Theo Talk: The Holy Trinity

June 12, 2022
William L.
Worship

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========== ANNOUNCEMENT ==========

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPECIAL CHARGE CONFERENCE
Torrance First UMC

West District Superintendent, the Rev. Mark M. Nakagawa, is calling a Special Charge Conference to be held on Tuesday, June 28 at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom. The purpose of the charge conference is to approve the salary and benefits for Rev. Jacob Lee beginning July 1st.

The district superintendent will preside over this special charge conference.

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Service of Worship

Prelude – Hani

Sonatina from the Cantata “God’s time is best”
J.S. Bach
Public Domain

Welcome and Opening Prayer

Listen! Wisdom is calling!
Before all began, God, Word, and Wisdom creating, calling, from the foundations of the deep.
Listen! Wisdom is calling!
From the mountain tops – Earth, fields and sea creating, calling, from the foundations of the deep.
Listen! Wisdom is calling!
To those who suffer, God’s love is given. Endurance blossoms from the foundations of the deep.
Listen! Wisdom is calling!
Daily, God’s delight – you, me, everyone – given hope, grace, love as the foundation of our lives.
Listen! Wisdom is calling!
Poured into our hearts, that we may become Christ’s hand and heart, love as the foundation of our lives.
Listen! Wisdom is calling!

Opening Hymn — #141 “Children of the Heavenly Father”

1. Children of the heavenly Father
safely in his bosom gather;
nestling bird nor star in heaven
such a refuge e’er was given.

2. God his own doth tend and nourish;
in his holy courts they flourish;
from all evil things he spares them;
in his mighty arms he bears them.

3. Neither life nor death shall ever
from the Lord his children sever;
unto them his grace he showeth,
and their sorrows all he knoweth.

4. Though he giveth or he taketh,
God his children ne’er forsaketh;
his the loving purpose solely
to preserve them pure and holy.

Children Of The Heavenly Father
Ernst William Olson | Carolina V Sandell-Berg
Public Domain

Joys and Concerns, Pastoral Prayer, 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and glory forever. Amen.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 8, John 16:12-15 (NRSV)

Psalm 8
1 O LORD, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
4 what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?

5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

John 16:12-15
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Response
The Word of the Lord:
Thanks be to God.

Sermon — William Lazarte, Co-Lay Leader
“Theo Talk: The Holy Trinity”

To listen to the Theo Talks Bill referenced, click the theotalks tag.

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 – P.A.L.A. Women’s Quartet

Wonderful Words of Life
Philip Paul Bliss
Public Domain

Doxology

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Offertory Prayer

Mighty God, who is both one and three, we praise you as God above us, God beside us, and God within us. We bring our gifts to you in worship and gratitude as our Creator and Provider of all good things. We acknowledge that our relationship with you in all three persons begins and ends on your side of the equation: beginning with your devotion and not our own, beginning with your wisdom and not our own. We come into relationship resting on your grace-filled love and not our intermittent efforts to be faithful in our love for you. Bless these gifts we give and bless the transformational impact they might have. In your holy name, we pray. Amen.

Closing Hymn — #400 “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of thy redeeming love.

2. Here I raise mine Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.

3. O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.

Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
John Wyeth | Robert Robinson
Public Domain

Benediction

May God protect you through your time of trial. May the love of Christ, seen in what he did, and heard in what he said, fill you with joy and hope. May the Holy Spirit advocate for you, leading into all truth, lighting the way of faith, and strengthening you to follow Jesus, so that you will become like a strong, young tree, growing deep and bearing much fruit. Amen.

Postlude – Hani

Processional on Psalm 150
Alice Jordan
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