BULLETIN | Livingston UMC

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Prelude

Chris Warner, Organist

Welcome

Pastor Angie

*Call to Worship

Noelle Russell

Leader: Love! Just love! Above all other gifts, there is love.
All: The source and goal of Christ’s worship and ours.
Leader: Love. The ground and guide for our dealings with one another.
All: The heritage and hope of all races and nations.
Leader: Love. The delight and destiny of those filled with the Holy Spirit.
All: Above all else there is love.
Leader: Let us worship God, the fountain of love.

*Opening Hymn

How Can We Name a Love

Brian Wren and Franklin Lawrence Sheppard

1 How can we name a Love
that wakens heart and mind,
indwelling all we know
or think or do
or seek or find?
Within our daily world,
in every human face,
Love's echoes sound
and God is found,
hid in the commonplace.

2 If we awoke to life
built on a rock of care
that asked no great reward
but firm, assured,
was simply there,
we can, with parents' names,
describe, and thus adore,
Love unconfined,
a father kind,
a mother strong and sure.

3 When people share a task,
and strength and skills unite
in projects old or new,
to make or do
with shared delight,
our Friend and Partner's will
is better understood,
that all should share,
create, and care,
and know that life is good.

4 So in a hundred names,
each day we all can meet
a presence, sensed and shown
at work, at home,
or in the street.
Yet every name we see,
shines in a brighter sun:
In Christ alone
is Love full grown
and life and hope begun.

The Epistle Reading

1 Corinthians 13

Children's Moments

Jen Brizendine

Jesus Loves the Little Children

George Frederick Root and Clare Herbert Woolston

Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Morning, evening, day and night,
They are precious in His sight -
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Prayer Requests / Prayers of the People

Feel free to text any prayer requests to Pastor Angie at (614) 309-6645.

Prayer Response - The Serenity Prayer

God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time,
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it,
trusting that You will make all things right,
if I surrender to Your will,
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.

The Offering

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Offertory Music

Doxology

Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Thomas Ken and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise God, all creatures here below:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Prayer of Dedication

*Praise Time

Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing)

Brenton Brown and Brian Doerksen

Your love is amazing
Steady and unchanging
Your love is a mountain
Firm beneath my feet
Your love is a mystery
How You gently lift me
When I am surrounded
Your love carries me.

REFRAIN:
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Your love makes me sing
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Your love makes me sing

Your love is surprising
I can feel it rising
All the joy that's growing
Deep inside of me
Every time I see you
All your goodness shines through
I can feel this God song rising up in me (Refrain x 2)

TAG: Your love makes me sing.

Into My Heart

Harry D. Clarke

1 Into my heart, into my heart,
come into my heart, Lord Jesus;
Come in today, come in to stay;
Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.

2 Out of my heart, out of my heart,
shine out of my heart, Lord Jesus;
Shine out today, shine out always;
Shine out of my heart, Lord Jesus.

Message

Context: A More Excellent Way

Pastor Angie

*Closing Hymn

I Have a Dream

Words: Pam Pettitt; Tune: (REPTON) Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

1 "I have a dream," a man once said,
"where all is perfect peace;
where men and women, black and white,
stand hand in hand, and all unite
in freedom and in love,
in freedom and in love."

2 But in this world of bitter strife
the dream can often fade;
reality seems dark as night,
we catch glimpses of the light
Christ sheds on humankind,
Christ sheds on humankind.

3 Fierce persecution, war, and hate
are raging everywhere;
God calls us now to pay the price
through struggles and through sacrifice
of standing for the right,
of standing for the right.

4 So dream the dreams and sing the songs,
but never be content;
for thoughts and words don't ease the pain:
unless there's action, all is vain;
faith proves itself in deeds,
faith proves itself in deeds.

5 Lord, give us vision, make us strong,
help us to do your will;
don't let us rest until we see
your love throughout humanity
uniting us in peace,
uniting us in peace.

*Benediction and Sending Forth

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Postlude

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