Sunday July 13th Worship Service

(Image: Swanson, John August Serigraph 2002, Los Angeles, USA)

©Order of Worship for Sunday July 13, 2025

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

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The worship video will be available live at 11:00 am

Prelude:………“We Meet You, O Christ”………Greg D.
Words: Fred Karna, Music: Carl F. Schalk  Words © 1968 Hope Publishing Co., Music: © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
Coming of the Light:
 
Greetings:……………………………………………..Pastor Liz
 
Announcements:……………………………………….Lorri B.
 
An Order For the Celebration
Of An Appointment
 
Congregation: As directed by Leader
We reaffirm our commitment to support you
with our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness.
 
Congregation: As directed by Leader
who announces peace, who brings good news,
who announces salvation.
 
Call to Worship:………………………………………….Ian D.
Lord of the morning
    I awake to
      this new day
    with all of its possibilities,
    its uncertainties
    its many faces,
    and its underlying
    mystery.
May I be able-
    in your strength-                                    
    to move
through this day
    free of anger
    or bitterness,
so that
    when I meet my neighbor
    or encounter the stranger,
I may recognize
      your face.  (W&S #217)
 
Opening Prayer:…………………………………………..Ian D.
Lord, set your blessing on us
    as we begin this day together.
Confirm in us the truth
    by which we rightly live;
    confront us with the truth
    from which we wrongly turn.
We ask not for what we want
    but for what you know we need,
    as we offer this day and ourselves
                                       for you and to you
 Through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.  (W&S #218)
 
Opening Hymns:……….“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.
 
“Pues Si Vivimos (When We Are Living)” #356 UMH
Words: Stanza 1 anonymous, translated by Elise S. Eslinger, 1983; stanzas 2,3,4 Roberto Escamilla 1983, translated by George Lockwood 1987 (Romans 14:8)
Music: Traditional Spanish melody with harmony from Celebremos 1983
Translation © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
1. When we are living, it is in Christ Jesus,
and when we’re dying, it is in the Lord.
Both in our living and in our dying,
we belong to God, we belong to God.
 
2. Through all our living, we our fruits must give.
Good works of service are for offering.
When we are giving, or when receiving,
we belong to God, we belong to God.
 
3. ‘Mid times of sorrow and in times of pain,
when sensing beauty or in love’s embrace,
whether we suffer, or sing rejoicing,
we belong to God, we belong to God.
 
4. Across this wide world, we shall always find
those who are crying with no peace of mind,
but when we help them, or when we feed them,
we belong to God, we belong to God.
 
Passing of the Peace:…………………………….Pastor Liz
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 Liz
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Offertory:…….“He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother”……Greg D.
Words and Music: Sidney Russell and Robert Scott © 1969 Music Sales Corporation and Jenny Music
 
“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” (The Doxology) #94 UMH
Adapted © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674, adapted by Gilbert Vieira, 1978
Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623; harmony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
 
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 uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
Prayer After Receiving:……………………………..Pastor Liz
 
Prayers of the People:……………………………….Pastor Liz
 
Anthem:………..“Melodies of Love”………………….Choir
Arr. by Joseph M. Martin (BMI) © 2022 by Hal Leonard-Milwin Music Corp.

Gospel Lesson:…………Luke 10:25-37………..Ian D.
The parable of the merciful Samaritan
An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”  He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.”  And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”  Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and took off, leaving him half dead.
Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.  So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came upon him, and when he saw him he was moved with compassion.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, treating them with oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.  The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him, and when I come back I will repay you whatever more you spend.’
Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”  He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

Hymn of Preparation:“Make Me a Channel of Your Peace”
TFWS #2171
Words: Prayer of St. Francis Music: Sebastian Temple © 1967 OCP Publications
 
1. Make me a channel of your peace.  Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.  Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
and where there’s doubt, true faith in you.
 
2. Make me a channel of your peace.  Where there’s despair
in life, let me bring hope.  Where there is darkness, only
light, and where there’s sadness, ever joy.
 
3. Oh, Master, grant that I may never seek so much to be
consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love with all my soul.
 
4. Make me a channel of your peace.  It is in pardoning
that we are pardoned, in giving of ourselves that  we receive,
and in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
 
Sermon:…………………………………………………..Pastor Liz
 
Closing Hymn:…….“I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me” TFWS #2153
Words & Music: African American spiritual
Arrangement © Estate of Wendell Whalum
 
1. I’m gonna live so (live so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
I’m gonna live so (live so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
 
2. I’m gonna work so (work so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
I’m gonna work so (work so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
 
3. I’m gonna pray so (pray so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
I’m gonna pray so (pray so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
 
4. I’m gonna sing so (sing so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
I’m gonna sing so (sing so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! (anytime!)
 
Dismissal with Blessing:………………….Pastor Liz
 
Postlude:…………………………………………………Greg D.
 

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