K H P C (U.S.A.) Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson. We Are Christ s Le er to the World!

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1 K H P C (U.S.A.) THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 21, 2018 Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson We Are Christ s Le er to the World! from 2 Corinthians 3

2 WELCOME TO KIRK IN THE HILLS Welcome to worship We are glad to have you with us today for worship. If this is your first visit to the Kirk, please introduce yourself to a pastor after worship. About today s service Today is a special day in the life of the Kirk family! We will ordain, install and commission our new elders, deacons, and trustees. We are grateful for all those that have answered the call to serve the Lord on the boards of our church. Today s sermon will offer an invitation for all of us to consider our special part in the family business. How is God calling you out from the earthly busy-ness of your life, into the heavenly business of love and compassion? The first disciples, fishermen by trade, could never have imagined what God had in store for them. I wonder if the same can be said of our community here at the Kirk? There are several opportunities for us to be family today. We invite parents and children to join us for a hot chocolate bar in the Abbey Lounge after the 9:15 a.m. service, coffee and fellowship will be in Heritage Hall, new member classes kick off, and high schoolers (and their dads) are taking in a Detroit Pistons game this afternoon. The following prayer invites us to prepare our hearts for worship and our lives for faithful living: Direct and help us, O Lord, in all our deeds, that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy name, and finally, by your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Book of Common Worship. If you have children Childcare is available for infants and children up to age 2 from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the nursery (Abbey 24). Please check children into the nursery before the service. Following the Word with the Children, children ages 3 through grade 12 will be dismissed for Sunday School. Worship Bags: Children are always welcome in worship! If you are worshiping with your child at the 11:00 a.m. service, please pick up a worship bag as you enter the sanctuary. Worship bags are updated weekly and designed to help children follow along in worship. If you need audio or visual assistance Hearing assistance units, large-print bulletins and hymnals are available upon request from an usher. If you are in need of prayer You may submit prayer requests online at kirkinthehills.org under Resources/Prayer Request. Stephen Ministers are available for personal, confidential prayer in Melrose Chapel after each worship service. Melrose Chapel is located on the left-hand side of the pulpit. Join us for fellowship and coffee We encourage worshipers to greet one another as they leave and assist visitors in finding their way to the coffee and fellowship in Heritage Hall after the 9:15 a.m. service. Flowers on the Altar are presented to the glory of God in loving memory of Bill and Sally Singleton by their son, Dan Singleton and family. Cover Art - The Four Fishermen, Unknown Kuna artist, Public Domain This richly decorated mola is from the Kuna of Panama. Mola s originally were the equivalent of history books illustrating happiness, sadness, traditions and the stories of life. The technique is of reverse appliqué on several layers of co on fabric. This piece shows the influence of the outside world and the vibrancy of their living culture as it tells the story of Jesus calling the fishermen. 2 Check in on Facebook and let people know you were with us today!

3 THE SERVICE FOR THE LORD S DAY 9:15 & 11:00 a.m., Sanctuary Follow me and I will make you fish for people. Mark 1:17 THE GATHERING OPENING VOLUNTARIES Chorale prelude on Lobe den Herren Johann Sebastian Bach Chorale prelude on Lobe den Herren Sigfrid Karg-Elert * Those who are able are invited to stand at the ringing of the tower bell. * OPENING SENTENCES * CALL TO WORSHIP The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all! And also with you! As if this were the only time, and this the only place, and we the only people. Jesus Christ will meet us. As if this were the only time, and this the only place, and we the only people. Let us worship God. * INTROIT Harold Friedell Day by day, Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: To see thee more clearly, Love thee more dearly, Follow thee more nearly, Day by day. * PROCESSIONAL HYMN 482 Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty Lobe den Herren * PRAYER OF CONFESSION Heavenly Father, We lower our heads before you to confess that we have forgo en that we are yours. Sometimes we carry on our lives as if you did not exist, and we fall short of being a credible witness to you. For these things we ask your forgiveness and we also ask for your strength. Give us clear minds and open hearts so we may witness to you in the world. Remind us to be who you would have us be regardless of what we are doing or who we are with. Hold us to you and build our relationship with You and with those You have given us on earth. Silence is kept for personal confession. * Those who are able are invited to stand. 3

