We Welcome You!

Order of Service for Sunday, September 28, 2025, 10:30 AM

Prelude (Kathleen Jones)

Welcome and Call to Worship

Hymn: “Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty” (Presbyterian Hymnal #482)

Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Assurance of Pardon 

Song of Praise: “God Has Smiled on Me” (Lift Up Your Hearts #69)

We Greet One Another

Choir Anthem: “ For Where Love Is, There Is God,” by Douglas Wagner (directed by Carol Fassbender)

Exodus 20:17 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Philippians 4:10-13 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

     I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me but had no opportunity to show it. 11 Not that I am referring to being in need, for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. 12 I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Sermon (Gale Watkins, Pastor)

Affirmation of Faith (from the Westminster Shorter Catechism)

What is required in the Tenth Commandment?

The Tenth Commandment requireth full contentment with our

own condition, with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our

neighbor and all that is his.

What is forbidden in the Tenth Commandment?

The Tenth Commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with

estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbor, and

all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.

Hymn: “The Lord’s My Shepherd, All My Need” (Presbyterian Hymnal #175)

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

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

We praise you, God, for you are gracious.

You have loved us from the beginning of time

and remembered us when we are in trouble.

Your mercy endures forever.

We praise you, God,

for you came to us in Jesus Christ,

who redeemed the world

and saved us from our sins.

Your mercy endures forever.

We praise you, God,

for you send us your Holy Spirit,

to make us holy and to lead us into all truth.

Your mercy endures forever. Amen.

Hymn: “More Love to Thee, O Christ” (Presbyterian Hymnal #359)

Benediction

Postlude (Kathleen Jones)

Today: Coffee hour in Fellowship Hall after worship

This week: 

Monday, September 29  Prayer in the Lounge at 2:45 PM  

Wednesday, October 1  Session meeting in the Lounge at 3:15 PM

Thursday, October 2 Choir practice in the Choir Room at 7:00 PM

Sunday, October 5 Class in the Lounge at 9:15 AM 

Worship (including the Lord’s Supper) in the Sanctuary at 10:30 AM, followed by coffee hour in Fellowship Hall

Game Day in the Lounge at 1:00 PM