Order of Worship for July 25, 2021 (first airs at 7:00 p.m.)

PRELUDE:  Improvisation on “I Love Thee, My Lord”  by George Shearing

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

CALL TO WORSHIP

HYMN:  Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken [Austrian Hymn]

PRAYER

INTROIT:  Come Fill My Heart, Lord by Timothy G. Bushong

Come fill my heart, Lord, come light my way.  Come ease my troubled mind that I might serve you well this day.  Come ease my pain, Lord.  Come make me whole.  Come quench my thirst and feed the hunger in my soul, come fill my heart.  Lord hear my cry.  Lord hear this prayer.  My every sorrow heal, my broken spirit, my despair.  When I lose my way, Lord, and I call your name, come save me once again and wipe away my shame, come fill my heart.  Come fill this broken vessel with your love and grace.  Fill me to overflowing this I pray come fill my heart, come light my way.  Guide every step I take, that I might serve you well this day.  Come Lord Jesus Christ, come fill my heart. 

PRAYER

SCRIPTURE LESSON:  Ephesians 3:14-21

HYMN:  We Shall Overcome [We Shall Overcome]

SERMON:  “Surpassing Old Limits”

ANTHEM:  For This Cause by Harold W. Friedell; Joe Sanders, bass solo

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, the length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power, that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.  Amen. [Ephesians 3:14-21]

PRAYER

HYMN:  Fight the Good Fight [Duke Street]

BENEDICTION

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.

POSTLUDE: Allegro Maestoso (from “Sonata 2”)                  Felix Mendelssohn