Church Calendar
Sunday,
August 1
9:00 AM Adult S.S.
10:00 AM Worship Service
6:00 PM Grace
Anglican Church
Monday,
August 2
Tuesday,
August 3
Wednesday,
August 4
5:30 PM Weight
Watchers
Thursday,
August 5
6:00
PM VBS Meeting @ Center Church
6:30
PM Trustee Meeting
Friday,
August 6
Saturday,
August 7
Sunday,
August 8
9:00 AM Adult S.S.
10:00 AM Worship Service
6:00 PM Grace
Anglican Church
Church
Announcements
This
year the VBS Leaders are asking for donations of non-perishable foods for the
food cupboard. Also, the children will
be collecting money for the Heifer Project.
To donate to the Heifer Project or to help with the cost of VBS please
make your checks out to Highland, mark in the memo line what the check is to be
used for and place in the offering plate.
A
meeting for the leaders and helpers of VBS will be Thursday, August 5 at 6 pm
at Center Church.
Slippery Phone:
724-794-8410 Web Site: www.srhighlandchurch.com / Email:highlandpres@embarqmail.com Pastor Rusty
Stuart Manse: 724-738-0745 / Cell: 724-421-5569 Email: PrRustyStuart@aol.com or astuart@zoominternet.net
Highland Presbyterian Church
Rev.
Albert Rhodes Stuart, Pastor
Rev.
Crea M. Clark, Pastor Emeritus
August 1, 2010 10:00AM
The Welcome and Announcements:
Welcome members and visitors! Visitors: Please complete a Visitor’s Card
and place in offering plate. As a
courtesy, Please turn OFF all cell phones, pagers and
any other electronic device. (First Responders please place your monitor to
vibrate)
*Passing of the Peace:
Leader: Since we have been
justified through faith, we now have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. Let us live into and share this
peace and grace with our neighbors in all we do. May the peace of Christ be with you.
People: And
also with you.
Prelude:
*The Call To
Worship:
Leader: God
is good!
People:
All
the time!
Leader:
All the time…
People: God is good!
Unison: Because that is His nature!
Leader: Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God
with loud songs of joy. For the Lord, the Most high, is awesome, a
great king over all the earth. I will
bless the Lord at all times; His
praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Unison: My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be
glad. O magnify
the Lord with me, and let us
exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered
me from all my fears.
*Hymn: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” #26
*Call To Confession:
*Prayer of Confession:
Unison: Almighty God, creator of all, You marvelously
made us in Your image; but we have corrupted ourselves and damaged Your
likeness by rejecting Your love and hurting our neighbors. We have done wrong and neglected to do
right. We are sincerely sorry and
heartily repent of our sins. Cleanse us
and forgive us by the sacrifice of Your Son; remake us and lead us by Your
Spirit the Comforter and Advocate. We
ask this through Jesus Christ our merciful High Priest. Amen.
*Time of Silent Reflection
*Assurance of Pardon:
*Peoples’ Response #623
Prayer for Illumination:
Scripture Lesson:
I John 4:7-21
Page 1067
Response:
Pastor: This is the Word of
the Lord!
People: Thanks to be God
Sharing of Joys and Concerns:
Prayer
for the People & Lord’s Prayer:
hymn:
“Rock
of Ages” # 204
The Offering:
Offertory
*Doxology
*Offertory
Prayer
Sermon: “God IS Love; Got God?”
*Affirmation of Faith: The Nicene Creed
Unison: We believe
in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all that is,
seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from
Light, True God from True God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the
Father; through Him all things were made.
For us people, and for our salvation, He came down from heaven, and was
incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and became truly human. For our sakes He was crucified under Pontius
Pilate; he suffered, died and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance to the Scriptures; he
ascended into heaven, and is seated on the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the
living and the dead. His kingdom shall
have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, and Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; and
together with the Father and the Son is worshiped and
glorified and who has spoken by the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic, and apostolic
Church. We acknowledge one baptism for
the forgiveness of sins; and look for the Resurrection of the dead, and the
life of the world to come. Amen.
*Hymn: “They’ll Know We Are Christians” #284
*Charge and Benediction:
*Response:
*postlude:
*Please stand if you are able.
~ The
flowers adorning the sanctuary are in loving memory of Jerry Gould given by
Chris and family.
Participants in Today’s Service
Pastor Rev. Albert Rhodes Stuart
Worship
Leader Elder Charlotte Clements
Organist
Martha Lange
Head
Usher
Elder
Fritz Richardson
Greeters Leona Knight & Mary Parton
Prayers for the Community of
Faith
Ongoing Concerns:
Military
Personnel & their families, Our Country, Our Church, Ricky Bell, Ida
Corbett, Timothy McDeavitt, Dan Christiani,
Marg Colosimo, Jim Morton, Carolyn
Hundertmark, Ed Turnbull, Caroline Conlon, Maya
Turner, Kirk Hines, Colleen Patterson, Wayne Barry, Shut-ins, MacConnell Family,
Mark Mascella, Dick & Janet Lindey,
Dallis (Porter) Bryne,
Tyler Beachem, Kathy Garner, Shannon Leary,
CAPNWP, John Cush, Debbie (Myers), Jane
Rector, Ed McGill, Holly Tissue-Thompson, Mitchell Eckert, Nash Family, Jack
Courtney
New Concerns: Tina’s cousin, Julia
– 3 small spots in her lungs; Ed Brustle – recovery
from heart attack; Dale Patten – cancer and pneumonia, Karen Ford’s family – death
of Father-in-law
Joys: Irene Fergus is home
from the hospital
Sympathy: Martie Cooper’s sister,
Emma, passed away.
Date: Sunday,
1 August 2010
Texts: I John 4:7 - 21 [ESV]
Title: “God IS Love:
Got God?”
I John 4:7 - 21
7 Beloved, let us love one
another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows
God. 8 Anyone who does not love does
not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent
His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we
have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for
our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us,
we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us
and His love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide
in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His
Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify
that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus
is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and
to believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in
him. 17 By this is love perfected
with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of
judgment, because as He is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but
perfect love casts out fear. For fear
has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in
love. 19 We love because He first
loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,”
and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom
he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have
from Him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.