Gathering Music

“Be Thou My Vision”

Youth & Young adult choir of Grace UMC, Manassas VA

Call to Worship

Come and worship, all you who love and serve the Lord—
outsiders and insiders,
old-timers and new-comers,
the young, old and the in-between.
Come as you are,
for this is God’s house—a house of prayer for all people,
and God welcomes each one who comes.

Hymn of Welcome

“Oh How I Love Jesus”

sung by James Rufflin

Scripture

Psalm 123

1 To you I lift up my eyes,
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
2 As the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid
to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God,
until You have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
for we have had more than enough of contempt.
4 Our soul has had more than its fill
of the scorn of those who are at ease,
of the contempt of the proud.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Now concerning the times and the seasons, family of God you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape! But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober; for those who sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.

Homily

“Maybe More of Us Together”

Dean Tanya Linn Bennett

Anthem

“Before Too Long”

Harmonium Choral Society

Prayer of the Day

Blessing

Sending

“Home by Another Road”

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Worship Notes:

Call to Worship: https://re-worship.blogspot.com/2011/08/call-to-worship-august-14-2011.html