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©Order of Worship for Sunday February 02, 2025

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany





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Prelude…………………..Oh Freedom!…………………Greg D.
 
Coming of the Light
 
Greetings…………………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Announcements:………………………………………..Lorri B.
 
Call to Worship……………………………………..Melrose D.
 
Children of God, we come to worship today with expectations: how we expect to feel, what we expect to experience, songs we expect to sing, or prayers we expect to pray. We find comfort in the familiar.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here.
 
Sometimes what feels familiar grows stale. We stop noticing the power of our prayers. We hear but don’t listen to the Word. We sing without letting the music seep into our hearts. Yet, God is still here, moving and working among us.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here.
 
We may meet God in a familiar voice speaking a hard word, in a song we love that pierces our hearts, in a prayer that we receive in a new way. Because God is here, moving and working among us.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here.
 
Children of God, come! Let us worship, ready to embrace God’s Word already at work among us, even when we are challenged to recognize God in the familiar and unfamiliar alike.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here. Thank be to God! Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, August 2024.
 
Opening Prayer: ……………………………..…Melrose D.
 
In a cynical and despairing world, O God,
 give us a quietly prophetic voice
 to proclaim your hope.

In a violent and angry world, O God,
 give us a quietly prophetic voice
 to proclaim your peace.

In a dismissive and disinterested world, O God,
 give us a quietly prophetic voice
 to proclaim your compassion.

In a lonely and inhospitable world, O God,
 give us a quietly prophetic voice
 to proclaim your love.

In a grieving and weeping world, O God,
 give us a quietly prophetic voice
 to proclaim your joy.

May we be so captivated by your hope, O God,
 that we cannot help but to whisper,
 to sing, and to enact,
 the message of your reign
 which is always coming into our world;
 And may our quietly prophetic lives
 be channels of your restoring grace
 wherever we may go.

Amen.
Written by John van de Laar and posted on Sacredise.com. Re-posted on the re:Worship blog at https://re-worship.blogspot.com/search/label/Epiphany%204%20C.
  
Opening Hymns………“Gather Us In”……….TFWS #2236
Words and Music: Marty Haugen © 1982 GIA Publications, Inc.
 
1.    Here in this place new light is streaming,
now is the darkness vanished away,
see in this space our fears and our dreamings,
brought here to you in the light of this day.
 
Gather us in the lost and forsaken,
gather us in the blind and the lame;
call to us now, and we shall awaken,
we shall arise at the sound of your name.
 
2.    We are the young our lives are a myst’ry,
we are the old who yearn for your face,
we have been sung throughout all of hist’ry
called to be light to the whole human race.
 
Gather us in the rich and the haughty,
gather us in the proud and the strong;
give us a heart so meek and so lowly,
give us the courage to enter the song.
 
3.    Here we will take the wine and the water,
here we will take the bread of new birth,
here you shall call your sons and your daughters,
call us anew to be salt for the earth.
 
Give us to drink the wine of compassion,
give us to eat the bread that is you;
nourish us well, and teach us to fashion
lives that are holy and hearts that are true.
 
4.    Not in the dark of buildings confining,
not in some heaven, light years away, but
here in this place the new light is shining,
now is the Kingdom, now is the day.
 
Gather us in and hold us forever,
gather us in and make us your own;
gather us in all peoples together,
fire of love in our flesh and our bone.
 
“My Life is in You, Lord”………………………#2032 TFWS
Afro-American spiritual (Jer. 8:22)
 
Refrain
My life is in You, Lord. My strength is in You, Lord. My hope is in You, Lord. In You, it’s in You. My life is in You, Lord. My strength is in You, Lord. My hope is in You, Lord. In You, it’s in You.
 
I will praise You with all of my life. I will praise You with all of my Strength With all of my life, with all of my strength. All of my hope is in You.
 
Coda:      In You, it’s in You, in 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.

Giving of our tithes and offerings       Pastor Steven
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Offertory
 
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
 
Anthem………………..Table of Plenty……………Greg Dixon
 
Gospel Lesson: Luke 4: 21 – 30     Melrose D.
Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”  All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?” He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.’”  And he said, “Truly I tell you; no prophet is accepted in his hometown.  But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land, yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.  There were also many with a skin disease in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.  But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
 
“Here I Am Lord” #593
© 1981, 1983, 1989 Daniel L. Schutte and NALR
 
1. I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I have made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright. 
Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?
 
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? 
I have heard you calling in the night. 
I will go, Lord, if you lead me. 
I will hold your people in my heart.
 
2. I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have borne my people’s pain. 
I have wept for love of them. They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send?
 
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? 
I have heard you calling in the night. 
I will go, Lord, if you lead me. 
I will hold your people in my heart.
 
3. I, the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame. 
I will set a feast for them. My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send?
 
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? 
I have heard you calling in the night. 
I will go, Lord, if you lead me. 
I will hold your people in my heart.”
 
 
Sermon:…..“When will you see?”……….Pastor Steven
 
Communion……………….pg. 12 UMH
 
Closing Hymn:….“This Little Light of Mine” #585
 
Words: Afro-American spiritual Music: Afro-American spiritual;
adapt. By William Farley Smith, 1987
Adapt. 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
1.    This little light of mine, I’m goin’-a let it shine,
this little light of mine, I’m goin’-a let it shine
this little light of mine, I’m goin’-a let it shine,
let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. (let it shine)
 
2.    Everywhere I go
3.    All through the night
 
Dismissal with Blessing:………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Postlude:……………………..………………………………….Greg D.
 


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