JULY 14, 2024

Hymn Sing     Gray Psalter Hymnal

 

     # 432     For the Beauty of the Earth, vs 1, 3, 4

     # 442     Abide with Me, vs 1, 3, 4

     # 571     Jesus Loves Me, This I Know, vs 1, 2

 

 

Call to Worship     

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Hymn     # 410     Crown Him with Many Crowns          (Gray Psalter Hymnal)

 

 

Confession of Sin and Assurance of Pardon 

 

Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. In your mercy forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your holy name. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen

 

 

Psalter     Psalm 24     (NRSVUE)          Kris Stith

 

1The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it,
2for he has founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers.

3Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?
4Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false and do not swear deceitfully.
5They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from the God of their salvation.
6Such is the company of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. 

7Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!
8Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
9Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!
10Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.

 

 

Prayer for Illumination    

 

 

New Testament Reading     Matthew 6:25-33  

 

       25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life? 28And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

 

Lector: This is the Word of the Lord.

 

Congregation: Thanks be to God for His Word.

 

 

Special Music          VBS Singers

 

 

Hymn     # 71     Thy Word, vs 1          (Supplemental Hymnal)

 

 

Old Testament Reading     1 Kings 6:37-7:12

 

       37In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv. 38In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.

 

       7 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

       2He built the House of the Forest of the Lebanon one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 3It was roofed with cedar on the forty-five rafters, fifteen in each row, which were on the pillars. 4There were window frames in the three rows, facing each other in the three rows. 5All the doorways and doorposts had four-sided frames, opposite, facing each other in the three rows.

       6He made the Hall of Pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. There was a porch in front with pillars and a canopy in front of them.

       7He made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, the Hall of Justice, covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters.

       8His own house where he would reside, in the other court back of the hall, was of the same construction. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken in marriage.

       9All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, from the foundation to the coping and from outside to the great court. 10The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits. 11There were costly stones above, cut to measure, and cedarwood. 12The great court had three courses of dressed stone to one layer of cedar beams all around; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.

 

 

Sermon          Pastor Andrew Winter