SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY

                                                   January 31, 2010, 10:30 a.m.

 

                                                   GATHER IN GOD’S NAME

 

IN SILENCE                                                                  from Emily Dickinson, Tell All the Truth

          The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind

 

OPENING SENTENCES to a Midwife God                               from Psalm 71: 5-6 (NRSV)

 

          You, O Lord, are my hope; my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

             Upon you I have leaned from my birth;

                  it was you who took me from my mother’s womb.

 

PRELUDE                                  O God, Thou Faithful God                                      W. Held

                       Fanfare – Chorale – Bicinium -  Patorale – Andantino - Fanfare

 

WELCOME, ANNOUNCEMENTS, REGISTRATION

 

CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIPPRAYER FOR GOD’S PRESENCE

             LIGHTING OF THE CHRIST CANDLE

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP                                                          from 1 Corinthians 13: 1-14:1a/wrl

 

             With words as eloquent as angels but lacking love,

                 we are new hammers beating on old hubcaps.

            Able to deliver a word from the Lord, or to understand all mysteries,

            and with faith to shove mountains and command earth, but without love,

                 we are nothing.

            Giving all we own, without love as part of the gift,

                 we are no-gainers.

            Just three things last:

                 Faith, hope, and love; and the greatest, the necessity, is love.

            So we gather, to pursue love in worshiping God and loving neighbors.

 

*HYMN # 332 TO ENTER INTO GOD’S PRESENCE                               Live Into Hope

 

*CONFESSION OF WHO WE ARE                                      on 1 Corinthians 13: 1-14: 1a/wrl

 

            The apostle writes, “Love is always patient and kind:

 

            Love is never jealous or boastful or conceited:

 

            Love is never rude or selfish:

 

            Love takes no pleasure in other peoples’ sins:

 

            Love is ever prepared to forgive, eager to trust, and ready to hope:

            Lord, the words convict us; and, thank God, encourage us.

            Forgive us and your whole church; and re-form us

                        for purposes and pursuit of love. Amen.

 

*ASSURANCE OF WHOSE WE ARE & THE PEACE

 

            From the Heidelberg Catechism,

 

            I believe that the Son of God though his Spirit and Word,

            out of the entire human race, from the beginning of the world to its end,

            gathers, protects, and preserves for himself a community chosen for eternal life

                 and united in true faith.

            And of this community I am and always will be a living member.

 

            In that faith, we thank God for mercy,

and spread that mercy in words and gestures of peace.

The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

     Peace be with you.

 

                                                   PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD

 

LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT                                        Psalm 71: 1-6 (NRSV)

                                                                                                                 Pew Bible pg. 503-504

 

ANTHEM                                   Great Is Thy Faithfulness                     W. Runyan/C. Berry

 

WORD WITH THE YOUNG

 

LESSON FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT                                      Luke 4: 21-30 (NRSV)

                                                                                                                       Pew Bible p. 57-58

 

SERMON                                                                                              “Amazed and Enraged”

 

                                                 RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

 

CALL TO OFFER OURSELVES TO LOVE’S PURPOSE & PURSUIT

            OFFERTORY                     A Lord-Built House                                             R. Lentz

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

            *PRAYER DEDICATING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS

 

PRAYERS THANKING & ASKING GOD, THE LORD’S PRAYER (Ecumenical)

                                                                                                                                 Hymnal p. 16

 

                                                        GO IN GOD’S NAME

 

*HYMN # 335                                                                                          Though I May Speak

 

*CHARGE & BLESSING

 

CHORAL RESPONSE

 

POSTLUDE                                Yorkminster Processional                                      G. Young

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

 

                                                        WORSHIP LEADERS

 

Liturgists

Rev. Michael Ludwig, Joan Plankell

Sermon

Rev. William R. Leety

Word with Children

Rev. Michael Ludwig

Musical Leadership

Chancel Choir

Sarah Shaffer, Choirmaster 

Nancy Deeth, Organist/Pianist

Head Usher

Bob Glaeser