Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Sing praises to God, O you saints, and give thanks to God’s holy name!People: We exalt you, O God, for you have restored us to life!
Leader: We may cry through the night, but your joy comes with the morning.
People: You hear us, O God, and you are gracious in our distress.
Leader: You turn our mourning into dancing!
People: Our souls cannot be silent! O God, our Savior, we give thanks to you for
ever!
--Jane C. Weaver
OPENING HYMN* No. 102 Now Thank We All Our God ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: God, we confess our day to day failure to be truly human.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we confess that we often fail to love with all we have and are, often because we don
not fully understand what loving means, often because we are afraid of risking ourselves.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we cut ourselves off from each other and we erect barriers of division.
People: God, we confess to you.
Leader: God, we confess that by silence and ill-considered word
People: we have built up walls of prejudice.
Leader: God, we confess that by selfishness and lack of sympathy
People: we have stifled generosity and left little time for others.
Leader: Holy Spirit, speak to us. Help us listen to your word of forgiveness, for we are very deaf.
Come, fill this moment and free us from sin.
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Blest Are They
Text: Matthew 5:3-16; Music: David Haas
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
For the text please see No. 2155 in The Faith We Sing
(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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2076 O Blessed Spring ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
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