“Choosing the Great” Bobby Hulme-Lippert

 WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE Ciaconna in E Minor (Dietrich Buxtehude, c. 1637-1707)

†CALL TO WORSHIP Christopher Tweel

†HYMN 376 (Blue Hymnal) Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Hyfrydol)

†PRAYER OF CONFESSION (based on Psalm 139) (IN UNISON) Christopher Tweel

†ASSURANCE OF PARDON

†GLORIA PATRI 579 (Blue Hymnal) Greatorex

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Bobby Hulme-Lippert

OLD TESTAMENT READING Psalm 107:1-9, Holy Bible, p. 548

HANDBELL CHOIR Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (John Behnke)

NEW TESTAMENT READING Luke 14:15-24, Holy Bible, p. 954

SERMON “Choosing the Great” Bobby Hulme-Lippert

†HYMN 21 (Red Hymnal) Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Hymn to Joy)

†THE PCUSA BRIEF STATEMENT OF FAITH (IN UNISON) Bobby Hulme-Lippert

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

PRESENTATION OF TITHES, OFFERINGS, AND GIFTS

ANTHEM The Lord Hath Been Mindful of His Own (Ascribe to the Lord) (Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876)

†DOXOLOGY Old Hundredth

†PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

†HYMN 466 (Blue Hymnal) O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Azmon)

†BENEDICTION AND CHORAL RESPONSE Threefold Amen (Anonymous)

†POSTLUDE In Thee Is Joy (BWV 615) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)