(Image: “Baptism in the River Jordan During Pilgrimage”)
Photograph 2011 Jordan River Valley, Israel
©Order of Worship for Sunday May 14, 2023
6th Sunday of Easter
Festival of the Christian Home / Mother’s Day
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Text for hymns are found below each hymn. Click on the hymn highlighted text for music if shown.
Prelude………“My Lord, What a Morning”……..Handbell Choir
Spiritual Arr. by Martha Lynn Thompson
Coming of the Light:…………………………………….Evan G.
Greetings:………………………………………Pastor Steven
Opening Prayer: ………………….………..……Elizabeth B.
Opening Hymns:.“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
#384 UMH
Words: Charles Wesley Music: John Zundel
1. Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling;
all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.
2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast!
Let us all in thee inherit;
let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
3. Come, Almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
4. Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
“Happy the Home When God Is There” #445 UMH
Words: Henry Ware, Jr., 1846 Music: John B. Dykes, 1866
1.Happy the home when God is there,
and love fills every breast; when one their wish, and
one their prayer, and one their heavenly rest.
2.Happy the home where Jesus’ name
is sweet to every ear; where children early
speak his fame, and parents hold him dear.
3.Happy the home where prayer is heard,
and praise is wont to rise; where parents love the
sacred Word and all its wisdom prize.
4.Lord, let us in our homes agree
this blessed peace to gain; unite our hearts in
love to thee, and love to all will reign.
Announcements:…………………………………………..Lorri B.
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Offertory: ……..…… “Jesus Shall Reign”…….Handbell Choir
Music: John Hatton Arr. by Martha Lynn Thompson
Offertory Response: “The Doxology” #95 UMH
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674
Music attributed to Louis Bourgeois, 1551
Arr. by Martha Lynn Thompson
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
Prayers of the People:……………………………Pastor Steven
Hymn of Preparation:….“Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters” #605 UMH
Words: Ruth Duck, 1987 Music: Attr. B. F. White, 1844
Words © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
1. Wash, O God, our sons and daughters, where your
cleansing waters flow. Number them among your
people; bless as Christ blessed long ago. Weave them
garments bright and sparkling; compass them with love
and light. Fill, anoint them; send your Spirit, holy
dove and heart’s delight.
2. We who bring them long for nurture; by your milk
May we be fed. Let us join your feast, partaking cult
Of blessing, living bread. God, renew us, guide our
Footsteps; free from sin and all its snares, one with
Christ in living, dying, by your spirit, children, heirs.
3. O how deep your holy wisdom! Unimagined, all
your ways! To your name be glory, honor! With our
lives we worship, praise! We your people stand before
you, water washed and Spirit born. By your grace,
our lives we offer. Recreate us; God, transform!
New Testament Lesson:….. “1 Peter 3:13-22”…..Elizabeth B.
Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?
But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated,
but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you–not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.
Sermon:.…….… “Be Prepared”…………….Pastor Steven
Closing Hymn: “To God Be the Glory” #98 UMH
Words: Fanny J. Crosby, 1875 Music: William H. Doane, 1875
1. To God be the glory, great things he hath done! So
loved he the world that he gave us his Son, who yielded
his life an atonement for sin, and opened the life-gate
that all may go in.
Refrain
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his
voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people
rejoice! O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done!
2. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, to
every believer the promise of God; the vilest offender
who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon
receives.
Refrain
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his
voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people
rejoice! O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done!
3. Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath
done, and great our rejoicing thru Jesus the Son; but
purer, and higher, and greater will be our wonder, our
transport, when Jesus we see.
Refrain
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his
voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people
rejoice! O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done!
Dismissal with Blessing: ………………………….…Pastor Steven
Postlude:…………………………………………….…………Melanie B.
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