(Image: “Nathan Rebukes David”) Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay Vezelay France
©Order of Worship for Sunday August 18, 2024
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
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Prelude:.……..“Let There Be Praise”…………………….Greg D.
Words and Music: Dick and Melodie Tunney © 1985 LCS Songs
Coming of the Light:………………………………………..
Greetings:……………………………………Pastor Steven
Opening Prayer: …………………………….…Elizabeth B.
O Lord,
open my eyes that I may see the needs of others;
open my ears that I may hear their cries;
open my heart so that they need not be without succor;
let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong,
nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of
the rich.
Show me where love and hope and faith are needed,
and use me to bring them to those places.
And so open my eyes and my ears
that I may this coming day be able to do some work of
peace for thee. Amen.
Opening Hymns: Freely, Freely 389 UMH
Words: Carol Owens, 1972 Music: Carol Owens, 1972
© Communique Music, Inc.
1. God forgave my sin in Jesus’ name,
I’ve been born again in Jesus’ name,
And in Jesus’ name I come to you,
To share his love as he told me to.
He said, “Freely, freely you have received,
freely, freely give.
Go in my name, and because you believe,
others will know that I live.”
2. All power is given in Jesus’ name,
In earth and heaven in Jesus’ name,
And in Jesus’ name I come to you,
To share his power as he told me to.
He said, “Freely, freely you have received,
freely, freely give.
Go in my name, and because you believe,
others will know that l live.”
“Jesu, Jesu” #432 UMH
Words: Tom Colvin, 1969 Music: Ghana folk song © 1969 and 1989
Hope Publishing Co.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
1. Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their
feet, Master who acts as a slave to them.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
2. Neighbors are rich and poor, neighbors are black and
white, neighbors are near and far away.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
3. These are the ones we should serve, these are the ones
we should love; all these are neighbors to us and you.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
4. Loving puts us on our knees, serving as though we are
slaves, this is the way we should live with you.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
5. Kneel at the feet of our friends, silently washing their
feet, this is the way we should live with you.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from 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.
Announcements:………………………………………….Lorri B.
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Offertory:…“We Thy People, Praise Thee”.……Handbell Choir
Music: F. Haydn, arr. By J. Kimball © 1993
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: ……..“Jesus Savior, Pilot Me”…………Handbell Choir
Old Testament Lesson:2 Samuel 11:26–12:13a…Elizabeth B.
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.”