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)

  Prayer of Thanksgiving

 

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.