Bazaar United Methodist Church

Bazaar, Kansas

Gathering of God's People

Announcements

Joys and Concerns

Greeting one another in Christian Love

God Calls Us

Prelude and Lighting of the Altar Candles

Greeting:

L: May the love of our Lord Jesus Christ fill your hearts and minds

P: May Christ's love fill your heart and mind as well.

*Hymns of Praise and Worship: Come, Christians, Join to Sing UMH 158

* Invocation (Ruth C. Duck in Touch Holiness p. 44)

Holy God, we come before you with awe, for you are great in love and power.

Some of us come with reluctance, and some with joy, some with sadness, and others full of fear, yet we know you receive us as we are.

Touch us, God, with your healing fire. Speak to us through your word.

Send us back into the world renewed and eager to do your will.

For we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

God Calls Us to Share

Preparation for giving (from Touch Holiness)

We pray to you Creator God, that in our giving we may give forth new life. We pray to you Christ, that in our giving we may be deeply rooted in this life, yet draw our life from you. We pray to you Holy Spirit, that we may soar beyond the possibilities we see in our giving. O God, the Triune One, we pray that we may give so that your life and love is made real in us. Amen

Offertory

*Doxology UMH 95

*Prayer of Thanksgiving

O God it is by your righteousness that we are made righteous, it is by your holiness that we can be holy. It is only as we become one with you that our thinking and our lives become like Jesus' life. Thank you that you make that possible for us by the power of your word and Holy Spirit. We ask now that you bless these gifts and offerings which we return to you that they may be a blessing in the world. We pray Lord that they may be used not just to keep the doors of the church open, but to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked and to fulfill your commission to go into all the world. Amen.

God Calls Us to Care for Our Neighbors

Affirmation of Faith UMH 884

*Hymn Be Still My Soul UMH 534

Prayers of the People

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 and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Prayer Response On Eagle's Wings UMH 143

And God will raise you up on eagle's wings,

bear you on the breath of dawn,

make you to shine like the sun,

and hold you in the palm of God's hand.

God Calls Us to Tell God's Story

*Holy Spirit, Truth Divine UMH 465 Bazaar

Anthem

Sermon Texts Isaiah 40:27-31 John 14:19-21

L: The Word of God for the People of God

P: Thanks be to God.

Sermon Don't Sell Yourself Short

*Hymn How Firm a Foundation UMH 529

God Calls Us to Go Into the World as the Changed and Redeemed People of God

*Benediction

Lectionary readings for next week:

2 Kings 5:1-14

Psalm 30

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Mark 1:40-45

Passages for Lectio Divina:

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. Isaiah 40:28

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah 40:29

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:30-31

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John 14:20