The Lord's Day

Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 20th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
Prelude                  

Welcome & Announcements

Silent Meditation:
    A Prayer of Preparation:
We praise you, we worship you, we adore you. You hold the heavens in your hand, all stars rejoice in your glory. You come in the sunrise and the song of morn and bless the splendor of the noonday. The stars in their courses magnify you, day and night tell of your glory. Your peace blows over the earth and the breath of you mouth fills all space. Your voice comes in the thunder of the storm and the song of the wind whispers of your majesty. You satisfy all things living with your abundance and our hearts bow at your presence. Accept us, your children, Eternal Father, and hearken to our prayer. Bend over us, Eternal Love, and bless us. Amen.
          
Call to Worship     Psalm 21

Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Prayer of Invocation  (The Lord’s Prayer)

*Hymn of Adoration# 53   Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
       
OT Reading     Isaiah 55:1-8
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!

Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.

Words of Comfort and Promise
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

*Hymn of Response # 345     Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Confession  of Faith
Nicene Creed (pg. 846 in Trinity Hymnal)

Tithes and Offerings

*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.

Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer

*Hymn of Preparation: #358   For All the Saints

*God’s Word to Us           

Scripture Reading      Hosea 2:16-23
     Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
     People:  Thanks be to God!     

Prayer for Illumination

Sermon       Mr. Chris Hayes
                  A Marriage Made in Heaven

*Song of Response # 347     The Church’s One Foundation

*Benediction

Postlude

“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20