Order of Worship

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


Prelude                  

Welcome & Announcements

Silent Meditation:
    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 your 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 100
Leader: Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into His presence with singing!
People: Know that the LORD, He is God! It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Leader: Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise!
Give thanks to Him; bless His name!
People: For the LORD is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 100

Prayer of Invocation  (The Lord’s Prayer)

*Hymn of Response # 100     Holy, Holy, Holy

NT Reading     Luke 12:13-21
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!



Congregation Standing

Corporate Prayer of Confession:  
Almighty and most merciful God; We acknowledge and confess that we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed; that we have not loved You with all our heart and soul, with all our mind and strength; and that we have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. We beseech You, O God, to forgive what we have been, to help us to amend what we are, and of Your mercy to direct what we shall be; so that we may hereafter walk in the way of Your commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in Your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Words of Assurance and Comfort of the Gospel
Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. Isaiah 1:18

Confession of Faith
Westminster Larger Catechism #72
Leader: What is justifying faith?People:  Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and Word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself and all other creatures to recover him out of his lost condition, not only assents to the truth of the promise of the gospel, but receives and rests upon Christ and his righteousness, therein held forth, for pardon of sin, and for the accepting and accounting of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation.

*Hymn of Response # 587       Who is on the Lord’s Side
                                                             St. Petersburg

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

* Congregation Standing


*Hymn of Response # 522 My Hope is Built on Nothing Less

*God’s Word to Us
          
Scripture Reading      Mark 8: 34-38
     Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
     People:  Thanks be to God!     

Prayer for Illumination

Sermon:    'My way - Thy way'        Mr.. Jim Cunningham

*Hymn of Thanksgiving # 524     Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ

*Benediction

Postlude

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


* Congregation Standing