OCTOBER 11, 2020 + NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST + ONLINE WORSHIP PRELUDE Partita Français Craig A. Penfield Brian Ward, Organ WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Libby Piotrowski and Jeff Hunter INTROIT Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven Dominic German, Bass Brian Ward, Tenor * CALL TO WORSHIP from Psalm 106 Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough? Let me share in the prosperity of your chosen ones. Let me praise you with those who are your heritage. Like our ancestors, we have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly! e people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold. ey traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
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OCTOBER 11, 2020+ NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST +
ONLINE WORSHIP
PRELUDE Partita FrançaisCraig A. Penfield
Brian Ward, Organ
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Libby Piotrowski and Jeff Hunter
INTROIT Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven Dominic German, Bass Brian Ward, Tenor
* CALL TO WORSHIP from Psalm 106 Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough? Let me share in the prosperity of your chosen ones. Let me praise you with those who are your heritage. Like our ancestors, we have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly! The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold. They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
They forgot God, their savior, who had done such great things in Egypt— that is why the Lord’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession. He handed them over to pagan nations, and they were ruled by those who hated them. Their enemies crushed them and brought them under their cruel power. Even so, he remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love.
* OPENING HYMN 422 O God, Our Help in Ages Past
* INVOCATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (Using sins)
* PASSING OF THE PEACE May the Peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. And also with you.
* CONGREGATIONAL SONG ShepherdBart Millard, David Crowder, Hank Bentley, Mia FieldesAll Essential Music/Bartatronic Millaphonic/Be Essential Songs/Bentley Street Songs/
Inot Music/Simply Complex Songs/sixsteps Music/Upside Down Under/worshiptogether.com songs
READING OF THE SCRIPTURES Karen Darelius, Reader Old Testament Reading Exodus 32:1-14 New Testament Reading Philippians 4:1-9 * Gospel Reading Matthew 22:1-14 The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
WORD FOR THE CHILDREN
MESSAGE Jeff Hunter
VOCAL SOLO The King of Love My Shepherd IsDominic German, Bass
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
GIVING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS Invitation to Generosity Offertory I Shall Not Want
Audrey Assad, Bryan Brown Fortunate Fall Music/worshiptogether.com songs
* Doxology 48 * Prayer of Dedication
* CLOSING HYMN 592 With God as Our Friend
* BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Shall We Gather at the RiverJames Mansfield
* Please rise in body or in spirit.
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Welcome to North Park Covenant Church online! We’re glad you’re here.
For your prayers this week: Jim Hosek, done with chemotherapy treatments and anticipating surgery on October 29; Pastor Libby’s dad, Craig Johnson, still hospitalized but receiving treatment for an ulcer on his epiglottis, which led to pneumonia; Pastor Cody and Lauren Taylor’s friend Sarah Lind-sey, diagnosed with stage-four liver cancer; Letha Kerl, Covenant missionary on home assignment in Washington State, mourning the passing of her mother; Gabby Archibald, mourning the passing of her mother, Christa Archibald; Sue Sandstrom and family, mourning the passing of Marty on Sep-tember 22; Kristen Westphal’s mother, Donna, recuperating following hip surgery; Cheryl Borgeson’s mother, Orel Borgeson, on hospice care; Rosemary Slaughter’s sister-in-law, Mary Ann Slaughter, having some health issues and unable to eat; Helen Ferguson’s son, Lace Ferguson, in intensive care with a severe blood clot in his leg; the Albany Park neighborhood, experiencing a rash of fatal and near-fatal shootings in recent weeks; the many police officers who have been shot in multiple recent events across the country; Millie Lungren’s nephew Peter and his family, near to the wildfires; those fighting the western fires; Dick Lucco, appreciative of your prayers as he continues chemotherapy; Heidi Hedberg, daughter to Martha and Peter Frisk and sister to David Frisk, undergoing chemo-therapy; Herb Hedstrom, appreciative of continued prayers; Wilma Cruz, continuing to battle health issues; Lori Johnson’s brother-in-law Bob Malcolm, now receiving care at home; Barb Goode’s cousin David Jeffery, home again and recuperating from a fall in which he sustained a head injury
Today begins week 41 of Heartwalking the Neighborhood: Please be in prayer for the 5500 block of north Spaulding (west side), the 3300 block of west Catalpa, and the 3300 block of west Bryn Mawr.
The rosebud at the front of the sanctuary announces the birth of Miles John Meyer, born to Kristen Engebretson and Jim Meyer on October 5. Owen is excited about his little brother. Blessings on the happy family!
You are invited! As we continue our ongoing conversation of race in America and our call, as followers of the Risen Christ, to learn to be more anti-racist, we invite you the next phase of discussion. Together, we will be reading Rev. Dr. Dennis Edwards’ book Might from the Margins and working our way through the accompanying study guide in small-group Zoom conversations. The book is available on Amazon for $14.25. If you would like to be a part of the group, we encourage you to order the book and begin reading. If you need help in obtaining the book, please let Jeff or Libby know, and we will make sure you get a copy. We will meet via Zoom bi-weekly, beginning Wednesday, October 14, at 7:30 pm. (As we get closer to that date, we will publish both the chapters to be covered and a Zoom link for the meeting.) And, on November 15, Rev. Dr. Edwards will be with us in worship as our guest preacher!
We welcome all people to begin or deepen their relationship with Christ through worship and study. We invite all believers to fully participate in the life and ministry of our church as members, leaders,
and lay staff. We celebrate the gifts and presence of diverse Christians among us—whether those differences be race, ethnicity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability,
or socioeconomic status. We are blessed by our diversity and are unified in Christ.
