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CHIMING THE HOUR
Let us quiet our hearts, minds, and voices in preparation for worship. Please turn off or silence electronic devices, including cell phones, remembering that our virtual congregation is joining us via livestream from prelude through postlude.
PRELUDE
Prelude of Consecration
(Solo Violin: Joanna Huang and Piano)
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GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
Enter God’s gates with praise and thanksgiving.
We order our footsteps according to God’s word.
OPENING PRAYER
*HYMN: GtG 305
Come Sing, O Church, in Joy!
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Text: Brian Dill, 1988; © 1989 Brian Dill. Music: John Darwall, 1770
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CALL TO CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of mystery, God of life, we imagine that we are capable judges of power and wisdom and goodness. We trust our own standards; we separate and categorize; we mark the performance of others. We fail to trust your power, hidden in all things. We fail to watch for you, working out your purposes. Gracious God, hidden and manifest, transform our withered imaginations until we yield the judgments we trust to a love we cannot control. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF GRACE
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Sisters and brothers, nothing we have done, nothing we will ever do, is enough to separate us from the love of God made known in Jesus Christ. Please turn to your neighbor and share these words of assurance:
“In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God!”
*GLORIA: GtG 582
Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me
Glory to God, whose goodness shines on me,
and to the Son, whose grace has pardoned me,
And to the Spirit, whose love has set me free.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. Amen.
World without end, without end. Amen.
World without end, without end. Amen.
World without end, without end. Amen.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. Amen.
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Text: Trad. liturgical text; adapt. Paul M. Vasile, 2008; Music: Paul M. Vasile, 2008.
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THE PEACE
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance. The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And also with you.
The people may exchange signs of God’s peace.
TIME WITH YOUNG DISCIPLES
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE: Romans 8:26-39
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God!
ANTHEM
Eternal Sacred Love Divine
(Solo Violin: Joanna Huang and Piano)
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SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 3:1-15
Holy wisdom, holy word.
Thanks be to God!
MESSAGE
Amazing Children of the Bible Series: Solomon
Pastor Karen Crawford
*HYMN: GtG 307
God of Grace and God of Glory
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Text: Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1930, alt. Music: John Hughes, 1907
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*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (From A Brief Statement of Faith)
We trust in God the Holy Spirit,
everywhere the giver and renewer of life.
The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith,
sets us free to accept ourselves
and to love God and neighbor,
and binds us together with all believers
in the one body of Christ, the Church.
The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles
rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture,
engages us through the Word proclaimed,
claims us in the waters of baptism,
feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation,
and calls women and men to all ministries of the Church.
SHARING JOYS AND CONCERNS
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Holy God, we do not know how to pray, but Jesus invites us into the life he shares with you, and so we keep coming—because we want to live. Receive us now in our frailty, our complacency, our desire.
We pray for your church all over the world…
Merciful God, give us wisdom and courage…
We pray for unsettled economies…
We pray for all who stand at the thresholds of life…
We give thanks for new faces to love, ideas to ponder, work to do— and we marvel at the sturdy friendships and persistent memories that sustain us when the way is hard. May each be a reminder of your love and your provision.
Holy One, keep calling us into the world…
By the power of your Spirit, we make our prayer with resurrection hope, in the name of Jesus, who taught us to pray…
LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
INVITATION TO THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY
How Firm a Foundation
(Handbell Duo: Marci Deakins and Laura Matturro, and Piano)
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*HYMN OF RESPONSE: GtG 39 (refrain only)
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Great is Thy Faithfulness! Great is Thy Faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy Faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
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Text: Thomas O. Chisholm, 1923; Music: William Marion Runyan, 1923;
Text and Music © 1923, ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING/DEDICATION
Holy One, receive these offerings as you receive our lives. Gather our false starts and uncertain efforts, our generosity and our reluctance. Enliven us with your breath and make your purposes known, that our lives might show forth your glory, for we pray in the name of Jesus and by the power of your Spirit. Amen.
*HYMN: GtG 519
You Are My Strength When I Am Weak
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*CHARGE/BENEDICTION
Go forth to love and serve the Lord.
And may God, who searches the heart,
Jesus, whose love overcomes all division,
and the Spirit, which helps us in our weakness,
continue to lead you into life that you may serve with abandon and joy. Amen!
POSTLUDE
I Sing the Mighty Power of God
(Violin: Joanna Huang and Viola: Karen Dow)
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