First Presbyterian Church
Monticello, Arkansas
Sunday Order of Worship Bulletin

First Presbyterian Church ~ Monticello, Arkansas

The Order of Worship
The Lord’s Day
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 17, 2008


WE ASSEMBLE IN GOD’S NAME

Prelude                               “Victory Through Christ”                        Smith

Welcome and Passing of the Peace                                      Joe Guenter
(Members, guests and visitors are asked please sign the Friendship Pad in the pew. This is for    attendance records kept in the
church office. Thank you.)
                               
Choral Introit             “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High”                Founds
                               
Call to Worship                                                  








Prayer of Adoration
                               
*Hymn, No. 482          “Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty”                Blue  Hymnal
                               
Time for the Children                                                                Ted Carmical
We invite younger children (kindergarten and below) to Children’s Church after Time for Children.
       Please follow the teachers to the CE Building.

                                      Call to Confession                                               
Almighty God, even as we have come here to worship you, we also know that we have sinned. We have chosen not to do right,
and our choices have created a barrier between you and us. But in your grace, you allow us to confess our sins so that we can
once again have a right relation with you. Let us confess our sins.

                     Prayer of Confession (in unison):                                
Lord God, we know you have words of truth and wisdom for us. Your words are true and your way is the right way. But, too often
we have blindly chosen to follow the way of this world. We have thought ourselves intelligent and capable of understanding
right and wrong, yet we have been wrong.  We have ignored your words and commandments. Too many times we have
chosen not to learn from you, and we have done so at the expense of our relation to you. Forgive us Lord, for we have sinned.
We have sinned in our want to follow our own path, and we have sinned because we have not learned from our
mistakes. Help us to turn from our path of ignorance, and help us to turn toward your words of truth and wisdom. Amen.
(Continue in Silent Confession)
                               
Assurance of Pardon
Through the work of Jesus Christ, our Almighty God offers us new life.  Let us claim this great gift and the great gift of
forgiveness, and learn to live fully and rightly in this world God has given us.  
Even as God has forgiven us, may we also forgive one another.


*Hymn, No. 546                    “Gloria Patri”                              Red Hymnal

Anthem                  “Worship Medley”                           Lister

                                       
WE PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD
        First  Lesson                                 Proverbs 1:1-7                        Page 382, Pew Bible
                               
*Hymn, No. 276                    “Great is Thy Faithfulness”                 Blue Hymnal
                               
        Second Lesson                   Acts 10:30-43                Page 1174, Pew Bible

       Sermon                                  "Living and Learning”                 Rev. Dr. Richard Wood
                               
Prayers of The People


WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings
Offertory                     “No Brief Hour Vanishes”         Bach/Blake

*Doxology, No. 544    “Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow”     Blue Hymnal

*Prayer of Dedication
                               
*Affirmation of Faith          The Apostle’s Creed            Traditional
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was
conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he
descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of
God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy
catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

THE SENDING
Hymn, No. 447                      “Lead On, O King”                     Blue Hymnal

*Choral Benediction                    “Threefold Amen”                        Jones                

   *Commission

*Postlude                      “Festival Processional”                  Belland


                         
          *Those who are able are invited to stand.
How good it is to be in the house of the Lord.
How wonderful it is to be in the Lord’s presence.
The Lord is here. His goodness is among us.
We will seek the Lord, and seek to follow in his way.
Our Lord has good news and words of truth for us.
We will listen as the Lord speaks and we will cherish the good
news.
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