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Order of Service for September 16th, 2024
17th Sunday After Pentecost
WE GATHER TO PRAISE GOD
PRE-BROADCAST PRELUDES:
Toccata Quarta - G. Frescobaldi
Passamezzo Antico -A. Gabrielli
O Lux Beata Trinitas - J.P. Sweelinck
PRELUDE: Toccata per Organo -L. Luzzaschi
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE LAND
INTROIT: I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art -O. Gibbons
CALL TO WORSHIP:
29 He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” 30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
What once was secret
has been made known,
revealed by God and the Spirit at his baptism,
Proclaimed by Peter
and testified in miracles and healing.
Here is God with us,
the Word made flesh.
O come, let us adore him.
PASSING OF THE PEACE: The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you… And also with you.
*OPENING HYMN: VU #313 God, Whose Almighty Word
♫1 God, whose almighty word
chaos and darkness heard,
and took their flight,
hear us, we humbly pray,
and where the gospel day
sheds not its glorious ray,
let there be light.
2 Jesus, who came to bring
on your redeeming wing,
healing and sight,
health to the troubled mind,
sight to the Spirit-blind,
O now to humankind
let there be light.
3 Spirit of truth and love,
life-giving, holy dove,
speed forth your flight,
move on the water’s face,
Bearing the lamp of grace,
and in earth’s darkest place
let there be light.
4 Blessed and holy three,
glorious trinity,
wisdom, love, might,
boundless as ocean’s tide
rolling in fullest pride,
through the world far and wide,
let there be light.
~Children are welcomed to the front of the Sanctuary
for Children’s Time following the hymn~
CHILDREN’S TIME
LORD’S PRAYER:
Abba with us,
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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
ANTHEM: O Lord of Heaven -O. Lassus
PRAYER OF CONFESSION & ASSURANCE OF PARDON:
We know You know…
Or sometimes we forget, You know,
and in shame, we hide or pretend,
as Eve and Adam hid their nakedness.
Even from the sight of You who made them,
formed them from the Earth.
We can get lost in focusing on our faults-
those negatives that are ready to come flooding in.
Causing us to forget about our greatness,
and doubt compliments.
Yet, you see through our fear and doubt,
calling us to things greater than our imagination can dream.
Here is the prophet’s doubt,
God call us to many things
that do not come easily.
BUT,
we find God on the way,
struggling with us.
Cheering on a reminder of good, hope, and persistence,
even when we feel like we are “just us”
and we are, and along the way,
we find we are so much more.
*CREED:
We are not alone,
we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus,
the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others
by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to live with respect in Creation,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.
*HYMN: VU #382 Breathe on Me, Breath of God
♫1 Breathe on me, breath of God,
fill me with life anew,
that I may love what thou dost love,
and do what thou wouldst do.
2 Breath on me, breath of God,
until my heart is pure,
until my will is one with thine,
to do and to endure.
3 Breathe on me, breath of God,
till I am wholly thine,
until this earthly part of me
glows with thy fire divine.
4 Breathe on me, breath of God:
so shall I never die,
but live with thee the perfect life
of thine eternity.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
OFFERING:
INVITATION TO INVEST IN GOD’S MISSION:
OFFERTORY: Voluntary on a Plainsong -T. Tomkins
*DOXOLOGY: VU #540
♫ Grant us, God, the grace of giving,
with a spirit large and free,
that ourselves and all our living
we may offer faithfully.
PRAYER
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE READING: Mark 8:27–38
Peter’s Declaration about Jesus
27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29 He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”[a] 30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
34 He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come[b] after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,[c] will save it. 36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words[d] in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” The Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
MESSAGE: “Words that Changed the World”
*CLOSING HYMN: VU #418 Go Forth For God
♫1 Go forth for God, go to the world in peace;
be of good courage, armed with heavenly grace,
in God’s good Spirit daily to increase,
till in the kingdom we see face to face.
Go forth for God, go to the world in peace.
2 Go forth for God, go to the world in love;
strengthen the faint, give courage to the weak;
help the afflicted; richly from above
God’s love supplies the grace and power we seek.
Go forth for God, go to the world in love.
3 Go forth for God, go to the world in strength;
hold fast the good, be urgent for the right;
render to no one evil; Christ at length
shall overcome all darkness with his light.
Go forth for God, go to the world in strength.
4 Go forth for God, go to the world in joy;
to serve God’s people every day and hour,
and serving Christ, our every gift employ,
rejoicing in the Holy Spirit’s power.
Go forth for God, go to the world in joy.
*COMMISSIONING
*SUNG RESPONSE:
♫ The Lord bless you, and keep you:
The Lord make his face shine upon you,
and be gracious unto you:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
and give you peace.
POSTLUDE: Toccata per Organo -L. Luzzaschi