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The
First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina
At Worship
SUNDAY MORNING July 19, 2020 ELEVEN O’CLOCK AM
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
The liturgical color today is green.
Green is the color of growth while the church is on mission
during the season of Pentecost.
THE GREETING Amy Russell
THE CHIMING OF THE TRINITY
THE INVOCATION Deborah Edwards
THE PRELUDE Prelude on “Children of the Heavenly Father”
Swedish melody, arr. Robert Hobby
THE CALL TO WORSHIP Deborah Edwards
As we are greeted each morning with birdsong and each evening with the hum of
summer’s life—the sounds of your creation;
We offer our gratitude to you, our Creator.
As we find redemption and reconciliation in our relationships and within ourselves;
We offer our gratitude to you, our Savior.
As we breathe the breath of this life, given to us in abundance;
We offer our gratitude to you, Spirit of life.
Let us worship our God, Creator, Savior, and Spirit, together.
THE HYMN OF PRAISE Children of the Heavenly Father TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA
THE PSALTER LESSON: Psalm 139:1-4, 13-16, 23-24 Deborah Edwards
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when
I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 3 You search out my path and my lying
down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely. 13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit
me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately
woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book
were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. 24 See if there
is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
THE CALL TO CONFESSION Tammy Hight
THE PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Lord, who dwells within our hearts, we confess that at times our hearts can feel divided.
We love you but we also love the things of this world. We want to seek first the
Kingdom of God but instead we seek first our own comfort.
Search me, O God, and know my heart today; Try me, O Savior, know my thoughts, I pray.
See if there be some wicked way in me; Cleanse me from every sin and set me free.
Merciful God, we do not want to do wrong on purpose. We do not want to hurt others. We
do not want to hurt your creation, but we know we do all of these things.
I praise you, Lord, for cleansing me from sin; fulfill your Word and make me pure within.
Fill me with fire where once I burned with shame; grant my desire to magnify your
name.
We open ourselves to you for re-creation and renewal. We feel vulnerable but we rest in
the promise of your forgiveness and unconditional love.
Lord, take my life, for I would live for you; Fill my poor heart with your great love so true.
Take all my will, my passion, self, and pride; I now surrender; Lord, in me abide.
Spirit of grace, reconcile and strengthen our hearts that we might better love and serve you.
O Holy Spirit, revival comes from you; Send a revival, my own heart renew. Your word
declares you will supply our need; For blessings now, O Lord, I humbly plead.
THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON
THE GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 13:24-33 Kaitlyn Burton
24 He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to
someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25but while everybody was asleep, an enemy
came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26So when the plants came
up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. 27And the slaves of the householder
came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did
these weeds come from?” 28He answered, “An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to
him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?” 29But he replied, “No; for in gathering
the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. 30Let both of them grow together
until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind
them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ 31 He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
that someone took and sowed in his field; 32it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it
has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come
and make nests in its branches.’ 33 He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman
took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.’
THE GLORIA WESTMINSTER ABBEY
THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON: Genesis 28:10-22
10Jacob left Beer-sheba and went towards Haran. 11He came to a certain place and stayed
there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it
under his head and lay down in that place. 12And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up
on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and
descending on it. 13And the Lord stood beside him and said, ‘I am the Lord, the God of
Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and
to your offspring; 14and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall
spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the
families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring. 15Know that I am with
you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not
leave you until I have done what I have promised you.’ 16Then Jacob woke from his sleep
and said, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!’ 17And he was afraid, and
said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the
gate of heaven.’ 18So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his
head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 19He called that place
Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If
God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat
and clothing to wear, 21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then
the Lord shall be my God, 22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s
house; and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you.’
THE SERMON Awakenings Ronald Cava
THE HYMN Nearer, My God, to Thee BETHANY
THE CALL TO PRAYER Down to the River to Pray traditional, arr. Sheldon Curry
As I went down to the river to pray, studying about that good old way, and who shall
wear the starry crown, good Lord, show me the way.
O brothers, let's go down, come on down. Don’t you want to go down? O sisters, let's
go down, down to the river to pray. -traditional American
THE MORNING PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER Amy Russell
A CELEBRATION OF OUR GIFTS Tammy Hight
THE DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow LASST UNS ERFREUEN
THE BENEDICTION Ronald Cava
THE HYMN OF RESPONSE There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy WELLESLEY
THE POSTLUDE Trumpet Voluntary Gordon Young
Assisting with worship leadership today is Deacon of the Week Deborah Edwards.
Music for this morning’s service is offered by tenor Lee Faulkner and choral singers Kathleen
James, Jo Ellen Nowell, Tommy Nowell, and David Cole.
The Response in the Call to Confession is from the hymn text “Search Me, O God” by J. Edwin
Orr.
The flowers on the communion table are placed in loving memory of Clyde and Huel Jeffcoat
by Vivian and William Branch, Jr.
The First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina Ronald S. Cava, Senior Minister
Amy S. Russell, Associate Minister
Mark L. Hopper, Minister of Music and Organist
David Cole, Associate Minister of Music and Organist
Tammy C. Hight, Director of Childhood Discipleship
Kaitlyn Burton, Pastoral Intern
Linda O’Brien, Financial Secretary
Tammy Manning, Ministry Support Coordinator
Amber Jones, Administrative Support Coordinator
Robert Snow, Custodian
Marion D. Lark, Senior Minister Emeritus
Philip M. Young, Composer-in-Residence
Telephone (252) 438-3172
Fax (252) 438-3710
www.fbchenderson.net
Opportunities for Worship and Service
SUNDAY
9:00 AM Virtual Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship
Recording Posted on Facebook and Link Sent via Email
11:00 Previous Sunday’s Worship Service Aired on Spectrum
Channel 24
Noon 3rd Sunday Lunch Ministry
2:00 PM Worship Service Aired on WIZS – 100.1 FM and 1450 AM
WEDNESDAY 10:00 AM “Sacred Reading” Weekly Video Call