February 16, 2025
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

* Denotes all are invited to stand. Bold text indicates portions of the service to be spoken or sung by the congregation.

 

Music for Gathering:
Brian Jay
Organist

 

Welcome:
Rev. Cindy Harvey, Parish Associate

Let us rejoice in the living Christ, our Lord!
Praise to our living Lord!
Grace and peace to you from the one who is on high and yet regards the lowly.
Amen.

 

Minute for Mission:
Kathleen Keefer
Topic: Presbyterian Women Piggy Banks

 

Call to Worship:
Blessed are those who trust – in God!
We come in trust, to be grounded in God’s love.
Blessed are those who hope – in God!
We come in hope, trusting in the One who gives us life.
Blessed are those who delight – in God’s Word!
We come to hear God speak, hoping for healing and joy.

 

* Hymn 667 “When Morning Gilds the Skies”
(Please see screens for lyrics.)

 

* Confession of Sin:
Cindy Denton, Worship Leader
We confess what we are afraid to face, Blessing God, that the seductions of this world gnaw away at our hearts. We have more and more to choose from at the market, and so we forget those whose only choice is hunger. Our sense that we are your favorites causes us to make fun of those we are convinced are not. We are so consumed with saving enough for the future, we overlook those who have so little this day.
Forgive us, Heartbroken God, for thinking we are the center of your world. Pour your living water into us, so we might send down roots deep into your heart, and so become those people who are blessings to others, as we have received the gift of new life from Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

(Silence for personal confession)

 

Assurance of Pardon:
Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Not even death can separate us from God’s love. This is good news!
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!

 

Song of Praise:
“All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord”
(Lyrics)
All praise to our redeeming Lord, Who joins us by his grace
And bids us, each to each restored, Together seek His face.
He bids us build each other up; And gathered into one,
To our high calling’s glorious hope, We hand in hand go on.

 

* Passing the Peace:
May the peace of Christ be with you all.
And also with you.

 

Prayer for Illumination:
Cindy Denton, Worship Leader

 

First Reading:
Luke 6:17-26

The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

 

Anthem:
“Blessings”
PCM Chancel Choir
Marilyn Puett – Interim Director

 

Second Scripture:
1 Corinthians 15:12-20

The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

 

Time for Children:
Darla Holycross

 

Sermon:
Rev. Cindy Harvey

 

* Hymn #172 “Blest Are They”
(Please see screens for lyrics.)

 

Pastoral Prayer:
Congregation Response:  Bless us with peace.

 

Invitation to Discipleship:

 

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 sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

 

* Hymn #852 “When the Lord Redeems the Very Least”
(Please see screens for lyrics.)

 

* Charge & Blessing:
Grounded in God’s love, we are sent out
to share abundance with those who have so little.
Blessed with Jesus’ hope, we go forth
to fill the emptiness of those longing for justice.
Blessed with the Spirit’s delight, we dance into the world
to take the hands of our sisters and brother, and gather at the edge of living waters for a picnic.

 

* Music for Departing