FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

 

 

February 11, 2007

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 A.M.

The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS                                        Rev. Samuel R. Schaal

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

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

 

PRELUDE                                       How Great Thou Art                                                Zabel

                                                                                                                                               

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

                                                                       

THE CALL TO WORSHIP                      Psalm 1                                  Rev. Robert J. Brink                                   

Liturgist:    Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night.

People:     They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.

Liturgist:    The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff that the wind drives away.

People:     Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Liturgist:    We come to worship the God who shows us the way of the righteous.

People:     We come to worship the God who made heaven and earth, mind and heart.

 

*HYMN [insert]                                 Earth and All Stars

 

*THE CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

 

*THE PRAYER INVOCATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

Holy God, you challenge the powers that rule this world and show favor to the oppressed. Instill in us a true sense of justice, that we may discern the signs of your kingdom and strive for right to prevail for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit and who taught us to call upon you 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

 

*THE GLORIA PATRI

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON      1 Corinthians 15:12-20                  Bible, page 1048

 

*HYMN 478                             All Things Bright and Beautiful

{Children ages 3 through 8th grade are dismissed to Sunday School

during the singing of the hymn.}                      

 

THE GOSPEL LESSON                     Luke 6:17-26                  Rev. Steven A. Peay, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                        Bible, page 939

 

THE SERMON                                      “Real Life”                                                 Dr. Peay

 

THE ANTHEM                    I Have Longed for Thy Saving Health                                       Byrd

                                         Pilgrim Choir, directed by Roger Jacobi

 

THE CALL TO PRAYER AND SILENT MEDITATION

 

THE PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

 

THE CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

 

THE OFFERTORY

 

THE ANTHEM                                        Worship                                                          Shaw

                                                                                                                                               

*THE DOXOLOGY

 

*THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

 

*HYMN 485                                 This Is My Father’s World

 

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

 

*THE CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE

Go now in peace. Never be afraid.

God will go with you each hour of every day.

Go now in faith, steadfast, strong and true.

Know He will guide you in all you do.

Go now in love, and show you believe.

Reach out to others so all the world can see.

God will be there, watching from above.

Go now in peace, in faith, and in love.

                                                                       

*THE POSTLUDE                             Allegro Maestoso                                                   Handel                                               

 

*You are invited to stand, if able.

 

The Chancel flowers are given by David Anderson and Laura Petrie Anderson in honor of the February 11th birthdays of their daughter,
 Grace Anderson, and Grace’s late great-grandfather, Harlan Horch.

 

 

Worship Preview for Sunday, February 18, 2007

Next Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, the final Sunday before Lent begins.

Dr. Peay’s sermon for Transfiguration Sunday is entitled: “Transformers.”

Mark your calendars - Ash Wednesday is Feb. 21.

We will offer services here at FCC at 10 AM (Chapel) and 7 PM (Nave).

An ecumenical Ash Wednesday service is to be held at 12 noon at St. Bernard’s Church.

 Thomas Gregory is the organist.

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

Roxanne Trump Miles directs the Junior & Cherub Choirs at 8:45.

Kimberly Williams directs the Jubilation Ringers at 11:00.

 

 

 

 

Pilgrim Choir Anthems

 

I Have Longed For Thy Saving Health
Psalm 69:174, 175

I have longed for Thy saving health, O Lord;
Thy law is my delight, O Lord.
O let my soul live and it shall praise Thee,
and Thy judgments shall help me.

Worship

John Greenleaf Whittier

O brother man! Fold to thy heart thy brother;
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Follow with reverent steps the great example
Of Him whose holy work was "doing good."
So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.

Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor
Of wild war music over the earth shall cease;
Love shall treat out the baleful fire of anger,
And in its ashes plant the tree of peace!