Giving Up Popularity – 0930

Giving Up Popularity – 0930


Service of Worship

Prelude

Blessed Jesu, at Thy Word
J.S. Bach
© Public Domain


Welcome and Opening Prayer

Opening Prayer
A drop of water.
Insignificant in isolation.
When dropped in a pool
The ripples move out into infinity
The water is changed
By one drop of water.

A drop is falling
Now
Into the pool of our spirit.
The water begins to ripple…

Holy God,
as we consider the magnitude of a drop of water
to touch and change the pool,
may we hear the power of your touch in our lives,
the potential for our lives to touch others. Amen.


Hymn 64 — Holy, Holy, Holy

Verse 1
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Verse 2
Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Verse 3
Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee,
though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy; there is none beside thee,
perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Holy Holy Holy (Nicaea)
John Bacchus Dykes, Reginald Heber
© Public Domain


Children’s Time


Joys and Concerns — Pastoral Prayer


Special Music

In The Garden
Charles Austin Miles
© Public Domain


Offering Our Gifts to the Lord
For those who are called and able, gifts and tithes can still be made through online giving, by mailing them in, and by dropping them off to the office through the secure mail slot to the left of the double door entry to the church hallway.


Offertory

Find You Here
Benji Cowart | Ellie Holcomb | Rusty Varenkamp
© 2017 Full Heart Music
CCLI License # 656051


Doxology

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Louis Bourgeois | Thomas Ken
© Public Domain


Offertory Prayer
Consoling God of comfort and love, we cried out to you out of the depths of our despair, embraced in worry and fear, so that we failed to hear your answers of compassion and hope. Later, we saw that you were there with us, willing to help us with strength and support. We bring more than our gifts and tithes today; we bring ourselves as an offering – ready to use our arms, hands, and feet to be your comforting and strengthening presence to others. We make this offering joyfully and faithfully in the name of Jesus, our rock and redeemer. Amen.


Scripture Reading
Matthew 21:1-11


Sermon
See player at the top of the page.


Closing Song

The King Of Love My Shepherd Is
Henry Williams Baker
© 1982 The Jubilate Group
CCLI License # 656051


Benediction


Postlude

Processional
G.F. Handel
© Public Domain