Join Us For Worship, Sunday, July 11th at 11:00am on our Youtube Live Channel!!!

(Peaceable Kingdom by John August Swanson, 1994)

©Order of Worship July 11, 2021
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost

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The worship video will be available live at 11:00 am.
Text for hymns are found below each hymn.  Click on the hymn highlighted text for music.

Prelude: Rhosymedre …………………..….Glenda C.
Welsh hymn tune: J.D. Edwards  Music: R. Vaughan Williams
 
Greetings……………………………………Pastor Juan
 
Opening Prayer: ……………………………….Lorri B.
 
Opening Hymn: “Living For Jesus” #2149 TFWS
Words: T.O. Chisolm  Music: C. Harold Lowden
 
1. Living for Jesus, a life that is true,
striving to please Him in all that I do;
yielding allegiance, glad-hearted and free,
this is the pathway of blessing for me.
 
Refrain:
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee,
for Thou, in Thy atonement, didst give Thyself for me;
I own no other Master, my heart shall be Thy throne;
my life I give, henceforth to live, O Christ, for Thee alone.
 
2. Living for Jesus Who died in my place,
bearing on Calvary my sin and disgrace;
such love constrains me to answer His call,
follow His leading and give Him my all. [Refrain]
 
3. Living for Jesus, wherever I am,
doing each duty in His holy name,
willing to suffer affliction and loss,
deeming each trial a part of my cross. [Refrain
 
4. Living for Jesus through earth’s little while,
my dearest treasure, the light of His smile,
seeking the lost ones He died to redeem,
bringing the weary to find rest in Him. [Refrain]
 
Psalm Lesson: Psalm 24………………………..…Lorri B.
 
Hymn of Preparation: “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” #349 UMH
Words: Helen H. Lemmel, 1922  Music: Helen H. Lemmel, 1922
© 1922, renewed 1950 by Singspiration Music
 
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
look full in His wonderful face,
and the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
in the light of His glory and grace.
 
Gospel Lesson: Ephesians 1:3-14…………………..Lorri B.
 
Sermon….……….………………………….…Pastor Juan
 
Anthem: “Gabriel’s Oboe” …………………Glenda C.
Music: Ennio Morricone, 1986
 
Giving of our tithes and offerings……………Lorri B.
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Offertory Response:  “The Doxology” #95 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Attr. to Louis Bourgeois, 1551
 
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.
 
Prayer after receiving…………………………………….Pastor Juan
 
Prayers of The People…………………………….………Pastor Juan
Closing Hymn: “Marching to Zion” #733 UMH
Words: Isaac Watts, 1707; refrain by Robert Lowry, 1867
Music: Robert Lowry, 1867
 
1. Come, we that love the Lord,
and let our joys be known;
join in a song with sweet accord,
join in a song with sweet accord,
and thus surround the throne,
and thus surround the throne.
 
Refrain:
We’re marching to Zion,
beautiful, beautiful Zion.
We’re marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God.
 
2. Let those refuse to sing,
who never knew our God;
but children of the heav’nly King
but children of the heav’nly King
may speak their joys abroad,
may speak their joys abroad. [Refrain]
 
3. The hill of Zion yields
a thousand sacred sweets,
before we reach the heav’nly fields,
before we reach the heav’nly fields,
or walk the golden streets,
or walk the golden streets. [Refrain]
 
4 Then let our songs abound,
and ev’ry tear be dry;
we’re marching through Emmanuel’s ground,
we’re marching through I Emmanuel’s ground,
to fairer worlds on high,
to fairer worlds on high. [Refrain]
 
Dismissal with Blessing…….……………Pastor Juan
 
Postlude:…………………………..……………Glenda C.

 
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