Beware Ignorance and Want

Beware Ignorance and Want

6th Sunday of Return to In-Person Worship  (Printable PDF)
July 11, 2021  11 am

PRELUDE:  Chorale and Variation on “Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, P. 129-Johann Pachelbel
CALL TO RETURN TO OUR SOULS       

Pastor:       Jesus said, “I am the door.”
People:      Jesus also said, “I am the way.”
Pastor:       “I am the Light.””
People:      “I am the truth.”
Pastor:       “I am the bread of life.”
People:      Be the door for all who are seeking the experience of home.
Pastor:       Be the way for all who are lost.
People:      Become the light for anyone who sits in darkness.
Pastor:       Become the bread for all who hunger.
People:      Gather gladly, my people, to keep walking the Jesus way!

HYMN: Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People     #3, Blue Presbyterian Hymnal
UNISON CONFESSION AND COMMITMENT   

“We are a light. We are the light. We must never let anyone —  any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish our light. We must release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won.” Amen.                                      —John Lewis

SUNG RESPONSE:    Jesus, We Are Here/Jesu, Tawa Pano     GTG#392
SCRIPTURE:    Judges 7:7-17       John 18: 33-38
SUNG RESPONSE:  He Came Down  GTG#137
SERMON:  Beware of Ignorance and Want—  but Most of All—Ignorance !
HYMN:    Here I Am, Lord     GTG#69
WELCOME
CHORAL ANTHEM: Guide My Feet—arr. John Carter
MORNING PRAYER— conclude with the Lord’s Prayer, then Sung Response
SUNG RESPONSE:     Come, Bring Your Burdens to God    GTG#851
OFFERTORY SOLO:  The King of Love My Shepherd Is (ST. COLUMBA)—setting by Dan Forrest, Emma WitbolsFeugen, mezzo soprano
                 Offering link
PRAYER OF DEDICATION:    Be Still and Know That I Am God (chant through twice)
HYMN:  Wade in the Water (stanzas 1-3)    STF#2107
BLESSING
SUNG BENEDICTION RESPONSE:   Wade in the Water (stanza 4)  STF#2107
POSTLUDE: Come Away to the Skies (Middlebury) —setting by Michael Larkin

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