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2nd Sunday after Epiphany
01/18/2025 - 10:30 pm
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
MINUTE FOR MISSION “Anti-Racism Group” Starla Colburn
CENTERING MUSIC “Just As I Am” Guy & Brown
MOMENT OF HOPE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Come, brother Jesus, be our guest, for this day is beginning.
Bring to this place your poverty,
For then we shall be rich.
Bring to this place your pain,
That in sharing it, we may also share your joy.
Bring to this place your understanding of us,
That we may be freed to learn more of you.
Bring to this place your Holy Spirit,
That we and all things might be made new.
With friend, with stranger, with the unknown and well known ones,
be among us this day,
For the doors of this house are open,
And the doors of our hearts we leave ajar.
*HYMN #836 Abide with Me
Abide with me: fast falls the even tide.
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
I need thy presence every passing hour;
What but thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.
PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE
You never sleep, God. You are always awake, always watching, always willing the world and its people to turn in the right direction.
So today, will you comfort those of us who cannot sleep
Because of illness
Or worry,
Or fear,
Or for reasons they cannot understand.
MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER
SONG OF RENEWAL #155 Raise a Song of Gladness
Raise a song of Gladness, peoples of the earth.
Christ has come, bringing peace, joy to every heart.
Alleluia, alleluia, joy to every heart!
Alleluia, alleluia, joy to every heart!
CELEBRATION OF GOD’S GRACE
God listens to us as we share whatever joys or sorrows, discoveries or questions we may carry. So as we commit ourselves into God’s hand, we will find rest.
Thanks be to God. Amen.
*PASSING THE PEACE
Leader: The peace of Christ be with you.
People: And with you also.
Leader: Let us pass the peace of Christ.
People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)
SPECIAL MUSIC “Schubert Sonatina” Andante
George Anich - Violin
BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY
This Little Light of Mine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!
Today’s Story “Jesus at the Temple”
Jane Moseley & Joyclyn Van
Leader: And as we continue our worship…
Congregation: May God be with you there.
Children: May God be with you here.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Leader: God in your Grace,
People: Hear our prayer
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
As we pray together the Lord's Prayer, you are invited to say this in whatever version is most comforting and meaningful to you. Here is one possible version (ecumenical version) that you can use:
Our Father, who is in heaven, holy be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READINGS: 1 Kings 19:1-18
John 12: 27-28
RESPONSE
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION, from Psalm 19 - responsively
Pastor: May the words of my mouth
People: And the meditations of our hearts
All: Be acceptable in your sight, O Lord,
Our rock and our redeemer. Amen.
SERMON How Do We Deal with Change Pastor Barbara
MOMENT FOR QUIET REFLECTION
*HYMN OF REFLECTION #409 God Is Here!
God is here! As we your people meet to offer praise and prayer,
May we find in fuller measure what it is in Christ we share.
Here, as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts
wait the coming of the Spirit into open minds and hearts.
Here are symbols to remind us of our lifelong need of grace;
Here are table, font, and pulpit; here the cross has central place.
Here in honesty of preaching, here in silence, as in speech,
here, in newness and renewal, God the Spirit comes to each.
Here our children find a welcome in the Shepherd’s flock and fold;
here as bread and wine are taken, Christ sustains us as of old.
Here, the servants of the Servant seek in worship to explore
What it means in daily living to believe and to adore.
Lord of all, of church and kingdom, in an age of change and doubt
Keep us faithful to the gospel; help us work your purpose out.
Here, in this day’s dedication, all we have to give, receive:
we, who cannot live without you, we adore you! We believe!
MOMENT OF THANKS
OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
OFFERTORY “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand”
George Anich - Violin
*DOXOLOGY
Praise God whose breath fills all the earth
Whose love reveals our sacred worth
Whose Spirit forms one family
Whose grace brings peace and harmony. Amen.
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Thank you, loving God, for being with us in our comfort and in our challenges. Help us to move gracefully through the changes in this life with generosity, love, and gratitude for each and every moment we are given life. Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN #838 Standing on the Promises vs. 1,2,4
Standing on the promises of Christ my king,
Through eternal ages let his praises ring;
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises I cannot fall,
listening every moment to the Spirit’s call,
Resting in my Savior as my all in all,
Standing on the promises of God.
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand” Christopher Miner