PRELUDE: Prelude on “Terra Beata” English Melody/arr. by Diane Bish
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN: This Is My Father’s World [Terra Beata]
PRAYER OF PRAISE
INTROIT: Come Labor On! by T. Tertius Noble/arr. by Richard K. Fitzgerald
Come, labor on. Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain, while all around us waves the golden grain? And to each servant does the Master say, “Go, work today.” Come, labor on. The enemy is watching night and day, to sow the tares, to snatch the seed away; while we in sleep our duty have forgot, he slumbered not. Come, labor on. Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear! No arm so weak but may do service here: by feeblest agents may our God fulfill his righteous will. Come, labor on. Claim the high calling angels cannot share, to young and old the Gospel gladness bear: redeem the time; its hours too swiftly fly. The night draws nigh. Come, labor on. No time for rest, till glows the western sky, till the long shadow o’er our pathway lie, and a glad sound comes with the setting sun, “Servants, well done.” [Jane Laurie Borthwick]
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
SONG OF GRATEFUL PRAISE: I Will Exalt My God, My King [Te Exaltaré, Mi Dios]
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Matthew 20:1-15
HYMN: Help Us Accept Each Other [Baronita]
SERMON: “Accepting God’s Acceptance, Applauding God’s Generosity”
ANTHEM: Go, Labor On Gibbons’ Song 34/arr. by Richard Warner
Go, labor on! Spend and be spent! The joy to do the Father’s will, it is the way the Master went; should not his servant tread it still? Go, labor on! Enough, while here, if he shall praise thee, if he deign the willing heart to mark and cheer: no toil for him shall be in vain. Go, labor on, while it is day! The world’s dark night is hastening on: speed thy work! Cast sloth away! It’s not thus that souls are won. Toil on, faint not! Keep watch, and pray! Be wise the erring soul to win; go forth into the world’s highway! Compel the wanderer to come in! Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice! For toil, comes rest; for exile, home; soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom’s voice, the midnight cry, “Behold, I come!” [Horatius Bonar]
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
HYMN: Go to the World [Sine Nomine]
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE: Go Forth to Serve by Thomas Tallis
Go forth to serve the Lord of Life. Go forth to do His holy will. His name sing out along your way, who was, and is forevermore.
POSTLUDE: Fugue in G-Minor by Jean-Jacques Beauverlet-Charpentier
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