08/16/2026
Order of Service
August 16, 2026
Meditation: “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles
and misguided men.”Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Welcome Joyce Situ
*Passing of the Peace
Prelude:
Call to Worship (responsive)Diana Hensley
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
People: Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised.
Leader: I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
People: Let us make a joyful noise to God with songs of thanksgiving.
Leader: May we be truly grateful for God’s unfailing goodness to us.
People: We thank God for the gift of life and all the blessings of this life.
*Hymn of Gathering: “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” UMH #89
*Congregational Prayer (in unison):
Our good and gracious God, by your love you have created us and through your love you
sustain us and in your love you would make us perfect: we humbly confess that we have
not loved you with all our heart and mind and soul and strength, and we have not loved
one another as Christ loved us. Forgive what we have been; help us to amend what we
are; and direct what we shall be. We ask this for the sake of your glory and our salvation.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Musical Interlude:
Prayers of the People:
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Sung Response: “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God” UMH #405
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
*Hymn of Preparation: “Take Time to Be Holy” UMH #395
Scripture Readings:
Mark 8:36 (NT, page 44)
Luke 6:47-49 (NT, page 65)
1 Corinthians 2:14 (NT, page 167)
Sermon: “How Is It with Your Soul?”Pastor Paul
Offering
*Doxology: “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” UMH #95
Sacrament of Communion (see insert)UMH
*Closing Hymn of Sending: “Open My Eyes, That I May See” UMH #89
Benediction
Postlude: “ ” by
"How Is It with Your Soul?": John Wesley, the founder of the Metho...