4 * KYRIE ELEISON Leo Sowerby Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. * ASSURANCE OF PARDON Hear the good news! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us. Friends, believe the good news of the gospel. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven! * GLORIA PATRI Puer nobis COMMUNITY ACCLAMATION To God the Father, God the Son, And Holy Spirit, Three in One, May every tongue and nation raise An endless song of thankful praise. Amen. From 2 Corinthians 3, our acclamation is a weekly, communal reminder of who we are called to be as a community of faith. We are whose? We are Christ s! WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS We are Christ s what? We are Christ s le er! We are Christ s le er where? We are Christ s le er to the world! OUR FAITH IN ACTION Emerging Leadership at the Kirk Pastor Nate/Rick Llope WORD WITH THE CHILDREN (9:15 a.m.) Following the Word with the Children, children ages 3 through grade 12 will be dismissed for Sunday School. THE WORD CHORAL PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Help us, O Lord, to live The faith which we proclaim, That all our thoughts and words and deeds May glorify thy Name. St. Ethelwald SCRIPTURE READING Mark 1:14-20 Jesus Calls the First Disciples The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. ANTHEM (9:15 a.m.) Commit Your Life to the Lord Liebhold Commit your life to the Lord, And trust Him always, For He will help you. Sing, pray, and keep His ways unswerving, Perform thy duties faithfully, And trust His Word, though undeserving, Thou yet shalt find it true for thee, 4 God never yet forsook in need The soul that trusteth Him indeed.

5 ANTHEM (11:00 a.m.) Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree K. Lee Sco The tree of life my soul hath seen, Laden with fruit and always green: The trees of nature fruitless be Compared with Christ the apple tree. His beauty doth all things excel: By faith I know, but ne er can tell The glory which I now can see In Jesus Christ the apple tree. For happiness I long have sought, And pleasure dearly I have bought: I missed of all; but now I see Tis found in Christ the apple tree. I m weary with my former toil, Her I will sit and rest awhile: Under the shadow I will be, Of Jesus Christ, the apple tree. This fruit doth make my soul to thrive It keeps my dying faith alive; Which makes my soul in haste to be With Jesus Christ the apple tree. The Intermediate and Senior Boys and Girls Choirs SERMON First Things First: When Harry met Bessie Dr. N. Phillips * HYMN 441 (stanzas 1, 2, and 4) I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord St. Thomas THE THANKSGIVING PRESENTATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS Our giving is an offering to God. All offerings, whether made in the worship service or outside of it, are part of our worship of God and are used to support the Kirk s ministry here and in other parts of the world. * PRAYER OF DEDICATION ANTHEM Dear Lord and Father of Mankind arr. C. Hubert H. Parry Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind; In purer lives, Thy service find, In deeper reverence, praise. In simple trust like theirs who heard, Beside the Syrian sea, The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word, Rise up and follow Thee. Drop Thy still dew of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and Thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm! MISSIONAL INVITATION HOPE and Welcome Inn warming centers need adult size sweatshirts, sweatpants and thermal tops and bo oms to benefit the homeless in this season of cold weather. Drop items off this month at any of the Kirk s Mission Hamper locations. (Abbey Lounge, Tower of the Apostles, Heritage Hall) 5

6 * DOXOLOGY Old Hundredth ORDINATION AND INSTALLATIONS Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him, above ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. Litany of Service (based on 1 Corinthians 12) There are different gifts, But it is the same Spirit who gives them. There are different ways of serving God, But it is the same Lord who is served. God works through different people in different ways, But it is the same God who fulfills these purposes through them all. Together we are the body of Christ, And individually members of Christ. ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF DEACONS CLASS OF 2020 (9:15 a.m.) Joanna Drukker, Ann Har ell-kneen, Catherine Klein, Alyssa Leighton (Youth Deacon), Julia Libcke, Keely Marple, Alliston Murphy, Juli Musch, Molly Myers (Youth Deacon), Gigi Newsham, Beth Sova, Carolyn Wells, Barbara Young Miller INSTALLATION OF TRUSTEES CLASS OF 2020 (11:00 a.m.) Suzi Ar berger, Tracee Glab, Joan Hanpeter, Beth Kerr, Andy Paulson, Lara Wi e ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF ELDERS CLASS OF 2020 (11:00 a.m.) Kevin Brinks, Helen Campbell, Don Guthrie, Joey Llope (Youth Elder), Alan Miller, Wendy Myers, Bobi Tallinger, Ryan Webb 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. SENDING * RECESSIONAL HYMN 343 Called as Partners in Christ s Service Beecher CHARGE AND BENEDICTION Please take your seats as the pastor gives the congregation a charge to live the life of faith and then speaks words of Godʹs blessing on all gathered. 6

