ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

WE WELCOME YOU TO OUR SERVICE OF WORSHIP THIS MORNING

We encourage you to join us in the Fellowship Hall for a time of food and fellowship following the morning service.  All who profess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior are welcome to join St. Andrew's.  If you have no church home, we invite you to consider uniting with us as we seek to faithfully serve our Lord.  Speak to an usher or the Pastor at the close of the service to learn more.

Greeters:  Linda and David Dodson

Acolyte:  Joey Wilcox

Ushers:  Pat Barnard and Pati Richardson

Coffee Hosts:  Jan and Bob Talbott

 

We welcome to the Pulpit today the Reverend Clyde Griffith, Pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Drexel Hill , PA.  Clyde is a child of this congregation, being  a “Charter Youth” when his parents became Charter Members of St. Andrew’s.  

 

ORDER OF WORSHIP

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

January 30, 2005                                                                                            10:00 a.m.

*Those able may stand

WE ASSEMBLE IN GOD'S NAME

GREETINGS, CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH AND REGISTRY OF ATTENDANCE

PRELUDE                              “Welcome Happy Morning”                                               Mead

BRINGING THE LIGHT OF CHRIST INTO THIS ROOM

CALL TO WORSHIP:

      ONE:  We waited patiently for You, O God, and You heard our cries.

      ALL:  You put a new song in our mouths, a song of praise to our God.

      ONE:  We tell the glad news of Your deliverance; you have not restrained our lips.

      ALL:  May Your steadfast love and faithfulness keep us whole forever! 

ONE:  Let us worship God!

*HYMN 138                            “Holy, Holy, Holy”

*CALL TO CONFESSION, UNISON PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Our desire is to do Your will, O God; Your law is in our hearts.  But when misfortunes press in on us from all sides, and sin overtakes us, our sight fails.  When we are tempted by the vain promises of “a life full of ease,” our courage forsakes us and we submit to their charm.  When people laugh at our faith, we shrink in shame and forget what Christ taught.  Have mercy on us; forgive us and free us, that we may be renewed this day to serve Your people as Jesus did.

            *SILENT PRAYER

            *ASSURANCE OF GOD'S PARDON

            *GLORIA PATRI (No. 579)

WE PROCLAIM GOD'S WORD

READING FROM THE PSALMS                                                                            Psalm 122

ANTHEM                                “Immortal, Invisible”                                                        Thiman

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN             Jesus Loves Me                               Sung by Congregation

(Toddlers may be dismissed to the Nursery; Children may worship in the Children’s Caravan)

READING FROM THE EPISTLE                                                                 1 Peter 2:3-10,15

SERMON                      “Searching For Dr. Living-Stone”                       Rev. Clyde Griffith

(Click this link to read the sermon)

WE RESPOND TO GOD'S WORD

*HYMN OF RESPONSE (Insert)            “I Know A Church In Tulsa Town ”

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (From the Brief Confession of Faith, 1991)

In life and in death we belong to God.  Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the holy one of Israel , whom alone we worship and serve.  We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God, who proclaimed the reign of God.  We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father.  In sovereign love God created the world good, and makes everyone equally in God’s image.  We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life.  With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (Page 16, Traditional)

PRESENTATION OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS

            OFFERTORY    “Now Let Us All Praise God and Sing”                                      Glarum

*DOXOLOGY (No. 592) AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*CLOSING HYMN (Insert)                   “A Hymn For The Church”

*THE CHARGE AND THE BENEDICTION

*CARRYING THE LIGHT OF CHRIST INTO THE WORLD

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE (Insert) “I Know A Church In Tulsa Town ”

POSTLUDE                                                  “Rondeau”                                              Mouret