New Hope United Methodist Church Welcome to New Hope United Methodist Church October 25, 2015

Announcements Today: Children’s Choir Rehearsal 11:10 a.m. Youth 5:30 pm, Upstairs Monday: Genesis Study 7 pm, Rm. 2 Tuesday: Mere Christianity Study 7 pm, Hospitality Rm Wednesday: Adult/Youth Chimes Rehearsal 6 pm, Rm 3 Christmas Musical Rehersal 6:45 pm Adult/Youth Choir Rehearsal 7 pm, Sanctuary Sunday: Worship @ 8 a.m. Informal & 10 a.m. Traditional

I will bless the LORD at all times! Meditation Psalm 34:1a (CEB) I will bless the LORD at all times!

Musical Prelude Bringing in the Light of Christ

You Who are Thirsty (TFWS 2132) Choral Introit You Who are Thirsty (TFWS 2132)

Call to Worship One: Worship the Lord with jubilant hearts-- based upon Psalm 22 One: Worship the Lord with jubilant hearts-- Many: Worship the Lord with jubilant minds-- One: Worship the Lord with your heart, soul, and mind! Many: Come, let us worship the Lord!

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Hymnal # 89 Opening Hymn Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Hymnal # 89 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love; hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away. Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day!

All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heaven reflect thy rays, stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea, chanting bird and flowing fountain, call us to rejoice in thee.

Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blest, well-spring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest! Thou our Father, Christ our brother, all who live in love are thine; teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine.

Mortals, join the mighty chorus which the morning stars began; love divine is reigning o'er us, binding all within its span. Ever singing, march we onward, victors in the midst of strife; joyful music leads us sunward, in the triumph song of life.

Phyllis Cole and Everett Tilson Opening Prayer Phyllis Cole and Everett Tilson Great and Blessed Spirit, the great commandment would have us love our God with all our being. How we try! But sometimes our hearts waver, our souls flutter, our minds wander. Hear our prayer, that we might be filled by you and that we might fulfill—not the letter—but the Spirit of the law! Hear our prayer that we might not only live your way but also speak your words of peace and love. Amen. .

Children’s Time

My Faith Looks Up to Thee Special Music Choir My Faith Looks Up to Thee & Be Thou My Vision

Offering Scriptures John 13:12-14, 16-17 (ESV) When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet…he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. …Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, “blessed are you if you do them…”

Living Our Faith

Offering Our Gifts to God

Alleluia Praise Response Hymnal #95 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior Hymnal # 351 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

Pass me not, O gentle Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Savior, Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.

Let me at Thy throne of mercy Find a sweet relief, Kneeling there in deep contrition; Help my unbelief. Savior, Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.

Trusting only in Thy merit, Would I seek Thy face; Heal my wounded, broken spirit, Save me by Thy grace. Savior, Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.

Thou the Spring of all my comfort, More than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee? Whom in Heav’n but Thee? Savior, Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.

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 Matthew 4:23-25 23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. 24 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he cured them. 25 And great crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

Scripture Reading Romans 5:1-5 1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we[d] also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us

Sermon Witness

O How I Love Jesus Hymnal # 170 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; it sounds like music in my ear, the sweetest name on earth. O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, because he first loved me!

It tells me of a Savior's love, who died to set me free; it tells me of his precious blood, the sinner's perfect plea. O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, because he first loved me!

It tells of one whose loving heart can feel my deepest woe; who in each sorrow bears a part that none can bear below. O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, because he first loved me!

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