Sunday, September 28, 2025 The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
GREETING & WELCOME
Reverend John Huff & Reverend Phil Amerson
*THE PASSING OF THE PEACE AND THE RINGING OF THE BELLS
PRELUDE
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Let All Things Now Living– L. Larson (b.1954)
One: We gather to hear the words of Jesus a story of two lives, two destinies, and one truth.
All: We come to listen, to learn, and to be changed.
One: The rich man lived in comfort; Lazarus suffered at his gate. But in God’s kingdom, the last are lifted up.
Evelyn Rohrbach
Sandy Tucker
All: We come to remember what truly matters: mercy, humility, and faith.
All: Let us worship the God who sees the unseen and calls us to live with eternal perspective.
*GATHERING HYMN Page 4 Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
*GATHERING PRAYER
God of stories that unsettle and awaken, You call us to gather—not in comfort, but in truth. We come, drawn by Your Word, where a man lies at the gate, and another blindly feasts.
Open our eyes, O Christ, to the lives we pass by, to the grace we overlook, to the urgency of Your call.
In this time of worship, may we hear not only the parable, but Your voice within it Through the voices of the poor and silenced inviting us to live with mercy, to walk with humility, and to trust in the justice of Your kingdom. Amen.
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
A CALL TO PRAYER
JOYS AND CONCERNS
PASTORAL PRAYER
SILENT PRAYERS
THE LORD'S PRAYER
Reverend Phil Amerson
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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
GRADUAL HYMN
LESSON FROM THE GOSPELS
GRADUAL HYMN
Lead Me, Lord
Luke 16:19-31
Lead Me, Lord
SERMON
A CALL TO GIVING OFFERTORY
Come to Me, all you who labor Come to Me, and I will give you rest; Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened And you will find rest for your souls.
Mind the Gap
Come to Me – Dan Forrest
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Kristen Hess
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Reverend John Huff
The Chancel Choir
Come, my child, learn my heart: For I am gentle and lowly. See how great my love for you that I have called you my child.
*THE DOXOLOGY
*OFFERTORY PRAYER
Almighty God, giver of every good and perfect gift, we give back to you a portion of all you have given us. May this offering be faithful and fruitful in the work of your Kingdom. In name of our lifted savior, Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN
*BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
Draw The Circle Wide
A Fance for Double Orgaine – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
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Evelyn Rohrbach
THIS WEEK @ ST. MARK’S
Sunday, September 28, 2025
9:30am Nomads Room 8
10:30am Worship Service Sanctuary 10:30am Sunday School Rooms 4, 22
Monday, September 29, 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00pm Dance Class Room 1
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
7:00pm Boy Scouts Troop 100 Garton Hall
Thursday, October 2, 2025
11:00am Women of Wonder & Faith Room 8
7:00pm Choir Rehearsal Sanctuary
Friday, October 3, 2025 1:00pm Conversations on Life Room 8
Saturday, October 4, 2025
7:00am S.O.S. (Men’s A.A.) Room 8
9:00am A.A. Room 8
12:30pm Thriving Connections Garton Hall Poverty Simulation
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