Order of Worship
Pentecost Sunday, May 11, 2008 .....10:55 a.m.
Wind who makes all winds that blow ...
Aim your breath with steady power
On your church, this day, this hour.
Raise, renew the life we’ve lost, Spirit God of Pentecost.
Thomas Troeger
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We Gather as the Church
PRELUDE
GREETING AND PARISH NOTICES
We Celebrate God's Presence
CALL TO WORSHIP ..... Chancel Choir
CENTERING PRAYER
*ENTRANCE HYMN .....O Spirit of the Living God..... page 539
A TIME FOR CHILDREN .....Can You Feel What You Can’t Touch? ..... Rob
We Celebrate Through God's Word
PSALTER ..... Psalm 104: 1-13, 24-35 ..... page 826
NEW COVENANT .....Acts 2:1-21 .....Pew Bible page 948
NEW COVENANT .....I Corinthians 12:3b-13 .....Pew Bible page 999
The Word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God!
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION
Call to Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord's Prayer
GIVING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
Anthem..... Come, Holy Spirit ..... Joseph Martin
*Doxology..... Las uns Erfreuen
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God all creatures here below;
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
*GRADUAL HYMN ..... Breathe On Me, Breath of God ..... Page 420, stanzas 1-3
As the Bible is moved, please turn toward the reading of the Gospel.
*GOSPEL ..... John 7:37-39 ..... Pew Bible page 930
This is the Gospel of our Christ.
Thanks be to God!
*GRADUAL HYMN ..... 420, stanza 4
SERMON ..... Gentle or Gale Force? ..... Rev. Rob Rollins
We Celebrate Through Our Response
*Hymn ..... Wind Who Makes All Winds That Blow ..... St. George's Windsor
Wind who makes all winds that blow, gusts that bend the sapling low,
Gales that heave the sea in waves, stirrings in the mind’s deep caves.
Aim your breath with steady power on your church, this day, this hour.
Raise, renew the life we’ve lost, Spirit God of Pentecost.
Fire who fuels all fires that burn, suns around which planets turn,
Beacons marking reefs and shoals, shining truth to guide our souls.
Come to us as once you came; burst in tongues of sacred flame!
Light and Power, Might and Strength,
Fill your church, its breadth and length.
Holy Spirit, wind and flame, move within our mortal frame;
Make our hearts an altar pyre; kindle them with your own fire.
Breathe and blow upon that blaze till our lives, our deeds and ways
Speak that tongue which every land by your grace shall understand.
*BENEDICTION AND SENDING FORTH
*RESPONSE ..... Choir and Congregation
The Lord bless and keep you,
the Lord make his face
to shine on you and be gracious.
The Lord bless and keep you,
the Lord lift his countenance
on you and give you peace. Shalom.
*CHIMES OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Go in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
*POSTLUDE
*Congregation standing as you are able.
RETURN
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