Welcome and Preparation for Worship

Prelude: Vocalise Sergei Rachmaninoff

Tom Jackson, violin; Rudy Heuer, piano

Call to Worship: Psalm 68:32–35

O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord,
to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies.
Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

Doxology Old Hundredth

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below;

Praise him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Invocation

Hymn 676: Day by Day and with Each Passing Moment Blott En Dag

Day by day and with each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here;
trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry or for fear.
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure gives unto each day what he deems best–
lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure, mingling toil with peace and rest.

Every day, the Lord himself is near me with a special mercy for each hour;
all my cares he fain would bear, and cheer me, he whose name is Counselor and Pow’r.
The protection of his child and treasure is a charge that on himself he laid:
“As your days, your strength shall be in measure,” this the pledge to me he made.

Help me then in every tribulation so to trust your promises, O Lord,
that I lose not faith’s sweet consolation offered me within your holy Word.
Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting, e’er to take, as from a father’s hand,
one by one, the days, the moments fleeting, till I reach the promised land.

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into ­­heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

Announcements

Multilingual Prayer

Hymn: Wonderful Merciful Savior Dawn Rodgers/Eric Wyse

Wonderful, merciful Savior, precious Redeemer and Friend;
who would have thought that a Lamb could rescue the souls of men?
Oh, you rescue the souls of men.

Refrain
You are the One that we praise, you are the One we adore.
You give the healing and grace our hearts always hunger for,
oh, our hearts always hunger for.

Counselor, Comforter, Keeper, Spirit we long to embrace;
you offer hope when our hearts have hopelessly lost the way.
Oh, we hopelessly lost the way. (Refrain)

Almighty, infinite Father, faithfully loving your own;
here in our weakness you find us falling before your throne.
Oh, we’re falling before your throne. (Refrain)

Offering Prayer

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Offertory: O God Beyond All Praising Gustav Holst

Tom Jackson, violin; Rudy Heuer, piano

Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 17:1–6

1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

Sermon: Waiting in a Wadi Rev. John

Hymn: By Faith Keith Getty/Kristyn Getty/Stuart Townend

By faith we see the hand of God in the light of creation’s grand design,
in the lives of those who prove his faithfulness, who walk by faith and not by sight.

By faith our fathers roamed the earth with the pow’r of his promise in their hearts,
of a holy city built by God’s own hand, a place where peace and justice reign.

Refrain
We will stand as children of the promise; we will fix our eyes on him, our soul’s reward.
Till the race is finished and the work is done, we’ll walk by faith and not by sight.

By faith the prophets saw a day when the longed-for Messiah would appear
with the pow’r to break the chains of sin and death and rise triumphant from the grave.

By faith the church was called to go in the pow’r of the Spirit to the lost
to deliver captives and to preach good news in ev’ry corner of the earth. (Refrain)

By faith the mountain shall be moved and the pow’r of the gospel shall prevail,
for we know in Christ all things are possible for all who call upon his name. (Refrain)

Benediction

Postlude: Cello Suite No. 3: Bouree Johann Sebastian Bach

Tom Jackson, violin

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