Please stand, in body or spirit

PROCESSIONAL HYMN [GTG#276] Sing A New Song Unto the Lord  (Psalm 98)

 Refrain:

Sing a new song unto the Lord; let your song be sung 

from mountain’s high.

Sing a new song unto the Lord, singing hallelujah!

1)Shout with gladness! Dance with for joy! O come before the Lord. And play for God on glad tambourines, and let your trumpet sound. 

Refrain

2)Rise, O children, from your sleep; your Savior now has come. He has turned your sorrow to joy, and filled your soul with song. 

Refrain 

3)Glad my soul for I have seen the glory of the Lord. The trumpet sounds; the dead shall be raised. I know my Savior lives. 

WORDS OF WELCOME

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

     

ADORATION      

CALL TO WORSHIP Isaiah 56:1

ONE: Maintain justice, and do what is right.

MANY:  God our Savior is coming soon. 

                                                   

PRAYER OF THE DAY

Almighty God,

You have broken the tyranny of sin and sent the Spirit of             Your Son into our hearts. Give us grace to dedicate our freedom to Your service, that all people may know the glorious liberty

of the children of God; through Jesus Christ our Lord,

who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,

HYMN [GTG#522] I Am The Bread of Life

 1)I am the bread of life. You who come to me shall not hunger, and who believe in me shall not thirst. No one can come to me unless the Father beckons.

Refrain:

And I will raise you up, and I will raise you up, and I will raise you up on the last day.

2)The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world, and if you eat of this bread, you shall live forever; you shall live forever.

Refrain

3)Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of his blood, and drink of his blood, you shall not have life within you.

Refrain

4) I am the resurrection; I am the life. If you believe in me, even though you die, you shall live forever.

Refrain

 5) Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who has come into the world. 

Refrain

   

REPENTANCE

CALL TO CONFESSION                                                                  

SILENT CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Merciful God,

we confess that we have not loved You with our whole heart.

We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done Your Will, we have broken Your law, we have rebelled against Your love.

We have not loved our neighbors, and we have refused to hear the cry of the needy. Forgive us, we pray. Free us for joyful obedience;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON     

                

GLORIA PATRI [Blue#579[ [GTG581]     

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,

THE WORD READ AND PROCLAIMED

1st SCRIPTURE                                         1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14                           

Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was firmly established.

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David; only, he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places. The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I should give you.” And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today. And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people, so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted. Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?” It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, I now do according to your word. Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you. If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.”

2nd SCRIPTURE                                         John 6:51-58                           

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

ONE: The Word of the Lord

MANY: Thanks be to God

 RESPONSE     

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH                       Apostles’ Creed

I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,  and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

 

RECEIVING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY               Improvisation on SLANE 

DOXOLOGY [GTG#609]

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Praise God, all creatures here below;

Praise God above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE 

THE LORD’S PRAYER 

HYMN [*Blue#479][GTG#619] Praise My Soul, the God of Heaven (Psalm 103)

Praise, my soul, the God of heaven; glad of heart your carols raise; ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, who, like me, should sing God’s praise? 

Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the Maker all your days!

Praise God for the grace and favor shown our forebears in distress; God is still the same forever, slow to chide, and swift to bless.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Sing our Maker’s faithfulness!

Like a loving parent caring, God knows well our feeble frame,

gladly all our burdens bearing, still to countless years the same.

Alleluia! Alleluia! All within me, praise God’s name!

Angels, teach us adoration; you behold God face to face.

Sun and moon and all creation, dwellers all in time and space:

Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace!

PARTING PRAYER 

RESPONSE [*Blue#391][GTG#697] Take My Life and Let it Be Verse. 5 

Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne,

POSTLUDE     Lord I Lift Your Name on High by Rick Founds                

          

*Note: the hymn lyrics in the bulletin and on the projection screen are from the Glory To God Hymnal (© 2013 Westminster John Knox Press), which we are transitioning to. Words in the “Blue” Presbyterian Hymnal (© 1990) in your pew may differ slightly.

The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved. 

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