New Hope United Methodist Church Welcome to New Hope United Methodist Church June 14, 2015

Announcements Today: ♫ Children’s Choir & Chimes, 11:00 a.m. Youth Group, 5:30 p.m. Monday: Prayer Meeting, 7 p.m. – All are welcome Tuesday: SPRC Meeting, 7 p.m. Wednesday: Ministry at McDonald’s, 12 noon – All are welcome ♪ Choir Practice, 7 p.m. Saturday: UMMen’s Breakfast, 8 a.m. – All men are welcome

Meditation II Corinthians 5:6-7 So we are always confident, because we know that while we are living in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord. We live by faith and not by sight.

Musical Prelude Bringing in the Light of Christ

Spirit of the Living God Choral Introit Spirit of the Living God Choir

Call to Worship One: Give thanks with all your heart! Psalm 138 (adapted) One: Give thanks with all your heart! Many: O Lord, We sing your praise. We thank your name for your loyal love and faithfulness because you have made your name and word greater than everything else… 

The Church’s One Foundation Hymnal # 546 Opening Hymn The Church’s One Foundation Hymnal # 546 Verses 1, 2 & 5 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; We are His new creation By water and the Word: From heav’n He came and sought us That we might ever be His living servant people, By His own death set free.

Called forth from every nation, Yet one o’er all the earth, Our charter of salvation, One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy Name professing, And at one table fed, To one hope always pressing, By Christ’s own Spirit led.

We now on earth hath union   With God the Three in One, And share through faith communion   With those whose rest is won: Oh, happy ones and holy!   Lord, give us grace that we, Like them, the meek and lowly,   On high may dwell with Thee

Opening Prayer Hymn # 8 Almighty God, Like the mustard plant, we often feel spindly and weak. We are slow to trust you and still slower to trust others or even ourselves. You have given us your word, promised us that when we have faith you will work miracles and wonders. Grant that we might live each day with great confidence in you. You are our beginning and our end, our foundation and our future through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Children’s Time

This Kingdom (Greg Bullock) Anthem Choir This Kingdom (Greg Bullock)

Offering Our Gifts to God

Alleluia Praise Response Hymnal #94 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power up lifts! Praise the Spirit! Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194 Hymn of Promise Hymnal #707 In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; In cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be, Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

Hymn of Promise Hymnal #707 There’s a song in every silence, seeking word and melody; There’s a dawn in every darkness, bringing hope to you and me. From the past will come the future; what it holds, a mystery, Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

Hymn of Promise Hymnal #707 In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity; In our doubt there is believing; I n our life, eternity, In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

Joys and Concerns Prayers of the People Silent Prayer

Hymnal #895 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

on earth as it is in Heaven. Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

And forgive us our trespasses, Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Gloria Patria Hymnal #70 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

as it was in the beginning, Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

Scripture Reading Mark 4:26-34 The Parable of the Growing Seed 26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Scripture Reading Mark 4:26-34 The Parable of the Mustard Seed 30 He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

Scripture Reading Mark 4:26-34 The Use of Parables 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

Too Small and Powerless? Sermon Too Small and Powerless? Searching Questions

You Are The Seed Hymnal # 583 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

You are the seed that will grow a new sprout; You’re a star that will shine in the night; You are the yeast and a small grain of salt, A beacon to glow in the dark. Go, my friends, go to the world, proclaiming love to all, messengers of my forgiving peace. Eternal love, till the end of the world.

You are the dawn that bring a new day; You’re the wheat that will bear golden grain; You are a sting and a soft, gentle touch, My witnesses where’er you go. Be, my friends, a loyal witness, From the dead I arose, Lo, I’ll be with you forever. Eternal love, till the end of the world.

Please join us for refreshments in the hospitality room. Benediction Please join us for refreshments in the hospitality room.