Bulletin for July 23, 2023 Worship Service
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GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME

PRELUDE
“Arioso” Douglas E. Wagner

As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

SILENT MEDITATION
“Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people. I think back to who I was—resentful, wound tight with anger, a single hardened link in a long chain of ungrace learned from family and church. Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God. I yearn for the church to become a nourishing culture of that grace.” Phillip Yancey,
What’s So Amazing About Grace

CALL TO WORSHIP
God’s Spirit gathers us.
We are not alone.
God’s Spirit calls us.
We are to discern together God’s will.
God’s Spirit sends us.
We are to shine like the sun, bearing witness to Christ our Savior. Let us worship God!

PRAISE AND ADORATION

*OPENING HYMN
#714 God of the Fertile Fields ITALIAN HYMN
(*Please stand, if you are able.)

CALL TO CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Master Gardener, weeds and wheat fill the fields of our lives, grow entangled, and are difficult to distinguish. We have not spent the time we should in prayer and study of your Word to help us discern what is evil and against your will. We excuse our complacency and justify our passive faith. Yet, we need your truth. We hunger for your harvest. Jesus, forgive us. Deliver us from evil. Clear our path to you. Amen.

SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION
KYRIE ELEISON “Lord, Have Mercy” Schubert

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*GLORIA PATRI
(#581) “Glory Be to the Father” GLORIA PATRI

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

MOMENT FOR MISSION
Kathy Moore, representing Agape for All

HYMN #767
Together We Serve SAN ANSELMO

A READING FROM THE PSALMS
Psalm 86: 11-17 page 474 of the pew Bible

ANTHEM
”I Need Thee Every Hour“ arr. Kyle Pederson
Julia Ramirez, solo

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.

ANTHEM
“When Speaking Has Ceased” Craig Courtney

PROCLAMATION OF GOD’S WORD

SCRIPTURE READING
Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43 page 794 of the pew Bible

Pastor: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.

SERMON
“Telling the Wheat from the Weeds” Dr. Zieman

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH The Confession of 1967, 9.07
In Jesus Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself. Jesus Christ is God with humankind. He is the eternal Son of the Father, who became human and lived among us to fulfill the work of reconciliation. He is present in the church by the power of the Holy Spirit to continue and complete his mission. This work of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the foundation of all confessional statements about God, humanity, and the world. Therefore, the church calls all people to be reconciled to God and to one another.

*SANCTUS
“Holy, Holy, Holy” SANCTUS (Schubert)

RECEPTION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY
“Let Everything That Hath Breath” Jeffery L. Ames
Tyler Kalynowski, solo

* DOXOLOGY
(#609) “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. Praise God, all creatures high and low.
Alleluia, alleluia! Praise God, in Jesus fully known; Creator, Word, and Spirit one.
Alleluia, alleluia! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Grateful for your radical hospitality and steadfast love we present these gifts to you, God. Use them to further your will and transform our world into your new, redeemed creation. Amen.

*HYMN OF DEDICATION
#367 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come ST. GEORGE’S WINDSOR

*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

*BENEDICTION RESPONSE
“A Choral Amen” Marianne Forman

POSTLUDE
“A Festive Trumpet Tune” Douglas E. Wagner

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