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Welcome to our worship service! Please turn off your cell phone prior to the service. Join us for hymns, prayers, readings, and fellowship. Visit fpcoh.org for more information.
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PRELUDE – • American Hymn • Matthias Keller
The News • of the • Community
Visitors, to First Church! Following worship, please join us on the patio for refreshments!
A Deacon’s Fund offering will be collected TODAY. Please use the envelope provided in your bulletin.
Just a reminder — we continue to collect hygiene supplies and gently used or new sneakers and blue jeans for the Jubilee Center. The Center has an urgent need for non-perishable food items.
Monday, July 8th, 9:00 – Noon Friday, June 12th, 9:00 – Noon
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*Hymn • God of the Ages • # 262 in the Blue Hymnals
God of the ages, whose almighty hand Leads forth in beauty all the starry bandOf shining worlds in splendor through the skies, Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise.
Thy love divine hath led us in the past; In this free land by Thee our lot is cast; Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide and stay; Thy Word our law, Thy paths our chosen way.
From war’s alarms, from deadly pestilence, Be Thy strong arm our ever sure defense; Thy true religion in our hearts increase;Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace.
Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way, Lead us from night to never-ending day;Fill all our lives with love and grace divine, And glory, laud, and praise be ever Thine.
PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS – • (in unison) • 14th Century Author of • The Cloud of Unknowing
God to whom all hearts are open, to whom all wills speak, and from whom no secret is hidden, we beg you, so to cleanse the intents of our hearts with the unutterable gifts of your grace that we may perfectly love you and worthily praise you. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
A TIME • OF SILENCE
Assurance of Forgiveness
*How Firm a Foundation ( # 361, verse 1) How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in God's excellent Word! What more can be said than to you God hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
SOLO — • God Bless America • arr. Ovid Young • Carolyn Smylie, soloist
A TIME WITH THE Children
The News • of the • Community
Visitors, to First Church! Following worship, please join us on the patio for refreshments!
SUMMER WORSHIP SCHEDULE (June 9th through mid-August) 8:30 a.m.: Morning Glory Service 10:00 a.m.: Bible Study 11:00 a.m.: Classic Service
Living A Life of Freedom The Heart of It All Galatians 2:11-16
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.
Scripture Reading— Galatians 2:11-16 (New Testament, Page 188 in NRSV pew Bible)
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned; for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.
And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel,
I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.
And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.
Living A Life of Freedom The Heart of It All Galatians 2:11-16
* This We Believe • (in unison) • Romans 8:1, 28, 38-39 This We Believe (in unison) The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the -dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. *Hymn of Commitment - Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized # 70 The News of the Community (Sing 2 times) Holy Spirit, come to us, Kindle in us the fire of your love. Holy Spirit, come to us. Holy Spirit, come to us. Prayers of the People & The Lord's Prayer - (Debtors version) (front of Hymnal, pg. 16) Response - Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, Fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me.
We believe there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus; and we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. This We Believe (in unison) The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the -dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. *Hymn of Commitment - Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized # 70 The News of the Community (Sing 2 times) Holy Spirit, come to us, Kindle in us the fire of your love. Holy Spirit, come to us. Holy Spirit, come to us. Prayers of the People & The Lord's Prayer - (Debtors version) (front of Hymnal, pg. 16) Response - Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, Fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me.
We are sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, This We Believe (in unison) The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the -dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. *Hymn of Commitment - Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized # 70 The News of the Community (Sing 2 times) Holy Spirit, come to us, Kindle in us the fire of your love. Holy Spirit, come to us. Holy Spirit, come to us. Prayers of the People & The Lord's Prayer - (Debtors version) (front of Hymnal, pg. 16) Response - Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, Fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me.
nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. This We Believe (in unison) The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the -dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. *Hymn of Commitment - Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized # 70 The News of the Community (Sing 2 times) Holy Spirit, come to us, Kindle in us the fire of your love. Holy Spirit, come to us. Holy Spirit, come to us. Prayers of the People & The Lord's Prayer - (Debtors version) (front of Hymnal, pg. 16) Response - Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, Fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me.
*Hymn • My Hope Is Built • on Nothing Less • # 379 in the Blue Hymnal
My hope is built on nothing lessThan Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But • wholly lean on Jesus’ name. • On Christ, the solid Rock I stand;All other ground is sinking sand,All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds • within the veil. • On Christ, the solid Rock I stand;All other ground is sinking sand,All other ground is sinking sand.
His oath, His covenant, • His blood Support me in the whelming flood; When all around my soul gives way, He then • is all my hope and stay. • On Christ, the solid Rock I stand;All other ground is sinking sand,All other ground is sinking sand.
When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I then in Him be found, Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne. • On Christ, the solid Rock I stand;All other ground is sinking sand,All other ground is sinking sand.
OFFERING • OUR TITHES • AND GIFTS • (Visitors, in the pew rack you will • find a Guest Information card. • Please complete the card, then • place it in the offering plate.)
OFFERTORY ANTHEM — • Improvisation • Charles Callahan • (from A Patriotic Suite)
* The Response of Praise — • Doxology • Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; O, praise Him! Alleluia! Praise Him above, • ye heavenly host; Praise • Father, Son and Holy Ghost. • O praise Him, O praise Him! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Offering of Prayer • (in unison) • Adapted from • St. Catherine of Siena, • 1347-1380
Eternal goodness, you want us to gaze into you and see that you love us. You love us freely, and you want us to love and serve our neighbors with the same love, offering them our prayers and possessions as far as in us lies.