Worship on the Lord’s Day

July 20, 2008

Please stand if you are able, as indicated by the *.

Prelude                                                                                         

 Welcome & Announcements:                          Holly Salzman   LISTEN IN       

 Call to Worship

     Psalm 139:1-12

     page 545 in the pew Bible   (read responsively)

Greeting

    Pastor:  The Lord be with you.               

    People:   And also with you.

 Prayer of the Day                 LISTEN IN                               

(Pass prayer requests to the aisle; ushers will collect them.)

*Hymnal:  #455       "All Creatures of Our God and King"

 * Prayer of Confession           LISTEN IN                                

Here we are, Saviour, in your Presence, needing your saving grace to set us up for this new week. Here we are, not wallowing in shame like those without hope, but opening up our lives to the mercy which is always here for us. To you, Saviour-Friend, I bring both my failures and my successes. I am sorry for my failures, especially those I have foreseen.  I am sorry for any way in which I have added to the frustration and hurt of others.

I am very glad for my successes, yet realize that even my best deeds are always flawed.  I acknowledge that my life is a tangled web of good and evil, and I need your grace. Please do for me now what I cannot do for myself. Grant me honest repentance, sure forgiveness,   profound peace, and a new vigour of spirit. Let me make amends wherever that is feasible, and may I have the faith to leave the rest in your wise hands. This I ask in the name of Christ Jesus my Saviour.

 
*Silent Confession

*Declaration of Forgiveness                                                           

      Pastor: The good news is that all who trust in Christ will have their sins forgiven and receive eternal life. As you hold this faith, I declare that you are set free from all your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, to whom be glory for ever and ever.

      People:   Thanks be to God.

 *Response:  # 579               “Gloria Patri”

Prayer for Illumination                       LISTEN IN

 Children’s Message         LISTEN IN

 First Lesson -      Genesis 28:10-19a, page 24 in the pew Bible        LISTEN IN

 Special Music                                             Gretchen Lemmenes         LISTEN IN                         

 *Gospel Lesson - Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43, page 14 in the pew Bible     LISTEN IN

        Leader:   The Gospel of the Lord.

        People:  Thanks Be Unto God      

 Sermon                  “Dream On”                  Rev. Ted Anderson   LISTEN IN  

*Hymn:   #269    "O God of Bethel, by Whose Hand"

 Prayers of the People       

         Pastor:   Let us pray to the Lord,

         People:  Lord, have mercy.

 Offertory       

*Doxology: #592     “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

 *Prayer of Thanksgiving

*The Lord’s Prayer  

 *Hymn:   #275      "God of Our Life"

 *Charge and Benediction

 *Congregational Response:    #586                    “Amen”                                           

 *Postlude