Well, our pastor wasn't preaching about the Transfiguration but I got it in as best I could! :)
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,
People: Who publish peace, who bring good tidings, who publish salvation, and
proclaim, “Your God reigns!”
Leader: God will judge between many peoples,
People: And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and nation shall not lift
up sword against nation: neither shall they learn war any more.
All: Let us lift up our voices and praise the God of peace and justice. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
OPENING HYMN* No. 2103 We Have Come at Christ’s Own Bidding ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God, we confess that we do not expect and long for the transforming power of your love to work miracles in these hard hearts of ours. Yet we secretly long for a rescue, an escape, a miracle, to relieve us of the responsibilities and the challenges you set before us. Healing Spirit, renew our confidence in your power and in the power of love to change our lives, and give us courage to be the fully responsible persons Christ calls us to be. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Matthew 12:31-32 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Waitin’ for the Light to Shine from Big River
Words and Music by Roger Miller
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
I have lived in the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
Far beyond horizons I have seen, beyond the things I’ve been,
Beyond the dreams I’ve dreamed are the things I’ve done,
In fact, each and everyone are the way that I was taught to run.
I am waitin’ for the light to shine, I am waitin’ for the light to shine.
I have lived in the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
Yes, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
I have lived for the darkness for so long, I’m waitin’ for the light to shine.
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*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: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 378 Amazing Grace ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
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