July 20, 2025

CHIMING OF THE HOUR

WELCOME

PRELUDE

SILENT PRAYER OF PREPARATION

Everlasting God, in whom we live and move and have our being. You have made us for yourself, so that our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Give us purity of heart and strength of purpose, that no selfish passion may hinder us from knowing your will, no weakness keep us from doing it, that in your light we may see light clearly, and in your service find perfect freedom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

CALL TO WORSHIP

Be thou my vision O Lord of my heart, naught be all else to me save that thou art.

Thou my best thought, by day or by night, waking or sleeping thy presence my light.

*HYMN No. 409 God is Here

*CALL TO CONFESSION

*CONFESSION OF SIN

Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word and deed, by what we have done; and by what we have undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.

In your mercy forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your holy name.

*SILENT CONFESSION

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*RESPONSE No. 647 Give Thanks

*PEACE OF CHRIST

SPECIAL MUSIC

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION

SCRIPTURE Luke 10: 38-42

SERMON Stop, Look and Listen

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

This is the good news which we have received, in which we stand and by which we are saved, if we hold it fast; that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, and that he appeared; first to the women, then to Peter and to the Twelve and then to many faithful witnesses. We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus Christ is the first and the last, the beginning and the end; he is our Lord and our God. Amen

*HYMN No. 410 God is Calling Through the Whispers

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRESENTATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY

*RESPONSE No. 609 Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN No. 462 I Love to Tell the Story

*BENEDICTION AND SENDING

*POSTLUDE