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Order of Worship Sept 6@10am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
September 6, 2026 15th Sunday After Pentecost
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Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship (based on Psalm 119: 33-40)
L/ Teach us your ways Lord. Make us to keep your decrees until the very end.
P/ Give us understanding of your laws and obedience to your commands that we might love those we encounter.
L/ Let us find delight in your ways and turn our hearts toward you, O Lord.
P/ Turn our eyes and hearts from worthless things like fame or power or riches and center us on your Life-Preserving Word.
L/ May we see the fulfillment of God’s promises and learn to Fear the Lord.
P/ May we know God righteousness that we might Live in God’s Ways and walk on God’s paths.
Hymn of Praise: # 561 We Gather Together
Confession and Assurance
L/ Let us take a moment of silence to reflect on our need for forgiveness…
P/ O Lord, we confess that we have sinned. In what we have said and done, and in what we have failed to say or do. Forgive us and send your Spirit that we might turn again to your ways and learn to love you and our neighbors and ourselves. In the name of Jesus we pray.
L/ Hear these words of scripture: “Praise to the Lord for God has heard my plea for mercy! The Lord alone is my strength and shield and my heart trusts in Him” (Psalm 28: 6-7) Beloved this is the Good News! Jesus has come and washed us in His blood and we are free now to love and serve Him! Amen!
Hymn: #519 Something Beautiful
Passing of the Peace
Doxology “Praise God…”
Children’s Chat Tammy Botts
Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Ezekiel 33: 10-11
New Testament: Romans 13: 8-14
Sermon ”Love even in the present time”
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
Hymn: Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow
Prayers of the People
Sacrament of the Lord’s Table
Words of Institution 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26
Invitation
L/ The Lord be with you P/ And also with you
L/ Lift your hearts P/ We lift them to God
L/ Worship and give thanks P/ We worship God and sing praise
L/ We give thanks and praise, O God our Father, for your saving love poured out in all of human history—the blessing of your Word and Spirit at creation, the deliverance of your people from the flood, the way of justice rolling down like water in the prophets, the river of life that flows from your throne eternally.
We give you thanks and praise especially for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. He poured out your love on the cross, a love not just for us but for all the world! Through baptism, teaching, and service, he taught us in love. Through his death and resurrection, He feeds us and remakes us. Through his ascension He sends us to bring the Good News in word and deed, witnesses to the love and grace that flows through Him from you, O Father.
We give thanks for the Holy Spirit. The Spirit pours out your love into our hearts and spurs us to service, transforming us by the Gospel of Salvation through the Font of New Life, and the Feast of our Redemption by the Lamb, and by the preaching of your Word that promises Jesus’s coming again.
So let our voices join with those who have been, are now, and will be some day gathered around your throne singing the song of heaven:
P/ Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, Heaven and earth are full of your glory. (Isaiah 6: 3; Revelation 4:8) Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is the one that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest! (Psalm 118:25; Matthew 21:9)
L/ We remember on the night Jesus showed us the depth of God’s love, when He gathered with his friends at Table…
L/ So we gather again at the Table, united as His people and fed by His love. Only say the word Lord, for we are not worthy (Matthew 8:8). Lord, we believe, help our unbelief (Mark 9:24)
P/ Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is Yours Almighty Father, forever and ever. Amen. (Romans 11:36)
Lord’s Prayer (using debts, debtors)
Communion
The Elders and Deacons will bring the bread and cup. Please take and pass, holding each until we can eat or drink them together. We do not limit age but leave that to parents. All may receive who seek Jesus.
Prayer of Thanksgiving (from our Reformed Heritage)
L/ Thank you, O God, for making us one in this sacrament—one in body, one in Spirit, one in faith and the baptism we share. Thank you for uniting us with you, our one Lord and Savior. Send us out as one people in your service under your name; that of Jesus Christ. (PCUSA Book of Common Worship, 2018)
Benediction
Closing Hymn: # 452 Make Me A Blessing
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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.