Sunday, October 12, 2008

12 Oct. 2008 Bulletin

OUR APPROACH TO GOD
Prelude
Introit “We Have Come into His House”

Welcome and Call to Worship: Psalm 42
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul:
HOW I WENT WITH THE THRONG AND LED THEM IN PROCESSION TO THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND GLAD SHOUTS AND SONGS OF THANKSGIVING.
Hope in God!
FOR I SHALL AGAIN PRAISE HIM, MY HELP AND MY GOD!

*Hymn 267 “Come, Thou Almighty King”

Let us be before our God in silence. 
Unison Prayer: Psalm 43 
VINDICATE ME, O GOD, AND DEFEND MY CAUSE, FOR YOU ARE THE GOD IN WHOM I TAKE REFUGE. O SEND OUT YOUR LIGHT AND YOUR TRUTH; LET THEM LEAD ME; LET THEM BRING ME TO YOUR HOLY HILL AND TO YOUR DWELLING. THEN I WILL GO TO THE ALTAR OF GOD, TO GOD MY EXCEEDING JOY; AND I WILL PRAISE YOU WITH THE HARP, O GOD, MY GOD.

Kyrie (sung)
LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US.
CHRIST HAVE MERCY UPON US.
LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US.


A Word of Assurance and the Summary of the Law (Mark 12:29-31)
This is the first commandment:
HEAR O ISRAEL,
THE LORD OUR GOD,
THE LORD IS ONE!
THEREFORE YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,
WITH ALL YOUR MIND,
AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.

This is the second commandment.
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
There is no greater commandment than these.

THE WORD OF GOD
*Responsive Reading: Psalm 66:16-20
*Gloria Patri (Hymn No. 623)
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER
AND TO THE SON
AND TO THE HOLY GHOST.
AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING,
IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE,
WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN, AMEN!


The Greeting of Peace and Announcements

Jewish Scriptures: Isaiah 54:7-10
Gospel: John 3:16-21
Epistle: 1 John 4:7-21 
Sermon by the Rev. Joann Noel

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD
*Hymn 2 "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
*The Offering 
*Doxology (625) and Prayer
PRAISE GOD FROM ALL WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW;
PRAISE GOD ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW;
PRAISE GOD ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOSTS;
PRAISE FATHER (CREATOR), SON (CHRIST) AND HOLY GHOST.


A Time of Giving Thanks & Praise
The Prayer of the People & the Lord’s Prayer
*Hymn 6 "Sing Praise to God Who Reigns"
*Benediction
Postlude Medley of Hymns

*Please stand if you are able.

The flowers this morning are offered to the glory of God and in memory of my beloved father Michael James Salerno by Annette Amer and family and in loving memory of Sal Troia on what would have been his seventy ninth birthday on this October 14th by his daughter Terry.

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