We Welcome You!

Order of Service for Sunday, September 7, 2025, 10:30 AM  

Prelude (Kathleen Jones)

Welcome and Call to Worship 

Hymn: “To God Be the Glory” (Presbyterian Hymnal #485)

Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Assurance of Pardon

Song of Praise

Christ breaks the power of reigning sin,

And sets the prisoner free;

Christ’s blood can make the sinful clean,

Christ’s blood availed for me.

We Greet One Another

Scripture Readings 

Exodus 20:14 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

You shall not commit adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

 “All things are permitted for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permitted for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.” 17 But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Shun sexual immorality! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against the body itself. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

Sermon (Gale Watkins, Pastor)

Affirmation of Faith (from the 1998 Presbyterian Church’s Study Catechism)

Question 109. What is the seventh commandment?

“You shall not commit adultery.” 

Question 110. What do you learn from this commandment?

God requires fidelity and purity in sexual relations. 

Since love is God's great gift, God

expects me not to corrupt it, 

or confuse it with momentary desire or the selfish fulfillment of my own pleasures. 

God forbids all sexual immorality, whether in married or in single life.

Song: “We Are an Offering” (Lift Up Your Hearts #118)

A Time of Prayer

Answers to Prayer and Prayer Requests

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

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, forever. Amen.

Offertory

Doxology 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;

Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Celebration of the Lord’s Supper

 Invitation to the Table

 Choir Anthem: “In This Moment of Remembrance,” by Dale Wood (directed by Carol Fassbender)

 Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

 Communion

 Prayer

O God, you have so greatly loved us, long sought us, 

and mercifully redeemed us.

Give us grace that in everything we may yield ourselves, our wills and our works,

a continual thank-offering to you; 

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Hymn: “For the Bread Which You Have Broken” (Presbyterian Hymnal #508)

Benediction

Postlude (Kathleen Jones)

Today:   Coffee hour in Fellowship Hall after worship

 Game Day at 1:00 PM in the Lounge  

This week:   

Monday, September 8  Prayer in the Lounge at 2:45 PM

Thursday, September 11  Choir practice in the Choir Room at 7:00 PM

Sunday, September 14  Class in the Lounge at 9:15 AM   

Worship in the Sanctuary at 10:30 AM, followed by coffee hour in Fellowship Hall

Deacons meeting in the Lounge at 12:00 Noon