2022-09-18

Posted on Sep 17, 2022 in Bulletin |

Fingerprint of God

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Sat Oct 8 | 8am Men’s Bible Study
      other sessions will be Oct 22nd, followed by the regularly scheduled 1st and 3rd Saturdays
    • Mon Oct 10 | 6:30pm Small Group Study – Please join us for an in-depth discussion of Marjorie J. Thompson’s “Soul Feast: Newly Revised Edition”.
      Please RSVP through the link found in the bulletin or reach out to the church office.
      Will meet every Monday, at the same time, through November 7th
      The first chapter of this book will be discussed at the very first meeting. Please plan on purchasing your own copy of this book, which can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Thrift Books, etc.
    • Tue Oct 11 | 7pm Charge Conference
  • Prelude
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – St. Patrick’s Prayer
    • I arise today,
    • through God’s strength to pilot me,
    • Christ with me,
    • Christ before me,
    • Christ behind me,
    • God’s might to uphold me,
    • God’s wisdom to guide me,
    • Christ in me,
    • Christ beneath me,
    • Christ above me,
    • God’s eye to look before me,
    • God’s ear to hear me,
    • Christ on my right,
    • Christ on my left,
    • Christ when I lie down,
    • Christ when I sit down,
    • Christ when I arise,
    • God’s word to speak for me,
    • God’s hand to guard me,
    • Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
    • Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
    • Christ in every eye that sees me,
    • Christ in every ear that hears me.
    • I arise today
    • Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
    • Through belief in the Threeness,
    • Through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation.
    • Amen.
  • Reading – [John 1:1-5, 9-14 ESV]
    • 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
    • 2 He was in the beginning with God.
    • 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
    • 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
    • 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
    • …
    • 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
    • 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
    • 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
    • 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
    • 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
    • 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 103 – Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
    • TFWS 2004 – Praise the Source of Faith and Learning
    • UMH 144 – This Is My Father’s World
    • In Christ Alone – © 2001 Thankyou Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 140 – Great Is Thy Faithfulness
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Reading – [Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, 23-24 ESV]
    • 1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
    • 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
    • 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
    • 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
    • 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
    • 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
    • …
    • 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
    • 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
    • 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
    • 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
    • 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
    • …
    • 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
    • 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
  • Sermon – “Fingerprint of God”
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2008 – Let All Things Now Living
  • Benediction
  • Postlude