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Order of Service 9/27 @11am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
September 27, 2026 18th Sunday After Pentecost
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Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship (based on Psalm 25)
L/ To you O God we lift up our souls; for in God we trust all our days.
P/ Show us your ways O Lord and teach us your paths. Guide us in truth and hope.
L/ God instructs sinners and brings love upon all peoples. God is Good.
P/ God’s ways are loving and faithful and God calls us into covenant community.
L/ Our refuge and hope is only in God, who redeems us.
Hymn of Praise: #68 There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy
Confession and Assurance
L/ Let us take a moment of silence to reflect on our need for forgiveness…
P/ Holy and merciful God, in your presence we confess our failure to be what you created us to be. You alone know how often we have sinned in wandering from your ways, in wasting your gifts, in forgetting your love. By your loving mercy, help us to live in the light and abide in your ways, through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen
L/Hear these words of scripture: “And the God of grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore you and make you strong and steadfast.” (1 Peter 5: 10) I declare that we are forgiven and free because of the blood of the Lamb, Jesus. Now go and serve the Lord, giving God the glory and living in God’s grace.
Doxology “Glory Be to the Father…”
Special Music Pam Keverline
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Chat Tammy Botts
Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Daniel 1: 8-16
New Testament: Philippians 2: 12-17
Sermon “Life-filled Living” Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon
Affirmation of Faith: (Confession of 1967, PCUSA Book of Confessions, 9.31-32)
All/ To be reconciled to God is to be sent into the world as God’s reconciling community. This community, the church universal, is entrusted with God’s message of reconciliation and shares Christ’s labor of healing the divisions which separate human from God and from each other. Christ has called the church to this mission and given it the gift of the Holy Spirit. This means the church maintains continuity with the apostles and with the chosen people of Israel by faithful obedience to this call. The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission: Jesus’s coming as a human means the church is involved in the common life of humans. Jesus’ service commits the church to work for human well-being. Jesus’ suffering connects the church then with all those who suffer and means the church should see the face of Christ in all those in need. His crucifixion commits the church to call out inhumanity and injustice in all its forms. His resurrection and promised coming again unites the church in the hope of God’s promises and the renewal of Life in society and individual lives, rejoicing and proclaiming God’s victory and salvation.
We Offer Our Tithes of Time, Talent, and Resources
Special Music Pam Keverline
Hymn: Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow
Prayers of the People
Lord’s Prayer (using debts, debtors)
Prayer of Thanksgiving from our Reformed Tradition
L/ God of life, you filled all of creation with beauty. Thank you for the gift of music and the arts which helps us to see you more clearly. Thank you for the whole gifts and ministry of your people that helps us all to experience your love. Thank you for all the opportunities to celebrate and find joy in your creation. You truly fill us all with Life! (PCUSA Book of Common Worship, 2018)
Benediction
Closing Hymn: #493 It is Well with my Soul
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Our Mission:
Led by the Spirit, we as a worshipping body of Christ, discern God’s will so as to participate in God’s mission at home, in our neighborhood and wherever HE sends us in the world.