The First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina At Worship SUNDAY MORNING May 17, 2020 ELEVEN O’CLOCK AM Sixth Sunday in Eastertide The liturgical color today is white. White is the color of purity and is reserved for the church’s most joyful celebrations. Today we celebrate Christ’s resurrection and triumph over death. THE GREETING Tammy Hight THE CHIMING OF THE TRINITY THE INVOCATION THE PRELUDE Imitation on ELLACOMBE Homer Whitford THE CALL TO WORSHIP God made the world and everything in it. God is Lord of heaven and earth. God does not live in shrines made of human hands. God gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. In God, we live and move and have our being, And we are God’s children. Come, worship God, who has been made known to us in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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The
First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina
At Worship
SUNDAY MORNING May 17, 2020 ELEVEN O’CLOCK AM
Sixth Sunday in Eastertide
The liturgical color today is white.
White is the color of purity and is reserved for the church’s most joyful celebrations.
Today we celebrate Christ’s resurrection and triumph over death.
THE GREETING Tammy Hight
THE CHIMING OF THE TRINITY
THE INVOCATION
THE PRELUDE Imitation on ELLACOMBE Homer Whitford
THE CALL TO WORSHIP
God made the world and everything in it.
God is Lord of heaven and earth.
God does not live in shrines made of human hands.
God gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.
In God, we live and move and have our being,
And we are God’s children.
Come, worship God, who has been made known to us in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
THE HYMN OF PRAISE We Stand United in the Truth ELLACOMBE
THE PSALTER LESSON: Psalm 66:8-20 Natalie Stone
8Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard, 9who has kept us among
the living, and has not let our feet slip. 10For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us
as silver is tried. 11You brought us into the net; you laid burdens on our backs; 12you let people ride over
our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a
spacious place. 13I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows, 14those that
my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble. 15I will offer to you burnt
offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of
bulls and goats. Selah 16Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me. 17I cried
aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue. 18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened. 19But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the
words of my prayer. 20Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed
his steadfast love from me.
THE CALL TO CONFESSION Amy Russell
THE PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Loving God, in Jesus you offer life to the world and love to its people. When we see
life only for ourselves, forgive us. Help us to hear your transforming love speaking to us
of respect, dignity and worth, telling us that we are loved and that we are to love one
another. In the knowledge of this love, work through us to bring your justice to the
world, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON
THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON: John 14:15-21
15“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and
he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17This is the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know
him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. 18“I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19In a little while the world will
no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you
will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21They who have my
commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be
loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”
THE GLORIA 416 WESTMINSTER ABBEY
THE EPISTLE LESSON: I Peter 1:22-25
22Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have
genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. 23You have been born anew,
not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers,
and the flower falls, 25but the word of the Lord endures forever.” That word is the good
news that was announced to you.
THE SERMON New Life and New Love Ronald Cava
THE HYMN Would You Bless Our Homes and Families NETTLETON
THE CALL TO PRAYER Tammy Hight
THE MORNING PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER Albert Hay Malotte
A CELEBRATION OF OUR GIFTS Amy Russell
THE DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow LASST UNS ERFREUEN
THE BENEDICTION Ronald Cava
THE HYMN OF RESPONSE Blest Be the Tie That Binds DENNIS
THE POSTLUDE Postlude on NETTLETON Donald Hustad
Assisting with worship leadership today is Natalie Stone.
This morning’s Call to Worship is by Mindi Welton-Mitchell and is used under permission
granted at rev-o-lution.org. The Prayer of Confession was a post from the Monthly Prayers page
of christianaid.org.uk and is used with permission.
Music for this morning’s service is offered by baritone David Hicks and choral singers Cindy
Clark, Maggie Clark, Andy Dickerson, and David Hicks.
The cover art is “God’s Trumpets,” an original watercolor by Carolyn De Brand.
The flowers this morning are given to the glory of God and in memory of Dr. Don Gwynn, Mrs.
Barbara Gwynn, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Gwynn, and Mr. and Mrs. John L. McDaniel by their family.
The First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina Ronald S. Cava, Senior Minister
Amy S. Russell, Associate Minister
Mark L. Hopper, Minister of Music and Organist
David Cole, Associate Minister of Music and Organist
Tammy C. Hight, Director of Childhood Discipleship
