MORNING WORSHIP: 8:45 AND 11:00 A

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

September 17, 2006

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 A.M.

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Bible Sunday

GATHERING MUSIC

WELCOME Rev. Robert Brink

(Please pass the red pew pads now. If you are a guest this Sunday, we would

love to greet you following the service or in coffee hour in the Social Hall.)

PRELUDE Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me Behnke

ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. Steven A. Peay, Ph.D.

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

CALL TO WORSHIP

One: In your wisdom, O God, you call us here to worship you.

Many: We gather, alive to the Word of God.

One: You call us to be fully alive with life abundant, ready to listen and respond

with heart, soul and mind.

Many: We listen, alive to the Word of God.

One: You call us to be always watchful for your Word of wisdom, sometimes startling and unexpected, sometimes still and quiet, but always dwelling among us.

ALL: We watch and wait for the Word of God.

*HYMN 366 God of Grace and God of Glory

*CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

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

God of Grace, give us diligence to seek you, wisdom to perceive you, and patience to wait for you. Grant us, O God, a mind to meditate on you, eyes to behold you, ears to listen for your Word, a heart to love you, and a life to proclaim you so that through our human ways we might discover your Divine Way, in this community of Jesus Christ our brother and Lord, who taught us to pray:

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

PRESENTATION OF BIBLES TO THIRD GRADERS, COVENANT CLASS #1

*HYMN Praise the Source of Faith and Learning sung to Hyfrydol

{Children ages 3 through 8th grade are dismissed to Sunday School during the singing of the hymn.}

Praise the source of faith and learning

that has sparked and stoked the mind

with a passion for discerning

how the world has been designed.

Let the sense of wonder flowing

from the wonders we survey

keep our faith forever growing

and renew our need to pray:

God of wisdom, we acknowledge

that our science and our art

and the breadth of human knowledge

only partial truth impart.

Far beyond our calculation

lies a depth we cannot sound

where your purpose for creation

and the pulse of life are found.

As two currents in a river

fight each other’s undertow

till converging they deliver

one coherent steady flow,

blend, O God, our faith and learning

till they carve a single course,

till they join as one, returning

praise and thanks to you, their Source.

THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Proverbs 1:20-33 Bible, page 573

THE PSALMODY (responsive) Psalm 19 Hymnal, page 517, no. 68

THE GOSPEL LESSON Mark 8:27-38 Bible, page 919

Rev. Samuel Schaal

THE ANTHEM Create In Me Muskrat

THE SERMON “Divine Things and Human Things” Rev. Schaal

THE CALL TO PRAYER AND SILENT MEDITATION

THE PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

THE CHORAL REPONSE TO PRAYER

THE OFFERTORY

THE ANTHEM Who Do People Say I Am? Courtney

*DOXOLOGY

*THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

*HYMN 252 O Word of God Incarnate

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

THE POSTLUDE Sent Forth By God’s Blessing Behnke

*The congregation is invited to stand, if able.

These flowers are dedicated to the Monarch Butterflies whose winter migration to Mexico begins in mid-September. Many acres of their local breeding and feeding habitat on the Milwaukee County Grounds have given way to construction of flood control measures and planned development.

Worship Preview for Rally Sunday, September 24, 2006 ~ 8:45 & 11:00 a.m.

Rev. Steven A. Peay, Ph.D. will deliver the message entitled,

“A Person of Integrity.”

Thomas Gregory is the organist.

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

Kimberly Williams directs the Jubilation Ringers at 11:00 a.m.

Pilgrim Choir Anthems

8:45 A.M.

Create in Me

Psalm 51:10-13

Who do people say I am?

Some say that you are John the Baptist,

some say you are Elijah.

Who do people say I am?

Some say that you are Jeremiah

or one of the prophets.

And you? Who do you say I am?

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,

my Redeemer.

I greet thee, who my sure redeemer art.

My only trust and Savior of my heart.

Who pain didst undergo for my poor sake;

I pray thee from our hearts all cares to take.

Thou art the king of mercy and of grace,

Reigning omnipotent in every place;

So come, O King, and our whole being sway,

Shine on us with the light of thy pure day.

Thou art the life, by which alone we live,

And all our substance and our strength receive;

Sustain us by they faith and by thy power.

And give us strength in every trying hour.

Thou hast the true and perfect gentleness,

No harshness hast thou, and no bitterness;

O grant to us the grace we find in thee,

That we may dwell in perfect unity.

Our hope is in no other save in thee;

Our faith is built upon thy promise free;

Lord, give us peace, and make us calm and sure,

That in thy strength, in thy strength

we evermore endure.

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,

the Messiah, my Redeemer. Amen.