January 31, 2021 Service

PETALUMA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

THE WORSHIP PODCAST

January 31, 2021

The Order of Service

The 4th Sunday After the Epiphany

 

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PRELUDE:  “Comfort and Strength”played by Marilyn Lee, Organist

 

GREETING: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes           

                                        

CALL TO WORSHIP: led by Nora Tallent

We are called to be a Holy People.

This is not a holiness of rules and rigidity, but a holiness

of heart and mind.   

In worship, we seek to open our spirits to his call so that

our lives will be marked by acts of holiness and love.

Come, let us worship God together.

 

OPENING HYMN: “All Creatures of Our God and King” (UMH 62) played by Marilyn Lee

1 All creatures of our God and King,

lift up your voice and with us sing,

O praise ye! Alleluia!

Thou brother sun with golden beam,

O sister moon with silver gleam!

O praise ye!  O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

 

2 O brother wind, air, clouds, and rain,

By which all creatures ye sustain,

O praise ye!  Alleluia!

Thou rising morn, in praise rejoice,

Ye lights of evening, find a voice!

O praise ye! O praise ye!  Alleluia!  Alleluia!  Alleluia!

 

CALL TO CONFESSION: Nora Tallent

 

SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION

 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Nora Tallent

 

SCRIPTURE READINGS:

Psalm 111                  

Read in English by Sue Sarno

Read in Fijian by Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraca

Mark 1:21-28                

Read in English by Charlotte Peterson

Read in Fijian by Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraca

                                            

SERMON:  “Accused of Being Holy” Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

THE PASTORAL PRAYER: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER:      

led in English by Nora Tallent

led in Fijian by Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraca

                                   

THE OFFERING OF OUR GIFTS AND TITHES: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

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OFFERTORY:  “Soliloquy” played by Marilyn Lee

 

PRAYER OF DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

CLOSING HYMN: “Be Thou My Vision” (UMH 451) played by Marilyn Lee

1 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me, save that thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

2 Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word;
I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord.
Born of thy love, thy child may I be,  
thou in me dwelling and I one with thee.

 

THE BENEDICTION:  Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

POSTLUDE:  “Justice and Mercy” played by Marilyn Lee