Traditional Worship || 07.02.23
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Salem Covenant Church Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
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“Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.” Revelations 22:17
PRELUDE Holy, Holy, Holy
NICAEA, John B. Dykes (PD), setting by Tim Rumsey, © 2013 Laudation Music
GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 89:1-2, 52
Pastor: I will sing of your steadfast love, O LORD, forever,
Congregation: with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations.
Pastor: I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; Your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.
Congregation: Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen!
OPENING HYMN 613 God, You Spin the Whirling Planets
HYMN TO JOY, Ludwig van Beethoven (PD)
Words: Jane Parker Huber, © Jane Parker Huber
PRAYER OF INVOCATION Based on Jonah and Philippians 2:13
Almighty and most gracious God, we praise you. You are always more prepared to give your good gifts than we are to seek them, always ready to give us more than we deserve or can imagine. Grant that we may truly seek and worship you today, and so find in you the life that is truly life, and the way of living that is truly blessed and a blessing to others; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Genesis 22:1-14
Matthew 10:40-42
Reader: The grass withers, the flower fades,
Congregation: but the Word of our God will stand forever!
RESPONSE 109 GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, Amen.
MEINEKE, Charles Meineke (PD)
Words: Gloria Patri, second century (PD)
PRAYER FOR OUR NATION
GIVING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
Praise the Lord, all nations on earth;
praise the Lord’s glory and power.
Praise the glory of the Lord’s name.
Bring an offering and come into his Temple courtyards.
Psalm 96:7-8 (NCV)
OFFERTORY Battle Hymn of the Republic
BATTLE HYMN, attrib. William Steffe (PD), setting by John Head & Sue Mitchell-Wallace
© 2011 Hope Publishing Company
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
RESPONSE HYMN 48, Doxology
OLD 100TH, attrib. Louis Bourgeois (PD); arr. Genevan Psalter
Words: Thomas Ken (PD)
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
praise him all creatures here below;
praise him above ye heav'nly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
SERMON
No Small Acts: Better Than Magic
Acts 8:9-24
Pastor Dan Bergstrom
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
* Affirmation of Faith 878 The Apostles’ Creed
Words of Institution
Prayer of Consecration and The Lord’s Prayer
Sharing of the Bread and Cup
Communion Music America, the Beautiful
MATERNA, Samuel A. Ward (PD), setting by John H. Head & Sue Mitchell-Wallace
© 2011 Hope Publishing Company
Response Psalm 103:1-2
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits.
CLOSING HYMN 34 Not Unto Us, O Lord
LOBE DEN HERREN, Stralsund Gesangbuch, 1665 (PD)
Words: Based on Psalm 115:1, Hjalmar Sundquist, alt., © 1950, 1996 Covenant Publications
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
SENDING 668, Threefold Amen
Music: Danish (PD)
Amen, amen, amen.
POSTLUDE Stars and Stripes Forever March
John Philip Sousa (PD), setting by John Head & Sue Mitchell-Wallace
© 2011 Hope Publishing Company
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