4th Sunday after Pentecost July 3, 2022
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Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 124 (pg. 612)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------ # 631
“My Country! ‘tis of Thee”
*Confession of Sins …………………………….................... pg. 2
*Kyrie & Declaration of Grace ..………………………….… pg. 3
*Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Job 38:1-11 (pg. 528)
2nd Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 (pg. 1148)
*The Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 (pg. 998)
*Response to the Word ……………………………………… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Nicene Creed….…………......... pg. 18
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN -------------------------------------------------------------- # 50
“O God, Our Help in Ages Past”
Sermon: Youth Conference Testimonies
HYMN -------------------------------------------------------------- # 500
“I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go”
* Communion Service: The Exhortation ……………………. pg. 6
* The Lord’s Prayer & Words of the Institution.……………. pg. 7
Lamb of God ………………………………………………. pg. 20
Hymns during the distribution of Communion: # 417, 453, 522, 544
*Closing Prayer
*The Benediction & Three-fold Amen ...……………………. pg. 8
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude (* denotes – Congregation please stand as able)
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning! We ask our visitors to please sign the guest book and let us know how we may assist you in any way. God’s peace and joy be upon you!
Announcements
Holy Communion: We invite all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who have received Confirmation or other Biblical instruction on this Sacrament to come to the altar to participate in the Lord’s Supper. All other, including children, are invited to come forward to receive a blessing from the Pastor. We also invite you to prepare yourself by reading “Personal Preparation for Holy Communion,” (hymnal pages 14-15). Please note: The 6 cups in the center ring of the communion trays are Grape Juice for those wanting juice instead of wine.
Our Semi-Annual Meeting will be held next Sunday, July 10th, following the worship service.
This Week’s Activities:
6th – Wed. – Council Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
10th – Sun. – Worship 9:00 a.m. - Semi-Annual Meeting
*Call to Worship: Psalm 124
124 If it had not been the Lord who was on our
side—
let Israel now say—
2 if
it had not been the Lord who was on our side
when people rose
up against us,
3 then they
would have swallowed us up alive,
when their anger was
kindled against us;
4 then the
flood would have swept us away,
the torrent would have
gone over us;
5 then over us
would have gone
the raging waters.
6 Blessed be the Lord,
who has not given us
as prey to their teeth!
7 We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!
8 Our help is in the name of
the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
1st Reading: Job 38:1-11
38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2 “Who is this that darkens counsel
by words without knowledge?
3 Dress
for action like a man;
I will question you, and you make it
known to me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the
foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements—surely
you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its
cornerstone,
7 when the morning
stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
9 when
I made clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling
band,
10 and prescribed limits for it
and set bars and doors,
11 and
said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here
shall your proud waves be stayed’?
2nd Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13
6 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3 We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 7 by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 8 through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. 11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. 13 In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.
*The Gospel: Mark 4:35-41
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” 41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”