Sunday, August 24, 2025
A link to this week’s announcements is located at the bottom of the bulletin
Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship
Prayer of Adoration
Hymn #14
“For the Beauty of the Earth”
For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies:
(Refrain)
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the wonder of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon, and stars of light: (Refrain)
For the joy of ear and eye,
For the heart and mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony
Linking sense to sound and sight: (Refrain)
For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild: (Refrain)
For Thyself, best gift divine
To the world so freely given;
For that great, great love of Thine,
Peace on earth and joy in heaven: (Refrain)
Prayer of Confession
Sovereign and loving God, created the world good and made everyone in Your image, male and female, of every race and people, to live as one community.But we rebel against You; we hide from You, our Creator. Ignoring Your commandments, we tarnish Your image in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and creation and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care. We deserve Your condemnation and yet You are gracious with us. Forgive us Lord. Change us and hear us now as we pray in silence and confess our brokenness to You.
Assurance of Forgiveness
Gloria Patri #581
Passing the Peace
Leader: May the peace of Christ be with you.
People: And also with you.
The congregation confers peace on one another using the words:
“May the peace of Christ be with you.”
Children’s Message Pastor Matt Overton
“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth
will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.
Scripture Ephesians 3:1-4:6
Sermon Pastor Matt Overton
Made One
“Big Mysteries and Big Atonement for Big World Problems”
Prayers of the People and the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
Affirmation of Faith The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again; He ascended into heaven, He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Life of Columbia
Giving Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory Music Garnet Hayes
Doxology
Prayer of Dedication
Hymn #265
“Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun”
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Does its successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
To Him shall endless prayer be made,
And praises throng to crown His head;
His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise
With every morning sacrifice.
People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song,
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on His name.
Blessings abound where’er He reigns:
The prisoners leap to loose their chains;
The weary find eternal rest,
And all who suffer want are blest.
Let every creature rise and bring
Honors peculiar to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud Amen!
Benediction
Postlude Praeludium in F, Bux WV 144
(Dietrich Buxtehude)
Garnet Hayes