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Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
* Indicates that worshippers are to stand if able.
Congregational responses are in bold print.
Worship Leader: Melanie Bomersback
Entrance & Praise
Prelude “Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun” (Isaac Watts) John Kwon
Greetings Rev. Sang Hun Han
Announcements Melanie Bomersback
Opening Hymn "To God Be the Glory” UMH #98
1. To God be the glory, great things he hath done! So loved he the world that he gave us his Son, who yielded his life an atonement for sin, and opened the life-gate that all may go in.
*Refrain:
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice! O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he hath done!
2. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, to every believer the promise of God; the vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. *
3. Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, and great our rejoicing thru Jesus the Son; but purer, and higher, and greater will be our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. *
Call to Worship All
L: Like green olive trees in the house of God,
C: We come into God’s presence.
L: Like young saplings in the courtyard of the Lord,
C: We drink deep from the waters of life.
L: Like the fruit of God’s vineyard,
C: We ripen in the light of God.
Passing Peace of Christ “O How He Loves…” TFWS #2108
O how He loves you and me! O how He loves you and me!
He gave his life. What more could he give? O how he loves you;
O how he loves me; O how he loves you and me!
Joys and Concerns All
Lord’s Prayer All
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 sins, as we
forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom
and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Contemplation Hymn "Lead Me, Guide Me” TFWS #2214
Lead me, guide me, along the way, for if you lead me, I cannot stray.
Lord, let me walk each day with thee. Lead me, O Lord, lead me.
Proclamation & Response
Scripture Reading Luke 22:54-62 (NIV) Melanie Bomersback
Peter Disowns Jesus
54 Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. 55 And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. 56 A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.” 57 But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said. 58 A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied. 59 About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.” 60 Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” 62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
This is the Word of Life for all the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Offertory Anthem “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” John Kwon
(William Runyan)
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or mail it to:
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2200 Ridge Ave. Aurora, IL. 60504
Message “What is Our Distance?” Rev. Sang Hun Han
Sending Forth
Closing Hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” UMH #400
1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love.
2. Here I raise mine Ebenezer; hither by thy help I'm come; and I hope,
by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when
a stranger, wandering from the fold of God; he, to rescue me from
danger, interposed his precious blood.
3. O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to
wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here's my heart,
O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.
Benediction Rev. Sang Hun Han
Postlude
“Hail to the Lord's Anointed”
(Johann Cruger)
John Kwon
We are glad that you joined us this morning in worship.
We hope that you find strength, renewal, and a sense of peace
going through the coming week.