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A Service of Song, Word, & Table
TRANSFIGURATION SUNDAY
February 11, 2024
* Please rise in body or spirit.
WELCOME
PRELUDE
*CALL TO WORSHIP
The mighty one, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
God’s glory fills the earth, but sometimes we, like Elisha, do not think we are ready to encounter glory.
And yet, God’s glory showed up anyway.
Sometimes we are like the disciples who witnessed Jesus’ transfiguration and wanted to cling to that one glorious moment.
And yet, God called them down from the mountain.
So, we gather today, some of us feeling ready and some of us feeling wholly unprepared, yet all are called together to worship and to be led by glory out into the world.
God, may we perceive your glory all around us, pointing us in the way you would have us go. Amen.
* PROCESSIONAL HYMN All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name 154 UMH
*A READING FROM THE GOSPEL Mark 9:2-9
ANTHEM
8:30 This Little Light of Mine arr. Robert T. Gibson Grace Notes
11:00 Yonder Come Day arr. J. David Moore Chancel Choir
MESSAGE “You Are Who We’ve Been Waiting For”
MUSICAL RESPONSE “The Summons” (vs 1, 4) TFWS 2130
Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
will you let my name be known,
will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
Will you love the 'you' you hide
If I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside
And never be the same?
Will you use the faith you've found
To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound
In you and you in me?
RESPONDING TO THE WORD: WE ARE CENTRAL Claudia Ryan
INVITATION TO OFFERING
OFFERTORY PRAYER
OFFERTORY
8:30 Dr. Dan Cummings
11:00 This Little Light of Mine arr. Robert T. Gibson Grace Notes
*DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow 94 UMH
CONFESSION AND PARDON
PASSING OF THE PEACE
REGATHERING HYMN Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus 349 UMH
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING TFWS 2257 b,c,d
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is right, and a good and joyful thing,
always and everywhere to give thanks to you,
Our God, creator of heaven and earth.
In many and various ways you have visited and redeemed your people - finally sending to us, Jesus. We thank you Lord God for sending him to us. We thank for the example that was set - rejoicing with those who rejoiced, and weeping with those who wept. We praise you for the power and the love that you displayed through Christ - for to the despairing, a word of hope; to the sick, healing; and to the rejected, a friend.
And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the highest!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the highest!
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ,
in whom you have revealed yourself, our light and our salvation.
In his baptism and in table fellowship he took his place with sinners.
Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,
to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
and to announce that the time had come
when you would liberate your people.
By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection
you gave birth to your Church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death,
and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.
On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread,
gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
When the supper was over he took the cup,
gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,
we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving
as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the highest!
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,
and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,
that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
By your Spirit make us one with Christ,
one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world,
until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet.
Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church,
all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and forever.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the highest!
LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING THE BREAD AND THE CUP
*SENDING HYMN Be Thou My Vision 451 UMH
*BENEDICTION
Beloved, go now in the strength and power of what you have witnessed in this place knowing that the glory that leads us into transition also comforts us in our growing pains and sustains us as we take up our mantle and cross over to the other side. Amen.
POSTLUDE Dr. Dan Cummings
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