The Order of Worship – June 8, 2025

This is the 159th Day of 2025.
There are 206 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.

Pentecost

Prelude:

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Call to Worship: Bind Us Together

Responsive Reading:  Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Renewing the face of the earth

²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all; 
the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵ Yonder is the sea, great and wide, 
creeping things innumerable are there, 
living things both small and great.

²⁶ There go the ships,
and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
²⁷ These all look to you
to give them their food in due season;

²⁸ when you give to them, they gather it up; 
when you open your hand, 
they are filled with good things.

²⁹ When you hide your face, they are dismayed; 
when you take away their breath, 
they die and return to their dust.

³⁰ When you send forth your spirit, they are created; 
and you renew the face of the ground.

³¹ May the glory of the LORD endure forever; 
may the LORD rejoice in his works–

³² who looks on the earth and it trembles, 
who touches the mountains and they smoke.

³³ I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; 
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

³⁴ May my meditation be pleasing to him, 
for I rejoice in the LORD.

^35b Bless the LORD, O my soul. 
Praise the LORD!

Opening Hymn: Spirit of the Living God…#539 (F)

Verse 1

O Spirit of the living God, thou light and fire divine,
descend upon thy church once more, and make it truly thine.
Fill it up with love and joy and power, with righteousness and peace; till Christ shall dwell in human hearts, and sin and sorrow cease.

Verse 2

Blow, wind of God! With wisdom blow until our minds are free
from mists of error, clouds of doubt, which blind our eyes to thee.
Burn, winged fire! Inspire our l lips with flaming love and zeal,
to preach to all thy great good news, God’s glorious commonweal.

Verse 3

Teach us to utter living words of truth which all may hear,
the language all may understand when love speaks loud and clear;
till every age and race and clime shall blend their creeds in one,
and earth shall form one family by whom thy will is done.

Verse 4

So shall we know the power of Christ who came this world to save; so shall we rise with him to life which soars beyond the grave;
and earth shall win true holiness, which makes thy children whole;
till perfected by thee, we reach creation’s glorious goal.

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: Wonderful, Merciful Savior  

Wonderful, merciful Savior Precious Redeemer and Friend
Who would have thought that a Lamb could rescue the souls of men
Oh, You rescue the souls of men
You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for 
Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
Spirit we long to embrace You
offer hope when our hearts have Hopelessly lost our way
Oh, we’ve hopelessly lost the way
You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for Almighty, infinite Father
Faithfully loving Your own
Here in our weakness You find us
Falling before Your throne
Oh, we’re falling before Your throne
You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for
You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for

Pastoral Prayer
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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: Gather Us In…TFWS #2236

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 (God is So Good)

Verse 1:

God is so good,
God is so good,
God is so good,
he’s so good to me.

Verse 2

He loves me so,
He loves me so,
He loves me so,
he’s so good to me.

Verse 3

He answers prayer,
He answers prayer,
He answers prayer,
he’s so good to me.

Verse 1:

God is so good,
God is so good,
God is so good,
he’s so good to me.

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.

Acts of the Apostles: Acts 2:1-21
Filled with the Spirit

¹ When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. ² And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. ³ Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. ⁴ All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
⁵ Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem. ⁶ And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. ⁷ Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? ⁸ And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? ⁹ Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabs–in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” ¹² All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
¹³ But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”
¹⁴ But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Fellow Jews and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. ¹⁵ Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. ¹⁶ No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ ‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. ¹⁸ Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. ¹⁹ And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. ²⁰ The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. ²¹ Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’”
Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

New Testament Reading: Romans 8:14-17
The Spirit makes us children of God

¹⁴ For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” ¹⁶ it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

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

Sermon Text:  Genesis 11:1-9
God destroys the tower of Babel

¹ Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. ² And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. ³ And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar. ⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
⁵ The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. ⁶ And the LORD said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. ⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
⁸ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹ Therefore it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. 

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

Sermon:  “Scattered Abroad”

Closing Hymn: O Church of God, United…#547 (1 &4)
Verse 1

O Church of God, united to serve one common Lord, proclaim to all one message, with hearts in glad accord. Christ ever goes before us; we follow day by day with strong and eager footsteps along the upward way.

Verse 4

May thy great prayer be answered that we may all be one, close bound, by love united in thee, God’s blessed Son: to bring a single witness, to make the pathway bright, that souls which grope in darkness may find the one true light.

Filled Up and Poured Out

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