RIVERSIDE UNITED CHURCH

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RIVERSIDE UNITED CHURCH

July 4, 2010

GATHERING TOGETHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Prelude

 

Welcome

Call To Worship
All: O Lord, open our lips, and our mouths will declare your praise.

Leader: Give thanks to the Lord of Lords; to Him who alone does great wonders.

Congregation: Clap your hands, all you nations: shout to God with cries of joy. How awesome is the Lord most  high, the great King over all the earth.

Leader: Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.

Women: How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him! He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.

Men: Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard my cry for mercy. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.

Leader: Give thanks to the Lord for his great wisdom.

Congregation: Praise God who gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things.

Leader: Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name; make known among the nations what He has done.

Men: Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his for He made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Women: Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.

All: Praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

 

As we sing let us remember the country God gave us!

 

“O Canada”

 

“God Save Our Gracious Queen”

 

Prayer of Approach to God

 

Work of God’s People 

 

Children’s Song:  “Love is a Flag”

Love is a flag flying high from the castle of my heart.

From the castle of my heart, from the castle of my heart.
Love is a flag flying high from the castle of my heart.
For the King is in residence there.

 

Refrain:  Let it fly in the sky

Let the whole world know

Let the whole world know

Let the whole world know

Let it fly in the sky, let the whole world know

That the King is in residence there.

 

Faith is a flag flying high from the castle of my heart.
From the castle of my heart, from the castle of my heart.
Faith is a flag flying high from the castle of my heart.
For the King is in residence there. Refrain

 

Joy is a flag flying high from the castle of my heart.
From the castle of my heart, from the castle of my heart.
Joy is a flag flying high from the castle of my heart.
For the King is in residence there. Refrain

 

Children’s Time:  “God Cares For Us”

 

OFFERING OUR GIFTS OF TIME,

TALENT AND FINANCES

 

Offertory Invitation: God knows your need. He will supply enough for bread and food and for every good work. 1 Corinthians 9:6-11

 

Offertory Hymn:  “I Need Thee Every Hour”                671:1,3,4

(Please stand for the last verse while the offering is brought forward)

 

Dedication of Offering

 

Prayer of Intercession

 

Special Music:  “Psalm to Jesus”

(Arlene Bryce-Hanson, Lynn Burge & Maggie Miall)

 

WORD OF GOD PROCLAIMED

Scripture Readings: Psalm 72 (O.T. p. 640)

Luke 7:36-50 (N.T. p. 89)

                                   

Sermon:  “Raise the Standard”

 

“To God Be The Glory”

 To God be the glory – great things he has done!

So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,

Who yielded His life an atonement for sin,

And opened the life-gate that all may go in.

 

Refrain:  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the earth hear His voice! 

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the people rejoice!  

O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,

And give Him the glory – great  things He hath done!

 

 

 

 

 Great things He hath taught us,

Great things He hath done,

And great our rejoicing through Jesus the son;

But purer, and higher, and greater will be

Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.  Refrain

 

Commissioning and Benediction

 

Choral Closing: “May the God of Hope”

May the God of hope go with us every day,

filling all our lives with love and joy and peace.

May the God of justice speed us on our way,

Bringing light and hope to every land and race.

 

Refrain:  Praying, let us work for peace,

Singing, share our joy with all,

Working for a world that’s new,

Faithful when we hear Christ’s call.

 

Prelude