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8th Sunday after Pentecost
07/19/2026 - 10:30 am
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CENTERING MUSIC “Abide With Me” Henry Francis Lyle
MOMENT OF HOPE
CALL TO WORSHIP by Barry Davis
Leader: We gather in the name of the God who sees all people— the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless.
People: We come seeking to hear God's Word with open hearts.
Leader: Jesus teaches us through stories that challenge and convict us, calling us to examine how we live and how we love.
People: Help us to listen with ears that truly hear.
Leader: God calls us to notice those who suffer at our gates, to see the hungry, the sick, and the forgotten.
People: Open our eyes to see as You see, O God.
Leader: We have Moses and the prophets, we have Christ's own words— God's truth has been made known to us.
People: May we not harden our hearts to Your call for justice and mercy.
Leader: Let us worship the God who calls us to repentance, who offers us grace, and who challenges us to faithful living.
People: We worship You, O God, and pledge to follow where You lead us.
All: Come, let us worship God with hearts ready to be transformed by Your Word.
*HYMN #275 A Mighty Fortress vs. 1,2,4
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing.
Our helper he, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe.
His craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate, on earth is not his equal.
Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing
were not the right man on our side, the man of God’s own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is he.
Lord Sabaoth his name, from age to age the same, and he must win the battle.
That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth.
The Spirit and the gifts are ours through him who with us sideth.
Let good and kindred go, this mortal life also.
The body they may kill; God’s truth abideth still. His kingdom is forever.
PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE by Michael Leunig
God help us to change.
To change ourselves and to change our world.
To know the need for it.
To deal with the pain of it.
To feel the joy of it.
To undertake the journey without understanding the destination.
The art of gentle revolution.
Amen.
MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER
SONG OF RENEWAL #469 Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Lord, send your Spirit in this place.
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Send us love, send us power, send us grace.
CELEBRATION OF GOD’S GRACE
Leader: It is a gift to be called into the discipleship of Christ. It is not easy, but the rewards are eternal. God is there to lead us forward in every moment out of God’s deep and abiding love for us.
People: Thanks be to God. Amen.
*PASSING THE PEACE
Leader: The peace of Christ be with you.
People: And with you also.
Leader: Let us pass the peace of Christ.
People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)
SPECIAL MUSIC “Ave Maria” Bach/Gounod
Kimberly D’Onofrio
MOMENT FOR CHILDREN
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Leader: God in your Grace,
People: Hear our prayer
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
As we pray together the Lord's Prayer, you are invited to say this in whatever version is most comforting and meaningful to you. Here is one possible version (ecumenical version) that you can use:
Our Father, who is in heaven, holy be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READINGS 1 Timothy 6:6-19
Luke 16:27-30
RESPONSE
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION, from Psalm 19 - responsively
Pastor: May the words of my mouth
People: And the meditations of our hearts
All: Be acceptable in your sight, O Lord,
Our rock and our redeemer. Amen.
SERMON The Love of Money
MOMENT FOR QUIET REFLECTION
*HYMN OF REFLECTION #739 O For a Closer Walk with God
O for a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine up on the road that leads me to the Lamb!
Return O holy Dove, return, sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made thee mourn and drove them from my breast.
The dearest idol I have known, what e’er that idol be,
help me to tear it from thy throne, and worship only thee.
So shall my walk be close with God, calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road that leads me to the Lamb.
MOMENT OF THANKS
OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY
Praise God whose breath fills all the earth
Whose love reveals our sacred worth
Whose Spirit forms one family
Whose grace brings peace and harmony. Amen.
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING by Rev. Richard Fairchild
Lord, your word tells us that there is great good in godliness combined with contentment; that as we brought nothing into this world, so we can take nothing out of it. Help us, dear God, to be content with what we have; to seek heavenly treasures rather than those things of this world which rust corrodes and moths consume. Grant that we might be people who share the wealth that you have provided; that we might be ones who share both the bread and wine of earth and the bread and wine of heaven. Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN #372 O For A World
O for a world where everyone respects each other’s ways,
Where love is lived and all is done with justice and with praise.
O for a world where goods are shared and misery relieved,
Where truth is spoken, children spared, equality achieved
We welcome one world family and struggle with each choice
that opens us to unity and gives our vision voice.
The poor are rich; the weak are strong; the foolish ones are wise.
Tell all who mourn: outcasts belong, who perishes will rise.
O for a world preparing for God’s glorious reign of peace,
Where time and tears will be no more, and all but love will cease.
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
*Congregational Response: Go with God
Go with God, go with God.
As you leave this place, go with God.
God will direct your way, God will light every day.
As you leave this place, go with God.
*POSTLUDE “In the Sweet By and By” J. F. Webster