Here you will find the liturgy used for this coming Sunday's 9:00 worship service at Travis Park. If you find anything of use, please feel free to use it. I would only ask that you cite the appropriate source and, if it is something that I have written, that you email me or put a comment on the blog to let me know that it was helpful! God bless you!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Karen Stiles, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Children of God, we are gathered to worship our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer!
People: May we delight in the law of our God.
Leader: If we meditate on God’s law, and on God’s grace, day and night,
People: we will be like trees planted by streams of water. We shall bear fruit in
season and we will not wither.
Leader: Come, let us be renewed and worship God!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 2004 Praise the Source of Faith and Learning ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God, you have taught us your ways. You have shown us what is good. And yet, out of our own pride and arrogance, we have often chosen to follow different gods. Forgive us our idolatry! You have given us all the resources we need to stay on The Way and we have often ignored them. Forgive us, God, for ignoring you. Forgive us, God, for rejecting you. Forgive us, God, for breaking your heart.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Psalm 1 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Come to Christ
Text: John Parker; Music: David Lantz III
Sanctuary Choir; Rev. Joseph Stobaugh, conductor; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Weary soul, come to Christ.
Lay your burden at His feet.
There you’ll find rest and comfort and peace.
His yoke is easy, His burden is light.
O weary soul, come to Christ.
Sinful child, come to Christ.
Laying down your days of loss,
you will find mercy and grace from His cross.
Pardon and healing His hand will apply.
O sinful child, come to Christ.
Precious saint, come to Christ.
Lay your crown before His throne.
There you will worship the Savior alone.
Alpha, Omega, the way and the Life.
O precious saint, come to Christ.
Weary soul, sinful child, precious saint,
all come to Christ.
Come to Christ, come to Christ.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Karen Stiles, violin
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 413 A Charge to Keep I Have ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
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