Murray Presbyterian Church

May 10, 2009 –10:00 am

         

Please prepare your hearts for worship

PRELUDE: Chorale and Gigue     Douglas Wagner

                                   

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:

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.

 

RECOGNITION OF GRADUATES

 

Passing the Peace of Christ
PRAISE HYMN:  “Here I Am To Worship”  [insert] 

 

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.

 
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 2:14-26 (p. 1197)

 

SERMON:          “Faithful Living”

Pastor Jeff McDonald

 

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

HYMN: #306  “Fairest Lord Jesus”

 

PASTORAL PRAYER

  THE OFFERING   

Offertory:“How Could I Ask for More” Krista McDonald 

Doxology (Hymnal #592)

   Prayer of Thanksgiving

 

RECOGNITION OF MOTHERS

 

HYMN:  #473  “For the Beauty of the Earth”

 

BENEDICTION

CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION

(Inside hymnal covers)

 

POSTLUDE: Rondeau      Mouret