April 18, 2021 Service

 

 

THE WORSHIP PODCAST

PETALUMA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

A CELEBRATION OF NEW LIFE!

April 18, 2021

The Order of Service

The Third Sunday in Easter

 

 

PRELUDE:  “Christ is the Way” Marilyn Lee, Organist

 

GREETING: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

                                                           

CALL TO WORSHIP: Elizabeth Truesdell

Come, let us set aside our fears, our worries and our concerns so that we can pace our whole focus on God and God’s precious love.  Come, let us pray.  Come, let us worship.  AMEN.

 

OPENING HYMN: “Thine Be the Glory! UMH 308 played by Marilyn Lee

1) Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son;
endless is the victory thou o’er death hast won.
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
kept the folded grave-clothes where thy body lay.

Refrain: Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son;!
endless is the victory thou o’er death has won.

2) Lo! Jesus meets thee, risen from the tomb; 
lovingly he greets thee, scatters fear and gloom.
Let the church with gladness hymns of triumph sing,
for our Lord now liveth; death hath lost its sting. (Refrain)

 

CALL TO CONFESSION: Rob Bickmore

Come, let us open our hearts before God in confessional prayer.  Let us lay down our burdens before our Creator with deepest sighs and whispers.  Let us give it all to God in silent prayer.

 

SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION: 

 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Rob Bickmore

                                                                                                            

SCRIPTURE READINGS:

 

Psalm 4   Charlotte Peterson 

Luke 24:36b-48  Elizabeth Truesdell

                                           

SERMON: “Why Are You Frightened?” Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

THE PASTORAL PRAYER: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER:              

Led in English by Elizabeth Truesdell

Led in Fijian by Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraka

 

THE OFFERING OF OUR GIFTS AND TITHES: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

OFFERTORY: “One Shepherd, One Fold”  Marilyn Lee

 

PRAYER OF DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

CLOSING HYMN:  “Be Thou my Vision”  UMH 451 Marilyn Lee

1)Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me, save that thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

 2)Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word;
I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord.
Thou and thou only, first in my heart,  
great God of heaven, my treasure thou art.

 

THE BENEDICTION: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

POSTLUDE:  “Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices” Marilyn Lee