Sunday July 14, 2024 Worship Service
Livestream at 10:00 a.m.

GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME

PRELUDE — Partita on “Thee We Adore, O Hidden Savior” — Anne Krentz Organ
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

SILENT MEDITATION
The Bible is the most profound dramatization of you.  There they all are, Jews and Greeks and Zealots and Sadducees and the rest, all milling around Christ.  As you read that outside story, you find it’s your own inside story.  And Christ in the story can confront the inner you that is you.  Over against that gibberish of words that is your divided life, there stands the Word of God.                  — George MacLeod

CALL TO WORSHIP
God calls, God gathers, God challenges.
       God moves, God liberates, God saves. 
Guide us and our lives, O Holy One,
       so all creation might flourish.  We offer you our worship this day.

PRAISE AND ADORATION

*HYMN #307 — God of Grace and God of Glory — CWM RHONDDA
(*Please stand, if you are able)

CONFESSION AND PARDON

CALL TO CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Almighty and merciful God, we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep.  We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.  We have offended against your holy laws.  We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.  O Lord, have mercy upon us.  Spare those who confess their faults.  Restore those who are penitent, according to your promises declared to the world in Christ Jesus, our Lord.  And grant, O merciful God, for his sake, that we may live a holy, just, and humble life to the glory of your holy name. Hear this, our prayer, and hear us now as we pray to you in silence. 

SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION AND PETITION

KYRIE ELEISON (#551) — “Lord, Have Mercy” — LAND OF REST
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy upon us.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*GLORIA PATRI (#240) — Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks! — ALLELUIA NO. 1

WELCOME              
During the welcome, children are invited to come forward for a time with Dr. Zieman

TIME FOR YOUNG DISCIPLES

HYMN #731 — Give Thanks for Those Whose Faith Is Firm — REPTON

A READING FROM THE PSALMS — Psalm 24 — page 436 of the pew Bible

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FELLOWSHIP OF PRAYER

JOYS AND CONCERNS

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
The 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.

PROCLAMATION OF GOD’S WORD

SCRIPTURE LESSON — Mark 6: 14 -29 — page 817 of the pew Bible

SERMON — “When Everything Changes”

PRAYER

PRESENTATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY — Romance — Alexandre Scriabine

THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

INVITATION TO THE LORD’S TABLE

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — from A Brief Statement of Faith (1991)
We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father.  In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image male and female, of every race and people, to live as one community.  But we rebel against God; we hide from our Creator.  Ignoring God’s commandments, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care.  We deserve God’s condemnation.

Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation.  In everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarah chose a covenant people to bless all families of the earth.  Hearing their cry, God delivered the children of Israel from the house of bondage.  Loving us still, God makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant.  Like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, God is faithful still.

*SANCTUS (#572) — Holy, Holy, Holy — SANCTUS (Pavlechko)

WORDS OF INSTITUTION

SERVING OF THE ELEMENTS
Please come forward as directed by an usher.  All baptized Christians are encouraged to partake – by taking a piece of bread and dipping it into the cup.  Gluten-free bread is at the station closer to the pulpit. If you are unable to come forward, an elder will serve you in the pew.

COMMUNION ANTHEM — Hymn of Daybreak  — Nicholas Yandell    

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Leader:           Loving God, we thank you that you have fed us in the Sacrament, united us with Christ, and given us a foretaste of the heavenly banquet in your eternal kingdom.
People:           Send us out in the power of your Spirit to live and work to your praise and glory.
Leader:           You have given yourself to us, Lord;
People:           as a people of love we will serve you and others with joy.
Leader:           Your glory has filled our hearts;
People:           Help us to glorify you in everything we do!  In the name of our risen Lord.  Amen.

*HYMN #240 — Alleluia, Alleluia!  Give Thanks — ALLELUIA NO. 1

CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

BENEDICTION RESPONSE                                                                                                       

POSTLUDE — Trumpet Tune — David Johnson