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!

January 20, 2019

Ten o’clock

2^nd Sunday after Epiphany

Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday

GATHERING

REFLECTION

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

PRELUDE

“Ev’ry Time I feel the Spirit” arr. Mark Hayes

CALL TO WORSHIP

We worship the God who inhabits our world and indwells our lives.

We need not look up to find God,

We need only look around:

within ourselves, beyond ourselves, into the eyes of another.

We need not listen for a distant thunder to find God,

we need only listen to the music of life,

the words of children,

the questions of the curious,

the rhythm of a heartbeat.

We worship the God who inhabits our world

and who indwells our lives.

OPENING PRAYER

*HYMN NO. 637

“O Sing to the Lord”

Cantai Ao Senhor

Lighting the candles today is Acolyte Grace Hemesath

CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

O God, who has created your children to be free, we attest in word and deed that you are our God and we are your people. From our earliest days as the people whom you intend to be free, O God, you have called us forth from self-seeking bondage, comfort, complacency, and complaint, to freeing and redeeming action for justice everywhere in the world.

People: You are our freeing God, and we would be your free and freeing people.

O God of Exodus and the Burning Bush, of the Prophets and of Jesus, we hear your powerful calling to be your servants in the service of all those who are oppressed. At every turn we hear your voice in the cries of the poor, the hungry, the imprisoned, and the broken, for you made yourself one with those who seek justice, freedom, and peace. We share a vision, a promise, and a yearning for the day of your reign, O God.

You are our servant God, and we would be your serving people.

O God, Our Sustainer, search our hearts and reveal to us our sinfulness, all the ways that we contribute to injustice and to self-destroying bondage. Give us deep courage to find the true path of your way, ready to give our very selves as living sacrifices for your will. We have heard your calling. Hear us now as we make our pledge.

You are our God and we are your people. We pledge ourselves now to pursue relentlessly that living, breathing justice which transforms persons and peoples. To your will for justice we recommit ourselves and pledge ourselves, our funds, our actions.

PERSONAL CONFESSION

Through Christ we pray.

Amen

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

...Friends, believe the good news.

In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.

*RESPONSE OF PRAISE

"The Kingdom of God"

Taize' Chant

The kingdom of god is justice and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, and open in us the gates of your kingdom.

PROCLAIMING AND RESPONDING

ANTHEM

“Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep No More”

arr. Noel A. Piercy

Cancel Choir

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.

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.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS

We welcome into the life and ministry of FPC Kevin and Rachel Ducey and their children, Samantha and Brian; Timothy Hemesath; and Kimberly Micchelli and her children, Reagan, Quinn and Alexis.

SCRIPTURE

Matthew 6:1-6, 24-34

Pages 5-6, NT

SERMON

“Fruit of the Spirit – Self Control”

Rev. Don Brown (A Dream Worth Striving For)

*HYMN NO. 339

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Lift Every Voice and Sing

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.

OFFERING

OFFERTORY

“Come Sunday”

arr. Craig Courtney

*RESPONSE OF THANKSGIVING NO. 607 Old Hundredth

“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Christ, all people here below; Praise Holy Spirit evermore; Praise Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

GOING FORTH

*HYMN NO. 767

“Together We Serve”

San Anselmo

*BENEDICTION

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE NO. 749

"Come! Live in the Light"

We Are Called

(Stanza 3)

Sing! Sing a new song! Sing of that great day when all will be one! God will reign, and we’ll walk with each other As sisters and brothers united in love. We are called to act with justice; we are called to love tenderly; we are called to serve one another, to walk humbly with God.

*THE PEACE

The peace of Christ be with you.

And also with you.

Please exchange greetings of welcome and peace with your neighbor.

*Please rise in body or in spirit

† The white rose this morning, is given to the glory of God…

...In memory of Beryl Schneider

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 Aharrah, Maggie Bischoff, Thelma Campbell, Harry Coppens, Ray Corbin, Jay Courter, Catherine Fleming, Alice Gibson, Gordon Gibson, Bill Hartman, Sandra Harvey, Bill Hayden, Christopher Kerwin, Edna Lawshe, Dottie Leonard, Ruth Luckenbach, Barbara Piggery, Louise Ritscher, Richard Rose, Erwin Rosin, Bob Scarrillo, Lois Schnell, Debbie Wefferling, Laura Winter and Helena Wispelwey.