JULY 28, 2024

Hymn Sing     Supplemental Hymnal

 

     # 13     Immortal, Invisible, vs 1, 2, 4

     # 14     Be Thou My Vision, vs 1, 3, 4

     # 78     As the Deer

  

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Call to Worship    

 

Our help is in the name of the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.

 

O come, let us sing to the Lord

and shout with joy to the rock of our salvation!

Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving,

singing joyful songs of praise.

 

 

Hymn     Insert     Come Praise and Glorify

 

 

Confession of Sin and Assurance of Pardon 

 

     # 80 Create In Me a Clean Heart          (Supplemental Hymnal)

 

 

Psalter     Psalm 14     (NRSVUE)          Bert Chapman 

 

1Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

2The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

3They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

4Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

5There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the company of the righteous.
6You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.

7O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.

 

 

Prayer for Illumination    

 

                                       

New Testament Reading     Romans 10:5-13  

 

       5Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.” 6But the righteousness that comes from faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7“or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8But what does it say?

 

       “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”

 

(that is, the word of faith that we proclaim), 9because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For one believes with the heart, leading to righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, leading to salvation. 11The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.” 12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. 13For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

 

Lector: This is the Word of the Lord.

 

Congregation: Thanks be to God for His Word.

 

 

Special Music     More Than Conquerors          Winter Family

 

Based on Romans 8:37-39  

 

       37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

 

Children’s Sermon                                               

 

 

Hymn     # 27     What a Friend We Have in Jesus          (Supplemental Hymnal)

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Old Testament Reading     1 Kings 8:12-13, 27-30, 33-34, 41-43, 46-53

 

       12Then Solomon said,

       “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 13I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell forever.”

 

       27“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built! 28Regard your servant’s prayer and his plea, O Lord my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you today, 29that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. 30Hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; O hear in heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.

 

       33“When your people Israel, having sinned against you, are defeated before an enemy but turn again to you, confess your name, pray and plead with you in this house, 34then hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land that you gave to their ancestors.

 

       41“Likewise when foreigners, who are not of your people Israel, come from a distant land because of your name 42—for they shall hear of your great name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm—when foreigners come and pray toward this house, 43then hear in heaven your dwelling place and do whatever the foreigners ask of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.

 

       46“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near, 47then if they come to their senses in the land to which they have been taken captive and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’ 48if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and pray to you toward their land that you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, 49then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, maintain their cause, 50and forgive your people who have sinned against you and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of their captors, so that they may have compassion on them 51(for they are your people and heritage that you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron smelter). 52Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you. 53For you have separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, just as you promised through Moses, your servant, when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

 

 

Sermon          Andrew Winter