Prelude
Welcome & News of the Church
Call to Worship
Opening Hymn - (#1) "For the Beauty of the Earth"
Praise Songs
Confession, Assurance, and Gloria Patri
Special Music - "Chariot's Comin'!" arr. Don Besig - Sam Allen & Bryan Cich
Sermon - "Guf: Body" (Psalm 139:13–16) - by Rev. Jason Griffice
Hymn of Response - (#389) "Let All Things Now Living" (verse 1)
Receiving of Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
Doxology
Prayers of the People
Closing Hymn - (#9) "Teach Us What We Yet May Be"
Benediction
Postlude
For the Beauty of the Earth
For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies:
CHORUS:
Lord of all to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the wonder of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale and tree and flower,
Sun and moon and stars of light:
[CHORUS]
For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child;
Friends on earth and friends above;
For all gentle thoughts and mild:
[CHORUS]
For Thy Church that evermore
Lifteth holy hands above,
Offering up on every shore
Her pure sacrifice of love:
[CHORUS]
For Thyself, best gift divine,
To our race so freely given;
For that great, great love of Thine,
Peace on earth and joy in heaven:
[CHORUS]
Let All Things Now Living
Let all things now living
A song of thanksgiving
To God the Creator triumphantly raise,
Who fashioned and made us,
Protected and stayed us,
Who guideth us on to the end of our days.
His banners are o'er us,
His light goes before us,
A pillar of fire shining forth in the night,
'Til shadows have vanished
And darkness is banished,
As forward we travel from light into light.
Teach Us What We Yet May Be
God, who stretched the spangled heavens
Infinite in time and place,
Flung the suns in burning radiance
Through the silent fields of space,
We, Thy children, in Thy likeness,
Share inventive powers with Thee -
Great Creator, still creating,
Teach us what we yet may be.
We have conquered worlds undreamed of
Since the childhood of our race,
Know the ecstacy of winging
Through uncharted realms of space,
Probed the secrets of the atom,
Yielding unimagined power -
Facing us with life's destruction
Or our most triumphant hour.
As Thy new horizons beckon,
Father, give us strength to be
Children of creative purpose,
Serving man and honoring Thee,
'Til our dreams are rich with meaning -
Each endeavor Thy design -
Great Creator, lead us onward
'Til our work is one with Thine.
Amen.
