Prelude - Holy Manna
Welcome and Call to Worship
May we remember
That God created.
May we remember
That God liberated.
May we remember
That God fed.
May we remember
That God is still creating, still liberating and still feeding.
Let this be our story.
Let this be where we begin.
Let us worship God, tender and just.
Gathering Hymn No. 65 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Call to Confession
God is gracious and merciful and knows our needs even before they reach our lips. Still, we engage in confession, admitting to God all that rests uneasily in our hearts. Confident of God’s love, let us make our confession, first in silent prayer.
Prayer of Confession
Gracious and vulnerable God, we admit to remembering the wrong things. We remember worldly lessons like, “Everyone for themselves,” “An eye for an eye,” and “All is fair in love and war.” And yet we forget to forgive seventy times seven, to love our neighbors as ourselves and to live as the body of Christ. Why is it so hard to remember the right things? Release us from our muscle-memory and re-center us in a new place, a fresh place, a place grounded in your love. Help us to receive your word anew, and to consider stewardship not with the world’s rules, but with your rules. Help us to remember. With hope we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Assurance of Forgiveness
Friends, nothing can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. The only thing that can separate you is the thought that you are separate. You are forgiven. You are loved. You are a glorious work in progress. Thanks be to God! Amen.
Sharing the Peace of Christ
Our Common Life
Scripture Reading Exodus 16:1-18
Sermon “Our Money Story: Remember” Rev. Jeff Lehn
Hymn of Response No. 509 All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly
Affirmation of Faith (The Apostles' Creed)
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.
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
Call to Offering
On this day, we are invited to participate in the kingdom emerging all around us. May we offer ourselves to God with glad and generous hearts, freely giving our tithes and offerings to the ministry of this congregation. In lieu of passing the plate, we invite you to give through our church website, our smartphone app, by texting the word “Wilmette” to the number 77977, or by sending a check to the church office. As we gather our gifts together and offer them to God, may we do so in gratitude and praise.
Doxology No. 606
Prayer of Dedication
Sending Hymn No. 53 O God, Who Gives Us Life
Charge and Benediction
Postlude Waltz in Db Major, Op. 64 No. 1 “Minute Waltz” Frederic Chopin
Worship Leaders
Rev. Jeff Lehn, preaching
Bob and Linda Malstrom, liturgists
Peggy Massello, Music Director, Organist
Evelyn Cox, Postlude
Chancel Choir, Hymns and Doxology
First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette
600 Ninth Street
Wilmette, IL 60091-2779
847-256-3010
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