WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION

PRELUDE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

*CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 106:1-5

Leader: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is gracious,

People: for his faithfulness endures forever.

Leader: Who can express the mighty acts of the Lord

People:  or show forth all his praise.

Leader: Blessed are those who observe what is right

People: and always do what is just.

Leader: Remember me, O Lord, 

in the favor you bear for your people; 

People: visit me in the day of your salvation;

Leader: That I may see the prosperity of your chosen

People: and rejoice in the gladness of your people.

*PRAYER OF THE DAY

*HYMN 327              From All That Dwell Below the Skies   

PRAYER OF CONFESSION 

Forgive us our sins, O Lord.  Forgive us the sins of our youth and the sins of our age, the sins of our soul and the sins of our body, our secret and our whispering sins, our presumptuous and our careless sins, the sins we have done to please ourselves, and the sins we have done to please others.   Forgive us the sins that we know, and the sins that we know not; forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all because of your great goodness.  Through Jesus Christ, our Lord…

Silent Prayers of Confession

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS          

Our righteousness comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. (Philippians 3:9) The good news, therefore, is this: In Jesus Christ, we are accepted, we are loved, we are forgiven.

Thanks be to God!

*GLORIA PATRI         “Glory Be to the Father”          #581

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

READING FROM SCRIPTURE: Exodus 32:1-14; Philippians 4:1-9 

SERMON         “Worrying and Rejoicing”         Rev. Barrett Ingram

*HYMN 465              What a Friend We Have in Jesus   

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH        The Apostles’ Creed           Page 35      

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER 

OFFERTORY ANTHEM    

RECEIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OFFERINGS

*DOXOLOGY – Hymn 606 

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN 363              Rejoice, the Lord Is King! 

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE      

                        *Those who are able are invited to stand.