30-37
MINISTRY THROUGH MUSIC “Lord, Remember Me” By: Albertina Walker Soloist: Mr. William Brown, II
Response: Walk in the light of God’s counsel; delight in the law of the Lord.
PRAYER Dr. Sherry L. Daniels
“Depart To Serve”