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Poolesville Presbyterian Church
01.19.2025; Second Sunday after the Epiphany

Call To Worship (adapted from Prayers for Daily Use by Samuel Miller) :
Leader: Center us down, O God, until in our deepest soul we kneel.
Response: Deliver us from the world for these brief moments, so that
we may meet you undistracted, and confirm the bond that binds us to
you.
Leader: In your presence, help us to reorder our minds and hearts,
bringing before you, one by one, all the pieces of ourselves.
Response: We bring our loved ones, our hopes and fears, our great
joys and our ill-admitted sins.
Leader: Help us to see all with your eyes, your love, and your grace.
Let us worship God!

Hymn 12 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Prayer of Confession: Gracious and Almighty God, we know we're called to act and live in ways that are deeper in grace. A sense of connection and purpose is so important to that, yet we struggle to recognize where being with others might grow our souls. Forgive us when we're too fearful to take that step towards deeper life with you. Forgive us when we let ourselves be guided by our resentments or our biases and not the deep love you have for all of us. Help us with this, Lord, because we're not sure how to find it in ourselves. In Christ, please forgive us our weakness, AMEN.

Assurance of Pardon
Hear the good news! The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save us. He himself bore our
sins in his body on the cross, that we might be dead to sin, and alive
to what is good. I declare to you, in the name of Jesus Christ, we
are forgiven. AMEN.

Scripture Readings:

First: Psalm 36:5-10

Second: Isaiah 62:1-5

Hymn 32 I Sing the Mighty Power of God

Third: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon: Feats of Strength

Affirmation of Faith (adapted from the Confession of 1967, BOC 9.54-55
We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God's image, male and female, of every race and people, to live as one community. But we rebel against God; we hide from our Creator. Ignoring God's commandments, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care. We deserve God's condemnation. Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation. In everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarah chose a covenant people to bless all families of the earth. Hearing their cry, God delivered the children of Israel from the house of bondage. Loving us still, God makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant. Like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, God is faithful still.

Hymn 300 We Are One in the Spirit (verses 1-2, 4)

Charge and Benediction1