Join Us For Worship, Sunday November 14th on Youtube Live!!!

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©Order of Worship November 14, 2021
Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

For the Avent Ferry UMC Worship Video (Click Here (Link opens in a new window)

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:………………………………………………Greg D.
 
Greetings………………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Opening Prayer: ……………………………….…….Chris M.
 
Opening Hymns: “How Firm a Foundation” #529 UMH
Words: “K” in Rippon’s A Selection of Hymns, 1787
Music: Early USA melody; harm. From Tabor, 1866
 
1.How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in his excellent world!
What more can he say than to you he hath said,
to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
 
2.”Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
for I am thy God and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand,
up held by my righteous, omnipotent hand.
 
3.”When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
the rivers of woe shall not thee overflow;
for I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
 
4.”When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,
my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
the flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
 
5.”The soul that on Jesus still leans for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no, never, no, never forsake.”
 
“I Want to Be Ready” #722 UMH
Words: Afro-American Spiritual Music: Afro-American Spiritual
adapt. And arr. By William Farley Smith, 1986
 
Refrain
I want to be ready, I want to be ready,
I want to be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
 
1.O John, O John, what did you say?
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
That you’d be there on judgment day.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
 
Refrain
I want to be ready, I want to be ready,
I want to be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
 
2.John said the city was just foursquare.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
And he declared he’d meet me there.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
 
Refrain
I want to be ready, I want to be ready,
I want to be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
 
3.Now sinners, mind how you step on the cross.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
Your foot might slip and your soul get lost.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
 
Refrain
I want to be ready, I want to be ready,
I want to be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
 
Old Testament Lesson: 1 Kings 8:1-13………………Chris M.
8 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the Israelites, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. ² All the people of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the festival in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the ark. ⁴ So they brought up the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. ⁵ King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ⁶ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁷ For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles. ⁸ The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day. ⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites, when they came out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord, ¹¹ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
¹² Then Solomon said,
“The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
¹³ I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

Giving of our tithes and offerings …………..…Chris M.
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Offertory Anthem: “Talk to the Lord” …Aaron & Elizabeth B.
Words and Music: Natalie Bergman arr. by Aaron B.
 
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 Steven
 
Hymn of Preparation: “Lead Me, Guide Me” #2214 TFWS
© 1953 Doris Akers
Please sing twice
 
Lead me, guide me, along the way,
for if you lead me, I cannot stray.
Lord, let me walk each day with thee.
Lead me, O Lord, lead me.”
 
The Gospel Lesson:  Mark 13:1-8…………………Chris M.
 
1 As he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!”
2 Then Jesus asked him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.” 3 When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
 
4 “Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign that all these things are about to be accomplished?” 5 Then Jesus began to say to them, “Beware that no one leads you astray.
6 Many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.
 
7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; this must take place, but the end is still to come.
8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
 
Sermon:………”The True Temple?”………Pastor Steven
 
Prayers of the People…………………..…Pastor Steven
 
Closing Hymn: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”  #703 UMH
Words: Afro-American spiritual Music: Afro-American spiritual
adapt. and arr. By William Farley Smith, 1987
 
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
 
1.I looked over Jordan, and what did I see,
coming for to carry me home? A band of angels
coming after me, coming for to carry me home.
 
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
 
2.If you get there before I do,
coming for to carry me home; tell all my friends I’m
coming too, coming for to carry me home.
 
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
 
3.I’m sometimes up, I’m sometimes down,
coming for to carry me home;
but still my soul feels heavenly bound,
coming for to carry me home.
 
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
 
4.The brightest day that I can say,
coming for to carry me home, when Jesus washed my
sins away, coming for to carry me home.
 
Dismissal with Blessing …….………….…Pastor Steven
 
Postlude:…….…………………..…………………..…Greg D.

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