Approaching God
Welcome & Announcements
Gathering & Prelude
Hymn:
Confessional Prayer
Guide: Everlasting Majesty and Lord of all Creation, we lift our voices to praise Your Holy Name; we lift up our hearts to cheerfully rejoice in Your sacred presence. Throughout the whole earth, millions of people are blessing and glorifying Your power. Today, we gladly join them in the worship of Your ways and the praising of Your deeds.
People: Gracious Father, in the midst of this worship, we know that our lives are imperfect and filled with moments of disappointing mistakes. We have been selfish, proud and faithless; stubborn, greedy and insensitive; angry, bitter and spiteful.
Guide: Heavenly Lord, forgive us when temptation overcomes our lives and sin overwhelms our hearts. Pardon us for neglecting our responsibilities and casting aside our faith. To You alone, we offer these personal confessions and seek Your mercy through Your Holy Son Jesus Christ. Hear us now as we silently pray.
- SILENCE -
Guide: Loving God, without Christ’s sacrifice, we would have no one to restore us; we would have no escape from Your wrath; and no hope of entering into Your everlasting Kingdom. Humbly and thankfully, we make these prayers in the Name of Jesus, our Only Savior and True Lord. In His precious words, we unite our hearts, saying, Our Father,…THE LORD’S PRAYER (debts/debtors)
Promise of the Gospel:
Guide: Jesus, through the love of His Father, gives us the Bread of Heaven. By Christ’s wounded body, our broken ways are healed; through His perfect obedience, we are reclaimed by God. So let us cheerfully rejoice, for our sins are completely forgiven, both now and forever. Amen.
Gloria Patri (sung): Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
Children’s Sermon
Encountering God
Prayers for Health and Healing
Pastor: Have mercy upon us, O God, have mercy upon us, for in You our souls take refuge. We cry out to You, O God Most High, for You fulfill the purposes of our lives.
People: Loving Lord, send forth Your mercy from heaven; release us from our fears through the power of Your faithful love. In the midst of our anxieties and troubles, grant us peace. From the discomfort of our illnesses and the suffering we endure, heal us, O Lord. .
Pastor: Let Your goodness and grace, greatness and glory be experienced in our lives and of all our loved ones as we seek healing from all that harms us in body, mind, heart and spirit. Deliver us and all whom we pray for from distress, disease and despair. Hear us now as we silently pray.
Silent Prayers for ourselves and others. A candle is lit
Pastor: Great is Your love, O Lord, reaching from the farthest heavens into the very substance of our lives. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
(Healing Prayer based on words & phrases from Psalm 57)
Anthem
A Time to Remember & Silence
The Message Part #1:
Prayer for Illumination :
Reader : Holy Spirit, may we walk through the Scriptures and be led to a beautiful place. May we be filled with wonder and amazement through all that Christ has done. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
Scripture
The Message: Part #2 & The Apostles’ Creed
Serving God
Offering & Offertory:
Dedication (unison): Lord Jesus, we all have special gifts and talents, and we all have different resources and treasures. When we combine them and gather them before You, we glorify Your work and continue to enhance Your Name. Take this offering and bless it for the life, work and ministry of our church, which You ask us to undertake, support, and fulfill in Your Holy Name. Amen.
Hymn :
Benediction (unison): May Christ keep us united to His body so that we may accomplish great things in His Name; may the Father sustain us as members of Christ’s church, so that we may honor His Kingdom; and may the Holy Spirit grant us a new vision, so that we may fulfill the purposes of God in this church and community, both now and always. Amen.
Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; etc & Postlude
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