October 12, 2008
MORNING WORSHIP 10 a.m.
The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

PRELUDE

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

CALL TO WORSHIP (from Psalm 106) Liturgist

Liturgist: Praise the Lord!
People: O give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good.
Liturgist: God’s steadfast love endures forever.
People: Who can tell of the Lord’s mighty acts and proclaim in full God’s praise?
Liturgist: Happy are they who act justly,
ALL: Who do what is right at all times!

*HYMN 29 Bring, O Morn, Thy Music

*PRAYER OF THE DAY AND LORD’S PRAYER (unison) Liturgist

Homeward draws our spirits to Thy Gracious Spirit, Eternal God. Our hearts rise as flowers to the morning sun, open to the promise of possibility through the trials of this day and this age, as we rejoice in your presence with us now and with us always, in this gathered fellowship of Jesus Christ, our master 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 (Hymn 558)

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen, Amen.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. Samuel Schaal SS

ANTHEM Junior Choir

THE INVITATION TO SUNDAY SCHOOL Rev. Robert J. Brink

OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Exodus 32:1-14 Claudia Scholl

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON (responsively) Philippians 4:4-9

GOSPEL LESSON Matthew 22:1-14

*HYMN 45 (verses 1&2) There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy

SERMON “Worry Warts” Rev. Schaal

HYMN 45 (verse 3) There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy [remain seated]

CALL TO PRAYER and SILENT MEDITATION

PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

OFFERTORY

On God, and Not on Human Trust Pachelbel

*DOXOLOGY

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

*HYMN 308 “Let There Be Peace on Earth”

*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

*POSTLUDE

*The congregation is invited to stand.

NEXT SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
Annual Program Meeting at 9:00 a.m. in the Social Hall.

Worship Preview for Sunday, October 19  10:00 A.M.
Rev. Steven Peay will offer the sermon entitled “In a Show Me State.”
Thomas Gregory is the organist.
Lee Jacobi directs the Choir of First Church.
Pat Gregory directs the Jubilation Ringers.