Worship | Sunday July 25, 2010
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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At CCC, we honor and celebrate people of all races, cultures, ages, abilities,
sexual orientations and gender identity.Let us now enter into the Holy One’s presence.
Gathering Music
Please enter the sanctuary freely and begin our worship together in song.Hymn # 514 Over My Head African-American traditional
Hymn # 517 I Need You Every Hour NEEDWelcome and Announcements
Passing of the Peace
Believing that all people are children of God, greet each other with a sign of peace.
Prelude Gnossienne No. 3 Erik Satie
Rachel Green, piano*Call to Worship
We come abounding in thanksgiving:
For in Christ we find in all fullness
the holiness
the justice
the hope of God.We come abounding in thanksgiving:
To feel God’s life in us
flowing through our roots in Christ
and establishing our faith.We come abounding in thanksgiving:
To celebrate the mystery of God-with-us:
Christ, who lives fully in us
and in whom we fully live.
Let us welcome the One who was sent to make us alive in the fullness of God.
*Hymn of Praise # 22 LOBE DEN HERREN
Sing Praise to God, Who Has ShapedPrayer Of Invocation And The Lord’s Prayer
We gather in your realm of love, O God. May we find ways and words to proclaim your name. May we be sustained and nurtured by your word. May we be surrounded with peace. May your reign grow in us and in the world. Help us to open our hearts as we pray the prayer that Jesus taught us saying…Holy God, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.Scripture Luke 11:1-13 Aldene Ault
Time With Children Kristen Curlee
Musical Response # 506 ERIE
What A Friend We Have in JesusMeditation Rev. Amy Lewis
Presentation of Tithes and OfferingOffertory Solace Scott Joplin
*Doxology sung to the tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below; Alleluia, Alleluia.
Praise God for all that love has done;
Creator, Christ and Spirit, One. Alleluia, Alleluia.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
*Prayer of Dedication
Thank you, God, for the opportunity to do your will and to co-create with you on earth as in heaven. Take these gifts we bring for your purposes.
Call To Prayer
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up unto the Lord.
Let us pray,Prayers of the People
Sung Response #505, verse 1 Sweet Hour of Prayer SWEET HOUR
Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! That calls me from a world of care.
And bids me at my Maker’s throne let all my needs and wants be known.
In seasons of distress and grief, my soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare by your return, sweet hour of prayer!*Hymn of Going Forth # 507 ST. AGNES
Jesus, the Very Thought of TheeBenediction
The blessing of God is around us.
The blessing of God is among us.
The blessing of God binds us together.
The blessing of God strengthens us as one.
The blessing of God travels with us.
The blessing of God sticks by us.
We go in the persistent, generous, and living love of God
to bless the world in every deed.Postlude Amazing Grace arr. David Lasky
(*The congregation is invited to stand. Lines printed in bold are read in unison.)
Music
We thank Rachel Green for her gifts of music this morning.
Portions of this service were adapted from Worship Ways, a resource of the United Church of Christ;
Congregational Life, a resource of Seasons of the Spirit;All musical resources reprinted with permission under CCLI License 2837543
Please turn off cell phones during the worship service.
Lectionary Readings for August 1
Hosea 11:1-11 ? Psalm 107:1-9, 43 or
Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 ? Psalm 49:1-12
Colossians 3:1-11
Luke 12:13-21
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