7 CLOSING VOLUNTARY Hymn prelude on Lobe den Herren Craig Phillips We hope that you experience a strong sense of welcome and home this morning! We invite everyone to offer greetings and peace at the close of the service. We hope that you will make a special effort to reach out in friendship to those you have yet to meet. If you are new to the Kirk, we hope you will visit us at one of our Connect stations in the Narthex, Abbey Lounge, Welcome Center or Heritage Hall. Enjoy coffee and fellowship in Heritage Hall following the 9:15 a.m. service. About today s hymns Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty is based on Psalm 103 and Psalm 150. Its author, Joachim Neander, wrote sixty hymns. As a youth Neander lived a rather unruly existence even though he took the Calvinist faith seriously. Under the direction of his pastor, Theodore Under-Eyck, he amended his ways, completed his education and became his unordained assistant. I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord was wri en in 1800 by Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College (now University), and is his paraphrase of Psalm 137 which he titled, Love to the Church though when one compares his text to this psalm there seems initially to be li le to suggest that it is actually a paraphrase. Dwight was a Congregational minister and served as a chaplain during the American Revolution. Called as Partners in Christ s Service was wri en by Jane Parker Huber in 1981 for the Women s Breakfast at the General Assemblies of the United Presbyterian Church U. S. A. and the Presbyterian Church U. S. held concurrently in Houston, Texas. Huber was born of Presbyterian missionary parents in China. She was very active throughout her adult life in Presbyterian women s ministries and was a respected sage through her regular column, Ask Jane, in Horizons, the magazine for Presbyterian women. The tune Beecher is named after the great nineteenth century preacher Henry Ward Beecher. About today s choral music Commit Your Life to the Lord presents two separate texts; the first, Psalm 37: 5, and the second, a stanza of a hymn by Georg Neumark, translated by Catherine Winkworth. The first is initially sung by the full choir, and then continued by the altos, tenors and basses while the sopranos sing the second to the tune Wer nur den lieben Go (hymn 282). The Neumark text is the third stanza of hymn 282, a hymn of faith and trust in God through all things. Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree is a se ing of an anonymous text which first appeared in 1761 in a devotional magazine published in London. By 1784 the text had made its way to America, appearing in a hymnal published in New Hampshire. The text is an allusion to both the apple tree in Song of Solomon 2:3 which has been interpreted as a metaphor representing Christ, and to Jesus description of his life as a tree of life - Luke 13: as well as in Revelation 22: 1-2. K. Lee Sco is an American composer and presently is a member of the faculty of the University of Alabama. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind is a text by nineteenth century American Quaker John Greenleaf Whi ier. Whi ier was one of a group of New England poets known as the Fireside Poets, a group which included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Family entertainment at this time centered around families gathering together around the hearth to read collectively poems and stories by these and other authors, hence the name Fireside Poets. These poems recounted and reflected upon historical and domestic themes, infused with messages of morality. The text of this anthem comes from a longer poem where Whi ier expresses his understandings of true Christian worship. 7

8 K H 1340 W L L R B H, M (248) kirkinthehills.org Office Hours Monday Friday, 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Open Door Hours Wednesday Friday, 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. We invite you to join us in ongoing Bible reading. Daily Lectionary Readings Sunday, January 21 Morning: Ps. 67; 150 Evening: Ps. 46; 93, Genesis 13:2-18, Galatians 2:1-10, Mark 7:31-37 Monday, January 22 Morning: Ps. 57; 145 Evening: Ps. 85; 47, Genesis (14:1-7) 8-24, Hebrews 8:1-13, John 4:43-54 Tuesday, January 23 Morning: Ps. 54; 146 Evening: Ps. 28; 99, Genesis 15:1-11, 17-21, Hebrews 9:1-14, John 5:1-18 Wednesday, January 24 Morning: Ps. 65; 147:1-11 Evening: Ps. 125; 91, Genesis 16:1-14, Hebrews 9:15-28, John 5:19-29 Thursday, January 25 Morning: Ps. 143; 147:12-20 Evening: Ps. 81; 116, Genesis 16:15-17:14, Hebrews 10:1-10, John 5:30-47 Friday, January 26 Morning: Ps. 88; 148 Evening: Ps. 6; 20, Genesis 17:15-27, Hebrews 10:11-25, John 6:1-15 Saturday, January 27 Morning: Ps. 122;149 Evening: Ps. 100; 63, Genesis 18:1-16, Hebrews 10:26-39, John 6:16-27 Sunday, January 28 Morning: Ps. 108; 150 Evening: Ps. 66; 23, Genesis 18:16-33, Galatians 5:13-25, Mark 8:22-30 Stay connected with Kirk in the Hills 8 Rev. Dr. Nathaniel D. Phillips, Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. William L. Adams III Rev. Dr. Norman M. Pritchard, Pastor Emeritus Rev. Dr. Keith O. Provost Rev. Fernando Rodríguez Rev. Angela Ryo Rev. Jasmine L. Smart Glenn A. Miller, Director of Music & Organist Dennis N. Curry, Associate Director of Music & Carillonneur