Shut the Screen Door! You'll Let the Flies In

Our guest speaker today is Rev. Renny Domske.

Gathering  Around  the  Word
 
Prelude                     Music Director               Robert Senay
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
 
CALL TO WORSHIP                                from Psalm 9
I will praise You, O Lord, with all my heart:
I will tell of all Your Wonders.
     I will be glad and rejoice in You:
     I will sing praise to Your Name, O Most High.
My enemies turn back: they stumble and perish before You.
For You have upheld my right and my cause.
     You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked.
     You have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in time of trouble.  Those who know Your Name will trust You.
     Sing praises to the Lord, enthroned in Zion!
     Proclaim among the nations all He has done for us!

INVOCATION                                                              Dr. Domske        
Hymn:      “How Great Thou Art “                                              625
 
PRAYER OF CONFESSION                         (UNISON)
O Lord my God, we approach You in awesome wonder, because of all You have done for us.
We wish we could say to You that we have acted awesome toward You.
Yet we have not—we have been selfish,
we have ignored all but ourselves.  We have sinned.
Forgive us.  Make us whole again.  Give us the joy we only feel when we are in Your arms, doing Your will, sharing Your thoughts.
 We need You every hour, O God.      
May we know deep in our souls how great Thou art. 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*Time of silent prayer                               
* Response – Gloria Patri
*Passing of the Peace
 
L: The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
P: And also, with you.
  
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
Prayer for Illumination
 
Scripture reading:  Old Testament:  Isaiah 53
                                     New Testament: Mark 2: 18-22

53 Who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
    for the transgression of my people he was punished.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
    and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
    and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,
    he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
    and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
    and made intercession for the transgressors.


​Jesus Questioned About Fasting
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”

19 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. 20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
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21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”

                L: The Word of the Lord            
                P: Thanks be to God!
 
SERMON:      “Shut the Screen Door! You’ll Let the Flies In”
 
Hymn:    “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna”                               197            
The Apostles Creed
 
Presentation of our tithes and offering
Offertory                                                                    
Doxology (Hymnal page (606)
Prayer of dedication
 
Concerns and Celebrations        
Prayers of the people
Lord’s Prayer
 
Hymn:          “Lead On, O King Eternal!”                     269                 
​ Benediction                                                     ​

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​BIRTHDAYS:   
Dylan Marton, Carol Horne, Dana Wilson, Nora Beth Gill   
                                            
ANNIVERSARIES:
Tom & Linda Miller, Daniel & Lynn Kalich, John & Barb O’Hara, Dave & Susie Cummings, Doug & Nicole King
                                      
JOYS AND CONCERNS
Keep praying for all our soldiers here and abroad.
 
Added to our sympathy list is Dorothy Thomas, who is a cousin of Linda Miller. Dorothy passed away this past week after a long battle with Ovarian cancer.   
 
Sympathy for the Family of Rose Churray
                                Family of Alice Esposto
                             Family of Dorothy Thomas
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Remember our Food Collection.  And Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”  Mark 6: 37. 
Please let Betty Fisher know of you are aware of anyone within the community that may be in need at this time.
 
Thanks to everyone that came to the Church picnic last Sunday.  I hear that there were 83 people that attended. There was plenty of food and fellowship shared by all.
 
We should take the time to thank Cheryl and her helpers for the decorations and time that went into the preparations of the picnic.   Thank you for a successful Sunday picnic this year.

Continuing Prayer List
Melissa Pedigo, Aaron Blake, Chuck Dicks, Tim Knabenshue, June & Keith McGill, Frank Huffman, Tom Westfall, Elaine Belcascro, Sandy Stone, Matt Petrola, Nancy Hepinger, Betsy Martin, Ed Horne, Sarah Wilson, Bill Poland, Pat Haggerty, Carl Weber, Jimmy Svetz, Betty Fisher, Haley Diedier, Fred Wilkinson, Jean Westfall, Evelyn Wood, Brandon Bell, Frank Riggle, Betty Anderson, Mary Tarnic, Polly Blackhurst, Tom Novak, Chuck Warlow, Valerie Shumaker, Ricci Amos, Milton Rice, Gianna Perry (4 yrs. Old), Braxton (2 yrs. Old) with heart surgery, Greg Duntz, Nancy Diaz, Marlene McFeely, Larry Fox, Debbie Moriarty, Frank Baker