August 14 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

Flowers adorn the table

Coming together for worship

Suzanne offers the postlude

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

Today’s Meditation Verse: “So then let’s also run the race that is laid out in front of us, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us.”             —Hebrews 12:1

Welcome... Pastor Charles

Prelude... Louise Cook / “The Church’s One Foundation”

*Call to Worship (Romans 8:20, 12:1-12 and Colossians 3:9-10)... Rebecca Glancy

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; 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, Ruth C. Duck, ed. © 1985 The Pilgrim Press.

*Hymn... “How Firm a Foundation” (UMH #529)

Affirmation from Romans 8:35-39 (UMH #887)... Rebecca Glancy

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. God have mercy. Amen.

*Offering/Doxology

Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations

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

First Lesson: Isaiah 5:1-7... Rebecca Glancy

Special Music... Lorie Courier and Tim Cook / “If I Can Help Somebody,” arr. by Alma Androzzo

Gospel Lesson: Luke 12:49-56... Pastor Charles

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

Sermon... Pastor Charles / “Is this the end?”

*Hymn... “Since Jesus Came into My Heart” (TFWS #2140)

*Words for the Journey... Pastor Charles

*Postlude... Suzanne Polacek / “All Things Bright and Beautiful”