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January 24, 2016
Welcome Guests
If you are a first-time guest, please complete a guest card from a pew pocket or Friendship Register and drop it in the offering plate so that we may acknowledge your visit and get acquainted with you. We are glad you have joined us for worship today. Note: “+” before a worship element indicates to stand if you are able. Please see an usher if you’d like a listening aid. WE LOVE CHILDREN! Your entire family is welcome here! Children’s worship bags filled with books and activities are available at the Sanctuary entrances. If you’d like an alternative for your children, childcare for birth through Pre-K is available on Level 2 at any point in the service. Our Welcome Center is also available for those with restless infants, and you can view the service on a monitor there. ONLINE/SMARTPHONE GIVING In addition to placing your offering in the offering plate, you can give online at 2bcliberty.org/giving or via your smartphone by scanning this QR code. Those who give electronically can participate in the offering using one of the cards in the pew rack.
Meditation
Take a few moments to prepare your heart and mind for today’s service...
“Your desire for more of God than you have right now, your longing for love, your need for deeper levels of spiritual transformation than you have experienced so far is the truest thing about you. You might think that your woundedness or your sinfulness is the truest thing about you or that your giftedness or your personality type or your job title or your identity as husband or wife, mother or father, somehow defines you. But, in reality, it is your desire for God and your capacity to reach for more of God than you have right now that is the deepest essence of who you are.” — Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
The Worship of God January 24, 2016
8:30 & 11:00 a.m.
Gathering
Milton Horne
Invitation to Worship
Allan Aunspaugh
Gratitude Moment
Marianne Neth
Candlelighting
Troy Walton
Prelude
“Adagio, Allegro”
G. F. Handel
+Hymn of Praise 353 “Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness” The Psalm
Psalm 19
JUBILEE, ALT
Roger Driskill (8:30) Bill Stilfield (11:00)
(Pew Bible, page 387, Old Testament)
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God! Practicing the Presence of God +Hymn 692
AURELIA
“Let Truth and Mercy Find Here” Prayers of the People Choral Worship
“Declare Your Maker’s Praise” The Sanctuary Choir Teresa Miller, oboe
Andy Pratt arr. Lloyd Larson
The Gospel Lesson
Luke 4:14-21 Anna Driskill (8:30) Ed Chasteen (11:00)
(Pew Bible, page 47, New Testament)
Leader: The Good News of Our Lord. People: Praise be to our Lord, Jesus Christ. Sermon
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Jason Edwards
+Hymn of Response 87 “Arise, Your Light Is Come”
FESTAL SONG
The worship of the living God invites our response. Those who wish to profess faith in Christ and/or to unite with the church are invited to come forward and share your decision with the pastor.
+Offertory Prayer Offertory
Roger Driskill (8:30) Larry Jones (11:00) “Allegro”
+Presentation of Offerings “Honor, Glory, Might, and Blessing” Honor, glory, might, and blessing to the Father and the Son, with the everlasting Spirit while unending ages run.
G. F. Handel STUTTGART
Latin ca. 6th Century
+A Time of Greeting
Jason Edwards
+Congregational Blessing
Jason Edwards
+The Sending Forth 481 “Go to the World!” Stanza 2 Go to the world! Go into every place. Go live the Word of God’s redeeming grace. Go seek God’s presence in each time and place. Alleluia. Alleluia.
SINE NOMINE
Words by Sylvia Dunstan, 1985 © 1991 by GIA Publications, Inc.
Postlude
“O Worship the King”
Gordon Young
All Songs UBP CCLI #1091036 Organ: Ann Posey Media: John Hilton, Bob Dusin
All Video UBP #502497070 Piano: Milton Horne (8:30) Brenda Lazenby (11:00) Sanctuary Sound: Dave Heston, Gary Pennington
PRAYER CONCERNS CELEBRATIONS Congratulations to Amy and Brandon Winchester on the birth of their son, Clayton Bryce, on Jan, 16. Clayton joins big brother Nolan and big sister Ellie. Proud relatives are grandparents Mike and Debbie Lassiter, uncles Joe Lassiter and Ben (Allison) Lassiter; and aunt Beka (Mike) Kentfield and cousins Ryley and Piper. Congratulations to Erin (Campbell) and Jonathon Lee on the birth of their daughter, Jocelyn Elizabeth, on Jan. 17. She weighed 6 lbs. 4 oz. Proud grandparents are Alan and Kathy Campbell Mazi.
CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY Christian sympathy is extended to the family of Barbara Bray who died on Jan. 15, 2016. Services were Jan. 20 in Greenwood, MO. Christian sympathy is extended to Randy and Terry Jeffries and family in the death of Randy’s dad, Ellis Jeffries, on Jan. 14. OTHER PRAYER CONCERNS Pee Wee Hamby, husband of Mary Hamby, former Clay-Platte Association secretary, died Jan. 19 Melissa Dolton; surgery Sherry Curtis; upcoming surgery Karen North; health Caleb Sherrin, preschool-age son of Kenny and Karen Sherrin, our Together for Hope Mission Partners; hospitalized in South Dakota with pneumonia and bronchitis
ď ł WORSHIP LEADERS TODAY Ed Chasteen and his wife, Bobbie, are 35-year members at Second Baptist Church. They are both retired teachers. Ed is an avid cyclist, blogger, and writer and is the founder of Hatebusters. Ed is reading today from a Bible that has great personal meaning, given to him by his friend Bob Guinee. Larry Jones and Linda joined Second in 2004. Larry serves as a deacon and enjoys serving coffee at the coffee bar on Sunday mornings. He is the Executive Director for the Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence.
Andy Pratt is vice present for Social Responsibility & Engagement at William Jewell College. He and wife, Pam, joined 2BC in 2002. They are parents to daughters Lydia Pratt Bunch (Daniel) and Abby, and grandparents to Gideon Clark Bunch. Bill Stilfield is a Liberty native who recently returned after spending forty years in Los Angeles working in the music industry. He is a member of the choir, and he and wife, Cathy, have been members of Second since 2013. Troy Walton is a third grader at Lewis and Clark Elementary. He is the son of Sara and Eric Walton.
ď ł CARE MINISTRY CARDS There is a Care Ministry card located in the pew racks that describes our ministry and provides an option to request prayer or care on the opposite side. We would like to encourage you to use the card to express a need. Simply fill out the information and place it in the offering plate during worship, or give the card to one of the pastoral staff members.
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Our Ministry Team Jason Edwards, Senior Pastor Allan Aunspaugh, Minister of Music | Ann Posey, Organist Mike Lassiter, Associate Pastor | Connie McNeill, Associate Pastor Charles Smith, Associate Pastor | Gwen Phillips, Children’s Pastor Linda Jones, Church Administrator
Getting Connected Each Sunday in the Welcome Center (just inside the Kansas Street entrance on Level 1), our Connections Team is waiting to help you get “connected.” This may include finding a Bible study class, showing you where children and student ministries meet, or sharing the days’ activities and schedule. You may also choose simply to enjoy a cup of coffee at the Welcome Center’s coffee bar and get to know others at Second.
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