Murray
Presbyterian Church
November
8, 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 (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: “There Is No Other Name”
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:
WOW! Children’s Choir
YOUTH MESSAGE
SERMON:
“Proclaiming Christ to the World”
Mr.
Wayne Naro, Missions speaker
RESPONDING TO THE WORD
HYMN:
#229 “ Lift High the Cross”
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE
OFFERING
Offertory
Doxology (Hymnal #592)
HYMN: #635 “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought”
BENEDICTION
CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION
(Inside hymnal covers)