June 30, 2019
Third Sunday after Pentecost
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE Here I Am, Lord (Schutte)
CALL TO WORSHIP
Pastor: Welcome to worship today! Bring your joys and burdens to the Lord
Congregation: God hears the cries of our hearts and heals our wounded souls.
Liturgist: Remember the wondrous deeds that God continues to perform in your life.
Congregation: Let us be thankful for all the mercies and tenderness that God offers to us.
All: Let us raise our voices in a powerful concert of praise and thanksgiving. Amen!
HYMN When Morning Guilds the Skies Bulletin, Page 4
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Pastor: Merciful Lord, we know that you want the best for us.
Congregation: It must really disappoint you when we fail to be the kind of devoted followers that you need.
Pastor: You know of the needs in this world and the capability that we have of meeting those needs and bringing words of hope and healing through actions of compassion and justice.
Congregation: Yet we are hesitant in our commitment to you and to ministries of peace.
Pastor: We want good things to happen.
Congregation: We just aren’t sure that we are up to the tasks you set before us.
All: Forgive us when we so easily doubt your call, your presence, and your abiding love. Lift us up from lives of self-pity and self-centeredness, and bring us to you with hearts filled with joy, praising you for opportunities to witness to your love in our service to your people. Heal us and restore us, for we ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Pastor: Although following Jesus is difficult, be assured that God is always with you, giving you encouragement, strength, and peace. So, rise up, follow, and praise the One who gave his life for you.
All: All praise be to Christ for the opportunity to begin anew!
HYMN OF PRAISE When Morning Gilds the Skies
Be this while life is mine, my canticle divine:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Be this the eternal song, through all the ages long:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
A SPECIAL TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN
HYMN O Master, Let me Walk with Thee Hymnal, #205
HEBREW READING 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14
GOSPEL READING Luke 9:51-62
SERMON & PASTORAL PRAYER Rev. Laura C. Bair
OFFERING INVITATION
Liturgist: And now, not because we have to, but because we are grateful, let us return to God what is ours to share. Let us joyfully offer our time, our treasure, our commitment, our prayers. Our tithes and offerings will now be gathered.
OFFERTORY Take My Life and Let It Be (Malan)
DOXOLOGY We Give Thee But Thine Own Hymnal, #258
PRAYER OF DEDICATION & THE LORD'S PRAYER
All: Everlasting God, you never ask us to wait when we cry out in despair. You are always present to and with us. You provide wisdom and guidance in our darkest moments. You share joy in our celebratory times. We confess that sometimes we are reluctant in our relationship with you. We do not desire to be the “would-be” followers of Jesus, like Luke describes. Help us to be committed totally to you in the days ahead. We rededicate ourselves to you and share a portion of our financial earnings with you as we continue to pray as Jesus taught us saying: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
HYMN Be Now My Vision Bulletin, Page 3
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (Wood)
PRELUDE Here I Am, Lord (Schutte)
CALL TO WORSHIP
Pastor: Welcome to worship today! Bring your joys and burdens to the Lord
Congregation: God hears the cries of our hearts and heals our wounded souls.
Liturgist: Remember the wondrous deeds that God continues to perform in your life.
Congregation: Let us be thankful for all the mercies and tenderness that God offers to us.
All: Let us raise our voices in a powerful concert of praise and thanksgiving. Amen!
HYMN When Morning Guilds the Skies Bulletin, Page 4
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Pastor: Merciful Lord, we know that you want the best for us.
Congregation: It must really disappoint you when we fail to be the kind of devoted followers that you need.
Pastor: You know of the needs in this world and the capability that we have of meeting those needs and bringing words of hope and healing through actions of compassion and justice.
Congregation: Yet we are hesitant in our commitment to you and to ministries of peace.
Pastor: We want good things to happen.
Congregation: We just aren’t sure that we are up to the tasks you set before us.
All: Forgive us when we so easily doubt your call, your presence, and your abiding love. Lift us up from lives of self-pity and self-centeredness, and bring us to you with hearts filled with joy, praising you for opportunities to witness to your love in our service to your people. Heal us and restore us, for we ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
Pastor: Although following Jesus is difficult, be assured that God is always with you, giving you encouragement, strength, and peace. So, rise up, follow, and praise the One who gave his life for you.
All: All praise be to Christ for the opportunity to begin anew!
HYMN OF PRAISE When Morning Gilds the Skies
Be this while life is mine, my canticle divine:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Be this the eternal song, through all the ages long:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
A SPECIAL TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN
HYMN O Master, Let me Walk with Thee Hymnal, #205
HEBREW READING 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14
GOSPEL READING Luke 9:51-62
SERMON & PASTORAL PRAYER Rev. Laura C. Bair
OFFERING INVITATION
Liturgist: And now, not because we have to, but because we are grateful, let us return to God what is ours to share. Let us joyfully offer our time, our treasure, our commitment, our prayers. Our tithes and offerings will now be gathered.
OFFERTORY Take My Life and Let It Be (Malan)
DOXOLOGY We Give Thee But Thine Own Hymnal, #258
PRAYER OF DEDICATION & THE LORD'S PRAYER
All: Everlasting God, you never ask us to wait when we cry out in despair. You are always present to and with us. You provide wisdom and guidance in our darkest moments. You share joy in our celebratory times. We confess that sometimes we are reluctant in our relationship with you. We do not desire to be the “would-be” followers of Jesus, like Luke describes. Help us to be committed totally to you in the days ahead. We rededicate ourselves to you and share a portion of our financial earnings with you as we continue to pray as Jesus taught us saying: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
HYMN Be Now My Vision Bulletin, Page 3
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (Wood)
