Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church

11:00 AM Worship Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany 5 February 2012

GATHERING

Faith Everlasting L.A. Warriner

GREETING AND WELCOME

INTROIT

Jesus Is All the World to Me S. Pethel

*CALL TO WORSHIP

Praise the Lord!

For it is good to sing praises to our God,

and to praise him is joyful and right.

The Lord is rebuilding Jerusalem;

he is gathering together the scattered outcasts of Israel.

He heals the broken in spirit

and binds up their wounds.

He counts the number of the stars

and calls them all by name.

Great is our Lord and great is his power;

there is no measuring his understanding.

He takes no pleasure in the strength of a horse,

nor does he delight in any man’s legs.

But the Lord’s delight is in those that fear him,

who wait in hope for his mercy.

Praise the Lord!

*HYMN UMH 139

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Lobe Den Herren

*PRAYER in unison

Come, my Light, and illumine my darkness.

Come, my Life, and revive me from death.

Come, my Physician, and heal my wounds.

Come, Flame of divine love, and burn up the thorns of my sins,

kindling my heart with the flame of your love.

Come, my King, sit upon the throne of my heart and reign there.

For you alone are my King and my Lord. Amen.

ANTHEM

O Give Thanks Unto the Lord M. Haydn

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

FIRST READING

Isaiah 40:21-31

SECOND READING

Mark 1:29-39

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

To Heal Without a Cure

*HYMN

O Christ, the Healer Hamburg

O Christ, the healer, we have come

to pray for health, to plead for friends.

How can we fail to be restored

when reached by love that never ends?

From every ailment flesh endures

our bodies clamor to be freed;

yet in our hearts we would confess

that wholeness is our deepest need.

In conflicts that destroy our health

we recognize the world’s disease;

our common life declares our ills.

Is there no cure, O Christ, for these?

Grant that we all, made one in faith,

in your community may find

the wholeness that, enriching us,

shall reach the whole of humankind.

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

In Perfect Peace S.K. Riggs

*DOXOLOGY UMH 95

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

*HYMN FWS 2158

Just a Closer Walk with Thee Closer Walk

*BENEDICTION

Thank you, Jesus

for hearing us when we cried for mercy!

Thank you, Jesus

for feeding us when our hands were unclean!

Thank you, Jesus

for welcoming us when we were foreigners!

Thank you, Jesus

for healing us when we were wounded.

Thank you, Jesus

for sending us to do the same.

Thank you, Jesus.

Amen.

*GOING FORTH

Recessional J. Mansfield

*Those who are able are invited to stand.