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.
November 10, 2024
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
G ATHERING IN THE P RESENCE OF THE R ISEN C HRIST
PRAYER OF PREPARATION
O God, your blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of evil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life. Having this hope, purify us as he is pure; that, when he comes again, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom. Amen.
VOLUNTARY Andante Karl Heinrich Zöllner
(Please use the opening voluntary as a time of silent meditation and preparation for worship.)
SALUTATION Nathan Garman
One: Choose this day whom you will serve. Many: We will serve and obey the Lord our God.
INTROIT The Gift of Love
Hal Hopson
Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire, and have not love; my words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain. Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess, but not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin. Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole. Let inward love guide every deed. By this, we worship and are freed. Amen.
† Those able are invited to stand Bold text is read or sung by all
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it will labor in vain.
Many: Unless the Lord guards the city, the guards keep watch in vain.
One: Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors God.
Many: Those who go the right way will be shown the salvation of God.
One: Let us call upon the Lord our God in the halls of worship.
† HYMN 697 Take My Life
† PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O Christ, you praised the gift of the widow, who had so little and gave it all. Forgive us for turning our eyes away from people who are trapped in poverty. Forgive us for turning our resources into reasons for pride or greed. Forgive us, O Christ, and by your forgiveness, teach us to follow in your way of generosity.
† SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION
KYRIE
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ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: Believe the good news of the gospel. The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. In Jesus Christ you are forgiven.
Many: Thanks be to God.
† 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
FIRST LESSON Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
One: The Word of the Lord.
Many: Thanks be to God.
Ellen Kamps
Old Testament Page 243
† HYMN 46 Unless the Lord the House Shall Build (Psalm 127) BOURBON
SECOND LESSON Hebrews 9:24-28
THIRD LESSON Mark 12:38-44
SERMON
New Testament Page 224
New Testament Page 49
“Opposite the Treasury” The Rev. Seelman
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH adapted from the Confession of 1967
In each time and place there are particular problems and crises through which God calls the church to act. The church, guided by the Spirit, humbled by its own complicity and instructed by all attainable knowledge, seeks to discern the will of God and learn how to obey in these concrete situations. Jesus Christ has given the church preaching and teaching, praise and prayer, and Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as means of fulfilling its service of God among people. These gifts remain, but the church is obliged to change the forms of its service in ways appropriate to different generations and cultures.
† THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Many: And also with you.
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FOCUS: STEWARDSHIP
THE OFFERING OF TITHES AND GIFTS TO GOD
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ANTHEM You Will I Love
Kevin Hildebrand
You will I love, my strength, my tower; You will I love, my hope, my joy; You will I love with all my power, with fervor time cannot destroy. You will I love, O Light divine, so long as life is mine. You will I love, my life, my Savior; You are my best, my truest friend; You will I love and praise forever, for never shall your kindness end. Your love for me casts out my fear; You are my Savior dear. I thank you, Jesus, sun from heaven, whose radiance has brought light to me; I thank you, who has richly given all that could make me glad and free. I thank you that my soul is healed with love that you revealed. Oh, keep me watchful, then, and humble, and never suffer me to stray; uphold me when my feet stumble, and keep me faithful to your way. Full all my nature with your light, O Radiance strong and bright! You will I love, my crown of gladness, You will I love, my God and Lord, within the darkest depths of sadness, and not for hope of high reward. For your own sake, O Light divine, so long as life is mine.
† 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.
… who forever sing to the glory of your name:
The prayer continues.
… the One crucified and risen:
INTERCESSION, SUPPLICATION, AND CONSECRATION
One: Let your will be done
Many: on earth as in heaven.
… 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 708 We Give Thee but Thine Own SCHUMANN † 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 Hyfrydol
Edward L. Good
L EADING IN W ORSHIP T ODAY
The Rev. Stuart Seelman, Pastor
Joseph Garrison, Minister of Music and Worship
Thomas Ernst, Lector
Amy Chick, Liturgist
Amelia Ernst, Acolyte
The Chancel Choir
Chris Earhart, baritone
Maddie Felix, piano
F LOWER D EDICATION
The flowers in the sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of my sister and her husband, Linda and Jim Hinchee, by Marna Holt.
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, November 10 – 25th Sunday after Pentecost
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir Warm Up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship 11:30 am- Adult Forum
Sunday, November 17– 26th Sunday after Pentecost
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir Warm Up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship
11:30 am- Adult Forum
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.
Liturgy reprinted and adapted by permission from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved.
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