ORDER OF WORSHIP July 31, th Sunday after Pentecost 18 th Sunday in Ordinary Time / Proper 13

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1 ORDER OF WORSHIP July 31, th Sunday after Pentecost 18 th Sunday in Ordinary Time / Proper 13 *Congregation Stands (If you prefer, it is acceptable to remain seated.) Welcome to Knox Presbyterian Church! Please sign and pass the Friendship Book ( pew pad ) if you have not already done so. Our prayer is that you will experience the presence of the eternal, as we worship our God together. We invite you to take the time during the prelude to focus your heart and mind in worship. Please silence your cell phones. WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS Ryan Moore PRELUDE Andante Larghetto Organ (from Overture in Berenice ) G.F. Handel CALL TO WORSHIP Choose this day whom you will serve. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. Cry aloud, and call upon God s name. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. Declare God s glory among the nations. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. Sing to the Lord, and bless God s name. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. Ryan Moore Reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word worship Companion *SONGS OF WORSHIP: LOVE DIVINE, ALL LOVES EXCELLING (Hymn #558) (VERSE 1) Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. (VERSE 2)

2 Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast; let us all in thee inherit, let us find the promised rest. Take away the love of sinning, Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. (VERSE 3) Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. (VERSE 4) Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee: changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. KNOWING YOU (VERSE 1) All I once held dear built my life upon All this world reveres and wars to own All I once thought gain I have counted loss Spent and worthless now compared to this CHORUS Knowing You Jesus knowing You There is no greater thing You're my all You're the best You're my joy my righteousness And I love You Lord

3 (VERSE 2) Now my heart's desire is to know You more To be found by You and known as Yours To possess by faith what I could not earn All surpassing gift of righteousness (CHORUS) (VERSE 3) Oh to know the pow'r of Your risen life And to know You in Your sufferings To become like You in Your death my Lord So with You to live and never die (CHORUS) CCLI Song No Make Way Music (Admin. by Music Services, Inc.) Graham Kendrick For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights Reserved. CCLI License No TIME OF PRAYER Ryan Moore Reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word worship Companion Call to Confession Hear now the first commandment: You shall have no other gods before me, says the Lord. But we do have other gods that claim our adoration, our time, our energy, our resources, our hearts. Let us confess our idolatry, trusting in God s mercy to save. Prayer of Confession When we limp around altars we have made with anxious expectation of idols we adore, Lord, have mercy. When we whip ourselves with condemnation, sacrificing our very selves for that which cannot satisfy, Lord, bring healing. When we beg our idols to meet our deepest need and there is no voice, no answer, no response

4 Lord, save us! Amen. [Silent Confession] Declaration of Forgiveness The Lord Jesus Christ poured out his very self to set us free from the idols that enslave us! It is for freedom that Christ has set us free! Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word worship Companion please remain seated O HOW HE LOVES YOU AND ME! (Hymn #479) O how he loves you and me, O how he loves you and me; he gave his life what more could he give? O how he loves you, O how he loves me, O how he loves you and me! SONG OF WORSHIP: PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE OFFERING OF OURSELVES & OUR GIFTS Rev. Don Meekhof Lois Robertson Invitation to the Offering Hear these words from Paul in his letter to the Romans: So here s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walkingaround life and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12:1, The Message *Doxology Reprinted by permission from The Worship Sourcebook, 2004, Faith Alive Christian Resources Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

5 Praise him, all creatures here below Praise him above ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. Offering Prayer In the name and in the spirit of Jesus, we bring our gifts to you, O God. Help us to give with them a ready mind, a willing spirit, and a joyful heart. Amen. Reprinted by permission from The Worship Sourcebook, 2004, Faith Alive Christian Resources Bringing our gifts and / or lighting a candle Please feel free to go to either the front or the rear of the sanctuary. Offertory A Hiding Place Organ James Southbridge READING OF THE SCRIPTURES Psalm 96:1 9 (NIV) Mickie Moore 1 Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. 3 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. 4 For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. 6 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary. 7 Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. 8 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts. 9 Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth. 1 Kings 18:20 39 (NIV) Chuck Moore

6 20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. 22 Then Elijah said to them, I am the only one of the Lord s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us. Let Baal s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. 24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire he is God. Then all the people said, What you say is good. 25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire. 26 So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. Baal, answer us! they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made. 27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. Shout louder! he said. Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened. 28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. 30 Then Elijah said to all the people, Come here to me. They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, Your name shall be Israel. 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the

7 Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed. 33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood. 34 Do it again, he said, and they did it again. Do it a third time, he ordered, and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench. 36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again. 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. 39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, The Lord he is God! The Lord he is God! MESSAGE Rev. Erika Haub Between Two Opinions *SONG OF WORSHIP: FAITH OF OUR FATHERS (Hymn #692) (VERSE 1) Faith of our fathers! living still in spite of dungeon, fire and sword: O how our hearts beat high with joy when e er we hear that glorious word! Faith of our fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death! (VERSE 2) Faith of our fathers! we will strive

8 to win all nations unto thee, and through the truth that comes from God, we all shall then be truly free. Faith of our fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death! (VERSE 3) Faith of our fathers! we will love both friend and foe in all our strife: and preach thee too, as love knows how, by kindly words and virtuous life: Faith of our fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death! BENEDICTION Rev. Erika Haub POSTLUDE Postlude on Winchester New Organ Flor Peeters * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NEXT SUNDAY, August 7 th Communion Sunday Erika Haub will bring the message to us. Memorial service for Sharon Osborne at 12:00 pm. In the pulpit today: Erika Carney Haub is a graduate of Fuller Seminary and currently serves as an Associate Pastor at Shoreline Covenant Church in Seattle. Her husband, Douglas, is a Whitworth graduate who is also a graduate of Fuller Seminary. Erika and Douglas have four children: Mercy, Aaron Emmanuel, Elijah, and Hope. Before accepting the call to serve at Shoreline Covenant, they spent seven years as a family living and ministering in South Central Los Angeles where they helped to plant Church of the Redeemer, an Evangelical Covenant Church. Both Erika and Douglas spent time living and ministering in Spokane after college but did not meet each other until they worked together at a church in Portland, Oregon. Erika has a connection to Knox in that she is Carole Stuart s niece.

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