May 19th, 2024 - Pentecost Sunday

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Prelude: Air on the G String (from Suite in D) (J.S. Bach)

Entry of the Bible

Introit: On this Assembled Host (# 277, The Book of Praise, 1997)

Welcome and Call to Worship
Leader: Come, Holy Spirit, teach us what we need to know to better follow Jesus.
All: Fill our hearts, Holy Spirit, kindle within us the fire of your love.
L: Strengthen us, Holy Spirit, empower us to do your will.
A: Breathe on us, Holy Spirit, fill us with life anew.
Hymn of Praise: Come, thou almighty King # 293 (BoP, 1997)

Prayer of Approach:
Omniscient Creator, unto you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. On this Day of Pentecost, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts with the purifying fire of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily glorify your holy name. This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord, who taught us to pray, saying

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

Confession of Sin:
Most holy and merciful Father, we acknowledge and confess in your presence our sinful nature, prone to evil and slothful in doing good. You alone know how often we have sinned by wandering from your ways, wasting your gifts, forgetting your love. For the sake of your Son Jesus, have mercy on us and forgive us, that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your name. Amen

Assurance of Pardon (Ephesians 1:7)
In Christ our release is secured and our sins are forgiven through the shedding of his blood. This is the grace he has so freely lavished upon us.

Children’s Hymn: I am the church! You are the church! # 475 (BoP, 1997)

Children’s Talk: “We are the Church” Kristann Templeton

Weekly Announcements

GOD SPEAKS TO US
Responsive Psalm (104) Rob Henderson
Leader: O Lord, how manifold are your works!
All: In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
L: There is the sea, great and wide; creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.
A: There go the ships and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
L: These all look to you to give them their food in due season.
A: When you give to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
L: When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
A: When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
L: May the glory of the Lord endure forever.
A: May the Lord rejoice in his works— who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke.
L: I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
A: May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord!

Scripture Readings:
Acts 2: 1-21 “The Coming of the Holy Spirit”
John 15: 26-27, 16: 7-14 “The World’s Hatred/The Work of the Spirit”

Anthem: Come, O Spirit, with your sound (# 276, BoP, 1997)

Prayer for Grace

Sermon: “Who is the Holy Spirit?” Bob Rowlands

Reflection Hymn: Spirit of God, descend upon my heart # 382 (BoP, 1997)

IN FAITH, WE RESPOND
Prayers of Thanksgiving, Intercession, and Supplication

Offering and Doxology # 822 vs. 4 (BoP, 1997)
Offertory Prayer:

Statement of Belief
(Living Faith 4.1.1)
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the triune God
and is One with the Father and the Son.
The Holy Spirit is the Lord and Giver of Life,
the Renewer and Helper of God’s people.
By the Spirit, God is present in the world,
the source of all goodness and justice.
By the Spirit, God convinces the world of sin
and testifies to the truth of Christ.
By the Spirit, Christ is with his church.

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Dismissal Hymn: How great thou art # 332 (BoP, 1997)
Benediction
Threefold Amen (Danish)

Postlude: The Heavens Declare (B. Marcello)

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