THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH AT CALDWELL

Our Purpose:

To help all people build life-transforming relationships with God and each other.

The members and friends of FPC welcome people from all backgrounds - - people of faith from throughout the world, people who profess no faith, Christians of all denominations and those who are searching for religious and spiritual meaning.

Welcome!

February 12, 2017

Ten o’clock

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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GATHERING

REFLECTION

“We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” — Brené Brown

PRELUDE

“El Shaddai”

First Church Ringers

Michael Card

arr. Bruce Greer

CALL TO WORSHIP

Matthew Day, Lay Reader

Like flowers of the field, we of all colors and all varieties, God calls us to hear the Word.

As those who have been planted in faith, we turn our open faces to you, O God.

People of the plains, the cities and the mountains, we of all colors, theologies and life choices, we are God’s field. Come into God’s sanctuary with joy!

You have cultivated us, O God. Let us vine and blossom and bear the fruit of your integrity.

Of mustard seeds and wheat, of little faith and great, we come.

We come to the Living Waters, to the Sun of love and light. We will drink of your ways, O God, and we will sow your seeds.

All who are of the world, come and see what God has grown!

We come to worship you. We stand in the sunshine of your living word. We prosper in your paths, O God as the flowers of your field.

OPENING PRAYER

*HYMN NO. 409

“God is Here!”

Abbot’s Leigh

Lighting the candles today is Acolyte Sally Capizzi

CONFESSION

CORPORATE CONFESSION

Loving God, you call us into community, teach us your ways, and bless us with abundant life. Yet we turn aside to follow other paths: we take the easy way out, listening to the world’s call rather than your call to commitment; we quarrel with one another, letting differences divide us; we cherish our resentments, shutting off our hearts from forgiveness and reconciliation; we cling to petty jealousies, feeling we deserve more than we have. Forgive us when we wander from your love. Draw us into community with each other, and feed us with the milk of your grace, that we may grow in faithfulness and work together in peace.

PERSONAL CONFESSION

Lord, strengthen our faithfulness.

Amen.

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

...Friends, believe the good news.

In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.

*RESPONSE OF PRAISE NO. 626

“As the Deer”

As the Deer

PROCLAIMING AND RESPONDING

ANTHEM

“Close Every Door” & “Go, Go, Go Joseph”

Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice

from Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Westminster & Pilgrim Choirs

Sam Mulick, Soloist

*HYMN NO. 463

“How Firm a Foundation”

Foundation

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN

Please note: Children through 7th grade may leave the sanctuary for Sunday School following the Time with the Children. Please exit through the doors on either side of the Choir loft.

MINUTE FOR MINISTRY

“A Bright Night for Changing Lives”

Susan Jones and Lydia Spinelli

PARISH LIFE

Members, friends and visitors, please sign the Friendship Pad in each pew and pass it to the person next to you. The last person will pass the pad back to the first person, who will then please place the sheet in the offering plate. Worshipers are invited to use the cards in the pew racks for prayer requests so we may share one another’s joys and concerns. The ushers will collect the cards during the hymn following the sermon and they will be offered during the Prayers of the People.

SCRIPTURE

Matthew 5:21-37

page 4, NT

SERMON

“Churching”

Rev. Todd Shumpert

*HYMN NO. 749

“Come! Live in the Light!”

We Are Called

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

WESTMINSTER CHOIR 2017 TOUR COMMISSIONING

OFFERING

OFFERTORY

“Justice Roll Down”

Mark A. Miller

Westminster & Pilgrim Choirs

Please stand and join the choir on the singing of the last stanza:

Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing,

tune my heart to sing your grace.

Streams of justice, never ceasing

call for songs of loudest praise.

Teach me some melodious sonnet,

sung by flaming tongues above.

Praise the Mount! I’m fixed upon it,

mount of God’s unchanging love!

*RESPONSE OF THANKSGIVING NO. 607

“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

GOING FORTH

*BENEDICTION

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE NO. 175

“Seek Ye First”

Lafferty

Seek ye first the kingdom of God

And its righteousness,

And all these things shall be added unto you,

Allelu, alleluia!

*THE PEACE

The peace of Christ be with you.

And also with you.

Please exchange greetings of welcome and peace with your neighbor.

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*Please rise in body or in spirit

†If you are new to the church...Welcome! We’re glad to have you here. Please ask an usher to direct you to Visitor packets at the rear of the church. They can be found on the table near the usher’s closet under the balcony stairs. After the 10:00am service today, we hope you will join us for Coffee Hour in Room 120.

†The flowers this morning, are given to the glory of God in loving memory of…

….Harrison Ingersoll, loyal friend, by Kathryn Ball

† Your prayers of intercession are requested for those members and friends known to be currently or recently hospitalized or who continue to need our prayers and support:

… Mary Ann Bainbridge, Harry Coppens, Bill Hayden, Ann Hicock, Edith Jipp, Marge Lucas, Barbara Piggery, Louise Ritscher, Emil Schnell, Marge Vanderberg, Laura Winter and Helena Wispelwey. The church office will be happy to verify their home addresses for you should you wish to send them words of encouragement or get well wishes

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

AT CALDWELL

326 Bloomfield Avenue

Caldwell, NJ 07006

973-228-0310