August 10th, 2025

Welcome

Time of Meditation

Call to Worship* (Responsively) 

We gather to celebrate and joyfully sing to our God!
Together, let us share our praises and thankfulness.
Come, let us enter into this sacred space with praise.

You O God, are holy, always and forever!
You are the Eternal One from whom all things come.
Come, let us enter into this sacred space with thanks.

O God, we are your children, created by and with your love.
All: Come, let us enter into this sacred space with joy and delight. Amen.

                                                                          (based on Psalm 100)

“The Joy of the Lord”                                                    Chorus 229*
“We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise” (2 times)               Chorus 1*
“Sunshine in My Soul”                                                  Hymn 559*

“In Times Like These”                                           Hymn 420

Pastoral Prayer

Psalm 100* (Unison)                                 Pew Bible, Page 484
Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-26                   Pew Bible, Page 539       
Luke 12:13-21                                                 Pew Bible, Page 845

Sermon                                           “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”         
“Have Thine Own Way, Lord”                        Hymn 445*

Offering Prayer
Receiving the Tithes and Offerings
“Shall We Gather at the River?”                         Hymn 476

Announcements
Benediction*

Sending Forth               “Bind Us Together, Lord”      Chorus 140*
    Bind us together, Lord, bind us together
    With cords that cannot be broken;
    Bind us together, Lord, bind us together, Lord,
    Bind us together with love.

*Please stand as you are able
                                      +     +     +     +     +
“Such, O my soul, are the miseries that attend on riches. They are gained with toil and kept with fear. They are enjoyed with danger and lost with grief. It is hard to be saved if we have them and impossible if we love them, and scarcely can we have them but we shall love them inordinately. Teach us, O Lord, this difficult lesson to manage conscientiously the goods we possess and not covetously desire more than you give to us.”                                - St. Augustine

PRAYER CONCERNS

          Jenny Chambers – surgery on August 20
Vicki Daney – still in rehabilitation hospital
Chris Harris – heart issues
          Grant Williams – back injury
          Glenda Horner – hospitalized, sores on feet
          Joanne Knupp – husband has passed
Lisa Miller – heart and lung problems
Shirley Wenneker – healing of leg wound
Carlos – Mary Solorio’s son
Candi Kolteryahn – blood clots in lungs
Hollis Brewer – recovering from cancer
Kay Love – health concerns, but doing better
Chockie Billy – recovering from open heart
      surgery
          Dale Wagley – Andy Smith’s brother-in-law -
                    that he would give his heart to the Lord

Prayers for those battling cancer:
Dana Brooks     Dee Wenneker             Lyle Adcock
Rexanne Jeffers        Theron Richardville   Denise Folds
Teal Esmeyer             Sylvia Linzy                 Ollie Harris                
Mark Kunkowski      Gwen Budzene            Lenard Wong 
Yvonne House     Glenda Horner