Worship
Sunday, September 27, 2020
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GREETING
PRELUDE AND SILENT PRAYER Prelude in G Major Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) CALL TO WORSHIP My heart is ready O God, my heart is ready! I will sing, I will sing praises! Wake up, my soul! Wake up, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn. I will thank you, O God, among all peoples! Let us praise and adore the God of Creation. HYMN Lead On Eternal Sovereign 573 (NCH), v. 1 Lead on eternal Sovereign, we follow in your way; loud rings your cry for justice, your call for peace this day: through prayerful preparation, your grace will make us strong, to carry on the struggle to triumph over wrong. Responsorial Psalm—from Psalm 121 Response: My help comes from God who made heaven and earth. 1. I lift up my eyes to the hills—from where will my help come 2. My help comes from God, who made heaven and earth. 3. God will not let your foot be moved God who keeps you will not slumber. 4. God who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Response: My help comes from God who made heaven and earth. 5. God is your keeper; God is your shade at your right side. 6. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. 7. God will keep you from all evil; God will keep your life. 8. God will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore. Response: My help comes from God who made heaven and earth. SCRIPTURE LESSON Judges 16:4-6 After this Samson fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes your strength so great, and how you could be bound, so that one could subdue you.” Luke 2:39-40 When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child (Jesus) grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. |
ANTHEM Lord, I Trust Thee
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Jaime Bonney Riggs - Soprano, Jamie Falzone - Alto Jonathan Zink - Tenor, Connor Burke - Bass, recording Monique Weiss Byrnes, piano, conductor Lord, I trust thee, I adore thee. Ah! thou friend of man, restore me! On thy loving grace relying, For the bread of life I’m sighing. Quench my thirst and let my hunger cease, Fill my heart with joy and endless peace. When the breath of life has left me, May my soul be blended with thee. MESSAGE Whence does strength come? RESPONSE HYMN 573 (NCH), v. 2 Lead on eternal Sovereign, we follow not with fear, for in each human conflict your words of strength we hear: That when we serve with gladness, you will not let us fall, our trust is in your promise that love will conquer all. CALL TO PRAYER AND SILENCE PASTORAL PRAYER LORD’S PRAYER—Chalice 307 OFFERING DEPARTING HYMN 573 (NCH), v. 3 Lead on eternal Sovereign, till sin’s fierce war shall cease, and all your saints together will sing a hymn of peace; then all in your dominion will live with hearts set free, to love and serve each other for all eternity. BENEDICTION POSTLUDE Fugue in G Major Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Monique Weiss Byrnes, piano |