The Order of Worship – September 21, 2025

This is the 264th Day of 2025.
There are 101 days remaining in 2025.

Filled with the Holy Spirit,
we are a people of prayer
committed to love one another
and equipped to share Christ’s love throughout the world.

Prelude:

Welcome & Announcements:
This month’s mission focus is the Methodist Children’s Home
The Fourth focus of this time between Pentecost and Advent is Life in the world.
Bible Study is at afaithtalk.com
Five Loaves will tentatively return after the Halloweenie Roast

Call to Worship: Refiner’s Fire (E)

Responsive Reading:  Psalm 79:1-9
Deliver us and forgive our sins

¹ O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; 
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

²They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the air for food, 
the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.

³ They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, 
and there was no one to bury them.

⁴ We have become a taunt to our neighbors, 
mocked and derided by those around us.

⁵ How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? 
Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, 
and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name. 

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob 
and laid waste his habitation.

⁸ Do not remember against us the iniquities of our ancestors; 
let your compassion come speedily to meet us, 

for we are brought very low.

⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; 
deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
Praise the LORD!

Opening Hymn: Come Thou Almighty King…No. 61 (G)
Verse 1

Come, thou almighty King,
help us thy name to sing,
help us to praise!
Father all glorious, o’er all victorious,
come and reign over us, Ancient of Days!

Verse 2

Come, thou incarnate Word,
gird on thy mighty sword,
our prayer attend!
Come, and thy people bless,
and give thy word success;
Spirit of holiness, on us descend!

Verse 3

Come, holy Comforter,
thy sacred witness bear,
in this glad hour.
Thou who almighty art,
now rule in every heart,
and ne’er from us depart,
Spirit of power!

Verse 4

To thee, great One in Three,
eternal praises be,
hence, evermore.
Thy sovereign majesty
may we in glory see,
and to eternity
love and adore!

Affirmation of Faith:
The Apostle’s Creed..No. 881

I believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord:
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified,
dead,
and buried;
the third day he rose from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge
the quick 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.

Gloria Patri…Page 70

Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.

Praise Song: Every time I Feel the Spirit…#404 (Eb)
Refrain:

Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.
Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.

Verse 1

Upon the mountain when my God spoke,
out of His mouth came fire and smoke.
In the valley on my knees,
asked, my Lord, have mercy please.

Refrain:

Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.
Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.

Verse 2

Jordan River, chilly and cold,
it chills the body, but not the soul.
All around me was a shine,
ask my Lord if all was mine.

Refrain:

Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.
Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray

Refrain:

Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.
Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray
moving in my heart, I will pray
moving in my heart, I will pray

Pastoral Prayer
Contact us here to add your concern to our prayer list.

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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
forever. Amen.

Anthem: There Is A Balm in Gilead…No. 375 (F)

Offertory

Doxology:

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

Children’s Moment
Children’s Song (Woke Up This Morning) (E)
Verse 1

I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah 

Verse 2

I’m walking and talking with my mind stayed on Jesus
I’m walking and talking with my mind stayed on Jesus
I’m walking and talking with my mind stayed on Jesus
Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah

Verse 3 

Satan don’t want to let your mind stay on Jesus
Satan don’t want to let your mind stay on Jesus
Satan don’t want to let your mind stay on Jesus
Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah

Verse 4

Everybody ought to let their mind stay on Jesus
Everybody ought to let their mind stay on Jesus
Everybody ought to let their mind stay on Jesus
Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah

Verse 1

I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah 
Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah

Prayer for Illumination
Lord, open our hearts and minds by the power of your Holy Spirit, that as the Scriptures are read and your Word is proclaimed, we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen.

Gospel Reading: Luke 16:1-13
Serving God or wealth

¹ Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. ² So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ 

³ Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’

⁵ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶ He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’ ⁷ Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’

⁸ And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. ⁹ And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.

¹⁰ “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. ¹¹ If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? ¹² And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? ¹³ No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” 

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

New Testament Reading: 1 Timothy 2:1-7
Make thanksgivings

¹ First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, ² for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity. ³ This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁵ For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human, ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all–this was attested at the right time.

⁷ For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

Sermon Text:   Jeremiah 8:18-9:1
Jeremiah laments over Judah

¹⁸ My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.

¹⁹ Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”) ²⁰ “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

²¹ For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. ²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?

^9:1 O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!

Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

Sermon:  “Summer’s End”

Closing Hymn: O Master Let Me Walk with Thee…#430 (Eb)
Verse 1

O Master, let me walk with thee
in lowly paths of service free;
tell me thy secret; help me bear
the strain of toil, the fret of care.

Verse 4

In hope that sends a shining ray
far down the future’s broadening way,
in peace that only thou canst give,
with thee, O Master, let me live.

Filled Up and Poured Out

If you liked this, want more, or would like to request something additional, you’re welcome to comment here.