PRELUDE: An Interlude (from “The Hovingham Sketches”) by Harold Darke
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN: Here in This Place (Gather Us In) [Gather Us In]
PRAYER OF PRAISE
INTROIT: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy by Mary McDonald
There is welcome for the sinner and more graces for the good; there is mercy with the Savior; there is healing in his blood. But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own; and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own. There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea; there’s a kindness in his justice, which is more than liberty. If our love were but more simple, we could take him at his word; and our lives would be more loving in the likeness of our Lord. There is kindness, there is justice, there is mercy that’s wider than the sea; there is goodness, there’s forgiveness, God’s mercy over me. [Frederick W. Faber]
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
SONG OF GRATEFUL PRAISE: Glory to God Whose Goodness [Glory to God]
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Luke 18:9-14
ANTHEM: The Publican by Beardsley Van de Water; Maria Schafer, soprano; Mark Waters, tenor; Myles Mineer, bass
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself: “God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, or even as this publican; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.” And the publican, standing a-far off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, “God be merciful unto me a sinner, O God, be merciful to me.” I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other, for he that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted. “God be merciful unto me.” [St. Luke 18:10-14]
SERMON: “An ‘All Out’ Dependence”
HYMN: O Savior in This Quiet Place [St. Stephen]
CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION
INVITATION AND WORDS OF INSTITUTION
PRAYER
HYMN: Before I Take the Body of My Lord [Laying Down]
PARTAKING OF THE FEAST
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE: Father, Give Thy Benediction by Sir John Stainer
Father, give Thy benediction; may Thy love on us descend; peace which passeth understanding, on our waiting spirits send. Amen. [Samuel Longfellow]
POSTLUDE: Grande Choeur by Theodore Dubois
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