1. New Hope United Methodist Church
Welcome to
New Hope United Methodist Church
May 7, 2017

2. Announcements Today, Cherubs Choir Rehearsal, 9am, RM11
Young Adults, 11:15am, RM6
Youth, 5:30pm, Upstairs
Monday, Softball Games, Duff Park, 8:30 & 9:30PM
Tuesday, Bible Study, Mt 8, 11am, RM2
Admin. Council, 7pm, Upstairs
Wednesday, Chimes, 6pm, RM3
Choir, 7pm, Sanctuary

3. Meditation I Samuel 3:8b-9
Eli realized that the LORD was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if the LORD calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.’”

4. Bringing in the Light of Christ
Musical Prelude
Bringing in the Light of Christ

5. Choral Introit
Jesu, Tawa Pano
TFWS #2273
Choir

6. CEV Holy Bible Jubilee Ed
*Call to Worship
CEV Holy Bible Jubilee Ed
One: The book of First Samuel tells the story of Samuel, God’s chosen one, who was mighty in faith and led Israel during the time of the Judges.
Many: Praise God for those who serve God faithfully.

7. One: First Samuel also tells the story of how Israel begged God to have a King like everyone else and when Samuel grew old, God gave Israel its first King, Saul.
Many: We rejoice when God answers our prayers, but like Saul, sometimes we fail to listen to and follow God’s instructions.

8. One: First Samuel ends with David becoming King because Saul failed to listen to God, lost his mind and then his life.
Many: O Lord God, call to us like you called Samuel, Saul and David. As Samuel raised a stone in chapter 7 and said, ‘this marks the place where God helped us;’ so we raise our voices as a sign of thanksgiving for how you have helped us along our way.

9. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (1)
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WORDS: Robert Robinson, 1758 (1 Sam. 7:12)
1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace;

10. streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.

11. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above.

12. Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love.

13. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (2)
2. Here I raise mine Ebenezer; hither by thy help I’m come;

14. and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.

15. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God;

16. he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.

17. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (3)
3. O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be!

18. Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee.

19. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love;

20. here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.

21. *Opening Prayer
Tony Marino

22. Children’s Time

23. Response
Here I Am, Lord
Hymnal 593
Choir

24. Anthem
Ancient Days
Choir

25. Offering Our Gifts to God

26. Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow94
WORDS: Thomas Ken, 1674; adapt. by Gilbert H. Vieira, 1978
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!

27. Praise God, the source of all our gifts
Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

28. Joys and Concerns
Prayers of the People
Pastoral Prayer

29. Hymnal #895
Used By Permission. CCLI License #

30. Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass
against us.

31. 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.

32. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
Glory Be to the Father WORDS: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th cent. 70
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

33. as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

34. *Scripture Reading
I Samuel 17:2-9
2 Saul and the Israelites gathered and encamped in the valley of Elah, and formed ranks against the Philistines. 3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them. 4 And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail;

35. the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze
the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 He had greaves of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him. 8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 

36. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”

37. Who Defies the Living God?
Message
Who Defies the Living God?

38. The Great Thanksgiving
A Service of Word and Table
Be Present at Our Table Lord Hymnal # 621
Let us Break Bread Together Hymnal # 618

39. WORDS: Daniel C. Roberts, 1876
God of the Ages (1)
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*God of the Ages
WORDS: Daniel C. Roberts, 1876
1. God of the ages, whose almighty hand leads forth in beauty all the starry band

40. of shining worlds in splendor through the skies, our grateful songs before thy throne arise.

41. God of the Ages (2)
2. Thy love divine hath led us in the past; in this free land with thee our lot is cast;

42. be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay, thy Word our law, thy paths our chosen way.

43. God of the Ages (3)
3. From war’s alarms, from deadly pestilence, be thy strong arm our ever sure defense;

44. thy true religion in our hearts increase; thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace.

45. God of the Ages (4)
4. Refresh thy people on their toilsome way; lead us from night to never-ending day;

46. fill all our lives with love and grace divine, and glory, laud, and praise be ever thine.

47. *Blessing