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August 25th, 2019

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Gathered to Share God’S Love

Wi-Fi Password Welcome! Please silence your cell phones, but please check-in with our Church App and via social media.

For Parents and Children Activity Bags for children (teal, 2-5 years, navy blue, 6-10 years) hanging in back of sanctuary; professionally staffed nursery, infancy through 6 years old, available downstairs; Hearthside Parenting room, with diaper-changing station, privacy for nursing mothers, and livecast of worship, provided in church office (use side exit and follow the signs).

Live@FCC Sunday worship is live streamed. Please help support this ministry by sitting in the front two sections. The two sections behind the side aisles are reserved for our guests and for privacy. Children’s time is not live streamed.

Interested in Membership?Contact Pastor Craig, call (309)-762-0787 or email [email protected].

Resources Ushers can provide large print bulletins and hearing amplifiers.

Open and Affirming: fccmoline.org/ona We are an ONA church, covenanting with all people regardless of sexual orientation, gender expression or identity. All people are welcome to participate fully in the life of the church, including the rites, sacraments, and leadership of the congregation.

Cover Art: Tree of Hope, Julie Leuthold (2013)

I am not told that I am to like my neighbor; I am ordered to love him or her. Luther’s explication of our relation to our neighbor brings us closer to a right understanding. Our neighbors in the biblical sense, are those persons who live in God’s creation with us in the solidarity of our life together on this earth. Though I cannot will myself to feel an oceanic affection for all people, I can acknowledge my bond with the whole of creation. in that bond I am to recognize the authenticity, the thereness, the concrete life and existence of the other.

In the broad context of human solidarity the exercise of love is realized in transaffectional justice. Real love grasps the hand that need holds out. Needs cry out from millions I will never meet. Justice is love operating at a distance. When, for instance, my church tells me that millions of people are starving and that it is my duty to show my love for them through helpful actions, I become aware of the transindividual meaning of love. I cannot feel any immediate affection for two million people. Love becomes a recognition of the neighbor in his or her need, and takes the transpersonal form of distributed food.

Gravity and GraceJoseph Sittler (1904-1987)

Welcome Today from the life of the church

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Gathering of God’s PeoplePrelude

Greeting and Welcome

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,

and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you.

And also with you.

*Call To Worship

Filled with wonder and gratitude, we come to the house of the Lord today!

God provides refuge for the weary and strength for the weak.

The power and love of God strengthens us for ministry.

We place our whole trust in God’s compassion for all people.

Come, let us worship the Lord!

Let us celebrate the presence of God in our worship and in our lives. Amen.

*Opening Prayer

Let us pray. Lord God, whose power and mercy extend to all ends of creation, pour your love on us this day that we might be healed and be made ready to serve you by serving others in this world that you have created. In Christ’s name, we pray. Amen.

*Opening Hymn Today We All Are Called to Be Disciples (Music on the next page)

* Indicates when to stand in body or spirit

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*Call to Confession

*Prayer of Confession

God of mercy, we confess that we have sinned against you, against one another, and against the earth entrusted to our care. We are worried and distracted by many things, and we fail to love you above all else. We store up treasures for ourselves and turn away from our neighbors in need. Forgive us, that we may live in the freedom of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

*Declaration of Forgiveness

*Song of Praise Gloria

*Passing the Peace

The peace of Christ be with you always.And also with you.

Children’s Time Tami Marshall

Proclaiming the Good NewsPrayer for Illumination

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Scripture Isaiah 58:9b-14

If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail. Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in. If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs; then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

The word of the Lord.Thanks be to God.

Psalm 103:1-8

Bless the Lord, O my soul,and all that is within me, bless God’s holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul,and forget not all God’s benefits-

who forgives all your sinsand heals all your diseases;

who redeems your life from the graveand crowns you with steadfast love and mercy;

who satisfies your desires with good thingsso that your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.

O Lord, you provide vindicationand justice for all who are oppressed.

You made known your ways to Mosesand your works to the children of Israel.

Lord, you are full of compassion and mercy,slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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Scripture Hebrews 12:18-29

You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.” Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven! At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.” This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken--that is, created things--so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

The word of the Lord.Thanks be to God.

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*Gospel Luke 13:10-17

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.

The gospel of the Lord.Praise to you O Christ.

Sermon Rev. Craig Jan-McMahon

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Responding to the Good NewsPastoral Prayer

Lord’s Prayer

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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.

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Praise God from whom all blessings flow,Praise God, all creatures here below;Praise God above, ye heavenly host;Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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(Music on the next page)*Benediction

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The altar flowers are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of

Mr. & Mrs. Guy E. Temple

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Serving TodayUshers Kathy HarrisDixie DuckettMary CoxSunny Moorhusen

North Door Greeters Linda Shearer Don Shearer

Lector Phil Koenig

Liturgist Kim Fuller

Sound Tech/Live@FCC Steve Schippers

Bus Driver Mike Bealer

First Congregational Church Staff

Rev. Craig Jan-McMahon Senior Pastor [email protected]

Rev. Michael Swartz Associate Pastor [email protected]

Maureen Holmes Chancel Choir Director [email protected]

Mason Moss Organist/Pianist [email protected]

Gail Glockhoff-Long Campanella Ringers Director [email protected]

Becca Peterson Director of Family Ministry [email protected]

Sara Otta Financial Manager [email protected]

Jennifer Dailing Office Manager & Bookkeeping [email protected]

Amber Moore - Director of Marketing & Communications [email protected]

Wes Llewellyn Fellowship Coordinator [email protected]

Amanda Peterson Red Wagon Preschool Director

Custodians Mike DeToye Ron Mahar

Harleigh Jones Nursery Coordinator [email protected]

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