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October 12, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008 Bulletin
The Order for the Worship of God
Faith Presbyterian Church 9:30 a.m., October 12, 2008
Let the first tone of the organ be a call to quiet meditation in which all may become aware of God’s presence, and lift up a prayer for yourself and for Faith Church.
Hymn Sing Green Supplemental Hymnal
# 75 In His Time
# 46 I am Thine, O Lord vs. 1, 2 & 4
Gray Psalter Hymnal
# 545 Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
# 569 Praise the Lord with the Sound of Trumpet
# 634 Father, We Love You
Welcome and Greeting
Invocation
Hymn # 486 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
(Gray Psalter Hymnal)
Psalter: Psalm 146 NRSV (read responsively) Grieke Toebes
1Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.
3Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
5Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God,
6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;
7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
8the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
9The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
10The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord!
Prayer for Illumination Grieke Toebes
First Lesson: Hebrews 3: 1 - 14 NRSV Grieke Toebes
1Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all God’s house.” 3Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. 6Christ, however, was faithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works 10for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’ 11As in my anger I swore, ‘They will not enter my rest.’” 12Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
Lector: “This is the Word of God.”
Congregation: “Thanks be to God for His Word.”
Anthem My Hands Are the Hands Debby Retino Children’s Choir
Children’s Sermon
Hymn # 44 Jesus Is All the World to Me
(Green Supplemental Hymnal)
Second Lesson: Exodus 32: 1 - 14 NRSV
1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.” 6They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
7The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; 8they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt! 9The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. 10Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.” 11But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’“ 14And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
Sermon “Holy Chutzpah!” Pastor Horner
After the sermon children in grades K-6 may leave for children’s choir
Gathering of Tithes and Offerings
Please sign and pass the register located in the pew.
Offertory All Glory be to God on High
Gregorian melody, harmonized by J.S. Bach
Choral Prelude by Andreas Armsdorf
(See Music Notes)
Response
Bless the Lord (echo), O my soul (echo),
And all that is within me, Bless his holy name.
He has done great things, He has done great things,
He has done great thing, Bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord (echo), O my soul (echo),
And all that is within me, Bless his holy name. ∆
Prayer of Dedication
Joys and Concerns
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Bill Bales (Cory Wettschurack’s grandfather), Morgan & Dorothy Meyers, folk in the military, Greg & Faith Hurst, Bolivia (SIM), ECHO (Education Concerns for Hunger Organization)
Hymn # 320 Lord, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing
(Gray Psalter Hymnal)
Benediction
Postlude Toccata Johann Pachelbel
* The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
∆ Andrae Crouch, 1973, © 1973, Lexicon Music, Inc. CCLI # 387100
Worship
…is the quickening of conscience by God’s holiness;
the nourishment of mind with His truth;
the purifying of imagination by His beauty;
the opening of the heart to His love;
the surrender of the will to His purpose;
and all of this gathered up in adoration—
the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable, and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.” -William Temple
Welcome
To all who are weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are idle and look for service; to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to whosoever will come--this church opens wide her doors and offers her welcome in the name of Jesus Christ her Lord.
Guests please sign our guest book and join us in the Fellowship Hall after worship.
Babysitting is available during worship for infants up to
2-1/2 years old in the room behind the balcony. Children ages 2-1/2 through 5 will be in the Pre-School Nursery in the Education Wing. School age children worship with their parents.
Music Notes
Andreas Armsdorff was a German composer and organist. He held organ posts at ErfurtAnnouncements
* Thank you to Mark Johnson for playing the organ this morning.
* Greeters this morning are John & Lola Miller.
* Ushers this morning are Carol Graefnitz, Nancy Moore, Steve & Mary Lou Varys.
* Java Heroes – Cathy McKinnis & Diane Horner
* New Members Class – We will soon be receiving new members into Faith Church. If you are interested in becoming a members please notify Pastor Horner soon.
* Would you like to help with beautifying the sanctuary on Sunday mornings? You can sign up to bring flowers on the flower calendar in the Narthex.
* Presbyterian Habitat House
The Presbyterian churches of Tippecanoe county will be partnering with another Habitat for Humanity of Lafayette family to build our sixth house this spring. We need to collect $45,000 for the house. To contribute, please make donations to Habitat for Humanity of Lafayette with a memo for "Presbyterian Build". Donations can be sent directly to Habitat or given to Dan Trinkle.
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Hallelujah Handbells!
Ringers, warm up your wrists: Our new handbells have arrived. We will have a sneak peek and brief organizational meeting following today's morning worship. Get your cup of coffee and look for Tammy Sandel.
THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE requests your input of names to be nominated for Elders and Deacons. Please place names in the box with the church, on the Narthex table.
"The fall clean-up day is scheduled for Saturday October 18th from 8:00 am to noon. Projects will include parking lot maintenance, weeding and trimming, outdoor clean-up, and the annual chandelier cleaning. As always, the buildings & grounds committee appreciates the participation of the members in the upkeep of our facility. For information call Dave McKinnis at
427-7292."
Weekly Calendar for October 12, 2008
Today:
9:30 a.m. Congregation at Worship
11:00 a.m. Sunday School
1:30 p.m. Tippecanoe Villa worship
3:00 p.m. Friendship House worship
6:00 p.m. Youth
6:30 p.m. Bible study at the Moore’s
This Week:
Tues., 9:30 a.m. FWF Bible study in Fellowship Hall
Tues., 7:00 p.m. Boy Scout Troop 338
Tues., 7:30 p.m. Tippecanoe Co. Jail Bible study
Wed., 7:00 a.m. Morning Prayers (Communion) &
Breakfast (Nancy Dunn)
Wed., 6:30 p.m. Adult Choir
Thurs., 7:00 p.m. Evening Bible study at the Horner’s
Fri., 6:30 p.m. Cub Scout Troop 3338
CAUTION!!
Sunday, October 19 at 12:00pm
Fellowship and a Light Lunch!
Soup, Dessert, and Beverages will be provided.
Please bring two sandwiches per person to share.
You Can’t Keep Your Own!!
Stay for the entertainment at your own risk!
Hope To See You There!
Posted by faithpres at October 12, 2008 08:23 AM