Sunday, July 26, 2026
9th Sunday after Pentecost
Welcome/Announcements/Prelude
*All standing in body or spirit
*Call to Worship (congregation reading bold):
Beloved, this is the core of our faith: nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Thanks be to God!
God’s never-ending love surrounds us and calls us, assuring us that through God’s love, all things will work together for God’s good purposes.
Thanks be to God!
God’s never-breaking love empowers us in the face of temptation, distress, division, and scarcity to hold onto our faith and work together for the flourishing of all God’s good creation.
Thanks be to God!
Come, let us worship God who is Love, trusting that through joy and sorrow, happiness and despair, contentment and pain, Love will carry us through.
Thanks be to God who forms, connects, and guides us through Love. Amen.
*Opening Prayer:
God, Your extravagant love has called us together. Long before we even knew You, You already knew us, and had chosen us to be part of Your own family. What amazing love You have shown toward us! And so we come before You with praise and thanksgiving, offering You the worship of our hearts and lives, and opening ourselves to the prompting and leading of Your Holy Spirit. May the time we spend here in Your presence bring honour and glory to Your Name. Amen.
*Prayer of Confession (in unison):
Creator of all things, who rejoiced in your creation at the beginning of the world; forgive us our sins of greed, selfishness, and carelessness by which we daily damage the beauty to which we have become insensitive. We ask not only forgiveness, but also the power to turn away from our headlong course of destruction, and instead to share in your constant work of creation in preparation for the time when our kingdom comes to earth as it is in heaven. This we ask through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen
*Opening Hymn: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name #154
*Gloria Patri #70
New Testament Lesson: Matthew 13: 31-33, 44-52
Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God.
People: Thanks be to God.
Hymn: We, Thy People, Praise Thee #67
Sermon: Weaving the Future
Hymn: Open Our Eyes TFWS #2086
Prayer Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer (in unison)
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, forever. Amen.
Offertory Prelude (Please remain seated)
*Doxology (Please stand as the offering is brought forward)
*Offertory Prayer
Bless these offerings, that they may bring hope to the weary, peace to the troubled, and joy to the hearts of your people. Through Christ, our Redeemer and Companion, we pray. Amen.
*Closing Hymn: Be Thou My Vision #451
*Benediction:
Go now in the blessing and assurance that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Amen.
Postlude
