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                                                                                                  July 28, 2024
                                                                          TENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

                                                                          We Come Together as God’s People

Prelude                                      Offertoire sur les grands jeux (from Mass for the Convents)             François Couperin
                                                                                        Dawn Waddell, organ                                                          (1668-1733)

Welcome                                                                                                                                     Rev. Sara B. Dorrien-Christians

* Call to Worship                                                                                                                           Rev. Madison M. VanVeelen

      One:       Come to the waters. Come as you are.

      All:          With what shall we come before the Lord,
                       and bow ourselves before God on high?

      One:       God has told you, O mortals, what is good:
                      and what does the Lord require of you
                      but to do justice and to love kindness,
                      and to walk humbly with your God?

* Prayer of Adoration

* Opening Hymn #155                                        Rejoice, the Lord is King                                             DARWALL'S 148TH

Invitation to Confession

Prayer of Confession

      One:        God of old stories and new beginnings, we haven’t claimed what you’ve gifted:

      All:           identities grounded in you; an abiding sense of your presence;
                        the freedom to serve courageously.

      One:        We haven’t loved you with abandon;

      All:           we haven’t loved our neighbors as ourselves.

      One:        The consequences are real, and they are deep.

      All:           In your mercy and for the sake of this world that you love, forgive us.
                        Forgive us and free us for joyful communion with you and one another.
                        All this we ask in the name of Jesus Christ,
                        who showed us the way. (Silence)

Assurance of God’s Grace

* Response of Praise                                            How Blest Are Those                ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN

* Passing the Peace of Christ

* Hymn #333                                                                  Seek Ye First                                                                            LAFFERTY

                                                                                We Experience God’s Word

The Word with Children

Prayer for Illumination                                                                                                                                      Debbie Wacker

First Scripture Lesson                                        Deuteronomy 6:1-9                                                                         (p. 162)

Second Scripture Lesson                                          Luke 18:18-30                                                                              (p. 956)

Sermon                                                                                                                                       Rev. Sara B. Dorrien-Christians

                                                                                                    God Can
                                                                   “‘What is impossible for mortals is possible for God.’”
                                                                                             (Luke 18:27)

Moment of Silent Meditation

                                                                                      We Give Thanks to God

* Affirmation of Faith                                                                                                                       Rev. Michael M. Samson
      A New Creed (1968), The United Church of Canada

          We are not alone; we live in God’s world.
          We believe in God: who has created and is creating,
                who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh,
                to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.
          We trust in God.
          We are called to be the Church:
                to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation,
                to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,
                to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.
          In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.
          We are not alone. Amen.

Prayers of the People and the Lord’s Prayer

          Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
          Thy kingdom come, thy 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;
                and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
          For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Invitation to Discipleship and Generosity

Offertory                                                                         I Will Lay Me Down in Peace                                                    Maurice Greene
                                                                                      Jared Slothower, tenor                                                         (1695-1755)

          I will lay me down in peace and take my rest:
          for it is thou, ‘tis thou, O Lord, that makest me to dwell in safety.

* Doxology                                                                                                                                                        OLD HUNDREDTH

* Prayer of Dedication

                                                                                          We Go Forth to Serve

* Closing Hymn #383                                       My Faith Looks Up to Thee                                                                 OLIVET

* Charge and Benediction

Postlude                                                                         Fanfare for Organ                                                          Ronald Arnatt
                                                                                                                                                                                           (1930-2018)