Mifflin
Avenue United Methodist Church
11:00
AM Worship Second Sunday after the Epiphany 15 January 2012
GATHERING
Prelude F.
Birkholz
GREETING AND
WELCOME
INTROIT
With
Grateful Heart, I Thank You, Lord M.K.
Beall
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Spirit
of the living God, fall afresh on us.
As we
gather in this place, allow your Spirit to fill our very being.
As we worship today,
we
remember our brothers and sisters
who
are worshiping elsewhere throughout the world.
Inspire each of us to work
more faithfully
for
justice and dignity of life everywhere.
Raise our vision above the barriers
of color, culture, and creed that separate us.
Give
us wisdom as we deal with one another.
Help
us to recognize and to respect different ways,
rather than to judge.
In the Spirit of Jesus who came not to be
served, but to serve,
we
now must walk in the world.
We must reach out our hands
with help
and
open our hearts in love.
Awake in us the desire to
seek your way of serving you in the world.
Amen.
*HYMN UMH 393
Spirit
of the Living God Living God
*PRAYER in unison
God of all nations, we
praise you that in Christ
the
barriers that have separated humanity are torn down.
Yet we confess our slowness
to open our hearts and minds
to
those of other lands, tongues, and races.
Deliver us from the sins of
fear and prejudice,
that
we may move toward the day
when
all are truly one in Jesus Christ. Amen.
ANTHEM
Show Me the Way DeYoung/Althouse
PRAYER FOR
ILLUMINATION
FIRST READING
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
SECOND READING
John
1:43-51
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be
to God.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Following the message, children from K-3 are
invited to attend the Junior Church program.
SERMON
Can Anything Good Come Out of ____________ ?
*HYMN
In Christ There Is No East or West Land of Rest
In Christ there is no east or west, in him
no south or north;
but one great
fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth.
In Christ shall true hearts everywhere their
high communion find;
his service is the
golden cord close binding humankind.
In Christ is neither
Jew nor Greek, and neither slave nor free;
both male and female
heirs are made, and all are kin to me.
In Christ now meet both east and west, in him
meet south and north;
all Christly souls
are one in him throughout the whole wide earth.
SHARING OUR JOYS
AND CONCERNS
PASTORAL PRAYER
Response:
Lord,
in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
THE LORD’S PRAYER in unison
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.
*THE PEACE
OFFERING
Prayer
from Der Freischutz
C. Von Weber
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
*HYMN UMH 557
Blest Be the Tie That Binds Dennis
*BENEDICTION
*GOING FORTH
Classical
Postlude R.J.
Hughes
*Those who are able are invited to stand.