August 8 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

Flower from Dennis & Marcia grace the table.

Christopher offers his musical gift

Dennis & Claudia enjoy fellowship time!

Myrle Myers gifted this quilted cross
to Pastor Charles

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

Today’s Meditation Verse “Live your life with love, following the example of Christ.”                              —Ephesians 5:2a 

Welcome...Pastor Charles 

Prelude…Christopher Wahl 

Call to Worship (Romans 8:20, 12:1-12, Colossians 3:9- 10)... Amy Abshire 

Leader: We give thanks and praise to God, Who has delivered us from futility and from darkened understanding. We do not live in alienation from God; People: We are not callous; For we seek to put off our old nature and be renewed in our minds, Putting on the new nature, created after the likeness of God, and revealed to us in Christ Jesus. 

(Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Flames of the Spirit, ed. Ruth C. Duck. © 1985 The Pilgrim Press)

Praise Hymn…“Blessed Be the God of Israel” (UMH #209) 

Affirmation from Romans 8:35, 37-39 (UMH #887)...Amy Abshire 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword? No! In all things we are more than conquerors through the One who loved us. We are sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thanks be to God! Amen. 

Offering/Doxology (UMH #95)

Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations 

Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer...Pastor Charles 

Gospel Lesson: John 6:35, 41-51...Amy Abshire 

Special Music...Christopher Wahl 

Second Lesson: 2 Maccabees 1:1-6, 24-29...Pastor Charles 

This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. 

Sermon...Pastor Charles / “For one purpose” 

Hymn...“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” (UMH #139) 

Words for the Journey...Pastor Charles 

Postlude...Christopher Wahl