Murray
Presbyterian Church
May
10, 2009 –10:00 am
PRELUDE: Chorale
and Gigue Douglas Wagner
The Ritual of Friendship (Red Book)
Sharing
Joys and Concerns
PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIP
CALL TO WORSHIP:
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.
PRAYER
OF CONFESSION: (Unison):
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.
ASSURANCE
OF PARDON
(Gloria Patri, Hymnal #579)
YOUTH MESSAGE
SERMON: “Faithful Living”
Pastor
Jeff McDonald
THE
OFFERING
Offertory:“How Could I Ask
for More” Krista McDonald
Doxology (Hymnal #592)
Prayer of
Thanksgiving
RECOGNITION OF MOTHERS
(Inside hymnal covers)
POSTLUDE: Rondeau Mouret