Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – Sunday, September 27
10:30 am -Facebook: Hope Church Sturgeon Bay
PRELUDE
WELCOME and GREETING
INTROIT
CALL TO WORSHIP –
attributed to Siddhārtha Buddha
One: Wisdom is purified by morality, and morality is purified by wisdom:
All: Where one is, the other is, the moral person has wisdom and the wise person has morality,
One: The combination of morality of wisdom is called the highest thing in the world.
HYMN #
608 Dear God, Who Loves All Humankind
(vv. 1 & 5)
Dear God, who loves all humankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
reclothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
Breathe through the hearts of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire:
speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!+
READINGS FOR THE DAY
First Reading – from Walter Lippman
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
Second Reading – Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 (Common English Bible)
MESSAGE Ezekiel’s Toolbox
The Reverend J. Gary Brinn
HYMN #288 Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness, God our Creator;
there is no shadow of turning with thee;
thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;
as thou hast been thou forever wilt be.
Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
all I have needed thy hand hath provided –
great is they faithfulness, ever to me!
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
join with all nature in manifold witness
to thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
all I have needed thy hand hath provided –
great is they faithfulness, ever to me!
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide,
strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow –
wondrous the portion thy blessings provide.
Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
all I have needed thy hand hath provided –
great is they faithfulness, ever to me!+
JOYS AND CONCERNS/PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
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 debts
as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
CONGREGATIONAL AND PASTORAL BENEDICTION Alleluia
POSTLUDEPlease join us for conversation and sharing during our Zoom Coffee Hour.
To Join Coffee Hour Zoom at 11:30 on Sundays, contact Shirley at rssenarighi@gmail.com
