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Announcements for the Week of September 5th – September 11th  

are located near the bottom of this page.

 

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GRACE

 

United Church of Christ

 

Sunday Worship Service Bulletin

for

 

September 5, 2010

 

Whoever you are or wherever you are on life’s journey you’re welcome here at

 

Grace Reformed United Church of Christ

117 East J Street     Newton, NC  28658

 

828.464.4421          gracechurchnewtonnc@gmail.com

 

Visit us at  www.graceuccnewton.org 

 

 

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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 

 

W Indicates to please stand if so able                                              

Gathering

   Greeting and Announcements

 

W The Peace

    We invite each of you to greet those around you with the words “the peace of Christ be with you.”      

                   

Introit                Trio on “All Creatures of Our God and King”           David Chamberlain

                                        

W Call to Worship                      

      O Lord, you have searched me and known me.  You know when I sit down and when I

      rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.

      I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  My frame was not hidden

      from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of

      the earth.

      

W Hymn                         His Eye Is on the Sparrow                           No. 624 (blue hymnal)                       

 

W Invocation                                                                                                                 

We give thee humble thanks most merciful Father, that thou dost graciously

hear the prayers of thy servants who call upon thee, and hast done for us great

things whereof we rejoice; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.               

     

          

    First Reading                                                                                                   Jeremiah 18:1-11

                                   

    Time with the Children

        

    Second Reading                                                                                        Philemon 1-21            

W  Hymn                                                     O Perfect Love                                           No. 356           

                                                                                          

W  Apostles’ Creed

                                                                           

      I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth:

      I believe in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son, our Lord; who was conceived by

      the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was

      crucified, dead, and buried; he descended to the dead.  On the third day he

      rose again; from the dead; is seated at the right hand of the Father, and will  

      come again to judge the living and the dead. 

      I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy catholic Church; the communion

      of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body and the life

      everlasting.  Amen.     

                                                                                   

W Gloria Patri                                                                                                 No. 492

W Third Reading                                                                                               Luke 14:25-33                                                                       

    Sermon

    Collect          

    O God, who hast prepared for those who love thee such good things as pass our

    understanding: Pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we, loving thee

    above all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire;

    through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

   

   Offering                                                   

   Offertory                              Chorale in A Minor                               Louis Bottazzo

W Doxology & Prayer of Dedication                                                         Old Hundredth                  

            Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

            Praise Him all creatures here below! 

           Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts!  Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost!   

           Amen.

 

    The Great Thanksgiving

     This is the joyful feast of the Lord, where people come from the east and west, from north

        and south to gather around and eat at the table of the Lord.

     The Lord be with you.

     And also with you.

     Lift up you hearts.

     We lift them to the Lord.

     Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

     It is right to give our thanks and praise.

     It is right and a good and a joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to You, God

     Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.  In the beginning Your Spirit moved over the face

     of the waters.  You formed us in Your image and breathed into us the spirit and the breath

     of life.  When our love failed, Yours remained steadfast and Your Spirit came upon proph-

     ets and teachers anointing them to speak Your word.  And so with Your people on earth

 

    and all the company of heaven, we praise Your name.

   

    You may be seated

 

     Holy are you O God and blessed is Your Son, Jesus Christ.  Your Spirit anointed Him to

    preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight

    to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed and to announce that the time had

    come when You would save Your people.  He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with

    sinners.  By the baptism of His suffering, death and resurrection, You gave birth to Your

    church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by

    water and the Spirit.  When our Lord ascended, He promised to be with us always and sent

    us forth to serve and love all peoples.

 

    And so we remember that on the night He gave Himself for us, He took bread,

    gave thanks to You, broke the bread, gave it to His disciples and said:

 

    Take and eat; this is my body which is given for you.

    Do this in remembrance of me.

 

    When the supper was over He took the cup, gave thanks to You, gave it to His disciples

         and said:

 

    Drink from this all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,

        poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.

        Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

   

    And so in remembrance of these Your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in

    praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering for us,

    as we proclaim the mystery of faith:

 

    Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.

 

    Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine.  Make

    them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of

    Christ, redeemed by His blood.  By Your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each

    other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final  victory and we feast

    at His heavenly banquet.  Through Your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in Your Holy

    Church, all honor and glory is Yours, Almighty God, now and forever.

    Now as the children of the Almighty, let us pray the prayer our Lord taught us to pray:

    

   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 sins as we forgive our sinners.  And lead us not into temp-

         tation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and

         the glory, forever.  Amen.

 

   Sharing the Elements

 

W Hymn                             O God, Whose Law from Age to Age                                     No. 79   

                                                      

W Benediction                                                                

       

W Postlude                                                 Fugue in E Minor                                   Guillaume Lasceus                       

 

 

Our thanks and appreciation to Rev. Lutz Keller for his leadership and message today.

 

Welcome to all who are worshipping with us today.  We are glad you have come and we want you to know that you are always welcome here at Grace.  We ask members and visitors alike to please sign the Friendship Registers found at the end of the pews.

 

Committee members needed:  Sign up sheets, along with a brief description of the duties of each committee, has been placed on the table in the hallway.  Please stop by the table, see where you can help and sign up.  We are small in number now and everyone’s help is needed.

 

Hymn selections will be from the Red Hymnal each Sunday unless otherwise stated.

 

Birthdays this week

 

Carrie Underwood—Sept. 5                    Mark Geitner—Sept. 9

Albert Lofland III—Sept. 6                        Maude McRee—Sept. 10

Ed Gurley—Sept. 8                                        Millicent Rowe—Sept. 11

 

 

 

 

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Sunday School Classes – 9:45 to 10:40 am

Two Classes

 

Chapel Class taught by Angela Phillips and Jackie Hendricks and Parlor Class taught by Larry Bolick

 

A children class is also provided as well as a worship nursery.

Choir Practice

Choir Practices Every Wednesday Night at 6 to 7 pm in the sanctuary - come make your voice be heard!

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