Pine Street Presbyterian Church
in the City of Harrisbur g
Pine Street is a Welcoming Church, Glorifying God through Worship, Fellowship and Service in the World.
January 19, 2025
Second Sunday after Epiphany
G ATHERING IN THE P RESENCE OF THE R ISEN C HRIST
PRAYER OF PREPARATION
O God, our fountain of life, grant us your good gifts this day. Call us to drink from your water of delights. Welcome us to feast in your house of abundance. Teach us to find refuge in you as we learn to walk in your light together this day. Amen.
VOLUNTARY Allein Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ Johann Pachelbel
(Please use the opening voluntary as a time of silent meditation and preparation for worship.)
SALUTATION
One: The Lord is about to do a new thing
Many: Speak, O God, for your servants are listening.
† Those able are invited to stand Bold text is read or sung by all
Marty Gruver
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: The Lord’s steadfast love extends to the heavens.
Many: God’s faithfulness extends to the clouds.
One: God’s righteousness is like the mighty mountains.
Many: God’s saving judgment reaches further than the great depths.
One: All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Many: In your house, we feast on your abundance and drink from the river of joy.
One: Together, let us worship the fountain of our life and the light of our light!
† HYMN 619 Praise, My Soul, the God of Heaven
† PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Loving Lord, we long to be your faithful people, but our good intentions run out, and we come up empty. For all the ways we fall short in our sin, forgive us, Gracious One. Change us like water into wine to become what the world lacks, that our church, our community, our nation, and all creation may know your justice and love.
SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: God has lifted us up. Gone are old names of derision: Forsaken, Desolate, Loser, Nobody. Through the gifts of the Holy Spirit, God calls you by new names:
Many: Wise, Knowing, Faithful, Healer, Prophet, Caregiver.
LAUDA ANIMA
One: Hear, believer, and trust in your new name, in the image of the one whose name is above all names.
Many: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and set free!
† GLORIA
R EADING AND H EARING THE W ORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
Pam Bauer
FIRST LESSON Isaiah 62:1-5 Old Testament Page 692
One: The Word of the Lord.
Many: Thanks be to God.
† HYMN 477 Thy Mercy and Thy Truth, O Lord (Psalm 36) TALLIS’ ORDINAL
SECOND LESSON 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
THIRD LESSON John 2:1-11
New Testament Page 174
New Testament Page 93
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
From the PC(USA) Brief Statement of Faith (1983)
In life and in death we belong to God. Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve.
We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the Church. The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the church. In a broken and fearful world the Spirit gives us courage to pray without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask idolatries in Church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long silences, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace. In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying “Come, Lord Jesus!”
With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Many: And also with you.
WELCOME
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THE OFFERING OF TITHES AND GIFTS TO GOD
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ANTHEM Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing James Mulholland Come, Thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above; praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unchanging love! Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by Thy help I’m come; and I hope, by Thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God; He to rescue me from danger, interposed His precious blood. O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be! Let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee; prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above.
† PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Christ, all people here below; Praise Holy Spirit evermore; praise triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
† PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SEALING THE WORD SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
One: The Lord be with you.
Many: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
Many: We lift them to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Many: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
… of the universal church and the heavenly choir:
The prayer continues.
… as we share this joyful feast:
INTERCESSION, SUPPLICATION, AND CONSECRATION
One: In your mercy,
Many: Lord, hear our prayer.
LORD’S PRAYER
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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE BREAD AND CUP
One: The gifts of God for the people of God. Many: Let us keep the joyful feast.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
B EARING AND
F
OLLOWING THE W ORD OF G OD
INTO THE W
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† HYMN 733 We All Are One in Mission ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVOGELEIN † BENEDICTION
† CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Lift High the Cross CRUCIFER
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore his sacred name. Come, Christians, follow where our Savior trod, the Lamb victorious, Christ, the Son of God. Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore His sacred name.
VOLUNTARY Trumpet Tune in C Major David Lasky
L EADING IN W ORSHIP T ODAY
The Rev. Stuart Seelman, Pastor
Joseph Garrison, Minister of Music and Worship
Pam Bauer, Lector
Marty Gruver, Liturgist
Callie Garman, Acolyte
The Chancel Choir
F LOWER D EDICATION
The flowers in the sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of our parents, William and Gertrude Sharp, and Russel and Vera Kurtz by Deane and David Sharp.
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, Jan. 19– 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir Warm Up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship
Wednesday, Jan. 22– Adult Forum
7:00 pm- Zoom
Sunday, Jan. 26– 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir Warm Up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship
C OPYRIGHT N OTICE
Music in the bulletin is used with permission under OneLicense.net #A-71074. All rights reserved.
Liturgy was reprinted and adapted with permission from Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word® Worship Companion copyright 2013, and from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved.
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