1. New Hope United Methodist Church
Welcome to
New Hope United Methodist Church
Sept 27, 2015

2. Announcements Today: Children’s Choir/Chimes Rehearsal 11:10 am
Youth 5:30 pm, Upstairs
Monday: Genesis Bible Study 7 pm, Rm 2
Wednesday Community Meal 2 – 7 pm Christ Lutheran Church
Adult/Youth Chimes Rehearsal 6 pm
Adult/Youth Choir Rehearsal 7 pm, Sanctuary
Sunday: Informal Worship 8 am/Traditional Worship 10

3. Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.
Meditation
Psalm 124
Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.

4. Musical Prelude
Bringing in the
Light of Christ

5. Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
Choral Introit
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying

6. One: The grace of the Lord Jesus
Call to Worship
One: The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ be with you.
Many: And also with you.
One: The risen Christ is with us.
Many: Praise the Lord!

7. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Opening Hymn
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Hymnal # 526
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8. What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer! O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

9. Have we trials and temptations. Is there trouble anywhere
Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.

10. forsake thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer! In his arms he'll take
Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior, still our refuge; take it to the Lord in prayer. Do thy friends despise,
forsake thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer! In his arms he'll take
and shield thee; thou wilt find a solace there.

11. Kum Ba Yah (vs. 1, 4 & 6) Hymnal # 494
Opening Prayer
Kum Ba Yah (vs. 1, 4 & 6) Hymnal # 494
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12. kum ba yah. Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba ya. O Lord, kum ba yah!

13. kum ba yah. Someone needs you, Lord, kum ba yah. O Lord, kum ba yah!

14. kum ba yah. Let us praise the Lord, kum ba ya. O Lord, kum ba yah!

15. Children’s Time
Who is the Greatest?

16. How Can I Keep from Singing
Anthem
Choir
How Can I Keep from Singing

17. Offering Scriptures
I Peter 2:4-5
As you come to Jesus, the living Stone -rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him - you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

18. Offering Our Gifts to God

19. Alleluia Praise Response
Hymnal #94
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20. 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!

21. Hymn Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire
Hymnal # 492
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22. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, unuttered or expressed, the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, the falling of a tear, the upward glancing of an eye, when none but God is near.

23. that reach the Majesty on high.
Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try; prayer the sublimest strains
that reach the Majesty on high.
Prayer is the contrite sinners' voice, returning from their way, while angels in their songs rejoice and cry, "Behold, they pray!"

24. gates of death; they enter heaven with prayer.
Prayer is the Christians' vital breath, the Christians' native air; their watchword at the
gates of death; they enter heaven with prayer.
O Thou, by whom we come to God, the Life, the Truth, the Way: the path of prayer thyself hast trod; Lord, teach us how to pray!

25. Joys and Concerns
Prayers of the People
Silent Prayer

26. Hymnal #895
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27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Gloria Patria
Hymnal #70
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31. 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.

32. Scripture Reading James 5:13-20
13Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. 14Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.

33. Scripture Reading
16Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. 17Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.

34. Scripture Reading
19My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, 20you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

35. Scripture Reading Mark 9:17-29
17Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought you my son; he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak; 18and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.” 19He answered them, “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be among you?

36. Scripture Reading
How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.” 20And they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. 21Jesus asked the father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22It has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us

37. Scripture Reading
and help us.” 23Jesus said to him, “If you are able! —All things can be done for the one who believes.” 24Immediately the father of the child cried out, “I believe; help my unbelief!” 25When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You spirit that keeps this boy from speaking and hearing, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

38. Scripture Reading
26After crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” 27But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he was able to stand. 28When he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it

39. Sermon
Our Prayer Covenant

40. The Servant Song The Faith We Sing # 2222 Used By Permission.
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41. Brother, sister let me serve you. Let me be as Christ to you
Brother, sister let me serve you. Let me be as Christ to you. Pray that I might have the grace To let you be my servant, too.
We are pilgrims on a journey. We are brothers on the road. We are here to help each other Walk the mile and bear the load.

42. I will weep when you are weeping. When you laugh,
I will hold the Christ-light for you In the night time of your fear. I will hold my hand out to you; Speak the peace you long to hear.
I will weep when you are weeping. When you laugh,
I’ll laugh with you. I will share your joy and sorrow Till we’ve seen this journey through.

43. When we sing to God in heaven, We shall find such harmony Born of all we’ve known together Of Christ’s love and agony.

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