October 17 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

 

21st Sunday after Pentecost

Today’s Meditation Verse “Whoever wants to be first among you will be the slave of all….”  —Mark 10:44 

Welcome...Pastor Charles 

Prelude…Christopher Wahl 

*Call to Worship (Psalm 104:1-2, 35c)... Amy Abshire 

Let my whole being bless the Lord! Lord, my God, how fantastic You are! You are clothed in glory and grandeur. You wear light like a robe; You open the skies like a curtain. Praise the Lord! 

*Hymn…“I Sing the Almighty Power of God” (UMH #152) 

A Companion Litany to Our Social Creed... Amy Abshire   (To be read responsively )

God in the Spirit revealed in Jesus Christ, calls us by grace to be renewed in the image of our Creator, that we may be one in divine love for the world. Today is the day God cares for the integrity of creation, wills the healing and wholeness of all life, weeps at the plunder of earth’s goodness. And so shall we. Today is the day God embraces all hues of humanity, delights in diversity and difference, favors solidarity transforming strangers into friends. And so shall we. Today is the day God cries with the masses of starving people, despises growing disparity between rich and poor, and demands justice for workers in the marketplace. And so shall we. Today is the day God deplores violence in our homes and streets, rebukes the world’s warring madness, humbles the powerful and lifts up the lowly. And so shall we. Today is the day God calls for nations and peoples to live in peace, celebrates where justice and mercy embrace, exults when the wolf grazes with the lamb. And so shall we. Today is the day God brings good news to the poor, proclaims release to the captives, gives sight to the blind, and sets the oppressed free. And so shall we. 

- From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church (2016). ©2016 by The United Methodist Publishing House. Used by permission. 

Offering/Doxology (UMH #95) 

Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations 

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

Gospel Lesson: Mark 10:35-45... Amy Abshire 

Special Music… Bell quartet / “There is a Redeemer,” arr. by Patricia Sanders Cota 

Second Lesson: Job 38:1-7, 34-41... Pastor Charles 

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

Sermon...Pastor Charles / “The voice from the whirlwind” 

Celebration of Ministry… Rebecca Glancy / Advent devotional 

Hymn…“Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” (UMH #414) 

Words for the Journey...Pastor Charles 

Postlude... Christopher Wahl