Sunday July 27th Worship Service

(Image: “Power of the Lord’s Prayer” 2007, Sabatini, Roman)

©Order of Worship for Sunday July 27, 2025

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Prelude:…….…“Be Not Afraid”………………Greg D.
Music: Bob Dufford © 1975, OCP Publications
 
Coming of the Light:
 
Greetings:………………………………………………..Phillip J.
 
Announcements:……………………………………….Lorri B.
 
Call to Worship:……………………………………..Melrose D.

Worriers of the world, unite!
Bring  your cares and concerns,
    your anxieties and greatest fears!
Bring those things that make you toss on your beds,
    or that tie your stomach in knots!
Bring your torments!
Bring your misgivings!
Bring your troubles,
    and everything you dread!
Heap them in huge mountains of distress,
    at the feet of the living God.
Watch and see if God is faithful in all things.
 
    Look at the birds of the air!
    Our heavenly Father feeds them.
    Consider the lilies of the field!
    God clothes them in glory that exceeds Solomon’s finest.
 
Are you not more valuable than birds?
Will not God care more for you than for grass?
You of little faith, let your worries go!
Strive first for the kingdom of God and God’s righteousness,
    And all these things will be given to you as well!
(© Robert D. Ingram)
 
Opening Prayer:…………………………………………….Melrose D.
O Lord our God,
you are always more ready to bestow your good gifts on                       us than we are to seek them,
      and are willing to give more than we desire or deserve.
Help us so to seek that we may truly find,
      so to ask that we may joyfully receive,
      so to knock that the door of your mercy may be
      opened to us;
through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
(BOW # 467)
 
Opening Hymns:……….“Seek Ye First”  #405 UMH
Words and Music: Karn Laffery, 1972 © 1972 Marantha! Music

1. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you.  Allelu, Alleluia!
 
2. Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek and
ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be
opened unto you.  Allelu, Alleluia!
 
“Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door” #3095 W&S
Words & Music: African American Spiritual Harm. © 1986 GIA Publications
 
Refrain
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door; somebody’s
knockin’ at your door; O sinner, why don’t you
answer? Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
1. Knocks like Jesus. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Knocks like Jesus. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
2. Can’t you hear him? Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Can’t you hear him? Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
3. Jesus calls you. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Jesus calls you. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
4. Can’t you trust him. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Can’t you trust him. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
Passing of the Peace:……………………………………Lusi R.
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………………….Lusi R.
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Offertory:……“You’ll Never Walk Alone”……………….Greg D.
Music:  Richard Rogers ©  1949 and 1955 by Richard Rogers
 
“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:…………………………………Lusi R.
 
The Prayers of the People:…………………………….Lusi R.
 
Anthem:……“The Lord’s Prayer” #3068 W&S…..Congregation
Music: Albert Malotte © 1935 G. Schirmmer, Inc. (BMI)

Gospel Lesson:…………Luke 11:1-13………………….Melrose D.
Jesus teaches prayer
He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” so he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be revered as holy.
    May your kingdom come.  Give us each day our daily bread.
    And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone            indebted to us.  And do not bring us to the time of trial.”
And he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him,  ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.’ And he answers from within,  ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked, and my children are with me in bed;  I cannot get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything out of friendship, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.
“So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.  For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.  Is there anyone among you who, if your child asked for a fish, would give a snake instead of a fish?  Or if the child asked for an egg, would give a scorpion?  If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Hymn of Preparation:“Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying” #2193 TFWS
Words and Music: Ken Medema © 1973 Hope Publishing Co.

Lord, listen to your children praying,
Lord, send your Spirit in this place;
Lord, listen to your children praying, send us
love, send us power, send us grace.
 
Sermon:………………………………………….Avery E.
 
Closing Hymn:…….“This is My Song” # 437 UMH
Words by Lloyd Stone and Georgia Harkness
Music by Jean Sibelius, arrangement from The Hymnal
© 1934, 1962, 1964 Lorenz Publishing Co.
Arr © 1933, renewed 1961 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
 
1. This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
 
2. My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.
 
3. This is my prayer, O Lord of all earth’s kingdoms:
Thy kingdom come; on earth Thy will be done.
Let Christ be lifted up till all shall serve him,
and hearts united learn to live as one.
O hear my prayer, thou God of all nations;
myself I give thee; let thy will be done.
 
Dismissal with Blessing:……………….Avery E.
 
Postlude:……………………………………………………Greg D.

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