Service for the Lord’s Day:
February 5, 2006: Boy Scout Sunday
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 10:30 a.m.
GATHER IN GOD’S NAME
Worship begins with the prelude. Please speak softly enough
to allow worshipers to pray and to prepare for time with God and God’s
people.
PRELUDE Gaelic Melody H. Hopson
WELCOME, REGISTRATION, ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE Kum ba
Yah M. Helman
CHORAL INTROIT
Jesus Calls Us O’er the Tumult W. Jude
LIGHTING
THE CHRIST CANDLE
*CALL TO WORSHIP From Psalm 147: 1-7
Praise
the Lord!
How good it
is to sing praises to our God who is gracious,
and for whom
a song of praise is fitting.
God
heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.
God
determines the number of stars and names them.
Great
is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God.
*PROCESSIONAL HYMN # 256 Let the Whole Creation Cry
*CONFESSION OF WHO WE
ARE T. S. Eliot, from Choruses from ‘The Rock’
In this work-driven culture,
We have…
knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
knowledge of words, and ignorance of the
Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our
ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
but nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of heavens in twenty centuries
bring us farther from God and nearer to the dust.
(time of silence for personal confession)
Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF WHOSE WE ARE from Isaiah 40:31
Those
who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings like eagles, run without weariness,
and walk without fainting.
*THE PEACE
The
peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Peace be
with you.
(worshipers exchange words and gestures
of God’s peace)
PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD
ANTHEM Climbin’
Up the Mountain P. Simms
WORD WITH CHILDREN
LESSON FROM THE GOSPEL
Mark 1: 29-39 (NRSV)
SERMON
“Jesus is in the Dark”
RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
AN OFFERING OF OURSELVES TO GOD’S PURPOSES
Call to Respond
Offertory
I Will Sing Your Glory and Praise D. Besig
Welcome
New Members and Witness their Promises
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH on Isaiah 40: 28-31/wrl
The Lord is the everlasting God, creator
of the ends of the earth;
who neither faints nor grows weary,
whose understanding is unsearchable.
God gives power to the faint, and
strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary, and
the young will fall exhausted.
But those who wait for the Lord shall
renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings like
eagles, run without weariness,
and walk without fainting.
PRAYERS OF THANKS AND INTERCESSION, THE LORD’S PRAYER
DEPART IN GOD’S NAME
*HYMN # 379
My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
*CHARGE and BLESSING
CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE # 587 Amen
POSTLUDE We Are Marching (Siyahamba) arr. R. Schaffer
*Congregation
stands as able
Next Week’s Scriptures: 2 Kings 5: 1-14; Ps. 30; 1 Cor. 9: 24-27; Mark
1: 40-45
|
Liturgists |
Rev. Jonathan
C. Siehl |
|
Sermon |
Rev. William
R. Leety |
|
Word with Children |
Rev. Jonathan
C. Siehl |
|
Musical Leadership |
Chancel Choir Sarah Shaffer,
Director |