Welcome to 10:00 AM Sunday Worship!
October 22, 2023
♫ Gathering Music – Hymn Medley – Piano & Organ
Welcome and Announcements
♫ Prelude Music
Opening Prayer
✟ ♫ Opening Hymn: God of Grace & God of Glory # 577
✟ ♫ Call to Worship:
L: We gather today to remember and proclaim that we are God’s people.
P: We are God’s people! God’s presence is among us!
L: We seek an encounter with God’s goodness.
P: God, show us your goodness that we may glorify you in all that we do.
L: God’s goodness passes by us every day in the gracious gifts of creation and in the faces of our neighbors.
ALL: God, help us notice your goodness in everything and everyone that we meet.
♫ Hymn of Praise: Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life (vs. 1, 4, 5, & 6) # 427
Small Things (Children’s Time)
♫ Hymn Response: Jesus Loves Me # 191
Sharing our Joys and Concerns
Congregational Sharing of Joys & Concerns
Pastoral Prayer and Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
♫ Prayer Hymn: Surely the Presence of the Lord # 328
Sharing Our Blessings with God
Offertory Prayer:
Holy God, source of every good gift: the tithes and offerings we bring to you are simply a token of our desire to walk more closely beside you. Bless what we give; may it speak words of compassion, mercy, and love as it empowers your mission and ministry. We pray this in the powerful name of Jesus, whose light we seek to follow. Amen.
♫ Offertory Music
✟ ♫ Doxology: Praise God, From Whom from Whom All Blessings Flow # 95
✟ Scripture Reading
Psalm 99: 1-5,9 (pg. 552)
Matthew 22: 15-22 (pg. 24)
The Word of God, For the people of God, and all Gods people said,
Thanks be to God. A-men
✟ ♫ Scripture Response: Gloria Patri # 70
Message: Half Living, Whole Living – Rev. Allan Wintersteen
♫ Closing Hymn: What Does the Lord Require of You – TFWS # 2174
✟ Blessing and Benediction
✟ ♫ Hymn of Going Forth: God Be with You Til We Meet Again # 672