Order of Worship – September 22, 2024

September 22, 2024, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Speaker: The Rev. Beverley Shepansky

Liturgist: Dan Han

10:15 - 11:30 AM at the Chapel

 


Favourite hymns and songs

Prelude: "How deep the Father's love for us"

Welcome

Land Acknowledgement

We want to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples: Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations.

Call to Worship - Responsive

(From Psalm 1)
Happy are those who take delight in the law of the Lord.
They are like trees planted by streams of water. In all that they do they prosper.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous.
May God number us with the righteous as we worship the Lord.
Let us worship God!

Hymn: "Joyful, joyful we adore thee" Book of Praise #410

Prayer of Adoration

Prayer of Confession - Unison

Help us to remember, O Lord, for we seem to practice forgetting. We forget who made us and why, we forget your daily grace and unremitting love, we forget your forgiveness of ourselves and our neighbours. We forget so much because there are some things we remember too well: perceived injustices done to us, times of betrayal and cowardice we try to keep hidden, moments of envy and pride of which we are ashamed. Forgive our sins, our sins of forgetting and remembering, and help us, we pray, to trust in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, who buries all our sins deep in the tomb of his own death and raises us up daily to a life of happy service in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Assurance of God's Grace and Pardon

The Nicene Creed

We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, begotten from the Father before all ages, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made; of the same essence as the Father. ​
Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, and was made human.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried. ​
The third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead.
His kingdom will never end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and to life in the world to come.
Amen.

Passing of the Peace

Catechism for Today (from the Presbyterian Church in Canada)

Question 73. What is the ministry of the church?
The Lord continues his ministry in and through the church. All Christians are called to participate in the ministry of Christ. As his body on earth we all have gifts to use in the church and in the world to the glory of Christ, our King and Head.
Question 74. Why then does the church have ministers?
While all believers have the same status before God and the same task to share the gospel, not all have the same office or function. Christ has given his church ministers of word and sacraments to equip it for its ministry in the world and to build up his body.

Hymn: "I, the Lord of sea and sky" Book of Praise #592

Prayer for understanding

Scripture reading: James 3: 13 to 4:3; 7 - 8a (NRSV)

Sermon: “Come close to God”

Hymn: "Father, I adore you" Book of Praise #292

Prayers of the People

Offering

Doxology

Song: "Lord, the light of your love is shining" Book of Praise #376

Charge and Benediction

Three-fold Amen

Postlude: “To God be the glory”