Order of Worship
All Saints Sunday (Reformation Day)
Worship is live on FaceBook at 11am CT and will be on the site here sometime after that.
This is the 304th Day of 2021.
There are 61 days remaining in 2021.
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:
Each month we have a particular mission focus. This month, it’s the Junior Auxiliary’s “Spread the Warmth” program which supplies coats, jackets, gloves, scarves, hats and warm socks in all sizes but especially children and teens. A collection box will be in the sanctuary to collect all you can donate.
November’s Mission Focus will be on Margham for Christmas Presents for the orphanages and women’s homes in India. Please consider monetary donations.
Focus on your relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and your relationships with His people.
This is the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
meaning there are now 28 days till Advent.
Call to Worship: Holy Ground
Responsive Reading: Psalm 24:1-10
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it;
for he has founded it on the seas,
and established it on the rivers.
Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
who do not lift up their souls to what is false,
and do not swear deceitfully.
They will receive blessing from the LORD,
and vindication from the God of their salvation.
Such is the company of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory?
The LORD, strong and mighty,
the LORD, mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah
Hymn: For All the Saints…No. 711 vs 1,4,6
Verse 1
For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Verse 2
Thou was their rock, their fortress, and their might;
thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Verse 4
O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Verse 6
From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,
through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost:
Alleluia, Alleluia!
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: Sing With All the Saints in Glory…No 702
Verse 1
Sing with all the saints in glory, sing the resurrection song!
Death and sorrow, earth’s dark story,
to the former days belong.
All around the clouds are breaking,
soon the storms of life will cease;
in God’s likeness we, awaking, know the everlasting peace.
Verse 2
O what glory, far exceeding all that eye has yet perceived!
Holiest hearts, for ages pleading, never that full joy conceived.
God has promised, Christ prepares it
there on high our welcome waits.
Every humble spirit shares it;
Christ has passed th’eternal gates.
Verse 3
Life eternal! Heaven rejoices: Jesus lives, who once was dead. Join we now the deathless voices;
child of God, lift up your head!
Patriarchs from the distant ages,
saints all longing for their heaven,
prophets, psalmists, seers, and sages, all await the glory given.
Verse 4
Life eternal! O what wonders crowd on faith;
what joy unknown,
when, amidst earth’s closing thunders,
saints shall stand before the throne!
O to enter that bright portal, see that glowing firmament; know, with thee, O God Immortal,
“Jesus Christ whom thou has sent!”
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: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Offertory Prayer
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 & Song (Do Lord)
Chorus
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Way beyond the blue
Verse 1
I’ve got a home in Glory Land
That outshines the sun
I’ve got a home in Glory Land
That outshines the sun
I’ve got a home in Glory Land
That outshines the sun
Way beyond the blue
Chorus
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Way beyond the blue
Verse 2
I took Jesus as my Savior
You take Him too
I took Jesus as my Savior
You take Him too
I took Jesus as my Savior
You take Him too
Way beyond the blue
Chorus
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Do Lord, O do Lord
O do remember me
Way beyond the blue
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 – John 11:32-44
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
Jesus began to weep
So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.”
Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him and let him go.”
Leader: The Word of God, for the people of God!
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon Text: Revelation 21:1-6a
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.”
And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.” Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.”
Leader: This is The Word of God, for the people of God!
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon: “Making All Things New”
Final Hymn: Marching to Zion…No. 733 (1&4)
Verse 1
Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known;
join in a song with sweet accord,
join in a song with sweet accord
and thus surround the throne,
and thus surround the throne.
We’re marching to Zion, beautiful Zion;
we’re marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God.
Verse 4
Then let our songs abound, and every tear be dry;
we’re marching through Emmanuel’s ground,
we’re marching through Emmanuel’s ground,
to fairer worlds on high,
to fairer worlds on high.
We’re marching to Zion, beautiful Zion;
we’re marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God.
Benediction
Postlude
Filled Up and Poured Out
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