Mill Plain UMC
Sunday August 27, 2023
Parables of the Unholy
Scripture
Matthew 13:31-34, 44-45
Music
Blessed Be Your Name
Bigger Table
Breathe
You Are The Seed
Bring Forth The Kingdom
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Mill Plain UMC
August 27, 2023
10 a.m.
Praise Song Blessed Be Your Name
Greeting
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: O give thanks to the Lord, call on God’s name.
People: Sing to God! Sing praises to God! Tell of God’s wonderful works!
Worship Assistant: Glory in God’s holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
(Based on Psalm 105:1-3)
Opening Prayer
God, like a baker woman, you bring the leaven which causes our hopes to rise. Witty your strong and gentle hands, shape our lives. Warm us with your love. Take our common lives and touch them with your grace, that we may nourish hope among humanity. We pray trusting in your name, through Jesus our Christ. Amen.
(reprinted from The United Methodist Book of Worship, copyright 1992, by permission of The United Methodist Publishing House.)
Praise Songs A Bigger Table
Breathe
Young Disciples Moment
Special Music Dennis and Annie – Here I am Lord
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
Offertory
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology
Matthew 13:31-34, 44-45
He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.” Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls;
Hymn You Are the Seed #583
Sermon Parables of the Unholy
Prayer
God the Sower, God the Baker, your grace is often hidden in the ordinary things of life; your beauty is buried in the mundane. We confess we fail to recognize the holy in the unholy, your blessings in our challenges. Open our eyes to recognize you in the commonplace. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Hymn Bring forth the Kingdom #2190
Benediction
Pastor: Go in peace to serve God and your neighbor in all that you do.
People: We are sent in Christ’s name.
Pastor: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
People: Amen
Closing