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Worship Order for
Sunday
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Long Green Valley Church of the Brethren
Long Green & Kanes Rds., near Glen Arm, Md.
June 13, 2010
Worship 10:00 am
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“And
a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned
that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an
alabaster jar of ointment.”
(Luke 7:37) |
Beginning with Praise
(9:50 am)
"Holy Spirit, come with power"
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Announcements
Word in Preparation
Psalm 5:1-8
Prelude
"O Lord Most Holy"
Abt
*Responsive Call to Worship
(back of bulletin)
*Opening Prayer
*Hymn "Take my hand and
lead me, Father"
601
Unison Scripture Reading
Psalm 23
814
Celebrating Graduation
Hymn
"This is a day of new beginnings"
640
Sharing
a joy, a concern, a word of testimony or praise
(please be brief, and aware of God's listening presence)
Prayer Hymn
"There is a balm in Gilead"
627
Pastoral Prayer
Scripture
Galatians 2:15-21
(from The Message)
Returning our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
"The Lord is My Shepherd"
Koschat
(Please sign the attendance pad and pass it on)
Scripture
Luke 7:36 - 8:3
Message
"Without an
invitation"
(mp3)
*Hymn
"Take
my life"
389
*Benediction
*Postlude
"Christe Sanctorium"
French Church Melody
*Rise in body or in spirit #'s are from Hymnal:
A Worship Book
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Call to
Worship
Leader: Listen to my words, O
Lord, and hear my sighing.
All:
Hear my cry for help, my King and my God,
for I am praying to
you.
Leader: Lord, in the morning
hear my voice.
Early in the morning I plead my case before you
and wait for your answer.
All:
The proud, the violent, and those who delight in
wickedness cannot remain with you.
Leader: But as for me, through
your overwhelming mercy,
I will enter your house.
I will bow down and worship you.
All: Lead us, O Merciful One, in your righteousness!
by Timothy H. Peter, pastor
Prairie City Church of the Brethren Prairie City, Iowa
Church of the Brethren Living Word Bulletin
Anchor/Wallace, Sleepy Eye MN 56085, "The Living Word Series"
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Opening
Prayer
Almighty God, whose mercy and grace are boundless, pour out your
Holy Spirit into our hearts this morning. Grant us the courage to
call out to you, knowing that you hear our prayers. Guide us in all
your ways through your Son, Jesus Christ, in whose name we now pray.
And let all of God's children say, Amen.
by Timothy
H. Peter, pastor
Prairie City Church of the Brethren Prairie City, Iowa
Church of the Brethren Living Word Bulletin
Anchor/Wallace, Sleepy Eye MN 56085, "The Living Word Series"
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Unison Scripture Reading
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall
not want;
he makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters;
he restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no
evil;
for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff,
they comfort
me.
Thou preparest a table before me
in the
presence of my enemies;
thou anointest my head with oil,
my cup
overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days
of my life;
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
Hymnal
#814
from the Revised Standard Version.
Copyright 1946, 1952, 1959, 1973
by the Division of Christian Education of
the
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States
of America.
All rights
reserved. Used by permission.
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Celebrating Graduation
The 23rd Psalm is a familiar song for the road. Amid
the dark valleys, of which life has plenty, there are green
pasture and still water times. God provides and guides. In the
presence of enemies, even, the Lord feeds and tends our wounds,
and we know - beyond a shadow of a doubt - that we are cared for
and loved. That’s the message of this psalm.
Several of our young people have recently had the mountaintop
experience of graduating from high school or college. This
morning we want to recognize and celebrate this achievement with
them and their families. In so doing, though, we place it in the
larger context of a life-long journey with God. Receiving a
diploma and tossing the tassel are but a step, albeit an
important step, along the way. It's not an end, but a new
beginning. And we are gathered in the place, trusting in our
Shepherd God who provides and guides.
According to my accounting (and please forgive if we have missed
someone), there are seven graduates this past year among us.
Would you all please come forward now so that we might share in
your joy… I'll pass the microphone, so that you can share as
little or as much as you'd like about your graduation and where
you are headed from here.
I picked up book for you, a gift from this congregation. The
author, by the way, will be one of the speakers this summer at
National Youth Conference. May God bless the road ahead.
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Pastoral Prayer
written closer to the time (if not at the
moment)
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Returning
our Tithes and Offerings
Pray with me:
And so we come to this time of giving, O Lord. What we are about
to place in these plates is not intended to make an impression
upon anyone, most of all, upon you. We're not trying to build a
glory barn with our cash so that you might be impressed and see
us in a different light and thus be kind and generous to us. The
truth is, you already see us in a new way. Jesus did the leg
work on that. We're living on the other side of the cross that
stands before us. If anything, that cross is within us, Christ's
sacrificial death something that lives in and through us as
daily we die and rise again. Whatever it is that we have to give
overflows from what you have already given. For this we are
immensely thankful. May our gratitude, not our obligation, add
to your joy, O Living God. Amen.
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Benediction
As you
leave this place
and head into wherever this week will take you,
remember that you don’t need an invitation
to practice random acts of
kindness.
Be bold, knowing the forgiving
and living power of God in
Jesus Christ.
You just may be God's
"balm in Gilead" for someone
else.
And that is a joy
beyond compare.
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