October 23 Worship Service Bulletin
First Presbyterian Church – St. Petersburg, Florida
Order of Worship – October 23, 2022 – 10 a.m.
20th Sunday after Pentecost
Presbyterian Heritage Sunday / Kirkin’ of the Tartans
Rev. Ginny Ellis
Prelude: “Amazing Grace,” Diane Bish (b. 1941) - Jack Rain, organ
Welcome & Announcements - Rev. Ginny Ellis
Call to Worship - Ginny Ellis
Come, all who are suffering. / We come to pray.
Come all who are cheerful. / We come to sing songs of praise.
The prayers of the people are powerful. / We will call on God’s name for all that we need.
Let us worship God!
Bagpipe Processional: “Ode to Joy” - St. Andrew’s Pipes and Drums (Tartans are carried in)
Processional Hymn #611: “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” HYMN TO JOY
Unison Prayer of Confession - Rev. Jeanie Barnes
O God, we gladly live and move and have our being in you. Yet always in the midst of this creation-glory, we see sin’s shadow and feel death’s darkness: around us in the earth, sea, and sky, the abuse of matter; beside us in the broken, the hungry and the poor, the betrayal of one another; and often, deep within us, a striving against your Spirit. O Trinity of love, forgive us that we may forgive one another, heal us that we may be people of healing, and renew us that we also may be makers of peace.
Assurance of Pardon - Jeanie Barnes
Hear the Good News! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ. And Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us.
If anyone is in Christ, that person becomes a new person altogether. The past is finished and gone. Everything has become fresh and new.
Friends, believe the good news of the gospel: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.
Passing of the Peace - Jeanie Barnes
The peace of Christ be with you / And also with you
Response #71 FIRST SONG
Surely it is God who saves me, I will trust and not be afraid.
For the Lord is my stronghold and my sure defense and God will be my Savior.
Moment for All Ages - Ginny Ellis
Musical Meditation: “Amazing Grace” - St. Andrews Pipes and Drums
Prayer for Illumination - Kyle Brinkman
First Scripture: Jeremiah 14:20-22 - Kyle Brinkman
Sermon Scripture: Luke 18:9-14 - Ginny Ellis
Sermon: “On Prayer: The Humility of Faith” - Ginny Ellis
Affirmation of Faith (unison): Scots Confession of 1560, chapter 1 - Ginny Ellis
We confess and acknowledge one God alone, to whom alone we must cleave, whom alone we must serve, whom only we must worship, and in whom alone is our trust. Who is eternal, infinite, immeasurable, incomprehensible, omnipotent, invisible; one in substance and yet distinct in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. By whom we confess and believe all things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, to have been created, to be retained in their being, and to be ruled and guided by his inscrutable providence for such end as his eternal wisdom, goodness, and justice may have appointed, and to the manifestation of his own glory.
Presentation of our Gifts – Invitation and Prayer - Kyle Brinkman
…Please join me in a unison Prayer of Dedication: Almighty God, whose loving hand hath given us all that we possess: grant us grace that we may honor thee with our substance, and remembering the account which we must one day give, may we be faithful stewards of thy bounty, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Offertory Anthem: “Scottish Blessings” by Mike Wilson
Doxology OLD HUNDREDTH
Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer - Jeanie Barnes
The Presentation and Blessing of the Tartans and the Clans of the Kirk:
Bring Forth the Tartans. (The Tartans are presented.) Raise the Tartans!
We raise them up to God!
We praise God for our heritage of Faith.
We give thanks for God’s eternal presence.
With the people of this Kirk, we raise these tartans before Almighty God in appreciation of our heritage, and we ask God’s blessing on all the clans, ethnicities, races, and families represented among us. Almighty God, you have promised that wherever two or three are gathered in your name you will meet with your servants to bless them. Fulfill now your promise, and make us joyful in the house of the Lord, that our worship being offered in the name of your Son and by the guidance of your Holy Spirit may be acceptable to you. Bless, we pray, these tartans that they may be to us and to all a token of the faith of our ancestors and a sign of our service to you, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Let the world know that God’s truth abideth still.
God’s kingdom is forever.
Recessional Hymn #321: “The Church’s One Foundation” AURELIA
Charge & Benediction - Ginny Ellis
Bagpipe Recessional: “Scotland the Brave” - St. Andrews Pipes and Drums
Postlude: “Toccata on Amazing Grace,” J. Christopher Pardini (b. 1973) - Jack Rain, organ