The Lord’s Day, May 26, in the Lord’s Year 2024
Trinity Sunday – 1st Sunday after Pentecost
Please speak bold words and sing italicized words. *we invite you to stand if able.
Prelude & Quiet Prayer – five minutes before service (9:55-10:00 am)
Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And blessed be his kingdom, now and forever. Amen.
* Hymn 101 Come, Thou Almighty King TRINITY
* Invocation
* Confession of Sin: Gracious God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you have promised to receive us when we come to you. We confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you or our neighbors as we should. Forgive us, O God, and grant that in the Holy Spirit we may live and serve you in newness of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
* Declaration of Forgiveness: If you have repented of your sin and turned in faith to Jesus Christ, I can declare through Christ’s atoning death and life-giving resurrection that you are forgiven in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
* New Life in Christ: If you love God, keep his commandments. Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
* Response (Hymn 334, verse 2) TRENTHAM
Breathe on me, breath of God, until my heart is pure,
Until my will is one with thine, to do and to endure.
O Lord, open our lips, and our mouths shall show forth your praise.
* Gloria Patri (Hymn 735) GLORIA PATRI (GREATOREX)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
* The Peace of Christ The peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
Welcome & Announcements; Scripture & Catechism – see Bell Ringer
Honoring the Fallen on the Eve of Memorial Day
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness, and ev’ry gain divine!
All in All – You are my strength when I am weak, You are the treasure that I seek, You are my all in all. Seeking You as a precious jewel, Lord, to give up I’d be a fool, You are my all in all.
Refrain: Jesus, Lamb of God, worthy is Your name (2x).
Taking my sin, my cross, my shame, rising up again I bless Your name, You are my all in all. When I fall down You pick me up, when I am dry You fill my cup, You are my all in all.
Gathering Prayer (Collect for Trinity Sunday) – Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for the Reading of the Holy Scriptures
Isaiah 6:1-8 Romans 8:12-17 The Word of the Lord.
Psalm 29 John 3:1-17 Thanks be to God.
Sermon – “Adopted Inheritors”
The Athanasian Creed
Hymn 103 Holy God, We Praise Your Name GROSSER GOTT, WIR LOBEN DICH
Prayers of the People
Offering Gifts
Offertory (Hymn 729) HERR JESU CHRIST
All things are thine; no gift have we, Lord of all gifts, to offer thee; and hence with grateful hearts today, thine own before thy feet we lay.
* Doxology (Hymn 731) OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
* Offertory Prayer
* Hymn 100 Holy, Holy, Holy NICAEA
* Benediction
Postlude
The Ward Hill Church Bell Ringer
May 26, 2024 – Trinity Sunday
Wishing You a Beautiful and Meaningful Memorial Day
Congregational Meeting for Membership – TODAY after the service
Lord’s Day and Midweek Schedule through June
May 29 Prayer and Bible Study
June 2 2nd Sunday after Pentecost*
June 5 Prayer and Bible Study
June 9 3rd Sunday after Pentecost and Children’s Day
June 16 4th Sunday after Pentecost* and Father’s Day
June 23 5th Sunday after Pentecost
June 30 6th Sunday after Pentecost+
Sunday services at 10 am. Fellowship and discipleship time after the service through June 9. Midweek meetings at 5 pm.
* Service of Holy Communion. + Service of Healing.
VISITORS – Thank you for joining us. We appreciate your presence, and we hope you feel at home with us. If you have any questions, please ask. We hope to see you again soon. Email: wardhillchurch@gmail.com
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Church Calendar & Lectionary
Season: Ordinary Time after Pentecost (May 20 – November 30, 2024)
Color: Green – for the growth of the Kingdom of God
Sun., June 2: Proper 4 – 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary: 1 Sam. 3:1-20; Ps. 139:1-6,13-18; 2 Cor. 4:5-12; Mark 2:23-3:6
Hymns: 108 – Whate’er My God Ordains Is Right; 36 – Lord, Thou Has
Searched Me; 37 – All That I Am I Owe to Thee
Monthly Prayer Focus for May
Local Church Focus: West Congregational Church (CCCC), Haverhill – Chris Ziegler, pastor; Missions Focus: CCCC’s Micronesia & World Relief
Community Resources – Food, Clothing, Shelter, & Other Help
www.communityactioninc.org/phocadownload/resource_guide_english_october_2017.pdf National Suicide Hotline: 988
Pregnancy Care Center: Text: 978-746-8149; Call: 978-373-5700 Refugee Ministries: Interserve USA (interserveusa.com); Emmanuel Gospel Center’s Greater Boston Refugee Ministry (www.egc.org/refugee) Global Crisis Help: World Relief – worldrelief.org; Information on Persecuted Christians: Open Doors USA – opendoorsusa.org
Monthly Scripture Memory for May
Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV) – 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Weekly Catechism: Outline of the Faith
Q. What do we mean by the resurrection of the body?
A. We mean that God will raise us from death in the fullness of our being, that we may live with Christ in the communion of the saints.
Q. What is the communion of saints?
A. The communion of saints is the whole family of God, the living and the dead, those whom we love and those whom we hurt, bound together in Christ by sacrament, prayer, and praise.
Q. What do we mean by everlasting life?
A. By everlasting life, we mean a new existence, in which we are united with all the people of God, in the joy of fully knowing and loving God and each other.
Q. What, then, is our assurance as Christians?
A. Our assurance as Christians is that nothing, not even death, shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
