August 14, 2022
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Enhance your online worship experience
Whether you’re a first-time online visitor or a life-long member, we welcome and celebrate the ways you enrich our collective worship of a scattered yet gathered Children of God. As we begin our service, we invite you to light a candle, just as we do in the prelude during our in-person worship. Our two altar candles symbolize that Christ was both a human being and God. A light being carried into the world shows that Jesus Christ is for all people - everywhere. Just as a the acolyte carries the lighted candlelight into the congregation, the light symbolizes the light of Jesus Christ preceding us into the world where we as the church are to serve.
Gathering
The Chiming of the Trinity
Prelude
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing arr. Jason Tonioli
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Inspired by Genesis 22: 1-14; Micah 6:8; Deuteronomy 6:5
One: What does the Lord require of you?
Many: To do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God.
One: What does God command of us?
Many: To love God with all our heart, and all our soul, and all our mind, and all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
One: God does not call us to ease or to comfort.
Many: But to presence, and abundance, and grace in our struggle.
One: Let us worship the God who believes in us, and trusts in us and abides with us.
Many: Let us worship the God who will ask much of us, but will be beside us every step of the way.
Hymn
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH# 206
Concerns & Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
Rev. Lisa Hartzog UMH# 895
A Reading from the Epistles
Solo
From a Distance Julie Gold
Chip Hayden
A Reading from the Old Testament
Isaiah 5:1-7
Sermon
The Love Song | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
God’s love song plays on, regardless of our response. Let us choose to rejoice and dance in the fullness of love we are offered. Know without doubt, in the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven and made new.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and made new. Thanks be to God..
Hymn
You Satisfy the Hungry Heart UMH# 629
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Doxology UMH# 94
Benediction
*Sung response to the Benediction
I will hold the Christ light for you in the nighttime of your fear;
I will hold my hand out to you, speak the peace you long to hear.
Postlude
Sent Forth by God’s Blessing arr. Bradley Sowash
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Liturgist: Laura Ledford
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper
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