Murray Presbyterian Church

May 17, 2009 –10:00 am

Please prepare your hearts for worship

PRELUDE

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: from 2 Cor. 1:3-11, Isaiah 40:27-31

Leader: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and the God of all consolation.

Congregation: God consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are also afflicted.

Leader: Our way is not hidden from the Lord; he gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless.

All: Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Passing the Peace of Christ

PRAISE HYMN: “You Are My All In All” [insert]

PRAYER OF CONFESSION: (Unison) The Lord’s Prayer

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 4:1-12 (p. 1198)

SERMON: “Submitting to God”

Pastor Jeff McDonald

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

HYMN: #466 “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE OFFERING

Offertory

Doxology (Hymnal #592)

Prayer of Thanksgiving

HYMN: “I Surrender All” [insert]

BENEDICTION

CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION

(Inside hymnal covers)

POSTLUDE