Starling Avenue Baptist Church
Pentecost Sunday and Graduate Recognition May 19, 2024 ╬ 11:00 a.m.
TheWorshipofGod
Pentecost Sunday and Graduate Recognition May 19, 2024 ╬ 11:00 a.m.
*We invite you to stand as you are able.
Gathering at God’s Invitation
Welcome AngelaZimmerman
CalltoWorship AngelaZimmerman
Rushing Wind of the Spirit, breathe new life into us!
Blazing Flame of the Spirit, burn away our fears!
Comforting Presence of the Spirit, heal our wounds
Help us be prepared to worship and praise, O Holy Spirit.
Spirit of God, come upon us this day and fill us with your love. Make us people who will proclaim God’s good news in all that we do. AMEN.
LightingoftheChristCandle AnneStultz
We light the Christ candle as a reminder that Christ is the one who has drawn us to this place, abides with us now, and is with us to the end of the age.
Prelude They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love MarkHayes
LifeoftheCommunity LindaPulliam
CelebratingourGraduates FrancesStegall Recognition
Prayer
Offering Ourselves to God
*Hymn#225
On Pentecost They Gathered ST.THEODULPH
ScriptureReading Acts2:1-21
The Word of God for the People of God
Thanks Be to God.
AngelaZimmerman
AffirmationofFaith LindaPulliam
We believe in a living God, a God who has not stopped speaking, a God who bends the arc of history towards justice. We believe in a living God.
We believe in God-with-us, brother in our suffering and victim of our brokenness, who breathed peace upon his friends, and promised we will never be alone. We believe in God with us.
We believe in the Spirit of God, who dwells within and dances between us. Healing divisions. Defying expectations. Igniting creativity and love. We believe in the Spirit of God
ScriptureReading Romans8:22-27
The Word of God for the People of God
Thanks Be to God.
AngelaZimmerman
*Hymn#228 A Rushing, Mighty Wind FESTALSONG
GivingourTithesandOfferings
OffertoryPrayer JoanJoyce
Offertory
*Doxology(Hymn#234)
The Strife is O’er GiovanniPerluigiDaPalestrina (SABCHandbellChoir)
Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on me; Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on me. Break me, melt me, mold me, fill me. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on me.
Listening to God
*ScriptureReading John15:26-27,16:4b-15 LindaPulliam
For the Word of God in Scripture, for the Word of God among us, for the Word of God within us.
Thanks be to God.
PrayerofThanksgivingandtheLord’sPrayer
AngelaZimmerman
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.
Anthem God Is So Good
Sermon
DisciplineofSilence
“YouCan’tSeeHope”
To be in God’s presence is to be changed.
DouglasWagner
AngelaZimmerman
During this moment of silent reflection, consider the change God wishes to make in you.
Responding to God’s Word
*Hymn#545 In the Bulb PROMISE
If you sense God calling you today, we invite you to respond during this time of invitation. If God is calling you to follow Jesus for the first time, to rededicate yourself as a Christ-follower, or as a faithful Christian, to join the fellowship of our church, we encourage you to come forward to speak to our pastor during this closing hymn.
Sending Into God’s World
Benediction
Postlude
Sunday Joy!
AngelaZimmerman
MarkHayes
(Please put your nametag in the basket provided at either entrance when leaving.)