Sunday June 8, 2025 Worship Service
Livestream at 10:00 a.m.

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Dear Lord — John Coltrane
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation
The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it. — Lewis Smedes

Call to Worship
Come, Holy Spirit, into this place and lift our hearts in praise!
       Come, Holy Spirit, into this space and lift our spirits in prayer!
Come, Holy Spirit, into each one of us,
       that our lives might be immersed in goodness and in grace.

Praise and Adoration

*Hymn #280 — Come, O Spirit, Dwell Among Us — EBENEZER
(*Please stand, if you are able)

Confession and Pardon

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession
Generous God, you send us the Spirit of courage, but we have been afraid.  You send us the Spirit of truth, but we cling to our illusions.  You send us the Spirit of healing, but we cannot let go of our wounds.  Holy Spirit of forgiveness, come to us again: shake our hearts, set our souls on fire with your love; send us out into the world rejoicing in your power.  We hold out to you all our particular burdens of guilt and sin, and we ask for your help to live the way of your justice and love. Hear this, our prayer, and hear us now as we pray in silence.

Silent Prayers of Confession

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         

*Congregational Response (#485) — We Know That Christ Is Raised — ENGELBERG

Welcome
During the Welcome, children are invited to come forward.

Time for Young Disciples

*Hymn #300 — We Are One in the Spirit                        
They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love

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 — Acts 2: 1-13   page 885 of the pew Bible
This is the Word of the Lord.  Thanks be to God.

Sermon — “Listening Out Loud” — Rev. Garry

Prayer

Our Response to God’s Word

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — “How Great Thou Art” — arr. L. Fredrickson

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

Invitation to the Lord’s Table

*Affirmation of Faith — from A Brief Statement of Faith
“We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life.  The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the church.
The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the church.”

*Sanctus (#572) — “Holy, Holy, Holy” — SANCTUS (Pavlechko)

The Words of Institution

The 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 — Come Sunday — Duke Ellington

*Prayer of Thanksgiving
Gracious and Loving God, Your Son said, “do this in remembrance of me,” and so we have done it. We thank You for the forgiveness of sins and the eternal life that You have set upon us by Your sacraments. Help us to live into Your gifts and share Your blessings each and every day. Amen.

*Hymn #100 — Canticle of the Turning — STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN

*Charge and Benediction

*Benediction Response — Go Now In Peace — Don Besig

Postlude — Spiritual — Charlie Hayden