Murray
Presbyterian Church
October
25, 2009 –10:00 am
Please prepare your hearts for worship
PRELUDE: "You
Are the Word" DUNDEE
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):
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: “Shout To The Lord”
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
SPECIAL MUSIC:
Barb Koester & Charlotte Mars
YOUTH MESSAGE
New Testament Reading: Matthew 7:1-6 (pg. 1524)
SERMON: “Freedom
From Judging”
Flaminio
Guerrero
RESPONDING
TO THE WORD
HYMN: #229 “ Lift
High the Cross”
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE
OFFERING
Offertory: Largo
Vivaldi
Doxology (Hymnal
#592)
HYMN: #5 “Come, Thou Almighty King”
BENEDICTION
CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION
(Inside hymnal covers)
POSTLUDE: Lauda
anima
Flaminio Guerrero is actively engaged in Christian
ministry in Omaha. He is currently
starting a church with our friend, John Bueno.
Flaminio’s parents are missionaries to Columbia with the Assemblies of
God Church. He holds a bachelors degree
in theology from Vanguard University in California.