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AUGUST 4, 2024
ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
REV. KENDRA BALLIET
JAMES ROSS, ORGANIST


Prelude - Cavatina-Peter Matthew's

Welcome

*Call to Worship
LEADER: Family of God, what is our story?
ALL: We are part of God’s good creation, created and sustained by the Triune God.
LEADER: Family of God, what is our story?
ALL: Though created by our loving God, we have sinned and harmed ourselves, one another, and creation.
LEADER: Family of God, what is our story?
ALL: While we were yet sinners, God sent Jesus to show us how to turn away from sin and toward the love of God.
LEADER: Family of God, what is our story?
ALL: We carry the weight of the Word in our hearts, our hands, and our voices, proclaiming with our lives the good news of God’s love and the mercy of God’s grace.
LEADER: Family of God, this is our story and our song!
ALL: Thanks be to God! Amen.

*Opening Hymn “And Can It Be that I Should Gain” #363

*Opening Prayer
One body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all, take this patchwork collection of persons and quilt together your church. Like old pieces of cloth, take these words and songs and prayers, take our thoughts and inner hungers, and join them all together into a new and living fabric— the purpose of which is to cover and color your world (or at least our corner of it) with grace and love. In Christ. Amen.

Confession of Faith: Apostles’ Creed #881

Gloria Patri

Children's Chat

Music Ministry and Offertory - Chant- Robert W. Jones

Doxology and Prayer of Gratitude

Scripture - 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a

Sermon Series - “Worship with Rejoicing”
Sermon -“The Weight of the Word”

Joys/Concerns

Hymn "Just as I Am, Without One Plea" #357

Pastoral Prayer/Lord's Prayer

Communion

Closing Hymn “Breathe on Me, Breath of God” #420

Action Steps & Benediction

Postlude - Allegro Pomposo-Thomas Rosingrave

The flowers on the altar today are given to the glory of God and with love in honor of Jim's birthday on August 7th by his wife Darlene Ross.
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