Is That All There Is?

Today’s guest speaker is Rev. Dave Mason.
 
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Gathering  Around  the  Word
 Music Director                                               Robert Senay
 Prelude                                             
ANNOUNCEMENTS    
CHORAL INTROIT  
                                                                           
CALL TO WORSHIP    
Leader:    Now is the moment of grace
People:  This is the hour of blessing. 
Leader:   Today is the day of salvation.
People:   Here is the path to new life.
Leader:    Already joy is abounding.
People:   And love is flowing.
Leader:    For this is the day God is making.
People:   Let us rejoice and sing.

INVOCATION                                 Rev. Mason
HYMN    “ For the Beauty of the Earth “                  1
                
PRAYER
O God, we have been recipients of the choicest blessings of heaven!  We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserve us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. Forgive us, we pray.  Help us to humble ourselves and confess our sins, and pray for forgiveness. AMEN

Assurance of Pardon
*Time of silent prayer.
*Passing the Peace
L: The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 
P: And also, with you.    
*Response – Gloria Patri  

CHILDREN’S CHAT
CHOIR ANTHEM  
            
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture reading           LUKE  6: 17-26

Blessings and Woes
17 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, 19 and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
20 Looking at his disciples, he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor,
    for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
    for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
    for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
    when they exclude you and insult you
    and reject your name as evil,
        because of the Son of Man.
23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.
24 “But woe to you who are rich,
    for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
    for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
    for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
    for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

              L: The Word of the Lord
                            P: Thanks be to God!
 
Sermon      “IS THAT ALL THERE IS?”  
               
HYMN      “When I survey the Wondrous Cross”           258
*Apostles Creed (found inside the back cover of the hymnal)

Service of Ordination and Installation 

Presentation of our tithes and offering
Offertory                            Choir Anthem
Doxology (Hymnal page 382)
Prayer of dedication
Concerns and Celebrations

BIRTHDAYS        Gabriel Molla, Butch Ward, Bruce Burnfield, James O’Hara, Bryan Miles, Savannah Hathaway                                
                
ANNIVERSARIES      Frank and Nellie Baker, Dana and Billie Wilson

Continued prayers for Susan Schively, Melissa Pedigo, Aaron Blake, Chuck Dicks,  June and Keith McGill, Glenn Miles,  Roger Riggs, Tim Knabenshue, Frank Huffman, Nellie and Frank Baker, Tom Westfall, Mary Ann Durila, Elaine Belcascro,  Sandy Stone, Diane Bednarski, Matt Petrola, Ray Dyson, Laura Davis, Nancy Hepinger, Betsy Martin, Ed Horne, Sarah Wilson, Robin Durila, Bill Poland, Amy Ward, Don Matthews, the Warlow Family and Pat Haggerty.   

Prayers of the People                                           Rev. Mason
The Lord’s Prayer

HYMN               “Blessed Assurance”                           67
Benediction
CHOIR POSTLUDE                                              Robert Senay

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
Remember our Food Collection.  - And Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”  Mark 6: 37.  Please let Betty Fisher know if you are aware of anyone within the community that may be in need at this time.  

Envelopes for 2022 are in the vestibule.  There are names with new numbers.  We are using boxes from this past year, so we don’t need to buy new ones.  The DATES will be WRONG.  If you have any questions, please ask Garnet.