Organ Prelude
Retrospection
Florence Price (1887)
Call to Worship
Leader: The voice of God resounds upon the water.
Circle: The Spirit of the Lord hovers over the stream.
Leader: The Son of God is named, “Beloved.”
Circle: And all who worship shout out, “Glory!”
Leader: Ascribe to the Lord majesty and strength.
Circle: Let us worship God in holy splendor!
Gathering Hymn
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
tune: Nicaea
(James Bacchus Dykes 1861)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns
around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name
in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity! Amen!
Reginald Heber, c. 1820, altered
Call to Confession
Leader: God loves us and calls us each by a name.
Knowing we are eternally forgiven and infinitely loved,
let us boldly confess our sins before God.
(Isaiah 43: 1)
Prayer of Confession
All: We are precious in your sight,
yet we often forget that we are your beloved.
We confess that our love is fickle and inconstant.
We follow selfish goals
and deny that our way of life harms others and
hurts your world.
We are sorry and we want to change.
Create in us a clean heart,
strengthen our resolve,
reconcile us one to another,
and bless us with your peace. Amen.
(Isaiah 43:4; Luke 3:22)
Declaration of Forgiveness
Leader:
Beloved, God forgives your sins;
Know that you are pardoned
And be at peace to love the Lord and serve the world.
Anthem
Listen, Sweet Dove
Grayston Ives, 1977
Listen sweet dove unto my song,
And spread thy golden wings in me;
Hatching my tender heart so long,
Till it get wing and flie away with thee.
Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow
The earth did like a heav’n appeare,
The starres were coming down to know
If they might mend their wages and serve here.
The sunne which once did shine alone,
Hung down his head and wisht for night,
When he beheld twelve sunnes for one
Going about the world and giving light.
Lord though we change thou art the same,
The same sweet God of love and light:
Restore this day for thy great name,
Unto his ancient and miraculous right.
George Herbert, 1633
Pastoral Prayer and Intercessions
Good and gracious God…
O God, on this day we offer special intercessions for…
And on this July 4th, we offer a special “Both/And” prayer for our nation…
The Prayer Jesus taught
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
trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever
and ever. Amen.
Hymn
Come down, O Love Divine
Down Ampney
Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
Come down, O Love Divine;
seek out this soul of mine,
and visit it with your own ardor glowing.
O comforter, draw near;
within my heart appear,
and kindle it, your holy flame bestowing.
O let it freely burn,
till earthly passions turn
to dust and ashes in its heat consuming.
And let your glorious light
shine ever on my sight,
and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
And so the yearning strong,
with which the soul will long,
shall far outpass the power of human telling.
For none can guess God’s grace,
till Love creates a place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.
Bianco da Siena, c. 1367
trans. Richard Frederick Littledale, 1867
Invitation to the Offertory
As people who have passed through the waters of baptism,
Let us make our grateful offering to God our Redeemer.
Let us pray:
Prayer of Thanksgiving
O God, at his baptism,
you acknowledged Jesus as your beloved Son,
And through him you opened to us a way
to become your children by grace.
May these gifts we return to you
be a sign of our dedication to live
as your faithful daughters and sons,
born in the waters of baptism by the power of the Holy
Spirit; through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.
Anthem
I Will Make a Way!
Tom Trenney, 2018
Behold! I will do a new thing!
Everything old has passed away.
See, everything old has become new.
I will make a way in the wilderness.
I will make rivers in the desert.
Do not remember the former things
or consider the ways of old.
The wild animals will honor me,
the jackals and ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness;
the desert shall be a pool.
(Based on Isaiah 43:19-20, and 2 Corinthians 5:17)
Sermon
The Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque, Community Church of Barrington, Illinois
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise God all creatures here below,
Praise God above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Scripture Reading
Isaiah 43:1-2, 19a; Acts 2:1-3
Reader: Marnette Perry
Sermon
The Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque, Community Church of Barrington, Illinois
Closing Hymn
Foundation
American Folk Melody
How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in God’s excellent Word!
What more can be said than to you God hath said,
to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
“When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
for I will be near thee, thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.”
“When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
the flame shall not hurt thee, I only design
thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.”
“The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no, never, no, never forsake.”
John Rippon’s A selection of Hymns, 1787
Benediction/Blessing
Benediction Response
John Stainer
Postlude
Toccato [sic] from Suite for Organ
Florence Price