Church Calendar
Sunday,
July 25
9:00 AM Adult S.S.
10:00 AM Worship Service
6:00 PM Grace
Anglican Church
Monday,
July 26
Tuesday,
July 27
6:00 PM Presbytery
Meeting
6:30 PM Boy
Scouts
Wednesday,
July 28
5:30 PM Weight
Watchers
Thursday,
July 29
Friday,
July 30
Saturday,
July 31
Sunday,
August 1
9:00 AM Adult S.S.
10:00 AM Worship Service
6:00 PM Grace
Anglican Church
Church
Announcements
The
committee for the Slippery Rock Community Dinner is looking for volunteers who
are willing to give a couple hours once a month or once every couple months to
help with the dinners. If you are
interested in helping out please take a form from the table in the Daniel Room,
fill it out and return it to Margaret Boyer.
Thanks!
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
July 25, 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: Let us worship the Him Who is worthy: O Lord
Jesus Christ, You were slain, and by Your blood have
ransomed us for God, from every tribe and people and nation – -- a royal house
of priests of our God.
Unison: Worthy is the lamb who
was slain, to receive power and wealth, wisdom and might, honor and glory and
blessing. The One seated upon the
throne, and to Christ the Lamb, be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever
and ever. Amen.
*Hymn: “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” #43
*Call To Confession:
*Prayer of Confession:
Unison: Lord, we come before you broken, downhearted, and in a sinful state. Some of the choices we have made have been
against Your will and Your ways. Give us strength to truly repent. In Your great mercy, forgive us and cleanse
our hearts of all unrighteousness. Hear
now our individual confessions as we silently reveal to You
what You already know. Amen
*Time of Silent Reflection
*Assurance of Pardon:
*Peoples’ Response #623
Prayer for Illumination:
Scripture Lesson:
I John 4:1-6
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:
“Holy,
Holy, Holy” # 262
The Offering:
Offertory
*Doxology
*Offertory
Prayer
Sermon: “Testing the Spirit: Is there Such a Thing
as Trust?”
*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: “Breathe on Me Breath of
God” #259
*Charge and Benediction:
*Response:
*postlude:
*Please stand if you are able.
~ The
flowers adorning the sanctuary are in honor of Ken Faith’s birthday.
Participants in Today’s Service
Pastor Rev. Albert Rhodes Stuart
Worship
Leader Elder Fritz Richardson
Organist
Martha Lange
Head
Usher
Elder
Fritz Richardson
Greeters
Dave Hinchberger
Family
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, Bob Allison, Holly Tissue-Thompson, Mitchell Eckert, Nash
Family, Jack Courtney
Irene Fergus, Tina Stuart
New Concerns: Adele Bitler’s cousin Barbara – problem
with gallbladder, pancreatitis; Jane Rector – blood clots; Camp Pine Crest –
fire;
Joys:
Sympathy:
Date: Sunday, 25 July
2010
Texts: I John 4:1 - 6 [ESV]
Title: “ Testing the
Spirits: Is there
Such a Thing
as Truth?”
I John 4:1 -
6
1 Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false
prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which
you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from
God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in
the world. 5 They are from the world;
therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is
not from God does not listen to us. By
this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.