Service for Transfiguration Sunday

  February 14, 2010, 10:30 a.m.

 

GATHER IN GOD’S NAME

 

IN SILENCE                                                                                                 Walter Brueggemann,

                              “Awed to heaven, rooted in earth,” Awed to Heaven, Rooted to Earth:  Prayers….

     That is how it is when we praise you (God).  We join the angels in praise

               and we keep our feet in time and place…awed to heaven, rooted in earth.

              We are daily stretched between communion with you and our bodied lives,

               spent but alive, summoned and cherished but stretched between.

               And we are reminded that before us there has been this One

truly divine (at ease with the angels) truly human…dwellers in time and space.

We are thankful for him, and glad to be in his missional company.  Alleluia.  Amen.

 

PRAYER IN PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP (Hymn # 479)

            Angels, teach us adoration, You behold God face to face;

                 Sun and moon and all creation, Dwellers all in time and space.

                 Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace!

 

PRELUDE                        Our Shepherd Will Supply Our Need                         Wilson/Page

                                                Precious Lord, Take My Hand                          Dorsey/Wagner

 

WELCOME, ANNOUNCEMENTS, REGISTRATION

 

CHIMES & CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

             LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP                                                     from Psalm 99:4 (Jerusalem Bible)

            God is a ruler who loves justice, insisting on honesty, justice, virtue;

                 As God has done for God’s people.

            Let us praise the Lord our God and worship.

                 Remembering and declaring: “Holy is the Lord!”

 

*PROCESSIONAL HYMN # 489                                        Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty

 

*CONFESSION OF WHO WE ARE

            God whose name is Glory:  we are people who have had, or want to have,

                 experiences with your risen Son, our brother Jesus.

                 And yet we find your appearances difficult to talk about together,

                        and your absences and our doubts equally difficult to share.

 

            We understand the terror of followers who saw you shining and kept still;

                 and know that for us too, tomorrow will call us to speak and act

                 against pain and suffering we see and hear.

            Forgive our failures to speak of deep things.

               Prepare us to be awed by the glory of your heaven

     and to sink our lives deep into the soil of earth.

         (time for silent, personal confession)  Amen.

 

*ASSURANCE OF WHOSE WE ARE & THE PEACE

 

            As a parent consoling and stilling a child, so God treats us.

                 God takes our sin further away from us than east is from west.

            In the love and mercy of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.

                 Thank God!

 

            The peace of the forgiving Lord be with you all.

                 Peace be with you.

    (worshipers share words and gestures of the peace of Christ)

 

PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD

 

OLD TESTAMENT LESSON                                                        Exodus 34: 29-35 (NRSV)

                                                                                                                         Pew Bible pg. 78

 

ANTHEM                                            What A Friend                                                D. Besig

(Sarah Shaffer, Flute)

 

WORD WITH THE YOUNG

 

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON                                                             Luke 9: 28-43 (NRSV)

                                                                                                                            Pew Bible p. 65

 

SERMON                                                                                                        “Shine & Grime”

 

    RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

 

CALL TO OFFER OURSELVES

            OFFERTORY                  This Little Light of Mine                               arr. H. Helvey

            *RESPONSE # 592                                Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

            *PRAYER TO MUTALLY DEDICATE OUR LIVES

 

PRAYERS THANKING AND ASKING GOD, THE LORD’S PRAYER     Hymnal p. 16

 

           GO IN GOD’S NAME

 

*HYMN # 75                                                                       O Wondrous Sight, O Vision Fair

 

*CHARGE & BLESSING

 

CHORAL RESPONSE # 587

 

POSTLUDE                                 Postlude on All the Way                                    C. Callahan

  (Note that some will be seated and others depart in joy and silence.)

 

    WORSHIP LEADERS

Liturgists

Rev. Michael Ludwig, Rev. Jonathan C. Siehl, John Deeth

Sermon

Rev. William R. Leety

Word with Children

Rev. Michael Ludwig

Musical Leadership

Overbrook Belles

Celebration Singers & Chancel Choir

Sarah Shaffer, Choirmaster 

Nancy Deeth, Organist/Pianist

Head Usher

Paul Hambrock

 

PER CAPITA OFFERING:  Did you know that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is

organized into three levels of programs, government, and mission?  The local level is the

Presbytery of Scioto Valley, which is an organization of 113 Presbyterian churches in central

and southern Ohio.  The second level is the Synod of the Covenant, which is made up of the

11 presbyteries in Ohio and Michigan.  The third level is the national organization, the

General Assembly with offices in Louisville KY.  Our congregation supports all three levels

by paying a per-member fee, called the Per Capita Fee.  For 2010 this fee is $33.31 per

member at Overbrook.  We are proud to be Presbyterians and happy to be able to assist the

Greater Presbyterian Church in the USA with its purpose and mission.  We offer each of you

the opportunity to support Overbrook with an additional donation to this purpose.  The

amount we request from each is $20.00, as members with offering envelopes have already

noted.  Please consider giving an extra amount to help support the Greater Church.  If you are

able to contribute to this special offering, please note “Per Capita” on your check.