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First Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Twenty North Dixie Avenue
Cookeville, Tennessee
Telephone: (931) 526-4424; email:
firstprescooke@frontiernet.net
Presbytery Worship Service, July 24, 2010
* Indicates that those who are able may
stand. Bold type is spoken by the people.
A thought from John Calvin: “Christ testifies
that he is not a dry and worn out cistern, but an inexhaustible
fountain, which abundantly supplies all who will come to drink.”
PRELUDE
Blessed
Assurance Kurt Kaiser
Paul
Thurmond, Organist
WELCOME
*CALL TO WORSHIP (from Psalm 42)
One: As a deer longs for flowing
streams…
All: So my soul longs for you, O Lord.
One:
My soul thirsts for the living
God.
All: When shall I come and see the face of God?
*OPENING HYMN NO. 474 O Splendor of God’s Glory
Bright
*UNISON PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Eternal God, our judge and our redeemer, you
love us but we have not loved you with heart, mind and soul. Nor
have we loved our neighbors as ourselves. We have walked past those
in need and exaggerated our own claims. You have offered us living
water and life eternal but, too often, we prefer the temporary
satisfactions of this world. Forgive us and free us from our
attachments to the things that do not last. Help us to hear your
call and strengthen us to respond in love. Make us worthy to be
called your children. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
*RESPONSE: HYMN NO. 572 Lord, Have Mercy
Upon Us
*DECLARATION OF PARDON
One: Almighty and most merciful God, we praise
you for your
mercies. All:
For your goodness that created us and your grace that sustains us.
One: For your discipline that corrects us and your patience that
bears with us. All: And for your love
that has redeemed us, we give thanks through Christ, our Lord.
*OUR RESPONSE NO. 138 Holy, Holy,
Holy!, v 4
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty! All thy
works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea; Holy, holy
holy! Merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessed trinity!
ANTHEM New
Life, New Love, New Light Alfred V. Fedak
Please see back of bulletin
SCRIPTURE READINGS Isaiah 55:1-5;
John 7:37-39
SERMON
Love is a Name Brand
Rev. Stuart Gordon
*HYMN OF AFFIRMATION NO. 510 Jesus, Thou Joy
of Loving Hearts
PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE
LORD’S PRAYER
Presentation of tithes and offerinGS Today’s offering
supports Guatemalan Pastors
OFFERTORY
At the River
Aaron Copland
Anne Thurmond,
clarinet
*OUR RESPONSE NO. 422 God, Whose Giving Knows
No Ending, v 2
Skills and time are ours for
pressing toward the goals of Christ, Your Son: All at peace in
health and freedom, Races joined, the church made one. Now direct
our daily labor; Lest we strive for self alone; Born with talents,
make us servants fit to answer at your throne.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
*CLOSING HYMN NO. 368 I’ve Got Peace, Like
a River
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
*OUR RESPONSE NO. 538 Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy
Blessing, v 1
Lord, dismiss us with Thy
blessing; Fill our hearts with joy and peace; Let us each, Thy love
possessing, Triumph in redeeming grace. O refresh us, O refresh us;
Traveling through this wilderness.
*POSTLUDE
Fugue in C Major
Dietrich Buxtehude
Participants:
Paul Thurmond, Music Director at First
Presbyterian Church Cookeville
Stuart Gordon, Associate Pastor, First
Presbyterian Church, Nashville
Pat Handlson, Pastor, First Presbyterian
Church, Cookeville
The Chancel Choir of First Presbyterian Church,
Cookeville
Anne Thurmond, Church Elder, Professor of
Clarinet at TTU
Centennial anthem
New Life, New
Love, New Light by Thomas
Troeger and Alfred Fedak
This anthem was
commissioned by First Presbyterian Church, Cookeville to commemorate
its 100th anniversary. The congregation is invited to
join the choir on the fourth and fifth stanzas.
Choir: Earth’s
crust of rock is drifting upon its molten core,
and all the sands are shifting on
every wave-lapped shore,
while in the sky’s vast spaces great
suns recede to night
and leave no shining traces of their
once steady light.
Though all things fade and crumble on
earth and in the sky,
and we frail creatures stumble, our
faith will never die
for we have glimpsed the wonder of
love that never dims
and dreams of hope that thunder
through worship, prayers and hymns.
Faith gives a depth dimension to how
we view all things,
directing our attention to their
undying springs:
the Spirit animating all life in
every place,
the heart of Christ relating to us
with love and grace.
Choir and congregation:
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