Sunday, August 10, 2025
Order of Service
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Prelude
Call to Worship
425 - We praise you, O God
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Declaration of Forgiveness
Story: Shouting Words and Whispering Actions
308 – Lord of all being, throned afar
Prayer for Illumination
Isaiah 1: 10 – 20 (NRSV)
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of
fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me, who has asked this from your
hands? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation —
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers, I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your
doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good;
seek justice, rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like
scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Hebrews 11: 1 - 3 (NRSV)
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
Luke 12: 32 – 40 (NRSV)
“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
“Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
Sermon: Save Your Breath
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. – Isaiah 10: 18
661- We give thee but thine own
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Offertory
Doxology
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.
(Thomas Ken 1637-1711)
Prayer of Dedication
Announcements
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
676 – Jesus, lover of my soul
Benediction
Postlude
We gather on the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Anishnaabeg and the Haudenosaunee Peoples. We are also on lands that are part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum. We live and work, worship, learn and meet on lands that are the traditional territory of many different Indigenous Peoples who were here before the establishment of European colonies.
