Mill Plain UMC Sunday September 4, 2022,
Pleasure in Toil
Scripture:
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15
Songs
Come, now is the time to worship
Hosanna
Better than a hallelujah
Oh Lord, You’re Beautiful
How Great is Our God
What a friend we have in Jesus
Pass it on
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Sunday Sept 4, 2022
Opening Song, Come, Now Is the Time to Worship
Greeting
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven.
People: a time to be born and a time to die;
Worship Assistant: a time to seek and a time to lost;
People: A time to work and a time to rest.
Opening Prayer
O God, you have bound us together in this life.
Give us grace to understand how our lives depend on the courage, the industry, the honesty, and the integrity of all who labor.
May we be mindful of their needs, grateful for their faithfulness, and faithful in our responsibilities to them, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(by Reinhold Neibuhr, reprinted from The United Methodist Book of Worship copyright 1992, by permission of The United Methodist Publishing House.)
Song Hosanna
Song Better Than A Hallelujah
Young Disciple’s Moment
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Offertory O Lord, You’re Beautiful
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology How great is our God
Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15
What gain have the workers from their toil? I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.
He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.
Sermon Pleasure in Toil
The Great Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you.
AND ALSO WITH YOU.
Lift up your hearts.
WE LIFT THEM UP TO THE LORD.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE OUR THANKS AND PRAISE.
Pastor Sue prays ………….
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD, GOD OF POWER AND MIGHT, HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FULL OF Y OUR GLORY.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
The Lord’s Prayer
Giving of the Bread and Cup
Prayer after communion
Gracious God, You come to us in bread and cup. Grant that we may carry your love into the world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Song What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Benediction
The grace of Christ attend you.
The love of God surround you.
The Holy Spirit keep you.
Abound in hope and grow in love both now and forever.
Amen.
Postlude Pass It On
Walk out slides