Mill Plain UMC
Sunday June 25, 2023,
The Tale of 2 Mountains
Scripture
I Kings 19:4-18
Music
Hosanna Praise is rising
Soon and Very Soon
I’m So Glad Jesus Lifted me
See How Great a Flame Aspires
Give Me A Faith which Can Remove
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Mill Plain UMC
June 25,2023
10 a.m.
Praise Song
Hosanna Praise is Rising
Greeting
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,
People: For God will speak peace to the people.
Worship Assistant: Surely God’s salvation is at hand for those who honor God.
People: For God will speak peace to the people.
Opening Prayer
Our God, sometimes you blow into our lives with the rush of a mighty wind, and sometimes you speak to us in a gentle whisper or even the sound of silence. Open our ears to hear you in all the ways you speak. Open our minds to understand you when we are confused and uncertain. Open our hearts to love you and those in whom you come to us. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Praise Songs
Soon and Very Soon
I’m So Glad Jesus Lifted Me
Young Disciples Moment
Special Music Larry Bone, Precious Lord
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
Offertory
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology
I Kings 19:4-18
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.” He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.” Then the Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram. Also you shall anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah as prophet in your place. Whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall kill; and whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill. Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Hymn See How Great a Flame Aspires #541
Sermon A Tale of 2 mountains
Prayer
God we confess that living out your call in the world seems impossible to us: we are too small and weak to climb the mountain, too filled with doubt to see you at work in our world, too confused to know where you would lead us. Remind us that with you all things are possible and that your reality is bigger than we are. Amen.
Hymn Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove #650
Benediction
Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only God our Savior be glory and majesty, dominion and power, through Jesus Christ our Lord, both now and forever more. Amen.
Postlude