Worship | Sunday August 15th, 2010
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
| 10:00 A.M. Service of Worship |
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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 # 53 GLORIOUS IS YOUR NAME Glorious Is Your Name, O Jesus
Hymn # 52 O HOW I LOVE JESUS There Is a Name I Love to HearWelcome and Announcements
Passing of the Peace
Believing that all people are children of God, greet each other with a sign of peace.Prelude Air for the G String J. S. Bach
*Call to Worship
The Lord calls us to grow in faithfulness.
Take away our greed and selfishness, O Lord!
The Lord challenges us to serve others in loving ways!
Help us grow in our service and witness to your mercy and peace.
Come, let us worship the Lord who delights in our witness.
Let us praise God who is always with us. Amen.
*Hymn of Praise # 4 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You HYMN TO JOY
(*The congregation is invited to stand. Lines printed in bold are read in unison.)Prayer Of Invocation And The Lord’s Prayer
Most Gracious God we greet you once again in this sacred space. We have come because we need to be reminded of your love and your expectations for our living. We are like the vine you planted, watered and protected. We know in our hearts that we need, want and desire your presence in our lives. So we come in prayer and listen for your Word to speak to our hearts and reveal again your desires for us. 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 Psalm 80:1-2 Tom Ault
Time With Children
Musical Response #418 My Faith, It Is an Oaken Staff THE STAFF OF FAITH
Meditation Rev. Amy Lewis
Presentation of Tithes and Offering
Offertory Psalm 22 Nae Pearson
Audrey Tornblom, sopranoMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
O God, I cry to you by day, but you do not answer;
And by night, but find no rest.Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
In you our people trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
To you they cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.But I am a worm, and not human; scorned by others and despised by the people.
Yet it was you who took me from my mother’s womb;
You kept me safely on my mother’s breast.
On you was I cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me,
you have been my God. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near,
and there is no one to help.I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax, melted within my breast;
My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
You lay me in the dust of death.All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord.
And all the nations shall worship before him,
And all the nations shall worship before the Lord, my God.
*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
Bless, O God, these our gifts, and bless our desire to participate with you in the building of your realm among us. Accept these gifts as a sign of our love for you and for our neighbors. Amen.
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
*Hymn of Going Forth # 476 ENDLESS SONG
My Life Flows on in Endless SongBenediction
Now go forth into the world in peace
And be of good courage
And care for the weak and suffering and oppressed
And lift up those who have fallen
And fight the good fight for freedom and justice. Amen.Postlude O God, Thou Faithful God Johann Walther
Notes on Psalm 22
Nae PearsonPsalm 22 was composed in June of this year as part of a Doctor of Ministry course that I was taking at Wesley Theological Seminary. Based on one of the classic lament psalms of the Hebrew Bible, the writer of the psalm cries out to God in great anguish over travails that we can never fully identify in the text. Along with Psalm 80, our lectionary reading for today, Psalm 22 seeks to remind God of God’s responsibility for our human well-being in relationship with a loving creator. Denise Hopkins, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Wesley, identifies the lament psalms as one of the places where we find covenant people “complaining in faith” to God. The musical composition seeks to speak to the severity of the anguish suffered by the psalmist and to also capture those poignant moments where the writer reminds God of their faithful relationship with and responsibility to each other.
Flowers
The flowers on the altar are given by Grace Dietz in celebration of her birthday.Portions of this service were adapted from Worship Ways, a resource of the United Church of Christ;
Worship ConnectionsAll musical resources reprinted with permission under CCLI License 2837543
Please turn off cell phones during the worship service.
Lectionary Readings for August 22
Jeremiah 1:4-10 ? Psalm 71:1-6 or
Isaiah 58:9b-14 ? Psalm 103:1-8
Hebrews 12:18-29
Luke 13:10-17
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