Sunday March 22, 2026 Worship Service
Livestream at 11:10 a.m. 

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Orison — Douglas Wagner
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation                                                                                                         
But it was not enough that the prophecies existed, they had to be distributed in every place and maintained in every age. And in order for the coming not to be taken to be the result of chance it had to have been predicted. It is much more glorious for the Messiah that they should be the observers and even the instruments of His glory, apart from the fact that God had chosen them.
— Pensées, Blaise Pascal

Choral Call to Worship — This Little Light of Mine — arr. Mark Patterson

Praise and Adoration

*Hymn #65 — Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah — CWM RHONDDA   
(*Please stand, if you are able)

Confession and Pardon

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession
God of the Life Everlasting, hear our prayer: we come to You acknowledging that our hearts are set on the Kingdoms of this world, and not Your own. Forgive us. Help us to have hearts for what is eternal, and not temporal; help us to seek the Truth, and not power; help us to sow peace, and not division.

Silent Prayers of Confession and Petition

Kyrie Eleison #575 — Lord, Have Mercy upon Us — KYRIE ELEISON (Pardini)

Assurance of Pardon

*Welcome                            

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.

Anthem — Keep Your Children — Marianne Forman

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson — John 11: 1-45 — page 873 of the pew Bible

Sermon — “Much Ado About Everything” — Rev. Joshua Garry

Our Response to God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith — Book of Order, F-1.0304; 3.0101; 3.0104
We believe in the great ends of the Church: the proclamation of the gospel for the salvation of humankind; the shelter, nurture, and spiritual fellowship of the children of God; the maintenance of divine worship; the preservation of the truth; the promotion of social righteousness; and the exhibition of the Kingdom of Heaven to the world. We believe also that God is the Lord of the conscience and that truth is in order to goodness. Furthermore, we believe that there is an inseparable connection between faith and practice, between truth and duty. Amen.

*Sanctus (#569) — Holy, Holy, Holy — SANCTUS (Oliver)

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — Craig Courtney  Shine, Jesus, Shine — arr. Jack Schrader                                               

Doxology #608 — Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow — PRAISE GOD (Hopson)                                         

*Prayer of Dedication        
God who spoke into the chaos of old night and created first light, accept these gifts and make miracles of them also. May our time and our talents, our gifts and our giving, be a light unto the chaos of our own world. May all the peoples of the earth know that when we give, we give not only as ourselves, but as Your hands and feet in this world. May they see You in whatever goodness we do.  Amen.

*Hymn of Dedication #100 — My Soul Cries Out — STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN

*Charge and Benediction

Postlude — Rondo Giucoso — Douglas Wagner