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Worship Service: Finding Strength in Challenging Times

Join us for a worship service focused on finding strength and comfort in challenging situations. We will have hymns, readings, and a message of hope and encouragement.

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Worship Service: Finding Strength in Challenging Times

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  1. February 19, 2017 Welcome to OPC

  2. Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell

  3. Prelude “Abide With Me/Etude Op. 10 Medley” Lighting of the candles Introit “Oh Lord”

  4. *CALL TO WORSHIP AND INVOCATION L: Sisters and brothers, sometimes we are faced with challenging situations. P: The raging waters of difficulties and stresses threaten to cover us over.

  5. L: We struggle, hurt, and worry. That’s bad. P: And yet we are comforted and rescued. That’s good. L: Where does our help come from?

  6. P: Our help comes from the Lord God Almighty, who is our rock and refuge. ALL: Join us, O Lord, as we worship and praise you. Hear us as we praise your mighty deeds.

  7. *HYMN #220“All People that on Earth do Dwell” v.1 All people that on earth do dwell,Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell, Come ye before Him and rejoice.

  8. *HYMN #220“All People that on Earth do Dwell” v.2 Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid He did us make; We are His folk, He doth us feed, And for His sheep He doth us take.

  9. *HYMN #220“All People that on Earth do Dwell” v.3 O enter then His gates with praise, Approach with joy His courts unto; Praise, laud, and bless His name always, For it is seemly so to do.

  10. *HYMN #220“All People that on Earth do Dwell” v.4 For why? The Lord our God is good, His mercy is forever sure; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall from age to age endure.

  11. *PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) Holy and Merciful One, too often the stresses and the challenges of the day overwhelm us. In our distress, we forget to love one another;

  12. in our pain we lash out at others; in our sorrow we seek other gods to fill our emptiness and remove our pain. As our energy and patience wane,

  13. we give up on you and each other. Forgive us our shortcomings. Strengthen and comfort us. Restore us to wholeness and trust in you.

  14. (silence is observed for reflection and prayer)

  15. ASSURANCEOF PARDON L: God deals faithfully and truly with us. Choosing to forget our mistakes, and to forgive our sins, God blesses us with love and hope.

  16. P: Blessed, forgiven, healed– we are God’s new people, going out to bring others to the good news of life. Thanks be to God. Amen.

  17. CHOIR ANTHEM “Jacob’s Ladder” ~Perry/Perry

  18. Time With Young Christians

  19. PROCLAIMING THE WORD SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 71:1-6,12-16

  20. In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me,for you are myrock and myfortress.

  21. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it wasyou who took mefrom my mother’s womb.

  22. My praise is continually of you. O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed; let those who seek to hurt me be covered with scorn anddisgrace.

  23. But I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all day long, though their number is past my knowledge.

  24. I will come praising the mighty deeds of the Lord God, I will praise your righteousness, yours alone.

  25. SCRIPTURE READING: Philippians 4:1-13

  26. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be ofthe same mindin the Lord.

  27. Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in thebook of life.

  28. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication withthanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

  29. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is

  30. whatever is Pure, Whatever is Pleasing, whatever is commendable,

  31. if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peacewill be with you.

  32. I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me, but had no opportunity to show it. Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to becontent withwhatever I have.

  33. I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of beingin need.

  34. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. L: This is the Word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

  35. “The Lord Is Near” Rev. Tedd Pullano

  36. “The Lord is Near”

  37. “Paul's sense of joy is not the absence of pain or fear, but the presence of Christ, in whom he places his hope and trust.” William Loader

  38. For Paul, joy and life beyond constant worry come not when one has mastered this or that spirituality, or when they arrive “special delivery” from God, but when one perceives God’s action even amid difficulty and pain. Nathan Eddy

  39. “Sorrow and tragedy cannot always be held at bay but we have power in the resurrection – power to sustain, to be encouraged and to be hope-filled.”

  40. Romans 8: 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  41. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.1 Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why should my heart be lonelyAnd long for heaven and home,

  42. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.1 When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is he: His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me.

  43. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.1 His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me. I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free.

  44. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.1 For His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me.

  45. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.2 “Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear, And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;

  46. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.2 Though by the path He leadeth, But one step I may see: His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me.

  47. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.2 His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me. I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free.

  48. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.2 For His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me.

  49. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.3 Whenever I am tempted, Whenever clouds arise, When songs give place to sighing, When hope within me dies,

  50. *HYMN #2146“His Eye is On the Sparrow” v.3 I draw the closer to him, From care He sets me free: His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me.

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