We Praise God

Psalm 65
Hymns:           “Praise with joy the world’s Creator” SJ 16
                       “Earth and all stars” WB 47
Children’s Time
             (Afterward children ages 3 to 5^th grade are invited to Children’s Worship downstairs)

Prayer, Offering & Offertory:

We Confess

Job 38: 4—15

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?

“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?— when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?

“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.

Prayer of Confession
Hymn: “God, who touches earth ” WB 511

We Hear God’s Word

Colossians 1: 15—20

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

Sermon: “Faith and Science”
Silence for Reflection

We Respond

Hymn: “God, who stretched” WB 414
Sharing Joys and Concerns
Prayer (concluding with the Lord’s Prayer)

Our Father in heaven,
     hallowed be your name,
         your kingdom come,
         your will be done,
         on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
     as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
     and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
      now and forever. AMEN

We are Sent

Announcements
Hymn: “Jubilate Deo omnis terra” WB 103
Benediction

Leaders

Rachel Yoder, Prelude & Offertory
Mary Wenger , Song Leader
Eric Herr, Worship Leaders
Marty Lowen, Children’s Time
Gail Manickam, Kathy Harder, Children’s Worship
Rod Stafford, Sermon
Joe Blowers, Lowell Herr, Gerry Leatherman, Sharing

Past Bulletins (available as Word Documents):

June 29, 2008
June 22, 2008
June 15, 2008
June 8, 2008

Announcements (available as a Word Document):

July 6, 2008