Order, Words, & Voices
08.27.23, Speaker Dianne McNarry
Order
Pre Worship Music
Opening Song Lynn/Linda/Segun
House of the Lord
Enter His Gates
Call to Worship Response/Lord’s Prayer Rick
Reading 2 Samuel 9:9-13 Musgroves
Songs Better Is One Day Lynn/Linda/Segun
Cornerstone
Message Diane McNarry (Guest) Diane
Music Love Ran Red Lynn/Linda/Segun
Community/Peace Rick
Benediction/Closing Peace Rick
Post Worship Music
Music (slides) – Lynn/Linda/Segun
We worship the God who was
We worship the God who is
We worship the God who evermore will be
He opened the prison doors
He parted the raging sea
My God He holds the victory yeah
Chorus
There’s joy in the house of the Lord
There’s joy in the house of the Lord today
And we won’t be quiet
We shout out Your praise
There’s joy in the house of the Lord
Our God is surely in this place
And we won’t be quiet
We shout out Your praise
Interlude
Oh oh oh
We shout out Your praise
Verse 2
We sing to the God who heals
We sing to the God who saves
We sing to the God who always makes a way
‘Cause He hung up on that cross
Then He rose up from that grave
My God’s still rolling stones away
Bridge
(‘Cause) We were the beggars
Now we’re royalty
We were the prisoners
Now we’re running free
We are forgiven accepted
Redeemed by His grace
Let the house of the Lord sing praise
Interlude
There is joy in this house oh yeah
There is joy there is joy
And we won’t be quiet
We’re gonna shout out Your praise
Ending
We shout out Your praise
There is joy in this house
There is joy in this house today
We shout out Your praise
We shout out Your praise
I will enter His gates
With thanksgiving in my heart
I will enter His courts with praise
I will say this is the day
That the Lord has made
I will rejoice
For He has made me glad
Chorus
He has made me glad
He has made me glad
I will rejoice for
He has made me glad
He has made me glad
He has made me glad
I will rejoice for
He has made me glad
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Call to Worship (Slides) – Rick
Leader: We made the choice, a choice to walk away from God, a choice to abandon our seat at the table. So, God enlarged the table, God invited us to have a seat.
Response: The table is where Grace begins.
Leader: We were a motley crew of misfits, liars, thieves, doubters, sinners, shameful, hopeless and unwelcome.
Response: Mercy drew us near.
Leader: At the table we found the heroes and cowards, the prisoners and the soldiers, the young and the old, the rich and the poor.
Response: We sat next to the hungry and the thirsty, the last and the first, the paupers and the princes.
Leader: We sat amongst those who were failures and now forgiven, those who were sufferers and now dreamers, those who were in chains and were now free.
Response: We shoulders with those who had been lost but now are found.
Leader: Our painful labels by which we had been identified were removed and we were given new labels that identified us as loved.
Response: We now wear labels that identify us as forgiven, delivered, and redeemed.
Leader: When all hope seemed lost, the door opened – we were invited to the table where we sat with the rescued and transformed.
Response: We had nothing left to give as we sat down by the Savior.
Leader: Pain gave way to God’s Compassion, Hopelessness was replaced by God’s Mercy, Chaos was calmed by God’s Peace, Hatred absorbed and changed in the presence of the God who is Love.
Response: Lostness was guided home by God’s grace.
(Adapted from the writings of Ben Glover, Ben McDonald, Dave Frey)
Lord’s Prayer (Slides) ‘Join me in the prayer of Jesus’ – Rick
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. Forgive us our trespasses, while 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 forever. Amen.
Reading Musgroves
Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s grandson.
You and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat, but your master’s grandson Mephibosheth shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” Mephibosheth ate at David’s table, like one of the king’s sons.
Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba’s house became Mephibosheth’s servants.
Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he always ate at the king’s table. Now he was lame in both his feet.
2 Samuel 9:9-13
Music (Slides) Lynn/Linda/segun
How lovely is Your dwelling place
O Lord almighty
For my soul longs and even faints for You
For here my heart is satisfied
Within Your presence
I sing beneath the shadow of Your wings
Chorus
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
(Than thousands elsewhere)
Verse 2
One thing I ask and I would seek
To see Your beauty
To find You in the place
Your glory dwells
(REPEAT)
Bridge
My heart and flesh cry out
For You the living God
Your Spirit’s water to my soul
I’ve tasted and I’ve seen
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You
I will draw near to You to You
Bridge
Better is one day better is one day
Better is one day than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day better is one day
Better is one day than thousands elsewhere
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name
(REPEAT)
Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all
Verse 2
When darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
My anchor holds within the veil
Interlude
He is Lord Lord of all
Verse 3
When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless stand before the throne
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Message (Slides) Diane McNarry
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Music (Slides) lynn/Linda/Segun
There’s a place
Where mercy reigns and never dies
There’s a place
Where streams of grace flow deep and wide
Where all the love I’ve ever found
Comes like a flood comes flowing down
Chorus
At the cross at the cross
I surrender my life
I’m in awe of You I’m in awe of You
Where Your love ran red and my sin washed white
I owe all to You I owe all to You (Jesus)
Verse 2
There’s a place
Where sin and shame are powerless
Where my heart
Has peace with God and forgiveness
Where all the love I’ve ever found
Comes like a flood comes flowing down
Bridge
Here my hope is found
Here on holy ground
Here I bow down here I bow down
Here arms open wide
Here You saved my life
Here I bow down here I bow (down)
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Community (Slides) Rick
- Next Sunday, Adding Good, II Peter 1:3-10
- Summer Bible Study resumes this Wednesday – James, Wednesday Nights @ 6:30pm for 4 weeks. August 9 – September 6. This week – James 3:1-12; 4:11-12; 5:12
- Fall Message Series beginning September 10 – ‘Becoming’, Readings schedule now posted at gfnorman.com
- Next Book Discussion Luncheon, ‘Making Sense of the Bible’, Some Books available in entry was -$15, or link on web page will take you to Amazon order page, luncheon will take place in October (date – TBA)
Benediction (Slides) Rick
As we leave this place we walk in a world that is not perfect but nonetheless a world that God has proclaimed is good. We continue because the breath of God still inflates our lungs and because God’s life sustaining gift continues to course through our veins.
Regardless of our gender, or any other label we wear, we are all called to live lives that preach and pastor the good news of Jesus to all of creation. A call to allow Jesus to be seen in every situation every time. To forgive others and to forgive ourselves. To love God and to love others as we also love ourselves.
May we continually choose to grow in our own understanding of the resurrection hope which carries us in peace while giving us the mercy, compassion, and grace to live confidently in God who loves us and calls us to life.
Closing Peace Rick
Leader: May the Peace and Hope of the Lord go with you.
Response: And also with you.
Leader: Go in the Peace and Hope of the Lord.
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