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Order of Service Aug 2, 2026@10am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2026 10th Sunday After Pentecost

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Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship (based on Psalm 148)
L/ The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in love!
P/ God’s love fills us up—it is all we need!
L/ The Lord is good to everyone and has compassion on all that God has made!
P/ God’s love fills us up—the Father gives us all we need!
L/ All of creation will tell of God’s Kingdom and all peoples will come to know God’s wonderful deeds of salvation.
P/ God’s love fills us up—the Messiah gives us all we will ever need!
L/ God’s Kingdom is everlasting and God is faithful; God is full of love.
P/ God’s love fills us up—The Spirit gives life and love and that is all we need!

Hymn of Praise: # 590 This is the Day

Confession and Assurance
L/ Let us take a moment of silence to reflect on our need for forgiveness…

P/ Jesus, hear our prayer. We say we follow but then we go astray and do our own thing. We want good things but we don’t want to take the time to do them. We are sorry. Forgive us and teach us to love each other and spread your love and grace. Amen.

L/ Hear these words of scripture: “This is love, not that we first loved God but that God first loved us and sent Jesus to atone, that is to free us from all our sins.” (1 John 4:10) 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!
Children’s Chat Tammy Botts
The Kids from our Vacation Bible Fun

Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Isaiah 55: 1-6
New Testament: Matthew 14: 13-21

Sermon ”God Provides…” Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon

Affirmation of Faith: (1562, The Heidelberg Catechism, PCUSA Book of Confessions 4.001)
L/ Q1-What is your only comfort in life and death?
All/ My only comfort is that I am not my own but belong—body and soul, in life and death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has paid fully for all my sins with His precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He watches over me in such a way, that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven, in fact all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to Him, Christ, by His Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.

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

L/ Come to the Table. This Sacrament is not only for Presbyterians, but for all who seek the Lord Jesus and are called here by him. Hear what Jesus did when on that easter evening, after he had taught the two on the road to Emmaus and opened to them the scriptures, he was present to them and their eyes were opened in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24: 13-32)

L/ Lord be present for us. Teach us to sing your praise!
P/ We praise you O God.
L/ Make our hearts to burn within us as your Spirit fills us with your love!
P/ We lift our hearts to you O Father in Heaven.
L/ Join us to generations who have been, to all who know you now, and to all whom you will ever call to the end of time in 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 he was betrayed, as he gathered with his friends at Table, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to his disciples saying, “This is my body, broken for you. Do this to remember me.”

L/ And after the supper, as was the custom, he took the cup of blessing. After offering it to heaven he gave it to his disciples saying, “This is the cup of my blood, a new and everlasting covenant. It is shed for you and for all that your sins might be forgiven. Do this in remembrance of me.”

L/ So when we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim that Jesus has died for us, and that He is coming again! Come Holy Spirit, bless these gifts from your creation and bless us, that we might be part of the Body and blood of Christ. Sing your Gospel, spread your Love, Bring your Kingdom here Lord. Come Lord Jesus, Come!

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, God, that we have come together. Thank you, God, that we can giggle together. Thank you, God, that we can eat together. Thank you, God, that we can see together. Thank you, God, that we can pray together. (Elizete Simon, 11-year-old writer of prayers in 1993, British Presbyterian Church)

Benediction

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