Order of Worship

Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, September 17th, 2006, 10:30am
Fourteenth Sunday of Trinity
Prelude                  

Welcome & Announcements

Silent Meditation:
    Grant unto us, O God, the fullness of your promises. Where we have been weak, grant us your strength; where we have been confused, grant us your guidance; where we have been distraught, grant us your comfort; where we have been dead, grant us your life. Apart from you, O Lord, we are nothing, in and with you we can do all things. Amen.
          
Call to Worship     

Prayer of Invocation  (The Lord’s Prayer)

*Hymn of Response # 600   He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought

OT Reading     Zechariah 3:1-10
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!

Corporate Prayer of Confession  
  Our Father in heaven, we thank You that You have led us into the light. We thank You for sending the Savior to call us from death to life. We confess that we were dead in sin before we heard His call, but when we heard Him, like Lazarus, we arose. But, O Father, the grave clothes bind us still: old habits that we cannot throw off, old customs that are so much a part of our lives that we are helpless to live the new life that Christ calls us to live.
Give us strength, O Father, to break the bonds; give us courage to live a new life in You; give us faith to believe that with Your help we cannot fail. All this we ask in the name of our Savior who has taught us to come to You.

Private Confession of Sins

Words of Assurance and Comfort of the Gospel
  For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
Ephesians 2.8-9


Confession of Faith
                  The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,    the Creator of heaven and earth,    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
    Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,    born of the Virgin Mary,    suffered under Pontius Pilate,    was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
    The third day He arose again from the dead.
    He ascended into heaven    and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,    whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,    the communion of saints,    the forgiveness of sins,    the resurrection of the body,    and life everlasting.
Amen.

*Hymn of Response # 105     O God, We Praise Thee
                                                               Dundee – Scottish Psalter

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 Response # 76    Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

*God’s Word to Us
          

* Congregation Standing


Scripture Reading      Luke 15:17-24
     Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
     People:  Thanks be to God!     

Prayer for Illumination

Sermon:    My Father is Greater Than…     Rev. Jerry Dodson

*Hymn of Thanksgiving # 44     How Great Thou Art

*Benediction

Postlude

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