6th Sunday after Pentecost July 5, 2026
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Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 145:1-14 (pg. 621)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------------- # 544
“Power in the Blood”
*Confession of Sins …………………………….................... pg. 2
*Kyrie & Declaration of Grace ..………………………….… pg. 3
*Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Zechariah 9:9-12 (pg. 948)
2nd Reading: Romans 7:14-25a (pg. 1121)
*The Gospel: Matthew 11:25-30 (pg. 970)
*Response to the Word ……………………………………… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Nicene Creed….…………......... pg. 18
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 575
“Count Your Blessings”
Sermon: Acts 9 – “Spreading Revival and Revolution”
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 478
“Search Me, O God”
* Communion Service: The Exhortation ……………………. pg. 6
* The Lord’s Prayer & Words of the Institution.……………. pg. 7
Lamb of God ………………………………………………. pg. 20
Hymns during the distribution of Communion: # 285, 104, 630
631, 632
*Closing Prayer
*The Benediction & Three-fold Amen ...……………………. pg. 8
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning! We ask our visitors to please sign the guest book and let us know how we may assist you in any way. God’s peace and joy be upon you!
Announcements
Holy Communion: We invite all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who have received Confirmation or other Biblical instruction on this Sacrament to come to the altar to participate in the Lord’s Supper. All other, including children, are invited to come forward to receive a blessing from the Pastor. We also invite you to prepare yourself by reading “Personal Preparation for Holy Communion,” (hymnal pages 14-15). Please note: The 6 cups in the center ring of the communion trays are Grape Juice for those wanting juice instead of wine.
Monthly hymn #544: "Power in the Blood"
Memory verse: Matthew 14:27 “Immediately
Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be
afraid.”
There is a sign-up sheet in the basement with dates and times to sign-up for family pictures for our church directory book.
There will be a potluck dinner for Pastor’s 50th Birthday next Sunday, July 12th. It will be a potluck and there is a sign up sheet for food in the basement. Cake will be provided.
The WMF will be doing a school supply drive again in July. You may buy supplies or give money to Sandy.
Our Semi Annual Meeting will be held following the worship service on Sunday, July 19th.
This Week’s Activities:
8th – Wed. – WMF Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
12th – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 a.m. (Acts 10)
CHURCH CLEANING: June 6 – 12 Sandy Lau & Sara Wright
Usher for Sunday, July 12: Walter Villmow & Aaron Lau
*Call to Worship: Psalm 145:1-14
145 I will extol you, my God and King,
and bless your name forever and ever.
2 Every
day I will bless you
and praise your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and
greatly to be praised,
and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall
commend your works to another,
and shall declare your mighty
acts.
5 On the glorious
splendor of your majesty,
and on your wondrous works, I will
meditate.
6 They shall speak
of the might of your awesome deeds,
and I will declare your
greatness.
7 They shall pour
forth the fame of your abundant goodness
and shall sing aloud
of your righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious and
merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 The Lord is good to all,
and his mercy is over all that he has made.
10 All your works shall give
thanks to you, O Lord,
and all your saints shall bless you!
11 They shall speak of the
glory of your kingdom
and tell of your power,
12 to make known to the children of
man your mighty deeds,
and the glorious splendor of your
kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is
an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures throughout
all generations.
[The Lord is faithful in all his words
and kind in all his
works.]
14 The Lord upholds
all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down.
1st Reading: Zechariah 9:9-12
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your
king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a
donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot
from Ephraim
and the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the
battle bow shall be cut off,
and he shall speak peace to the
nations;
his rule shall be from sea to sea,
and from the
River to the ends of the earth.
11 As
for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I
will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of
hope;
today I declare that I will restore to you double.
2nd Reading: Romans 7:14-25a
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
*The Gospel: Matthew 11:25-30
25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”