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November 2, 2008
Please stand if you are able, as indicated by the *
Prelude LISTEN IN
Ringing of the Hour Welcome & Announcements: Carly Grimm LISTEN IN
Call to Worship
Leader: Gather now in the love of God!
People: For God's steadfast love endures forever.
Leader: God gathers us together to be reminded of the
abundance of God's love.
People: God has done great things for us! God is good!
Praise God!
Greeting LISTEN IN
Pastor: The Lord be with you,
People: And also with you.
Prayer of the Day
"Hymnal: #526 {Vv. 1,2, & 2.5) For All the Saints"
* Prayer of Confession LISTEN IN
Lord
God, you have created our hearts large enough for abundant life. But we
confess that too often we have settled for lesser things. Too tired to
reach out, too distracted to be faithful, too rebellious to receive
your love and grace, we too easily accept where we are. We become
content with a mediocre hope. Startle us with your good news of love
and forgiveness that we might experience your gift of real life and
trust you with a childlike faith. Amen.
*Silent Confession
*Declaration of Forgiveness
Pastor: God has received Jesus Christ as our
representative bearing gifts and sacrifices for our sins. Friends, believe the good news.
People: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Amen.
*Response: #280 (v. 1&2) "Amazing Grace"
Children's Blessing LISTEN IN
Special Music "A Light From Heaven" Women's Choir LISTEN IN
Prayer for Illumination LISTEN IN
Old Testament Reading - Psalm 107 (Selected)
Leader: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love
endures forever.
People: Let the redeemed of the Lord say this -
Leader: Those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
People: Those he gathered from the lands, from east
and west, from north and south.
Leader: Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no
way to a city where they could settle
People; They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives
ebbed away.
Leader: Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and
he delivered them from their distress.
People: He led them by a straight way to a city where
they could settle.
Leader: Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing
love and his wonderful deeds for all people,
People: For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry
with good things.
First Lesson - page 192 (NT) I Thessalonians 2:9-13 Matthew 23:1-12
*Gospel Lesson - page 24 (NT) LISTEN IN
Pastor: The Gospel of the Lord.
People: Thanks Be Unto God.
Sermon "Distinctive by Design" Rev. Dr. Wayne Adcock LISTEN IN
*Hymn:
#260
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
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 Dedication
Invitation to the Lord's Table
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Pastor: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Pastor: Let us give thanks to the Lord,
People: It is right to give our thanks to the Lord.
(Pastor prays)
Pastor: ... Great is the mystery of faith: People: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
The Lord's Prayer
Breaking of the Bread
Communion of the People
Prayer after Communion
*Hymn: #526 (Vv. 3, 3,5, & 4) "For All the Saints"
*Charge and Benediction
*Congregational
Response:
#586
'"Amen"
*Postlude
Thank you to all those assisting in this morning's worship
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