Sunday, July 20, 2025
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Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship
Prayer of Adoration
Hymn #645
“Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above”
Sing praise to God who reigns above,
The God of all creation,
The God of power, the God of love,
The God of our salvation.
With healing balm my soul is filled,
And every faithless murmur stilled:
To God all praise and glory!
What God’s almighty power has made
God’s gracious mercy keepeth;
By morning glow or evening shade
God’s watchful eye ne’er sleepeth.
Within the kingdom of God’s might,
Lo! all is just and all is right:
To God all praise and glory!
The Lord is never far away,
But, through all grief distressing,
An ever-present help and stay,
Our peace and joy and blessing,
As with a mother’s tender hand
God gently leads the chosen band:
To God all praise and glory!
Thus all my toilsome way along
I sing aloud Thy praises,
That all may hear the grateful song
My voice unwearied raises.
Be joyful in the Lord, my heart;
Both soul and body, take your part:
To God all praise and glory!
Prayer of Confession Mary Sisson
Father God, we humbly come before You to confess our sin. We hear You speaking to us through Your Word and by the Holy Spirit, telling us to go out and do Your work. Yet like Gideon, we want proof that it is You who is speaking, and that we will be able to accomplish the task. We fear that You will ask too much of us, that we will have to give away what we hold dear. We keep questioning instead of accepting Your Word to us, and hope You will ask someone else to do the hard work. Change our hearts, O God. Help us to redirect our focus off ourselves and our problems. Let us see the person that You see in us! Let us experience You so that we can now know that because You are with us, that we will not fail. Be patient and merciful with us we pray. Amen.
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 Tifny Mathena
“Spirit of the Living God”
Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me.
Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me.
Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me.
Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me.
“Spirit of the Living God” words and music by Daniel Iverson. ©1935. Renewed 1963 Birdwing Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing). All rights reserved. CCLI #171048
Scripture Judges 6:1-17, 36-40
Sermon Pastor Scott Peterson
Made One
“Gideon’s Call”
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.
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.
Life of Columbia
Missions Connection Carol Cate
Giving Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory Music Mike McAlexander
Doxology
Prayer of Dedication
Hymn #321
“The Church’s One Foundation”
The church’s one foundation, is Jesus Christ her Lord.
She is His new creation, by water and the word.
From heaven He came and sought her, to be His holy bride.
With His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died.
Elect from every nation, yet one o’er all the earth,
Her charter of salvation: one Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses, with every grace endued.
Though with a scornful wonder, this world sees her oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed,
Yet saints their watch are keeping; their cry goes up: “How long?”
And soon the night of weeping, shall be the morn of song.
Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation, of peace forevermore:
Till with the vision glorious, her longing eyes are blest,
And the great church victorious, shall be the church at rest.
Yet she on earth has union, with God, the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion, with those whose rest is won:
O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we,
Like them, the meek and lowly, may live eternally.
Benediction
Postlude “Fuga in A Minor, BWV 559”
(Johann Ludwig Krebs, att. J.S. Bach)
Garnet Hayes