We Welcome You!

Order of Service for Sunday, August 17, 2025, 10:30 AM  

Prelude (Kathleen Jones)

Call to Worship 

Jesus said, “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, 

and I will give you rest. 

Take my yoke upon you, 

and learn from me;

for I am gentle and humble in heart, 

and you will find rest for your souls.” 

Let us worship God!

Hymn: “All Creatures of Our God and King” (Presbyterian Hymnal #455)

Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Assurance of Pardon

Song of Praise: “Grace Greater Than Our Sin” (Lift Up Your Hearts #76)

We Greet One Another

Song: “Bless God’s Holy Name,” by K. Kosche (duet sung by Dan Weiland and Marcia Weiland)

Scripture Readings 

Exodus 20:8-11 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Mark 2:23-28 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

One Sabbath he was going through the grain fields, and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food, 26 how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions?”27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath, 28 so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

Sermon (Gale Watkins, Pastor)

Affirmation of Faith — Ephesians 2:8-10 (English Standard Version)

For by grace you have been saved through faith. 

And this is not your own doing; 

it is the gift of God,

not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 

For we are his workmanship, 

created in Christ Jesus for good works, 

which God prepared beforehand, 

that we should walk in them.

Hymn: “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind” (Presbyterian Hymnal #345)

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.

Prayer

Hymn: “Near to the Heart of God” (Presbyterian Hymnal #527)

Benediction

Postlude (Kathleen Jones)

Today:   Coffee hour in Fellowship Hall after worship

Game Day at 1:00 PM in the Lounge  

This week:   

Monday, August 18  Prayer in the Lounge at 2:45 PM

Sunday, August 24  Class in the Lounge at 9:15 AM   

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