Murray Presbyterian Church

April 26, 2009 –10:00 am

Please prepare your hearts for worship

PRELUDE: Variations on "Coronation"

Hymn tune

CONGREGATIONAL LIFE AND NURTURE

Welcome Visitors/Announcements

The Ritual of Friendship (Red Book)

Prayer Request Cards

Sharing Joys and Concerns

TOLLING OF THE CHURCH BELL

PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIP

CALL TO WORSHIP: (responsively) 1 Peter 1:3-4

Leader: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.

Congregation: His love is everlasting.

Leader: Come, let us praise God joyfully.

Congregation: Let us come to him with thanksgiving.

Leader: For the good world; for things great and small, beautiful and awesome; for seen and unseen splendors.

Congregation: We thank and praise you, God our Father, for all your goodness to us.

Passing the Peace of Christ

PRAISE HYMN: “Above All” [insert]

MISSION PRESENTATION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION: O God of mercy: you sent Jesus Christ to save the lost. Judge us with love and lift the burden of our sins. We have failed in love, and have turned away from your truth. Have mercy, O God, and forgive our sin, for the sake of Jesus your Son, our Savior. Amen.

A TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

GLORY TO THE FATHER

(Gloria Patri, Hymnal #579)

HEARING THE WORD

YOUTH MESSAGE

New Testament Reading: James 1:19-27 (p. 1196)

SERMON: “Living By The Word”

Pastor Jeff McDonald

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

HYMN: “I Love to Tell the Story” [insert]

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE OFFERING

Offertory: Air Handel

Doxology (Hymnal #592)

Prayer of Thanksgiving

HYMN: #280 “Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound”

BENEDICTION

CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION

(Inside hymnal covers)