P R E S B Y T E R S E C O N D C H U R C H I A N ORDER FOR THE PUBLIC WORSHIP GOD Septemr Novemr Ocr February March 18, 22, 5, 18, 2018 2017 2018 2016 Thanksgiving Epiphany Season Trinity Season Season Lent Sunday
Preparation for Worship As you enter Sanctuary, please prepare your heart for worship and silence your mobile devices. For many us, Thanksgiving our favorite holiday; yet a thankful heart ten eludes us in daily life. As prepare for worship, let us specifically count blessings for which should give. The psalmt descr worship as entering in Lord s gates with giving and H courts with prae. Rememr Apostle Paul s probing question: What do you have that you did not receive? (I Corinthians 4:7b). If regularly ask th ourselves, it produce in us a thankful spirit. May Lord cause us see all that God for us and all that God has done for us in our Lord Jesus Chrt. As a result, may our hearts filled with thankfulness! Enter H Courts with Thanksgiving ORGAN PRELUDE: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come...Charles Callahan Samuel Metzger, organ INSTRUMENTAL PRELUDE: The Swan.... Camille Saint-Saëns Clay Hancock, violin CHORAL INTROIT: O God Beyond All Praing.... THAXTED O God yond all pra worship You day And sing love amazing that songs cannot repay; For can only wonder at every gift You send, At blessings without numr and mercies without end: We lift our hearts fore You and wait upon Your word, We honor and adore You, our great and mighty Lord. Spirit and Song Children s Choir Chrty Young, direcr Mary Lawrence Flinn, accompant CALL TO WORSHIP....Barn Kimbro WHYMN OF PRAISE: No. 715 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come.... ST. GEORGE S WINDSOR WINVOCATION (Please lift hands) WPSALM OF THANKSGIVING: Psalm 92:1-5, 12-15.... Grace Knight (8:15) Blanche Tosh (11:00) It good give Lord, sing praes your name, O Most High; declare your steadfast love in morn and your faithfulness by night, music lute and harp, melody lyre. For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at works your hands I sing for joy. How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep! The righteous flourh like palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in house Lord; y flourh in courts our They still ar fruit in old age; y are ever full sap and green, declare that Lord upright; he my rock, and re no unrighteousness in him.
WDOXOLOGY... OLD HUNDREDTH Prae God from Whom all blessings flow; Prae Him, all creatures here low; Prae Him above, ye heavenly host: Prae Far, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. CORPORATE PRAYER OF CONFESSION Receive H Pardon with Joy God, our heavenly Far, You are our Crear, Redeemer, and Sustainer. Every good and perfect gift comes from You. Yet confess that have received Your gifts with a thankless heart and have doubted Your generous heart that delights give what good Your children. We have murmured and complained against You. We have failed give You in all circumstances. Empor us cast f se and all or sins our heart knowing that y are an affront and insult You. Fill us anew with Your Holy Spirit so that He might rest our hearts aflame for You, for pray in name One Who Your indescribable gift, our Lord Jesus Chrt. INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION ASSURANCE OF DIVINE PARDON.... Psalm 130:3-4, 7 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you re forgiveness, that you may feared. O Israel, hope in Lord! For with Lord re steadfast love, and with him plentiful redemption. WORSHIP OF GOD WITH THE GIFTS OF GOD A special Thanksgiving fering received day for World Relief-Malawi; Calvary Rescue Msion; and Memph Union Msion. If you wh participate, please mark your checks for Thanksgiving Offering or use special Thanksgiving Offering envelopes in pew racks. OFFERTORY ANTHEM: O Sing Lord a New Song!....Lloyd Larson O sing Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things. O sing Lord a new song! Come lift up your voice and sing! O shout Lord, all earth! Break forth in jubilant prae. O shout Lord all earth! Rejoice in H glory and grace! Let sea resound, and all that in it. Let rivers clap ir hands. Let mountains sing ger for joy! O sing Lord a new song. My life flows on in endless song; above earth s lamentation: I hear set, though far-f hymn that hails a new creation. No srm can shake my inmost calm while that rock I am clinging. Since Chrt Lord heaven and earth how can I keep from singing? Through all tumult and strife, I hear music ringing. It finds an echo in my soul, how can I keep from singing. No srm can shake my inmost calm while that Rock I m clinging. Since Chrt Lord heaven and earth how can I keep from singing. O sing Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things. O sing Lord a new song! Come lift up your voice and s come and sing a new song! The Chancel Choir Calvin Ell, direcr Dee Walker, flute
WPRAYER OF THANKSGIVING....Tim Russell WGREETINGS A WORD TO THE CHILDREN (8:15)....................................Lynn Erickson Embrace H Call with Faithfulness WPRAYERS OF INTERCESSION AND THE LORD S PRAYER (please stand) Our Far, Who art in heaven, hallod Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy done on earth as it in heaven. Give us th day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as forgive our debrs. And lead us not in temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine Kingdom, and por, and glory, forever. Amen. WHYMN OF PREPARATION: For Fruit All Creation...AR HYD Y NOS 4 &b4 &b 1. For 2. In 3. For For In For œ œ j œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ j w H fruit just har gifts help good re - -vests all ward cre ev - ry na - tion, give our neigh- bor, all in - her - it, - a - tion, la - bor, God s Spir - it, God s œ œ j œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ j w œ œ For In our For &b œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ œ œ plow - sow- reap-ing si - lent growth while world-wide task car - ing for hun - gry won - ders that as-und us, for truths that fu - ture needs in in har-vests most all, that earth s love safe are has - keep- shar- found us, God s are sleep- and de - spair- still con-found us, &b œ œ j œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ j w NEW TESTAMENT LESSON... Acts 21:27-22:21 (page 931 in pew Bible) The grass wirs, flor fades, but Word our God stand forever. (Isaiah 40:8) SERMON The Conversion and Apostleship Saint Paul George Rortson PRAYER OF COMMITMENT WHYMN OF COMMITMENT: No. 98 Now Thank We All Our God....NUN DANKET
WBENEDICTION (please rae hands) WCONGREGATIONAL THREE-FOLD AMEN ORGAN POSTLUDE: Now Thank We All Our God... J.S. Bach, arr. Virgil Fox WIndicates congregation standing CCLI License #252778 Second Ringers: Jim Cantrell, Estelle Curt, Hannah Crowley, Fred Flinn, Mary Lawrence Flinn, Mimi Vestal, Beth Fcher The Conversion and Apostleship Saint Paul Novemr 18, 2018 I. When Think About God s Faithfulness (Acts 21:27-40) A. Falsely Accused (vv. 27-30) B. Fiercely Attacked (vv. 31-36) C. Falsely Associated (vv. 37-40) II. How Think About God s Faithfulness (Acts 22:1-21) A. Conception (vv. 1-5) B. Birth (vv. 6-16) C. Life (vv. 17-21) D. Identity