(Image: “Complete Joy” Pittman, Lauren Wright, 2018)
©Order of Worship for Sunday August 31, 2025
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Fifth Sunday Hymn Sing
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Prelude……“When in Our Music God Is Glorified”…..Greg D.
Words: Fred Pratt Green, 1971 Music: Charles V. Stanford, 1904 © Hope
Publishing Co. #68 UMH
Coming of the Light:
Greetings:………………………………………………Pastor Liz
Announcements:………………………………………Phillip J.
Call to Worship:………Psalm 104:33………………Samantha M.
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
Opening Prayer:..“For True Singing..#69 UMH..Samantha M.
Glorious God, source of joy and righteousness,
enable us as redeemed and forgiven children
evermore to rejoice in singing your praises.
Grant that what we sing with our lips
we may believe in our hearts,
and what we believe in our hearts
we may practice in our lives;
so that being doers of the Word and not hearers only,
we may receive everlasting life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Opening Hymns:
Requests from the congregation (3 hymns)
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: Requests from the congregation (2 hymns)
“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: Requests from congregation (2)
New Testament Lesson:……Romans 8:31-39…..Samantha M.
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hymn of Preparation: Requests from congregation (2)
Homily:………………………………………………….Pastor Liz
Closing Hymn: Greg’s choice.
Dismissal with Blessing:………………….Pastor Liz
Postlude:…………………………………………………..Greg D.
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