FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

 

April 23, 2006

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 A.M.

Worship for the Second Sunday of Easter

 

GATHERING MUSIC                                                                                                          

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS                                 Rev. Carrie Kreps Wegenast

 

PRELUDE                                Arioso from Cantata No. 156                                     arr. Kent

                                                   Kimberly Williams, clarinet                                                  

                                                                                                                                               

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS 

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                                                                                                                                   

Liturgist:    Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.

                  Christ offers us peace.

People:     Peace be with our families and friends.

Liturgist:    Christ offers us peace.

People:     Peace be with the stranger among us.

Liturgist:    Christ offers us peace.

People:     Peace be with the one we call enemy.

ALL:         May God’s holy peace blossom where our human peace has not yet been
 planted for Christ is risen, risen indeed, alleluia!

 

*HYMN 187                                 Jesus Christ is Risen Today

 

*CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

 

*PRAYER OF INVOCATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (unison)

Living God, for whom no door is closed, no heart is locked, draw us beyond our doubts,
till we see your Christ and touch his wounds where they bleed in others. This we ask
 through Christ our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, and taught
 us to pray, saying:

 

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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not

into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory, forever.  Amen.

 

*GLORIA PATRI

 

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON           1 John 1:1-2:2                                   Bible, page 1065

 

PSALMODY (sung to the tune Germany)                                                                 Psalm 133

 

How good when all the earth is one, and hearts embrace community;

When strife will cease to separate, and love binds all in unity.

As oil anointed Aaron’s head, and dew adorns the mountainside,

So peace and blessing of the Lord, within the faithful heart abide.

 

*HYMN 191 (verses 1, 4, 5)    O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing

                             (Children 3 years old through 2nd grade are dismissed to

                          Sunday School, room LL2, during the singing of the hymn.)

        

GOSPEL LESSON                             John 20:19-31                                     Bible, page 945

                                                                                                      Rev. Steven A Peay, Ph.D.

 

ANTHEM                            God Our Creator, Source and Sustainer                             arr. Hayes

 

God our creator, source and sustainer,

Ground of our being, light of our day;

God of all wisdom, goodness and beauty,

Met at Your altar, humbly we pray.

 

God our creator finish creating,

Bring to completion the work now begun,

Till all unlike You meets transformation,

God and creation molded as one.

 

God of all sources, grant us Your wisdom;

God of all goodness, teach us Your grace;

God of all beauty, help us to see You,

Finding Your image etched on each face.

 

                                                                       

 

SERMON                                        “Raising Questions”                                           Dr. Peay

 

HYMN 259                               We Limit Not the Truth of God                   (sung to Ellacombe)

 

CALL TO PRAYER and SILENT MEDITATION                                                               

 

PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

 

CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

 

OFFERTORY

 

THE ANTHEM                                 Behold My Servant                                             Bengston

 

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights.

I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness.

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights.

I have taken you by the hand and kept you.

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights.

I have given you as a covenant, a covenant to the people, a light to the nations.

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights.

 

*DOXOLOGY           

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

                                                                       

*HYMN [back page]                           We Walk by Faith

 

*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

 

*POSTLUDE                                             Allegro                                                      Titcomb

 

*The congregation is invited to stand, if able.

 

The Chancel flowers are given by Hank Collis to his wife Kath, for thirty-five years of being together

and sharing, and understanding, and being as one, under the eyes of God.

 

Parents of Sunday School children may pick their children up in room LL2 following the service.

 

Worship Preview for Sunday, April 30, 2006 ~ 8:45 and 11:00 a.m.

Next week Rev. Carrie Kreps Wegenast preaches “A Good Ghost Story.”

Betty Dethmers is the organist.

Lee Jacobi directs the Pilgrim Choir at 8:45 and the Chancel Choir at 11:00.