Sunday, July 20, 2025
Order of Service
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Prelude
Mark Garlough
Call to Worship
438 – When morning gilds the skies
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Declaration of Forgiveness
Story: Being There
569 – O Jesus, I have promised
Prayer for Illumination
Psalm 52 (NIRV)
You think you are such a big, strong man!
Why do you brag about the evil things you’ve done?
You are a dishonour to God all the time.
You plan ways to destroy others.
Your tongue is like a blade that has a sharp edge.
You are always telling lies. You love evil instead of good.
You would rather lie than tell the truth.
You love to harm others with your words, you liar!
So, God will destroy you forever.
He will grab you and pluck you from your tent.
He will remove you from this life.
Those who do what is right will see it and learn a lesson from it.
They will laugh at you and say, “Just look at this fellow!
He didn’t depend on God for his safety.
He put his trust in all his wealth.
He grew strong by destroying others!”
But I am like a healthy olive tree.
My roots are deep in the house of God.
I trust in your faithful love for ever and ever.
I will praise you forever for what you have done.
I will praise you when I’m with your faithful people.
I will put my hope in you because you are good.
Luke 10:38-42 (NIRV)
Jesus and his disciples went on their way. Jesus came to a village where a woman named Martha lived. She welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary. Mary sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was busy with all the things that had to be done. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, my sister has left me to do the work by myself. Don’t you care? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered. “You are worried and upset about many things. But few things are needed. Really, only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better. And it will not be taken away from her.”
Sermon: What is that one thing?
"Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing." - Luke 10: 41
637 – Take my life, and let it be consecrated
Call for the Offering
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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
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.
626 – Lord of all power
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.
