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.
October 20, 2024
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
G ATHERING IN THE P RESENCE OF THE R ISEN C HRIST
PRAYER OF PREPARATION
Faced with your presence, O God, we have no basis for comparison. Words fall short and our feelings betray us. Still, you became like us, speaking words we could understand, calling us to become lower still and to show love unto death. Invite us again and again into this mystery of faith, that we may, in manifold ways, offer ourselves to you and one another. Amen.
VOLUNTARY Prelude in F
Johann Krebs
(Please use the opening voluntary as a time of silent meditation and preparation for worship.)
SALUTATION
One: Give thanks to God for the faith we share; Many: be steadfast in hope through Jesus Christ.
INTROIT He that Hath My Commandments
Linda McLaughlin
Thomas Shorter
He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me. If any man love me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him and dwell with him.
† Those able are invited to stand Bold text is read or sung by all
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: The Lord is wrapped in light as with a garment. You make the winds your messengers, fire and flame your ministers.
Many: You set the earth on its foundations so that it shall never be shaken.
One: O Lord, how manifold are your works. In wisdom, you have made us all.
Many: The earth is full of your creatures. Let us praise the Lord!
† HYMN 24 God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens HOLY
† PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O Lord, you have taught us that whoever wishes to become great must be a servant, and whoever seeks to be first must be last and servant of all. Still, O Lord, we are like James and John, seeking seats of glory. We organize our lives around ladders to climb, not realizing that we are stepping on people whom you love. Forgive us, O Christ, and teach us to follow in your way, for the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: Now stand firm in your faith, covered by the saving grace of God and ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
Many: Thanks be to God.
MANNA
† GLORIA GLORIA PATRI
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, Amen.
R EADING AND H EARING THE W ORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Sally Songy
FIRST LESSON Job 38:1-7, 34-41
One: The Word of the Lord. Many: Thanks be to God.
Old Testament Page 484
† HYMN 34 Bless the Lord, My Soul and Being! (Psalm 104) RUSTINGTON
SECOND LESSON Hebrews 5:1-10
THIRD LESSON Mark 10:35-45
SERMON “Courtroom Drama”
New Testament Page 220
New Testament Page 47
The Rev. Seelman
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH adapted from the Confession of 1967 9.32-33
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission. His human life involves the church in the common life of all people. His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of human well-being. His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need. His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations, and the awful consequences of the church’s own complicity in injustice. In the power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong. The church follows this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action. So to live and serve is to confess Christ as Lord.
† 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 Teach Me, O Lord Thomas Attwood
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it, and I shall keep it unto the end.
† 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.
… 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. … now and forever.
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 feast.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
B EARING AND F OLLOWING THE W ORD OF G OD INTO THE W ORLD † HYMN 725 O Jesus, I Have Promised
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 Toccata on Grosser Gott, Wir Loben Dich Flor Peeters
L EADING IN W ORSHIP T ODAY
The Rev. Stuart Seelman, Pastor
Joseph Garrison, Minister of Music and Worship
Sally Songy, Lector
Linda McLaughlin, Liturgist
Ellen Kamps, 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 Ronald Bair Hartranft by Estelle Hartranft.
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, October 20– 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
8:30 am- Nominating Committee Meeting
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir warm-up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship- The Rev. Stuart Seelman
11:30 am- Adult Forum- Downtown Daily Bread presentation
Sunday, October 27 – 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir warm-up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship- The Rev. Stuart Seelman
11:30 am- Adult Forum- Learn Churchtrac presented by Krystle Whitley
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.
Liturgy reprinted and adapted by permission from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved.
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