First Presbyterian Church
Brookings, SD
11th Sunday after Pentecost
August 4, 2024
PRELUDE Largo by Handel
WELCOME and ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
Here, in this place, God welcomes saints and sinners alike.
Here, the worriers and wanderers can call on God by name.
Here, in this time, we remember all the ways God has graced us.
Here, in these moments, we remember that God is with us!
Here in our hearts, we welcome our Savior
Here in our souls, we worship our God.
*OPENING HYMN #401 (red) Here in This Place
Here in this place the new light is streaming;
Now is the darkness vanished away;
See in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day.
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken;
Gather us in, the blind and the lame;
Call to us now, and we shall awaken;
We shall arise at the sound of our name.
We are the young, our lives are a mystery.
We are the old who yearn for your face.
We have been sung throughout all of history,
Called to be light to the whole human race.
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty;
Gather us in, the proud and the strong;
Give us a hearts, so meek and so lowly;
Give us the courage to enter the song.
Here we will take the wine and the water;
Here we will take the bread of new birth.
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters,
Call us anew to be salt for the earth.
Give us to drink the wine of compassion;
Give us to eat the bread that is you;
Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.
Not in the dark of buildings confining,
Not to some heaven, light years away:
Here in this place the new light is shining;
Now is the kingdom, and now is the day.
Gather us in and hold us forever,
Gather us in and make us your own;
Gather us in, all peoples together,
Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.
CHILDREN’S SERMON
*HYMN #837 (red) What a Fellowship What a Joy Divine
What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
what a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Refrain:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
leaning on the everlasting arms. [Refrain]
What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
leaning on the everlasting arms. [Refrain]
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE READINGS
2 Samuel 11: 1-15
1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.
10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”
11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”
12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
Romans 6:12-14
"Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace."
Matthew 5: 27-30
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
SERMON A Simple Lesson: Sin bad-God good
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Book of Order F-1.01-pt 2)
The mission of God in Christ gives shape and substance to the life and work of the Church. In Christ, the Church participates in God’s mission for the transformation of creation and humanity by proclaiming to all people the good news of God’s love, offering to all people the grace of God at font and table, and calling all people to discipleship in Christ. Human beings have no higher goal in life than to glorify and enjoy God now and forever, living in covenant fellowship with God and participating in God’s mission.
*CALL TO CONFESSION
*HYMN OF CONFESSION #428 (red) Before I Take the Body of My Lord
Before I take the body of my Lord,
Before I share his life in bread and wine,
I recognize the sorry things within:
These I lay down.
The words of hope I often failed to give,
The prayers of kindness buried by my pride,
The signs of care I argued out of sight:
These I lay down.
The narrowness of visions and of mind,
The need for other folk to serve my will,
And every word and silence meant to hurt:
These I lay down.
Of those around in whom I meet my Lord,
I ask their pardon and I grant them mine,
That every contradiction of Christ’s peace
Might be laid down.
Lord Jesus Christ, companion at this feast,
I empty now my heart and stretch my hands,
And ask to meet you here in bread and wine
Which you lay down.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Lift up your hearts
We lift them to the Lord
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
…Therefore with all creation we sing your praise.
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Hosanna in the highest.
…Great is the mystery of faith:
Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.
… THE LORD’S PRAYER (on screen)
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.
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND BREAKING OF THE BREAD
(come forward to receive the elements)
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
OFFERING OF OURSELVES AND OUR RESOURCES
*DOXOLOGY (on screen)
*CLOSING HYMN #536 (red) Rise, O Church, Like Christ Arisen
Rise, O church, like Christ arisen,
From the meal of love and grace;
May we through each love envision
Whose we are, and whose, our praise.
Alleluia, alleluia: God the wonder of our days.
Rise, transformed, and choose to follow
After Christ, though wounded, whole;
Broken, shared, our lives are hallowed
To release and to console.
Alleluia, alleluia: Christ, our present, past, and goal.
Rise, remember well the future
God has call us to receive;
Present by God’s loving nature,
Spirited then let us live.
Alleluia, alleluia: Spirit, grace by whom we live.
Service be our sure vocation:
Courage be our daily breath;
Mercy be our destination
From this day and unto death.
Alleluia, alleluia: Rise, O church, a living faith.
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Trumpet Voluntary by Clarke
Brookings, SD
11th Sunday after Pentecost
August 4, 2024
PRELUDE Largo by Handel
WELCOME and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- MISSION/OUTREACH MEETING on Sunday, August 4 following worship at 11:15 AM
- HARVEST TABLE – FPC and LDS Church are serving tomorrow, August 5. Sign-up sheet for volunteers is on the bulletin board.
