Sunday July 27, 2025 Worship Service
Livestream at 10:00 a.m.

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Malda (Prayer) — Juozas Naujalis                                   
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation
God talks to each of us as he creates us, then walks with us silently out of the night. But the Words, spoken to us before we start, those cloudy Words, are these: sent forth by your senses, go to the very edge of your desire; embody Me.  — The Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke

Choral Call to Worship — Non Nobis, Domine — Rosephanye Powell
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name be the glory.

Call to Worship —  Psalm 33
The Word of the Lord is upright,
       And all of his work is done in faithfulness!
He loves righteousness and justice;
       The earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord!
By the Word of the Lord the heavens were made,
       And all their host by the breath of his mouth – let us worship God!

Praise and Adoration

*Hymn #396 — Brethren, We Have Met to Worship — HOLY MANNA
(*Please stand, if you are able)

Confession and Pardon

Call to Confession 

Prayer of Confession
Gracious and Loving God, we come to you after another week where we have said and done a lot of things. Yet we come to You now admitting that most of what we have said was not spoken to You; we come admitting that most of what we have done – was not in Your name. We know that You are with us all the time, moving in our lives. Help us to act like it. Help us to speak to you more. Help us to do Your will more often. Give unto us a tireless desire to keep becoming who you want us to be. Amen.

Silent Prayers of Confession

Kyrie Eleison — Lord, Have Mercy — Schubert

Assurance of Pardon

*Congregational Response (#581) — Glory Be to the Father — GLORIA PATRI (Greatorex)

Welcome                                     

Announcements

Moment for Mission — Ken Gruber, Omaha Rapid Response

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 — Do Not Be Afraid — Philip Stopford

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson — Luke 11: 1-4 — page 845 of the pew Bible                                                         

Sermon —  “Something Understood” — Rev. Joshua Garry

Our Response to God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith — The Westminster Confession of Faith (Larger Catechism), 7.288 & 7.297
Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, in the name of Christ, by the help of his Spirit, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies. The Lord’s Prayer is not only for direction, as a pattern according to which we are to make other prayers; but may be also used as a prayer so that it be done with understanding, faith, and reverence.

*Sanctus (#562) — Holy, Holy, Holy — SANCTUS (Schubert)

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — No Ways Tired  — African American Spiritual; arr. Rollo Dilworth

*Doxology (#607) — Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow — OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Christ, all people here below; praise Holy Spirit evermore; praise Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.

*Prayer of Dedication                                                                                                                                           
Almighty God, we have heard your Words and received Your call. And so it is that we offer up to You these gifts; these tithes and offerings. We pray to You, O God, that with them your will on this earth will be done and that your sheep be fed. Amen.

Commissioning of Sr. High Triennium Trip to Louisville, Kentucky

*Hymn #465 — What a Friend We Have in Jesus — CONVERSE

*Charge and Benediction

Benediction Response (Resound) — Meet Me There — Fanny J. Crosby; arr. David von Kampen

Postlude — Praise God, from whom All Blessings Flow — Michael Burkhardt