Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 27th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
Prelude

Welcome & Announcements

Silent Meditation:
A Prayer of Preparation:
Eternal God, you are the power behind all things: behind the energy of the storm, behind the heat of a million suns.
Eternal God, you are the power behind all minds: behind the ability to think and reason, behind all understanding of the truth.
Eternal God, you are the power behind the cross of Christ: behind the weakness, the torture and the death, behind unconquerable love.
Eternal God, we worship and adore you. Amen.

Call to Worship Psalm 67

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# 2 O Worship the King

OT Reading Proverbs 10:1-12
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!

Prayer of Confession
Holy God, Father most gracious!
Rebuke us not in your anger, nor chasten us in your wrath!
Heal us from our sin, for we are troubled.
Deliver us for the sake of your steadfast love.
Our sins trouble us, O God.
We are troubled by how they have hurt others.
We are troubled by how they have hurt us.
Your ways are right! O righteous God!
And whenever we have refused to follow them
we have found out how right they are.
Have mercy on us, O God.


Words of Comfort and
Hear the gospel: If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

*Hymn of Response # 301 Join All the Glorious Names
Isaac Watts

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: # 379 Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now

*God’s Word to Us

Scripture Reading I Corinthians 13
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!

Prayer for Illumination

Sermon Mr. Steve Dornan
Love: The Christian Way of Life

*Song of Response # 597 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire

*Benediction

Postlude

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