Announcements 08/11/2024
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PW School Supply Offering: The Presbyterian Women will continue its mission to support the students and teachers of Alice Birney Elementary School, our neighborhood school. Each year at this time we shop for requested school supplies while they are on sale. These supplies are distributed in January when students have consumed, broken, lost, etc. their supplies from the beginning of school. If you are interested in supporting this mission, there will be a special offering collected on August 18th and 25th for the purchase of these supplies. Please indicate “School Supplies” on your donation. We appreciate your support!
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND FELLOWSHIP: Please check your bulletin for questions and suggestions for CE and fellowship opportunities. Adult Sunday school will start next month. You can order your book through the church or Amazon. (roughly $18 or see if you can find one used for cheaper) We also recognize that everyone’s schedule is different, but we want to have fellowship outside of Sunday service. Let us know your ideas! Especially if there is something you want to lead. Email Briana at johncalvinadmi@gmail.com.
MONTHLY FOOD PANTRY DONATION: Each month we are asking you to donate one or two items to the food pantry. This month we are asking for shelf-stable breakfast items and canned meat goods. Please see the flyer on the bulletin board in the narthex.
DEACON UPDATE: If you are in need of prayer and/or any pastoral care, please contact one of our deacons. Names and information are located at the back of the bulletin under staff.
SUNDAYS @ SIX: Thank you for your support of our summer concert series! The series brought in over $385 in donations, on top of generous sponsors who fully covered the cost of 44 performers in 5 concerts. Over 200 people came through the doors of John Calvin to attend the concerts!
CALENDAR:
8/11 Sunday Worship 10:30a
Project Regeneration Luncheon 12p (Fellowship Hall)
8/12 Playschool Committee Meeting 12:15p
Order of Worship 8/4/2024
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 4th, 2024 Ten Thirty in the morning
Preacher: CP Ford Dieth
Liturgist: Jananne Lankard
Pianist: Maggie Probst
Please silence all cell phones.
Bold face indicates congregational participation.
THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED IN
PROCESSIONAL HYMN [*Blue #443][GTG#361]
O Christ, the Great Foundation
1 O Christ, the great foundation on which your people stand
to preach your true salvation in every age and land:
pour your Holy Spirit to make us strong and pure,
to keep the faith unbroken as long as worlds endure.
2 Baptized in one confession, one church in all the earth,
we bear our Lord’s impression, the sign of second birth:
one holy people gathered in love beyond our own,
by grace we were invited; by grace we make you known.
3 Where tyrants’ hold is tightened, where strong devour the weak,
where innocents are frightened, the righteous fear to speak,
there let your church awaking attack the powers of sin
and, all their ramparts breaking, with you the victory win.
shall lead his church victors, their champion and their head.
The Lord of all creation his heavenly kingdom brings:
the final consummation, the glory of all things.
WORDS OF WELCOME
ADORATION
CALL TO WORSHIP Colossians 3:1
ONE: You have been raised with Christ;
MANY: Let us seek the things that are above.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
HYMN [*Blue #419][GTG#432] How Clear is Our Vocation Lord
1 How clear is our vocation, Lord, when once we heed your call
to live according to your word and daily learn, refreshed, restored,
that you are Lord of all and will not let us fall.
2 But if, forgetful, we should find your yoke is hard to bear
if worldly pressures fray the mind and love itself cannot unwind
its tangled skein of care: our inward life repair.
3 We marvel how your saints became in hindrances more sure:
whose joyful virtues put to shame the casual way we wear your name
and by our faults obscure your power to cleanse and cure.
in old routines or ventures new, may we not cease to look to you:
the cross you hung upon, all you endeavored, done.
REPENTANCE
CALL TO CONFESSION
SILENT CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Almighty God, You love us, but we have not loved You. You call, but we have not listened. We walk away from neighbors in need, wrapped in our own concerns. We condone evil, prejudice, warfare, and greed. God of grace, help us to admit our sin, so that as You come to us in mercy, we may repent, turn to You, and receive forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our redeemer. 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 John 6:24-35
So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”
Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Then Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
2nd SCRIPTURE Ephesians 4:1-16
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all. But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.” (When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.
ONE: The Word of the Lord
MANY: Thanks be to God
SERMON “Miracle or Red Herring?” CP Ford Dieth
RESPONSE
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, 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
DOXOLOGY [GTG#606]
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host;
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
HYMN [*Blue #341][GTG#839] Blessed Assurance
1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain(x2):
This is my story; this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.
2 Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending, bring from above,
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
PARTING PRAYER
RESPONSE [*Blue #391][GTG#697] Take My Life
Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee;
take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise;
let them flow in ceaseless praise.
POSTLUDE Standing in the Need of Prayer arr. Jason Krug
*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.
STAFF |
Church Office: 504.888.1375 Playschool Office: 504.888.1378
Briana Mayfield – Church Office Assistant
Kelly Cuppett – Music Director
Lauren Crisler – Playschool Director
Stephanie Galliano – Playschool Admin. Asst.
Deacons
Bill Bottomley 504-885-3850 pslclerk@earthlink.net
Mary Antill 504-247-5720 buzz2moosetaco@gmail.com
Tony Hill 504-214-8095 rolandohill2003@yahoo.com
Laurie Hill 504-344-9079 la.tres@yahoo.com
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