Church Calendar
Sunday,
Feb. 28
9:00 AM Youth Bell Choir Practice
9:45 AM Sunday
School
10:50 AM Worship
Service; Youth Bell Choir performing during service;
Tureen Luncheon after service with report
and slideshow by Mission Team
6:00 PM Grace
Anglican Church
Monday,
March 1
5:30 PM Confirmation
Class
Tuesday,
March 2
Wednesday,
March 3
5:30 PM Weight
Watchers
5:30 PM Lenten
Soup & Study (Mission)
Thursday,
March 4
7:00 AM Men’s
Ministry
6:30 PM Trustees’
Meeting
Friday,
March 5 World Day of Prayer
Saturday,
March 6
Sunday,
March 7 Women’s Sunday
9:00 AM Youth Bell Choir Practice
9:45 AM Sunday
School
10:50 AM Worship
Service; MFM: OGH; Guest Speaker: Charlene Hill-Ellison
6:00 PM Grace
Anglican Church
Church
Announcements
Next Sunday
is Women’s Sunday. Charlene Hill-Ellison
will be our guest speaker and the Christy girls will provide special
music.
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
February 28, 2010 10:50AM
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.
*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 & grace with our neighbors in all we do. May the peace of Christ be with you.
People: And
also with you.
Prelude: “Come Christians, Join
to Sing” Youth Bell Choir
Arr. By Francis L. Callahan
*Call to Worship:
Unison: O Triune Lord of
Life, as we gather in Your name, we seek no glory or
praise to be given to us. We seek only
to praise and glorify Your name because of Your great
Love and Faithfulness.
We are living stones
built by your hand, Your Son’s sacrifice, and the Power of Your Holy Spirit to
be sacred temple, a called-out people, declaring Your
mighty and merciful acts and presence to the world. Fill us with the power of that same Spirit
now, Lord, so that we may raise Your name with a
power, love and vision that speaks life and light into darkness, and
destruction to all the idols of our own devising.
Make Your Word to
inhabit and strengthen us, that we may always see and know You with new and
faithful eyes, hearts and minds, seeking only and always to obey Your righteous
commands, and proclaim Your redeeming grace to all people.
We ask all of this in the name of Father,
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit; One God, blessed now and forever
more. Amen.
*Hymn: “When
I Survey the Wondrous Cross” # 185
*Call To Confession:
*Prayer of Confession:
Unison: Almighty God: in
Christ Jesus you called us to be a faithful servant people, but we are
rebellious and do not do what you command.
We are often silent when we should speak; useless when we should be
useful. We are lazy servants, timid and
heartless, who turn neighbors away from Your
love. Have mercy on us, O God and
Father. And though we do not deserve it,
we crave Your forgiveness and ask You to free us from
our sin. By the power of your Spirit,
make us useful and faithful; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*Time of Silent Reflection
*Assurance of Pardon
*Peoples’ Response #623
Prayer for Illumination:
Scripture Lesson:
Genesis 15:1 - 18 Page
11
Luke 13:31 - 35 Page
907
Philippians 3:17 – 4:1 Page
1024
Response:
Pastor: This is the Word of the
Lord!
People: Thanks be to
God.
(children age
4 through 4th grade are dismissed to children’s church)
Anthem: “I’ve Got Peace Like A River” Youth Bell Choir
Arr. by Tammy Waldrop
Sharing of Joys and Concerns:
Prayer for the People & Lord’s Prayer:
*Hymn: “Beneath
the Cross of Jesus” # 183
The Offering:
Offertory
*Doxology
*Offertory
Prayer
Sermon: “God
is Ever-Faithful — Are We Faithful Ever?”
*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 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 life of the world to come.
*Hymn:
“God of Grace
& God of Glory” # 316
*Charge and Benediction:
*Response:
*postlude:
*Please stand if you are able.
˜˜ Please consider
adorning the sanctuary by ordering flowers
Participants in Today’s Service
Pastor Rev. Albert R. Stuart
Worship
Leader Elder
Karen Christy
Organist Chuck Lindey
Head
Usher Elder Fritz Richardson
Today’s
Greeters Sarah Stuart, Cody Jones & Jacob
Regis
Youth
Bell Choir
Eric Cratty Marissa
Siebka
Cassandra Vogan Morgan
Siebka
Caleb Stuart Sarah
Stuart
Josiah Stuart Alexis Vogan
Director: Grandma Peg Graber
Prayers for the Community of
Faith
Ongoing Concerns:
Military
Personnel & their families, Our Country, Our Church, Ricky Bell, Vera
Crump, Ida Corbett, Donna Knight, Timothy McDeavitt, Cindy
Schanebel, Irene Watson, Sylvia McFeaters,
Julia Scavo, Dan Christiani,
Marg Colosimo, Chuck
McClure, Jim Morton, Bob Hunter, Kathy Garner, Carolyn Hundertmark,
Ed & Sally Turnbull, Caroline Conlon, Joe Grazier,
Maya Turner, Kirk Hines, Harry & Millicent Lindey,
Colleen Patterson, Bill Martin, Situation in Haiti, Larry Basso, LaVerne Hinchberger, Wayne Barry, Dave Hinchberger,
Shut-ins, Danalle Crofoot, Rikki Graybeal, McConnell Family,
Mark Mascella, Dick & Janet Lindey,
Sarah Stuart
New
Concerns:
Joys:
Sympathy:
Date: Sunday, 28 February
2010
Texts: Genesis 15:1 - 18; Luke 13:31 - 35; &
Philippians 3:17 - 4:1 [ESV]
Title: “ God Is
Ever-Faithful — Are We Faithful Ever? ”
Genesis 15:1 - 18
1 After these things the word
of the Lord
came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward
shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will You give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my
house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, You
have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the Lord
came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your
heir.” 5 And He brought him outside
and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number
them.” Then He said to him,“So shall your offspring
be.” 6 And he believed the Lord,
and He counted it to him as righteousness.
7 And He said to him, “I am the
Lord
who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to
possess.” 8 But he said, “O Lord
God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 9 He said to him, “Bring Me a heifer three years old, a female goat
three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought Him all these,
cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. 11 And when birds of prey came
down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was going down, a
deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold,
dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
13 Then the Lord said to Abram,
“Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not
theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred
years. 14 But I will bring judgment on
the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great
possessions. 15 As for yourself, you shall go
to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here
in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet
complete.”
17 When the sun had gone down
and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a
flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18 On that day the Lord
made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from
the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates. . . .
Luke
13:31 - 35
31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to Him, “Get away
from here, for a Herod wants to kill You.” 32 And He said to them, “Go and
tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow,
and the third day I finish my course. 33 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day
following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from
Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the
city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children
together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! 35 Behold, your house is
forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name
of the Lord!’”
Philippians 3:17 - 4:1
3:17 Brothers, join in imitating
me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in
us. 18 For many, of whom I have
often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross
of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction,
their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on
earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by
the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself.
4:1 Therefore, my brothers, whom
I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.