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Welcome! We are so glad you are here!

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Welcome! We are so glad you are here!

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  1. Welcome! We are so glad you are here!

  2. It is our hope that you will feel INVITED, WELCOMED, and LOVED as you worship with us.

  3. Before the worship service begins, please turn off your cell phone. God may be calling YOU, but probably not on your cell phone. Please turn off your cell phone, or put it on vibrate.

  4. CALL TO REFLECTION • PRELUDE – • Awake, Awake to Love and Work • Wilbur Held

  5. The News • of the • Community

  6. Visitors, to First Church! Following worship, please join us on the patio for refreshments.

  7. Monday, September 23rd, 9:00 – Noon Friday, September 27th, 9:00 – Noon

  8. Sign up to attend a House meeting!! Get to know your neighbors in the pew, and share your hopes and concerns for our church and community! See the bulletin insert.

  9. — CHOIR REHEARSALS — Bell Choir, Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Westminster Choir, Sundays, 10 a.m.; Contact Jerry Myers for information.

  10. WORSHIP SCHEDULE (Now through May 25, 2020) 8:30 a.m.: Morning Glory Service 10:00 a.m.: WaumbaLand 10:20 a.m.: Bible Study 11:00 a.m.: Classic Service

  11. For information about First Church and our activities, please visit our website: fpcoh.org

  12. PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION

  13. HYMN • When Morning Gilds the Skies • # 487 in the Blue Hymnals

  14. When morning gilds the skies,My heart awaking cries:May Jesus Christ be praised!Alike at work and prayerTo Jesus I repair:May Jesus Christ be praised!

  15. Does sadness fill my mind? A solace here I find:May Jesus Christ be praised!Or fades my earthly bliss? My comfort still is this:May Jesus Christ be praised!

  16. Let earth's wide circle round In joyful notes resound:May Jesus Christ be praised!Let air and sea and sky From depth to height reply:May Jesus Christ be praised!

  17. Be this, while life is mine, My canticle divine:May Jesus Christ be praised!Be this the eternal song Through all the ages long:May Jesus Christ be praised!

  18. PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS – • (in unison) • Lord of all, • you have entrusted us with much treasure, and commissioned us to use it wisely and diligently, that your kingdom of love and justice may increase.

  19. Yet we have shown ourselves unfaithful, even with small things you have entrusted us with. Forgive our carelessness with your treasures. Stir us • up by your Spirit to dedicate back to you all you have • so richly bestowed upon us.

  20. Keep us ever mindful • that all we have, • and all that we are, • comes from you and belongs to you, through the redeeming work of • Jesus our Lord. • Amen.

  21. A TIME • OF SILENCE

  22. Assurance of Forgiveness

  23. *Great Is Thy Faithfulness • (# 276, verse 3) • 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, Blessings • all mine, with ten thousand beside!

  24. 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 Thy faithfulness, • Lord, unto me!

  25. Anthem— • Praise My Soul, • the King of Heaven • Mark Andrews

  26. The News • of the • Community

  27. Visitors, to First Church! Following worship, please join us on the patio for refreshments.

  28. Presbyterian Women’s Fall Luncheon at Orangebrook Country Club, Saturday, October 19th, 11:30 a.m.Please sign up with Helen Cohen in the lobby before or after church, or call Kathryn Tyahlaat 954-444-6492.

  29. Luke 15:11-32 The Forgotten Son

  30. Thanksgiving for the Word

  31. O Word of God incarnate, O Wisdom from on high, O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky: We praise You for the radiance That from the hallowed page, A lantern to our footsteps, Shines on from age to age.

  32. Scripture Readings — Jeremiah 8:18 – 9:1 (Old Testament, Page 709 in NRSV pew Bible)

  33. My joy is gone, grief is upon me,    my heart is sick. Hark, the cry of my poor people    from far and wide in the land:

  34. “Is the Lord not in Zion?    Is her King not in her?”(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,    with their foreign idols?”)  “The harvest is past, the summer is ended,    and we are not saved.”

  35. For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead?    Is there no physician there?Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?

  36. O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!

  37. Scripture Readings — Luke 15:11-32 (New Testament, Page 78 in NRSV pew Bible)

  38. Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property between them.

  39. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living. When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

  40. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.

  41. But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!

  42. I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’ So he set off and went to his father.

  43. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

  44. But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. And get the fatted calf and kill it,

  45. and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.

  46. “Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.’

  47. Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command;

  48. yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

  49. Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’”

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