The Celebration of Christian Worship

Celebrating over 175 Years of Faith & Hope

September 13, 2009               Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost             10:00 AM

You who are on the road must have a code that you can live by. And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye. Teach your children well their father's hell did slowly go by, and feed them on your dreams, the one they picked, the one you'll know by. Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry, so just look at them and sigh and know they love you. And you, of tender years, can't know the fears that your elders grew by, and so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die. Teach your parents well, their children's hell will slowly go by, and feed them on your dreams, the one they picked, the one you'll know by. Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry, so just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

 ("Teach Your Children" lyrics by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,

from the Album "Deja Vu")

  Prelude - “Will You Come and Follow Me”                                           Michael Burkhardt

  Welcome

  Announcements

  Passing of the Peace

OUR APPROACH TO GOD

  Votum, Prayer of Confession #199 (green) – Psalm 25

  Words of Assurance

  Summary of the Law

*Gloria Patri (Hymnal #623)

*Hymn #75 (Green) – “Beyond the Beauty and the Awe”

  Salutation

THE WORD OF GOD

  Prayer for Illumination  

  Scripture:        Deuteronomy 6:1-9

                        Matthew 5:17-20

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People:            Thanks be to God.

  Children's Sermon

  Installation of Sunday School Staff

*Hymn 41 – “God is So Good”

  Communion Meditation:  “How Do I Know?”

  Prayer for Blessing on the Word

OUR RESPONSE TO THE WORD

*Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth;

And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried.  He descended into hell.  The third day he rose again from the dead.  He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty.  From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.  Amen.

  Offering - “Will You Come and Follow Me”                                       Michael Burkhardt

 *Doxology (Hymnal #625)  

 *Offertory Prayer

Accept, O Lord, the offering we seek to make, of ourselves and our money; and grant that we may ever work and pray to build a world of peace and joy and freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

   Sacrament of Holy Communion (by intinction)

 Family Prayers, The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever.  Amen.

*Hymn 395 – “Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord”

*Benediction

*Threefold Amen (Hymnal #628)

*Postlude - “Ye Servants of God”                                                              Robert A. Hobby