Sunday August 4th Worship Service

(Image: “The Lamb” Paul Klee, 1920, Frankfurt Germany)

©Order of Worship for Sunday August 04, 2024

Tenth Sunday After Pentecost

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Prelude:.……………………“Hallelujah”………………Greg D.
© Stranger Music Incorporated.
 
Coming of the Light:………………………………………..
 
Greetings:………………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Opening Prayer: …………………………..….…Melrose D.
 
Psalm 51:1-12Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. Amen
 
Opening Hymns:“Lamb of God” #2113 TFWS
Words and Music: Twila Paris © 1985 Straightway Music/
Mountain Spring Music
 
1. Your only Son, no sin to hide, but you have sent
him from your side, to walk upon this guilty sod,
and to become the Lamb of God.
 
2. Your gift of love they crucified they laughed and
scorned him as he died, the humble king they named
a fraud and sacrificed the Lamb of God.
 
O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God, I love the holy
Lamb of God! O wash me in his precious blood my
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
 
3. I was so lost I should have died, but you have
brought me to your side, to be led by your staff and
rod, and to be called a lamb of God.
 
O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God, I love the holy
Lamb of God! O wash me in his precious blood my
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
 
“Change My Heart, O God” #2152 TFWS
Words: Eddie Espinosa  Music: Eddie Espinosa
© 1982 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing
 
Change my heart, O God, make it ever true.
Change my heart, O God, may I be like you.
 
You are the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me, this is what I pray.
 
Change my heart, O God, make it ever true.
Change my heart, O God, may I be like you.
 
You are the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me, this is what I pray.
 
Change my heart, O God, make it ever true.
Change my heart, O God, may I be like you.
 
Passing of the Peace:…………………………………Pastor Steven
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
 
Gloria Patri:………“Glory Be to the Father” #71 UMH
Words: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th century
Music: Henry W. Greatorex, 1851
 
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.

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Offertory: …“He Ain’t Heavy..He’s My Brother”…..Kyle West
Words and Music: B. Russell and B. Scott ©1969 Music Sales Corporation and Jenny Music Copyright
 
Offertory Response:  “The Doxology” #94 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623;
Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God,
all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God the
source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power up-lifts!  Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
Prayer After Receiving:………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Prayers of the People:………………………………..Pastor Steven
 
Old Testament Lesson…2 Samuel 11:26–12:13a..Melrose D.
When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him.  When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD, and the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.  The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meager fare and drink from his cup and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.
Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared that for the guest who had come to him.” Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die; he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity.”
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul;

• I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I would have added as much more.  Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.  Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the LORD: I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and in broad daylight.”

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Hymn of Preparation: ..“Give Me a Clean Heart”  #2133 TFWS
Words and Music; Margaret P. Douroux © 1970 Margaret P. Douroux
 
Give me a clean heart so I may serve thee.
Lord fix my heart so that I may be used by thee.
For I’m not worthy of all those blessings.
Give me a clean heart, and I’ll follow thee.
 
Sermon:…..“Where Is The Accountability?”…..Pastor Steven
 
Communion Hymn:“Kyrie” #2275 TFWS
Words: Ancient Greek Music: based on Mvt. II from Symphony No. 9
Antonin Dvořák
 
Kyrie, Kyrie eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie eleison.
Christe, Christe eleison. Christe, Christe
eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie
eleison, eleison.
 
Holy Communion:………………………………..Pastor Steven
 
CONFESSION & PARDON

Pastor Steven: Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will, we have broken your law, we have rebelled against your love, we have not loved our neighbors, and we have not heard the cry of the needy. Forgive us, we pray. Free us for joyful obedience, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
All pray in silence.

Pastor Steven: Hear the good news:
Christ died for us while we were yet sinners; that proves God’s love toward us. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
All: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
All:  Glory to God. Amen.

THE PEACE
Let us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love.
All, including the pastor, exchange signs and words of God’s peace by crossing hands, wave to one another due to social distancing guidelines.

Pastor Steven: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
Pastor Steven: Lift up your hearts. The pastor may lift hands and keep them raised.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Pastor Steven: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Pastor Steven: And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
All: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Pastor Steven: In union with Christ’s offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
All: Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Pastor Steven: All honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and forever.
All: Amen.

The Lord’s Prayer
 
 
Closing Hymn:“The Trees of the Field” #2279 TFWS
Words: Steffi Geiser Fuben Music: Stuart Dauermann
© 1975 Lillenas Publishing Co., admin. by The Copyright Co.
 
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace;
the mountains and the hills will break forth before you;
there’ll be shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field
will clap, will clap their hands.  And all the trees of the
field will clap their hands, the trees of the field will
clap their hands, the trees of the field will clap their
hands while you go out with joy.
 
Dismissal with Blessing:…………………………….Pastor Steven
 
Postlude:………………………………………………………..Greg D.
 
Worship Ends, Witness and Service Begins

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