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5th Sunday After Pentecost
06/21/2026 - 10:30 am     

 

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

CENTERING MUSIC           “Christmas in July”                       Cyndi Sneeringer

MOMENT OF HOPE

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader: God of the sojourners, we ask your presence with us on our journey through life. 

People: Help us to be faithful to your ways of love and grace.  Keep us from helpless despair.  Give us the power to make your love known, even in this world that seems bent on war and hate.

Leader: With your courage in our hearts, we will walk the Jerusalem road together.  Amen.

*HYMN    #406   We Are Standing on Holy Ground

We are standing on holy ground, and I know that there are angels all around;
Let us praise Jesus now; we are standing in his presence on holy ground.

PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE

Spirit of God, move among us and free us to love and serve you and all people.  Refresh our spirits, that we may not be weary in seeking your ways.  Whisper to us in a still small voice; show us what you have for us to do.  Guide us to others with whom we may share the labors of peace and justice; through the grace of Jesus Christ.  Amen. 

MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER

SONG OF RENEWAL       Veni Sancte Spiritus

Holy Spirit, Come to Us
Holy Spirit, Come to Us

CELEBRATION OF GOD’S GRACE

Indeed, God will lead you.  God does call you.  God will guide you.  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                                  “Pie Jesu”                   by Andrew Lloyd Webber
                  Karen Winner Huff and David Huff

BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY

This Little Light of Mine

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

            Today’s Story             “Saul Changes”
                                         Kathleen Krentz & Jane Moseley

            Leader:                 And as we continue our worship…
            Congregation:               May God be with you there.
            Children:                    May God be with you here.

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.

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         “A Little History – the Bible”                                                     John Millar  

MOMENT FOR QUIET REFLECTION

*HYMN OF REFLECTION     #343                                                   vs. 1,2,5,6
                                                             Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

Where cross the crowded ways of life, where sound the cries of race and clan,
above the noise of selfish strife, we hear your voice, O Son of Man

In haunts of wretchedness and need, on shadowed thresholds fraught with fears,
from paths where hide the lures of greed, we catch the vision of your tears.

O Master, from the mountainside, make haste to heal these hearts of pain;
Among these restless throngs abide; O tread the city’s streets again.

Till all the world shall learn your love, and follow where your feet have trod;
Till glorious from your heaven above shall come the city of our God.

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

Leader:  Praise be to God who dwells in our hearts and calls us into reverence.  Let each person pray in faith:
All:       Praise be to God!

*CLOSING HYMN        #641    When in Our Music God is Glorified

When in our music God is glorified, and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried:
Alleluia! Alleluia!

How often, making music, we have found a new dimension in the world of sound,
As worship moved us to a more profound
Alleluia! Alleluia!

So has the church, in liturgy and song, In faith and love, through centuries of wrong,
Borne witness to the truth in every tongue:
Alleluia! Alleluia!

And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night when utmost evil strove against the light?
Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight:
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Let every instrument be tuned for praise! Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise!
And may God give us faith to sing always:
Alleluia! Alleluia!

*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