Grace Presbyterian Church WOrship Bulletin
January 19, 2025
Order of Worship
January 19, 2025
Rev. Dr. Stephen A. Kisslinger, Guest Preacher
Dre Manoni, Elder on Call
Grace Presbyterian Church
Following Jesus, we love, welcome, and serve.
Welcome & Announcements
Prelude “Come, Thou Almighty King with We Will Glorify” arr. Tornquist
Call to Worship:
God of abundant love and countless miracles of creation, we thank you for the invitation to come to the celebration of worship today.
It is a good day to be alive, a good day to be gathered together with our church family, a good day to be reminded of the truths of our faith, to sing, to worship, to bear witness to what we believe, and to pray.
When we read about Jesus at the wedding, we remember festivities we have attended, some of us not long ago at Christmas and New Years and all the holiday parties that spring up in the winter holiday season.
Some of us even enjoyed good wine, others good Coca Cola.
But now a New Year has begun, the sparkle season is past and we are back to the dailiness of life.
God is Good in the dailiness of life, as well as in the celebrations, and in the times of sorrow.
Come let us worship God.
We worship the Giver of all good gifts, the Redeemer, the One who leads us home.
**Hymn #12 “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
**Affirmation of Faith
In life and death we belong to God. We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God. We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image, of every race and people, to live in one community. We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Anthem (10:15) "In Everything I Do" Grace Notes Choir
Time with Young Disciples (10:15)
Scripture Reading John 2: 1-11
Message “What Do We Do with Miracle Stories?”
Prayers of the People with the Lord’s Prayer
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.
**Hymn “In Cana at a Wedding Feast” ELLACOMBE
**Benediction
**Choral Blessing (face center aisle to bless one another)
May the road rise to meet you, may the wind blow at your back, may the sun shine warmly on your face, may the rain fall softly on your field, and, until we meet again, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of God’s hand.
Postlude
**congregation standing in body or spirit
congregational responses in bold
lyrics printed with permission under One License #A-737483 and CCLI License #2545718
Worship Series liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art | sanctifiedart.org
Prelude “Come, Thou Almighty King with We Will Glorify” arr. Tornquist
Call to Worship:
God of abundant love and countless miracles of creation, we thank you for the invitation to come to the celebration of worship today.
It is a good day to be alive, a good day to be gathered together with our church family, a good day to be reminded of the truths of our faith, to sing, to worship, to bear witness to what we believe, and to pray.
When we read about Jesus at the wedding, we remember festivities we have attended, some of us not long ago at Christmas and New Years and all the holiday parties that spring up in the winter holiday season.
Some of us even enjoyed good wine, others good Coca Cola.
But now a New Year has begun, the sparkle season is past and we are back to the dailiness of life.
God is Good in the dailiness of life, as well as in the celebrations, and in the times of sorrow.
Come let us worship God.
We worship the Giver of all good gifts, the Redeemer, the One who leads us home.
**Hymn #12 “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
**Affirmation of Faith
In life and death we belong to God. We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God. We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image, of every race and people, to live in one community. We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Anthem (10:15) "In Everything I Do" Grace Notes Choir
Time with Young Disciples (10:15)
Scripture Reading John 2: 1-11
Message “What Do We Do with Miracle Stories?”
Prayers of the People with the Lord’s Prayer
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.
**Hymn “In Cana at a Wedding Feast” ELLACOMBE
**Benediction
**Choral Blessing (face center aisle to bless one another)
May the road rise to meet you, may the wind blow at your back, may the sun shine warmly on your face, may the rain fall softly on your field, and, until we meet again, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of God’s hand.
Postlude
**congregation standing in body or spirit
congregational responses in bold
lyrics printed with permission under One License #A-737483 and CCLI License #2545718
Worship Series liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art | sanctifiedart.org