(Image: “Wonders by Their Hands”, Mural, Sydney, Australia, 21st C Artist: Anonymous, photography by Len Matthews)
©Order of Worship for Sunday August 17, 2025
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
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The worship video will be available live at 11:00 am
Prelude:……….….…“Are Ye Able”……….…..…Greg D.
Words: Earl Mariatt, 1927 Music: Harry Mason, 1924
Coming of the Light:
Greetings:…………………………………………………Pastor Liz
Announcements:……………………………………….Lorri B.
Call to Worship:……………….Psalm 100……………….Eli A.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness!
Come into God’s presence with singing!
Know that the Lord, who made us, is God.
We are the Lord’s
we are the people of God,
the sheep of God’s pasture.
Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving,
and God’s courts with praise!
Give thanks and bless God’s name!
For the Lord is good;
God’s steadfast love endures for ever;
God’s faithfulness to all generations.
Opening Prayer:……………………………………………….Eli A.
Creator God,
you call us to love and serve you
with body, mind, and spirit
through loving your creation
and our sisters and brothers.
Open our hearts in compassion
and receive these prayers on behalf of the needs of the church and the world. Amen.
Opening Hymns:.“We Are Called”, 2172 TFWS
Words: David Haas Music: David Haas
©1988 GIA Publications, Inc.
1. Come! Live in the light!
Shine with joy and the love of the Lord!
We are called to be light for the kingdom,
to live in the freedom of the city of God!
We are called to act with justice,
we are called to love tenderly,
we are called to serve one another,
to walk humbly with God!
2. Come! Open your heart!
Show your mercy to all those in fear!
We are called to be hope for the hopeless
so all hatred and blindness will be no more!
We are called to act with justice,
we are called to love tenderly,
we are called to serve one another,
to walk humbly with God!
Sing! Sing a new song!
Sing of that great day when all will be one!
God will reign, and we’ll walk with each other as
Sisters and brothers united in love!
We are called to act with justice,
We are called to love tenderly,
We are called to serve one another,
To walk humbly with God!
“Together We Serve” #2175 TFWS
Words and Music: Daniel Charles Damon
© 1998 Hope Publishing Co.
1. Together we serve, united by love,
inviting God’s world to the glorious
feast. We work and we pray through
sorrow and joy, extending your love to
the last and the least.
2. We seek to become a beacon of hope,
a lamp for the heart and a light for
The feet. We learn, year by year, to let
love shine through until we see Christ
in each person we meet.
3. We welcome the scarred, the wealthy,
The poor, the busy, the lonely, and all
who need care. We offer a home to those
who will come, our hands quick to help,
our hearts ready to dare.
4. Together, by grace, we witness and
work, remembering Jesus, in whom we
grow strong. Together we serve in Spirit
and truth, remembering love is the
strength of our song.
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:…..“Lord, Make Me an Instrument
of Thy Peace”………………………Greg D.
Words: St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), Music: Olive Dungan © 1949
The John Church Co.
“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
The Prayers of the People:………………………….Pastor Liz
The Lord’s Prayer
Anthem:………….“Panis Angelicus”……….Samantha M.
By Cesar Franck © 1991 Hal Leonard Publishing Company
New Testament Lesson:…..Phillipians 2:1-13……..Eli A.
Imitating Christ’s Humility
2 If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God exalted him even more highly
and gave him the name
that is above every other name,
10 so that at the name given to Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Hymn of Preparation:“Make Me a Servant” #2176 TFWS
Words and Music: Kelly Willard
© 1982 Willing Husic, admin. By Maranatha! Music
℅ The Copyright Co.
Make me a servant, humble and meek,
Lord, let me lift up those who are weak.
And may the prayer of my heart always be:
Make me a servant, make me a servant,
Make me a servant today.
Sermon:………………………………………………….Pastor Liz
Closing Hymn:……“Sent Out in Jesus’ Name” #2184 TFWS
Words: Anon.;trans. By Jorge Maldonado, alt.
Music: Trad. Cuban, arr. By Carmen Peña
Trans ©1988, arr. © 1996 Abingdon Press
Sent out in Jesus’ name, our hands are ready now to
make the earth the place in which the kingdom comes.
Sent out in Jesus’ name, our hands are ready now to
make the earth the place in which the kingdom comes.
The angels cannot change a world of hurt and pain
into a world of love, of justice and of peace. The
task is ours to do, to set it really free. O help us
to obey and carry out your will.
Dismissal with Blessing:………………..….Pastor Liz
Postlude:………………………………………………….Greg D.
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