Dick Raymond PRELUDE Amazing Grace Piano arr. Cindy Berry

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1 ORDER OF WORSHIP August 26, th Sunday after Pentecost/21 st Sunday in Ordinary Time Please sign and pass the Friendship Book ( pew pad ) where you can also record any prayer requests. Our prayer is that you will experience the presence of the Living God as we worship together. We invite you to focus your heart and mind in worship. * indicates please stand as you are able. WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS Dick Raymond PRELUDE Amazing Grace Piano arr. Cindy Berry CALL TO WORSHIP Dick Raymond The living God has sent the living bread from heaven to fill our hearts with strength! In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. *SONGS OF WORSHIP: I WILL SING OF THE MERCIES (Hymn #30) (VERSE 1) I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing, I will sing. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing of the mercies of the Lord. With my mouth will I make known your faithfulness, your faithfulness; with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing of the mercies of the Lord. (VERSE 2) All the hosts of the angels sing God s praise forever for the things he has done. All the hosts of the angels sing God s praise forever, all the hosts of the angels sing God s praise. Who can be compared to God in faithfulness, in faithfulness? Who can be compared to God

2 in faithfulness to all generations? I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing of the mercies of the Lord. 10,000 REASONS (BLESS THE LORD) (CHORUS) Bless the Lord O my soul O my soul Worship His holy name Sing like never before O my soul I'll worship Your holy name (VERSE 1) The sun comes up it's a new day dawning It's time to sing Your song again Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me Let me be singing when the evening comes (REPEAT CHORUS) (VERSE 2) You're rich in love and You're slow to anger Your name is great and Your heart is kind For all Your goodness I will keep on singing Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find (REPEAT CHORUS) (VERSE 3) And on that day when my strength is failing The end draws near and my time has come Still my soul will sing Your praise unending Ten thousand years and then forevermore (REPEAT CHORUS) (Ending) Worship Your holy name Lord I'll worship Your holy name CCLI Song # Atlas Mountain Songs (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) Sixsteps Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) Thankyou Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) WorshipTogether.com songs (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights Reserved. CCLI License #296507

3 TIME OF PRAYER Mike Helland Call to Confession Let us confess our sins to the One whose eyes are open day and night to heed our cry and our prayer. Prayer of Confession Watchful God, you know our plight. Offended, we have not believed your words. Complaining, we have betrayed your love. We are weak, estranged, wandering, and lost. Seeking to stand in our own strength, we fall. Strangers to your holiness, we wander. Defenseless against evil within and without, we are lost. Shine your light in our darkness, and guide us back to our place in you. Amen. [Silent Prayer] Declaration of Forgiveness The Living God hears our cry and forgives our sin! The Lord God is a sun and shield, bestowing favor and honor on us through Christ, the bread from heaven who brings us back to God and feeds us with his strength. *SONG OF WORSHIP: PLEASE REMAIN SEATED BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD ABOVE (VERSE 1) Before the throne of God above I have a strong and perfect plea A great High Priest whose name is Love Who ever lives and pleads for me My name is graven on his hands My name is written on his heart I know that while in heav'n he stands

4 No tongue can bid me thence depart No tongue can bid me thence depart (VERSE 2) When Satan tempts me to despair And tells me of the guilt within Upward I look and see him there Who made an end of all my sin Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free For God the Just is satisfied To look on him and pardon me To look on him and pardon me (VERSE 3) Behold him there the Risen Lamb My perfect spotless Righteousness The great unchangeable I Am The King of Glory and of grace One with himself I cannot die My soul is purchased by his blood My life is hid with Christ on high With Christ my Savior and my God With Christ my Savior and my God (VERSE 4) I bow before the cross of Christ And marvel at this love divine God's perfect Son was sacrificed To make me righteous in God's eyes This river's depths I cannot know But I can glory in its flood The Lord Most High has bowed down low And poured on me His glorious love And poured on me His glorious love CCLI Song No Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by Integrity's Hosanna! Music) Charitie Lees Bancroft Vikki Cook For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights Reserved. CCLI License No PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Rev. Peter Blank Mike Helland OFFERING OF OURSELVES & OUR GIFTS

5 Invitation to the Offering Our God has bestowed us with favor and honor through Christ, who has given us the words of eternal life. From this fullness, let us now offer our gifts of thanksgiving *Doxology 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. Prayer of Thanksgiving/Dedication Living God, we give you thanks for Christ, the bread from heaven, through whom we offer these gifts. Endow these gifts with your power, that they may express your steadfast love and impart your sustaining strength to all those in need. Amen. You may bring your offering and/or light a candle at the front or back of the sanctuary. Offertory He's Always Been Faithful Piano Sara Groves/ arr. Victor Labenske READING OF THE SCRIPTURES Hebrews 11:8 16 (NIV) Sam Palpant 8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came

6 descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. 13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Genesis 12:1 7 (NRSV) Katie Stark 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go from your country and your kindred and your father s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, To your offspring I will give this land. So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. MESSAGE The God Who Sends Katie Stark

7 *SONG OF WORSHIP: GUIDE ME, O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH (Hymn #634) (VERSE 1) Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but thou art mighty hold me with thy powerful hand: Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more, (want no more,) feed me till I want no more. (VERSE 2) Open now the crystal fountain, whence the healing stream doth flow; let the fire and cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through: Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer, be thou still my strength and shield, (strength and shield,) be thou still my strength and shield. BENEDICTION (VERSE 3) When I tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside; death of death, and hell s destruction, land me safe on Canaan s side: Songs of praises, songs of praises I will ever give to thee, (give to thee,) I will ever give to thee. Katie Stark POSTLUDE Everlasting God Piano Brenton Brown and Ken Riley/ arr. Victor Labenske * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In the pulpit today: Katie Stark has lived in Spokane for nearly two decades, arriving when she attended Whitworth University. She worked at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church for sixteen years in youth ministry and also as a Commissioned Ruling Elder focusing on missions and prayer. She will complete her M.A. in Theology from Whitworth

8 University in August and is continuing on for her Master of Divinity at Portland Seminary (online). Katie began her position at the Presbytery as the first Missional Expeditor on July 1st. This position will allow her to connect with and assist all the congregations in our Presbytery as we seek to engage our neighborhoods and do ministry beyond the walls of our churches. Katie is married to Brad and they have two children: Colin (10) and Maggie (6). Today s Lectionary Readings 1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10 11) 22 30, Psalm 84 Ephesians 6:10 20 John 6:56 69 The Morning & Evening Household Prayers and Questions for Reflection are reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word Worship Companion Questions for Reflection Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a distant land because of your name... and prays toward this house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you (1 Kings 8:41-43). Are there people of other nationalities, ethnic groups, or faith traditions in your workplace, neighborhood, community, or congregation? What are some ways in which you and your congregation can express the welcome of God to those who are different from you? Household Prayer: Morning Lord God, my sun and shield, a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. Let the favor of your presence strengthen me and accompany me everywhere I go today.

9 Prepare me to be a sanctuary, that your light and love may radiate through me. Through Christ my Lord. Amen. Household Prayer: Evening Lord God my strength, your Spirit never tires; your love never fails. I bring you my struggles, stresses, questions, and worries of this day. Where else can I go? You have the words of eternal life. Let your promises sustain my soul and comfort my heart as I rest in you, through Christ my Lord. Amen.