First Presbyterian Church of Niles
Morning Worship
10:00 A.M. June 29, 2025
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(* = stand if you are able)
PRELUDE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP Siciliano Blake
CALL TO WORSHIP (Responsive)
How manifold are your works, O Lord!
In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
You send forth your spirit, and they are created;
and so you renew the face of the earth.
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will praise my God while I have my being.
OPENING PRAYER
*HYMN 687 Our God, Our Help in Ages Past ST. ANNE
Our God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast, and our enteral home.
Beneath the shadow of thy throne thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is thine arm alone, and our defense is sure.
Before the hills in order stood, or earth received its frame,
From everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same.
A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all our years away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day.
Our God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
Be thou our guard while life shall last, and our eternal home.
CALL TO CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION (In Unison)
O Lord our God, we confess to you our unfaithfulness, our divided loyalties, our dancing around the truth. We look for human approval instead of seeking to serve you. We answer to human authority instead of listening for your Word. Turn our hearts back to you. Consume our sin with holy fire and set us free to sing your praise. Amen.
MOMENT OF SILENT AND PERSONAL CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON (Responsive)
This is the gospel, the good news we have received: that our Lord Jesus Christ loves us and gave his life to set us free from our sins. Hear the good news!
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven! Thanks be to God! Amen.
PASSING THE PEACE
As God has forgiven us in Christ let us also forgive one another.
The peace of Christ be with you all.
And also with you.
Please share the sign of peace with one another.
The sharing of Christ’s peace.
RESPONSE Peace is Flowing Like a River TRADITIONAL
Peace is flowing like a river flowing out to you and me.
Flowing out into the desert, setting all the captives free.
His love is flowing like a river flowing out to you and me.
Flowing out into the desert, setting all the captives free.
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING Deuteronomy 30:15-20
SPECIAL MUSIC Take My Heart Summers
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING Mathew 5:17-26
MESSAGE Anger and Jesus and You and Me Rev. Mark Pawlowski
*HYMN 816 (1, 3) If Thou But Trust in God to Guide Thee WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT
If thou but trust in God to guide thee, with hopeful heart through all thy ways,
God will give strength, whate’er betide thee, to bear thee through the evil days.
Who trusts in God’s unchanging love build on the rock that nought can move.
Sing, pray, and swerve not from God’s ways, but do thine own part faithfully.
Trust the rich promises of grace; so shall they be fulfilled in thee.
God never yet forsook at need the soul secured by trust indeed.
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (In Unison)
We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God. Jesus proclaimed the reign of God: preaching good news to the poor and release to the captives, teaching by word and deed and blessing the children, healing the sick and binding up the brokenhearted, eating with outcasts, forgiving sinners, and calling all to repent and believe the gospel. Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and sedition, Jesus was crucified, suffering the depths of human pain and giving his life for the sins of the world. God raised this Jesus from the dead, vindicating his sinless life, breaking the power of sin and evil, delivering us from death to life eternal.
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
Offertory Be Now My Vision Arr. Callahan
*DOXOLOGY Praise God From Whom all Blessings Flow DOXOLOGY
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God, for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One!
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
PREPARATION FOR PRAYERS Eternal Spirit of the Living Christ EVENTIDE
Eternal Spirit of the living Christ, I know not how to ask or what to say;
I only know my need, as deep as life, and only you can teach me how to pray.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
THE LORD’S PRAYER (In Unison)
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
*HYMN 65 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah CWM RHONDDA
Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, pilgrim through this
barren land. I am weak, but thou art mighty.
Hold me with thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more.
Open now the crystal fountain, whence the healing stream doth flow.
Let the fire and cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through.
Strong deliverer, strong deliverer,
Be thou still my strength and shield; be thou still my strength and shield.
When I tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside.
Death of death, and hell’s destruction, land me safe on Canaan’s side.
Songs of praises, songs of praises
I will ever give to thee; I will ever give to thee.
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
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