- TUESDAY MORNING COFFEE GROUP meets at 9:30ish AM at First Lutheran Mission Coffee House.
- FINANCE MEETING on Tuesday, August 6 at 6:30 PM via Zoom.
- THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY will be meeting at 9:30 AM in the FPC Center Meeting Room.
- SESSION MEETING will be held Thursday August 8 at 7:00 PM.
- CE/FELLOWSHIP MEETING will be held next Sunday, August 11 following worship at 11:15 AM
- SAVE THE DATE: August 18 - Potluck after worship service
CALL TO WORSHIP
Here, in this place, God welcomes saints and sinners alike.
Here, the worriers and wanderers can call on God by name.
Here, in this time, we remember all the ways God has graced us.
Here, in these moments, we remember that God is with us!
Here in our hearts, we welcome our Savior
Here in our souls, we worship our God.
*OPENING HYMN #401 (red) Here in This Place
Here in this place the new light is streaming;
Now is the darkness vanished away;
See in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day.
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken;
Gather us in, the blind and the lame;
Call to us now, and we shall awaken;
We shall arise at the sound of our name.
We are the young, our lives are a mystery.
We are the old who yearn for your face.
We have been sung throughout all of history,
Called to be light to the whole human race.
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty;
Gather us in, the proud and the strong;
Give us a hearts, so meek and so lowly;
Give us the courage to enter the song.
Here we will take the wine and the water;
Here we will take the bread of new birth.
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters,
Call us anew to be salt for the earth.
Give us to drink the wine of compassion;
Give us to eat the bread that is you;
Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.
Not in the dark of buildings confining,
Not to some heaven, light years away:
Here in this place the new light is shining;
Now is the kingdom, and now is the day.
Gather us in and hold us forever,
Gather us in and make us your own;
Gather us in, all peoples together,
Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.
CHILDREN’S SERMON
*HYMN #837 (red) What a Fellowship What a Joy Divine
What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
what a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Refrain:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
leaning on the everlasting arms. [Refrain]
What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
leaning on the everlasting arms. [Refrain]
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE READINGS
2 Samuel 11: 1-15
1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.
10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”
11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”
12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
Romans 6:12-14
"Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace."
Matthew 5: 27-30
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
SERMON A Simple Lesson: Sin bad-God good
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Book of Order F-1.01-pt 2)
The mission of God in Christ gives shape and substance to the life and work of the Church. In Christ, the Church participates in God’s mission for the transformation of creation and humanity by proclaiming to all people the good news of God’s love, offering to all people the grace of God at font and table, and calling all people to discipleship in Christ. Human beings have no higher goal in life than to glorify and enjoy God now and forever, living in covenant fellowship with God and participating in God’s mission.
*CALL TO CONFESSION
*HYMN OF CONFESSION #428 (red) Before I Take the Body of My Lord
Before I take the body of my Lord,
Before I share his life in bread and wine,
I recognize the sorry things within:
These I lay down.
The words of hope I often failed to give,
The prayers of kindness buried by my pride,
The signs of care I argued out of sight:
These I lay down.
The narrowness of visions and of mind,
The need for other folk to serve my will,
And every word and silence meant to hurt:
These I lay down.
Of those around in whom I meet my Lord,
I ask their pardon and I grant them mine,
That every contradiction of Christ’s peace
Might be laid down.
Lord Jesus Christ, companion at this feast,
I empty now my heart and stretch my hands,
And ask to meet you here in bread and wine
Which you lay down.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Lift up your hearts
We lift them to the Lord
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
…Therefore with all creation we sing your praise.
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Hosanna in the highest.
…Great is the mystery of faith:
Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.
… THE LORD’S PRAYER (on screen)
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.
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND BREAKING OF THE BREAD
(come forward to receive the elements)
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
OFFERING OF OURSELVES AND OUR RESOURCES
*DOXOLOGY (on screen)
*CLOSING HYMN #536 (red) Rise, O Church, Like Christ Arisen
Rise, O church, like Christ arisen,
From the meal of love and grace;
May we through each love envision
Whose we are, and whose, our praise.
Alleluia, alleluia: God the wonder of our days.
Rise, transformed, and choose to follow
After Christ, though wounded, whole;
Broken, shared, our lives are hallowed
To release and to console.
Alleluia, alleluia: Christ, our present, past, and goal.
Rise, remember well the future
God has call us to receive;
Present by God’s loving nature,
Spirited then let us live.
Alleluia, alleluia: Spirit, grace by whom we live.
Service be our sure vocation:
Courage be our daily breath;
Mercy be our destination
From this day and unto death.
Alleluia, alleluia: Rise, O church, a living faith.
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Trumpet Voluntary by Clarke