Worship

10:30 AM

July 5, 2020

From the Sanctuary of the Beatitudes

At Second Baptist Church https://www.facebook.com/155120191289/live/

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Prelude Marilyn Short

"We Come, O Christ, to You"

arr. by Colin Mawby

Welcome David Menninger

Call to Worship Judi Mechem

Remembering by Alora M. Knight

When sleepless I lie,

As the hours slip by,

I go walking the paths back home.

I hear the meadowlark's song

As I amble along

In this fanciful way that I roam.

As my memories clutter,

A tractor's soft mutter

Is providing new chocolate brown fields

For the ground to be seeded

When spring planting is needed.

A plan for which all nature yields.

A tinkling cowbell

Tells me all is now well

With the herd contentedly grazing.

Mother cows keep an eye,

While their newborns race by

With a speed that is simply amazing.

Thunderclouds overhead

Start to fill me with dread,

For I know that soon it will storm.

I cannot complain.

In fact, I love rain

As long as I'm in where it's warm.

As my feet stir the dust

I know that I must

Leave my childhood memories behind.

Still, it's a comfort to know

That wherever I go,

They will always be there in my mind.

Greeting Time

Lord’s Prayer Brad Short

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 sins,

As we forgive those who have sinned against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil,

For Thine is the Kingdom,

And the power,

And the glory, forever.

Amen.

Solo Monica Eppinger

"Brethren, We Have Met to Worship"

Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God;

will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the Word?

All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down:

brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.

Sisters, will you join and help us? Moses' sister aided him;

will you help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin?

Tell them all about the Savior - tell them that he will be found:

Sisters, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.

Let us pause before our Maker and in silence hear his voice;

Christ the Living Word now meets us; in his truth let us rejoice.

What we are should not appall us for his mercy meets us here;

we are now made one in Jesus, may our worship be sincere.

Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other too;

let us love and pray for sinners till our God makes all things new.

Then he'll call us home to heaven, at his table we'll sit down;

Christ will gird himself and serve us with sweet manna all around.

Scripture Judi Mechem

How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along!

It’s like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard, Flowing down Aaron’s beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes.

It’s like the dew on Mount Hermon flowing down the slopes of Zion.

Yes, that’s where God commands the blessing, ordains eternal life.

Psalm 133

Message Pastor Steve

Homecoming

Interlude Marilyn Short

"It Is Well With My Soul"

arr. by Mark Hayes

Solo Brad Short

"How Beautiful"

by Twila Paris, arr. by Craig Courtney

How beautiful the hands that served

the wine and the bread and the sons of the earth.

How beautiful the feet that walked

the long dusty roads and the hill to the cross.

How beautiful is the body of Christ.

How beautiful the heart that bled,

that took all my sin and bore it instead.

How beautiful the tender eyes

that choose to forgive and never despise.

And as He laid down His life, we offer this sacrifice:

that we will live just as He died, willing to pay the price.

How beautiful the radiant Bride

who waits for her Groom with His light in her eyes.

How beautiful when humble hearts

give the fruit of pure lives so that others may live.

How beautiful the feet that bring

the sound of good news and the love of the King.

How beautiful the hands that serve

the wine and the bread and the sons of the earth.

Sharing Communion

Benediction

Postlude Marilyn Short

"Allegretto"

by J. Hanisch