THE LORD’S DAY SERVICE

February 7, 2010

WE GATHER in the PRESENCE OF GOD

This is the day the Lord has made,

We will rejoice and be glad in it! 

As you have called us to come to worship, O God, so breathe into us

 your Spirit, that we may bear witness to your gentle presence

and your powerful love.

Touch us by the power of your presence, O God, that as we worship we may know what is your will for us, and in surrender to that  will

may know the beauty of  your Shalom, with the scattered  pieces 

of  our lives coming  together in a wholeness where life will be rich

and full and free, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

Prelude                       “Let Us Break Bread Together”       Gilbert M. Martin

The Morning Prayer:

Gracious God, whose love is even more forgiving than it is demanding, pardon us

for failing to savor your good gifts while we are experiencing them;                            

                for resisting life’s transitions as though there were no grace in them;

for acts of unkindness we have done before we thought twice;

for the acts of caring we have left undone until the opportunity was gone;

for allowing our vision to be foreshortened to now and ours;

for reticence about expressing faith, hope and love;

for readiness to give voice to mistrust, despair and apathy;

for avoiding the silence faced in solitude;

for avoiding the commitments required in community;

for ever acting as though we are ultimately alone.

We pray not only for pardon because of what we are and are not and because of what we do and do not; we pray for power—the power of your Spirit—so that we shall be enabled to be different and so that tomorrow need not be a repetition of yesterday; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

The Assurance of God’s Grace

®Hymn # 461                                                                                    “God is Here”              

The Passing of God’s Peace

News and Views

Come As a Child

“It All Depends”

Psalm 115: 3 - 8

Afterwards, children remain in church for communion.

®Hymn # 466                                      “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”

Scripture

Matthew 19: 13 - 15

Prayer for Illumination:

As we open your Word during this time of worship, O God, let it become so deeply embedded within us that it will ever be present as your strengthening grace in our lives, not matter what may come.  Through Christ we pray.  Amen.

8:00                         “All Creatures of our God and King”                Vandall

Jason Prince, piano

10:45                                            “It Is Well”                                       Dixon

Chancel Choir

Sermon

“That Dash Between”

®Hymn # 434                           “Today We All Are Called to Be Disciples”     

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

Offertory                                   “Suite en Ut”                           Henry Purcell

®Doxology # 592                                                                Offertory Prayer                                    

®Hymn # 391                                                                       “Take My Life”                                                       

Postlude                        “Voluntary on the Doxology”             Henry Purcell

®Please stand as you are able.