Sunday November 16, 2025 Worship Service
Livestream at 11:10 a.m.

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — O Day Full of Grace — Robert Hobby
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation
We cannot pray in love and live in hate and still think we are worshipping God.  – A.W. Tozer

Choral Call to Worship — “Sing Alleluia” — Gary Johnson

Praise and Adoration

*Opening Hymn #320 — The Church of Christ in Every Age — WAREHAM
(*Please stand, if you are able.)     

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession
Lord Jesus Christ, you came not to be served but to serve, but we see life the other way round: to get where we do not give, to exploit whom we have not helped, to use what we have not earned. As you came to a dying thief and promised him paradise, come to us now in forgiveness and give us hope.  In silence, we now offer to you that which weighs most heavily on our minds…

Silent Prayers of Confession and Petition

Kyrie Eleison — Lord, Have Mercy — Schubert

Assurance of Pardon

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

Welcome and Announcements

Moment for Mission — Rob Bailey, for Femi’s Heart Foundation

The Sacrament of Baptism (11:10)
Weslyn Marie Frahm, born September 5, 2025 to parents Jeremiah and Ruth Frahm

*Congregation Response: With joy and thanksgiving, we welcome Weslyn Marie Frahm into Christ’s church to share with us in the one ministry of Christ, for we are all one in Him.

*Hymn (insert) — Spark a New in You — by Mark Kanitz

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 — “Thank You, Lord, for Everything” — Barbara Steed Sanko

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson  — Luke 21: 5-19 — page 85 of the pew Bible

Sermon — Claiming and Testing Our Heritage — Dr. Zieman

Our Response to God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith — from A Brief Statement of Faith (1991)
In life and in death we belong to God. Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve.
In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying, “Come, Lord Jesus!”
With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — “Climbin’ Up the Mountain” — Linda Spevacek

*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
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts. With them we offer ourselves to your service and dedicate our lives to the care and redemption of all that you have made, for the sake of him who gave himself for us – Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

*Hymn of Dedication #353 — My Hope is Built on Nothing Less — SOLID ROCK

*Charge and Benediction

*Benediction Response — Go Now in Peace — Don Besig         

*Postlude — Lift High the Cross — Charles Ore