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Poolesville Presbyterian Church
11.17.2024; Season after Pentecost, Proper 28(33)
Call To Worship: (responsive, adapted from Psalm 98)
Leader: O Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things!
Response: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into song and sing praises!
Leader: Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!
Response: With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the Lord!
Leader: Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who live in it.
Response: Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy.
Leader: The Lord is coming to judge the earth with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. Let us worship God!
Hymn 288 Spirit of the Living God (X2)
Prayer of Confession (unison)
Gracious and Almighty God, we have surrounded ourselves with possessions real and imagined, the stuff of our lives. Our cars and our homes, our bank accounts and our credit limits, the expectations and edifices of economy and nation. They give us a sense of ourselves and our place, as if they are just as permanent as the stars. But against the span of your creation, they are nothing. If we make them more significant to us than the things that matter to you...our love of one another, our commitment to caring for both friend and stranger...then we have not understood their place in our lives. Remind us and guide us to right understanding, Lord. In Christ we ask this, AMEN.
Assurance of Pardon
Leader: Who is in a position to condemn?
All: Only Christ, who lived for us, died for us, and reigns in power for us.
Leader: Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation altogether. The
past is finished and gone. Everything is fresh and new.
Friends, what is the good news of the Gospel?
Unison: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. AMEN.
Anthem There is none like you arr. John Purifoy
Scripture Readings:
First: Psalm 16
Second: 1 Samuel 2:1-10
Hymn 618 O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
Third: Mark 13:1-8
Sermon: Seduced by Greatness
Affirmation of Faith (adapted from the Confession of 1967)
The institutions of the people of God change and vary as their mission requires in different times and places. The unity of the church is compatible with a wide variety of forms, but it is hidden and distorted when variant forms are allowed to harden into sectarian divisions, exclusive denominations, and rival factions Wherever the church exists, its members are both gathered in corporate life and dispersed in society for the sake of mission in the world.
Hymn 306 Blest Be the Tie That Binds
Charge and Benediction1
