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4th Sunday after Pentecost
07/06/2025 - 10:30 pm
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
MINUTE FOR MISSION “Monument Crisis Center” Dana Johnson
CENTERING MUSIC “I’ve Got Peace Like a River”
arr. Andrew Barnes Jamieson
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
People: Behold our God is a Creator.
One: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
People: Behold our God is a Redeemer.
One: The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.
People: Behold our God is a Holy Spirit.
All: Let us worship the God who is one in three, three in one, who heals our brokenness and gathers up all our meanings.
*OPENING HYMN #339 Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift every voice and sing
'Til earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on 'til victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our parents sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE
God of new life, we often say that anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. Yet when we consider our lives, we recognize that we do not always live as people freed to be new. You promise to be present with us always, yet our fear of the future shows we do not trust this. You love us with a great, eternal and costly love, yet our self-condemnation shows that we have not opened ourselves to that love. You promise that where your Spirit is, there is freedom, yet the injustices within your church show us that we have not let you set us free. God, guide us on the slow journey of growth. Free us from our fears, our prejudice, and our self-condemnation, that we may live in Christ with the freedom of your Spirit. Amen.
MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER
SONG OF RENEWAL #288 Spirit of the Living God
Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me,
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
ASSURANCE OF GOD’S GRACE
The Good News is that God is there to free us from our fears, our prejudice and our self-condemnation and to invite us into the new life that God wants for each of us every day. Thanks be to God. Amen.
*PASSING THE PEACE
Pastor: The peace of Christ be with you.
People: And with you also.
Pastor: Let us pass the peace of Christ.
People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)
ANTHEM : "Beautiful Things” Michael Gungor
Duet: Andrew Jamieson & Lyle Swallow
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
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
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14 and John 16:7-15
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 Things Won’t Always Play Out as we Expect.
MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION
OFFERING
OFFERTORY “Hush, Hush, Somebody’s Calling My Name”
Arr. Andrew Barnes Jamieson
*DOXOLOGY Sung to: All Creatures of our God and King
Praise God the giver and the gift,
Hearts, minds and voices now uplift:
Allelulia! Alleluia!
Praise, praise the Breath of glad surprise,
Freeing uplifting opening eyes,
Three in Oneness, Love community,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Gracious God, we thank you for Jesus Christ, who in compassion for the helpless and harassed crowds, sent out his disciples with words of hope and deeds of love. We look around us today and see the same depths of human need; we know that you send us out with good news now. We humbly and joyfully accept your mission, trusting in Jesus Christ to give us courage and strength. Amen.
*HYMN OF RESPONSE #352 My Lord! What a Morning
My Lord! What a morning; my Lord! What a morning;
O my Lord! What a morning, when the stars begin to fall, when the stars begin to fall.
You will hear the trumpet sound to wake the nations underground, looking to my God’s right hand, when the stars begin to fall.
My Lord! What a morning; my Lord! What a morning;
O my Lord! What a morning, when the stars begin to fall, when the stars begin to fall.
You will hear the sinner cry; to awake the nations underground,
Looking to my God’s right hand, when the stars begin to fall.
My Lord! What a morning; my Lord! What a morning;
O my Lord! What a morning, when the stars begin to fall, when the stars begin to fall.
You will hear the Christian shout, to wake the nations underground,
Looking to my God’s right hand, when the stars begin to fall.
SACRAMENT OF COMMUNION
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
One: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise
WORDS OF INSTITUTION
THE COMMUNION OF THE PEOPLE: SHARING THE BREAD AND THE CUP
COMMUNION PRAYER
CLOSING HYMN #346 For the Healing of the Nations
For the healing of the nations, Lord, we pray with one accord;
for a just and equal sharing of the things that earth affords;
to a life of love in action help us rise and pledge our word.
Lead us forward into freedom; from despair your world release, that,
redeemed from war and hatred, all may come and go in peace.
Show us how through care and goodness fear will die and hope increase
All that kills abundant living, let it from the earth be banned;
pride of status, race, or schooling, dogmas that do obscure your plan.
In our common quest for justice may we hallow life’s brief span.
You, Creator God, have written your great name on humankind;
for our growing in your likeness, bring the life of Christ to mind,
that by our response and service earth its destiny may find.
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE