Prelude (Note – Pastor Ruth & Pastor Jim will process during prelude.)
Welcome & Announcements
Hymn of Praise – My Life Flows On (How Can I Keep from Singing TFWS #2212 (1.2.4)
My life flows on in endless song,
above earth's lamentation.
I hear the clear, though far off hymn
that hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing.
It finds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart
a fountain ever springing!
All things are mine since I am His!
How can I keep from singing?
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
Call to Worship:
PASTOR: Friends, let us worship God today, for God is great –
PEOPLE: God has blessed us with life, with faith, and with community.
PASTOR: Let us worship God today, for God is good –
PEOPLE: God forgives us, and encourages us, and loves us.
PASTOR: Let us worship God today –
PEOPLE: Because we are God’s people.
PASTOR: Let us worship God!
Act of Praise – Glory be to the Father UMH#70
OLD TESTAMENT LESSON – Psalm 103:1-8
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name.
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the Pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good as long as you live[a]
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The Lord works vindication
and justice for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Message in Music - "Blessings" Erin Maurer
PRAYER LITANY FOR FATHER’S DAY
Pastor: For fathers everywhere, who have given us life and love, that we may show them respect and love.
All: Holy God, hear this prayer for our fathers.
Pastor: For fathers who have lost a child through death, that their faith may give them hope,
and their family and friends support and console them.
All: Holy God, hear this prayer for our fathers that mourn.
Pastor: For men, though without children of their own, acted like a fathers and have nurtured and cared for us.
All: Holy God, hear this prayer for our father figures.
Pastor: For step-fathers who have assumed that role with love and joy, who have loved the children of another as their own, and created a new family.
All: Holy God, hear this prayer for step-fathers.
Pastor: For adoptive fathers, who have claimed the orphan and loved the once unwanted
as a precious gift from God.
All: Holy God, hear this prayer for adoptive fathers.
Pastor: For new fathers, full of hope. For long-time fathers, full of wisdom. For the fathers yet to be, and fathers soon to be.
All: Holy God, hear our prayer for the fathers of your Church.
Pastor: For those that have shaped our lives without claim of family or kinship. For those who have taught us, guided us, shaped us and molded us into servants of Christ our Lord.
All: Holy God, hear our prayer for the fathers of our faith.
Pastor: God our Father, in your wisdom and love you made all. Bless these men, that they may be strengthened as Christian fathers. Let the example of their faith and love shine forth.
may honor them always with a spirit of profound respect. Grant this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Prayer of Intercession
Prayer of Confession
Almighty God, we come to You now as Your children. You are our Lord and King, and You love us more than we can imagine. And yet, we still run from You and try to live as if we don’t need You. We have broken our relationship with You and have done things that have hurt others. We have said ugly and mean words and we have acted in judgmental and arrogant ways. We have been impatient and self-centered. We are sorry. Please forgive us. Help us to live as blessed ones who give You our whole lives. Thank You for never leaving us or forsaking us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Extending the Peace of Christ (Note: we will extend the Peace of Christ without physical contact.)
Offering
Doxology (UMH#94)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Lord’s Prayer
Hymn – Since Jesus Came Into My Heart TFWS #2140 (1,2,5)
What a wonderful change in my life
has been wrought
since Jesus came into my heart!
I have light in my soul for which
long I had sought,
since Jesus came into my heart!
Since Jesus came into my heart!
Since Jesus came into my heart,
floods of joy o’er my soul
like the sea billows roll,
since Jesus came into my heart.
I have ceased from my wandering
and going astray
since Jesus came into my heart!
And my sins, which were many,
are all washed away,
since Jesus came into my heart!
Since Jesus came into my heart!
Since Jesus came into my heart,
floods of joy o’er my soul
like the sea billows roll,
since Jesus came into my heart.
I shall go there to dwell in that City, I know,
since Jesus came into my heart!
And I’m happy, so happy, as onward I go,
Jesus came into my heart!
Since Jesus came into my heart!
Since Jesus came into my heart,
floods of joy o’er my soul
like the sea billows roll,
since Jesus came into my heart
Sermon – “Remember the Duck” - Pastor Ruth, CLM
Sermon text – 2 Timothy 1:3-7
Hymn – Blessed Assurance UMH #369
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
Benediction
Congregational Response: Sanctuary
Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, tried and true.
With thanksgiving, I’ll be a living sanctuary for you.
Postlude/Dismissal
Accompanist: Brian Barber
Erin Maurer
Rev. Brad Leight
Ruth Portzline, CLM
