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 This week's bulletin includes the order of worship, announcements, prayer requests and calendar items, Rev. Green's sermon is entitled “Surviving Harsh Words"...
The Worship of God
Enter with Reverence
Leave to Share God’s Love and Serve Others
Sunday, August 28, 2011 – 10:30 A.M.
Opportunities Henry Green
Passport 2011 Jonathan Clingenpeel
Prelude Eleanor Sturgis and Edie Stucker
“Cross of Christ Medley”
Call to Worship Hymn No. 155 Siyahamba
“We Are Singing, for the Lord Is Our Light”
Invocation Bill Darnell
Solo Adam Cogliano
“In Christ Alone”
+Greetings and Love to You
Love to you, love to you, God’s great love to you.
As you walk through your life in joy or strife,
God’s love, God’s love to you.*
Responsive Reading Matthew 16:21-28
+Hymn No. 627 Hartford
“Victory in Jesus”
Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Offering and Offertory “My Lord, What a Morning”
+Hymn No. 705 Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
Anthem Summer Choir
“All Things Work Together for Good”
The Heritage Pulpit
“Surviving Harsh Words”
Servant leadership must be based on genuine love for God and others. Moses and Jesus followed this path in carrying out the God’s purpose in their time and for the greater good of all…
Moses complained to God that he was the wrong person to do what God was asking…
God answered and said, in effect, “I don’t get things wrong!” In reality God said, “I am who I am.”
God promised that the calling will bring liberation and will come full circle when they return to the mountain to receive the Commandments… They were liberated and they did receive God’s blessing and guidance on Mt. Sinai!
Liberation does not come apart from the hard and even harsh words of voices that challenge the status quo…
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Moses survived the harsh words of his detractors in Egypt…
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Moses survived the challenging words of God from the bush on the mountain… Sometimes we do not want to leave our comfort zone…
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Moses survived the harsh words of the grumbling Hebrews who were now liberated from slavery…
Throughout our Christian journey it becomes necessary to redefine our understanding of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. Over the years I have had many experiences to instruct me and assist me in this journey… This is what Peter discovered when he thought he had Jesus all figured out… His image of “Christ” (Messiah) was confused… He got it, but only defined through the filters he had been given… Jesus confronts Peter as if he is confronting Satan when Peter refuses to acknowledge the path that Jesus must take… Peter draws from his cultural, anecdotal, and limited knowledge of his religious instructions about Messiah…
Jesus knows differently, and from the time Peter acknowledges that he is the Christ; he begins to instruct the disciples about the path to the cross he must take.
+Hymn No. 497 Assam
“I Have Decided to Follow Jesus”
Introductions
+Benediction
Postlude “Praise Him with Trumpets”
+Congregation Standing
We ask that you please turn off, or put on silent mode, all cell phones and other electrical devices. Additionally, please no food or drinks in the sanctuary.
*The Baptist Hymnal, No. 663, Copyright © 1975 Broadman Press. CCLI # 1662915. Used by permission.
OPPORTUNITIES
The white roses on the communion table are in memory of the following: Hazel Dillow, who died on August 4, 2011; she was the mother of Diane Miarecki; Melvin Slocum who died on August 11, 2011; he was the grandfather of David Slocum; and Delores Shepherd, who died on August 19, 2011; she was the grandmother of Keith Mattison.
Appreciation is expressed to our youth for their participation in our morning worship service during the month of August. Thank you!
The new Sunday School year will begin next Sunday. If you are not now in a Sunday School class, why not consider joining one! There are classes for all ages from the very youngest to the very oldest.
Our Wednesday Night Activities will resume on September 7th. The time and activities are 5:45-6:15 – *Fellowship Supper; 6:15-6:30 – Birthdays and Announcements; 6:30-6:45 – Prayer around the Tables; 6:30-7:15 – Children’s Time and Recreation; 6:30-7:15 – Youth Hang Out; 6:45-7:15 – Bible Study in the Chapel; 7:15-8:30 – Adult Choir Rehearsal. *Everyone must make a dinner reservation by marking the appropriate place on the worship registration form or by calling the church office on Monday. If you held a permanent reservation in the past, a new one must be made. (First time guests eat free).
Backpacks filled with nutritional food for school children at Georgetown East and Mills/Parole will begin their weekly “trips home” in mid September. Please notice the bulletin board in the hallway with pictures of food types included. There are also lists of the food items for you to take along with you. The donation bucket is also in the hallway. If you wish to make a monetary donation, please make the check to Heritage Baptist Church “for” Backpack Buddies and write “Backpack Buddies” on the outside of the envelope. If you are interested in helping pack or deliver the food, please call the church office or see Jeannine Salyers, Frankie Morehead, or Mary Ann Fulford. Generally, packing is done during the day, but we could form a team for evening packing if there is enough interest. Delivery always needs to be done during the day. Your support and assistance is always appreciated!
Food Pantry Distribution: Tuesday, August 30 – Marge White and Thursday, September 1 – Ray Cook.
September 4: Extended Care Workers: Nursery – Melissa Manuel; Preschool 2’s and 3’s – Catherine Taylor and Petra Clingenpeel; 4’s and 5’s – Jackie Pool and Amanda Hurt. Bus Driver: Clyde Morehead. Pianist: Donna Manuel.
AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3
Today 9:15 am - Sunday School
10:30 - Morning Worship
6:30 pm - Youth Fellowship
Monday 6:00 pm - TOPS
Tuesday 11:30 am - Lunch Bunch at the
Italian Market
8:30 pm - Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesday 6:30 pm - Summer Bible Study
- Children’s Activities
7:15 - Youth Fellowship
Friday 8:30 pm - Alcoholics Anonymous
The Mission of
Heritage Baptist Church
As followers of Christ, we share God’s love and serve others.
Pastor: Henry Green
Minister of Music: Ralph Manuel
Director of Education: Everett Golihew
Minister to Senior Adults: Charles Barnes
Interim Youth Director: Melissa Manuel
Organist: Eleanor Sturgis
Assistant Organists: Ruth Anne Shiplette
Ellen Welker
Learning Center Director: Helen Holmboe
Secretary: Sally Morehead
Financial Secretary: Edie Stucker
Facilities Manager: Clair Morehead
Relief Custodian: Clyde Morehead
Nursery Coordinator: Amy Henry
PRAYER CONCERNS
Missionaries serving in crisis areas of our country and the world, our military and civilian personnel, their families, and leaders, Teresa Hansen, Faye Mager, Chuck Creager, Keith and Barbara Mattison; Bill Wilson,Vicki Robertson, Fred Wagner, Adele Stockett, Hamilton Nunnally, Rachel Hall, Ed and Hilda Copeland, Faye Smith, Milton Jernigan, Tena Quesada, Joan Sumner, Mario Vidotto, Esther Settembrini, Cheryl Lijewski, Andrew Patterson, Dana Killendenz, Joan Blandford, Ellie McCabe, Bill Snyder, Bruce Fullerton, Paul Bobbitt, Jonathan Pickett, Cynthia Worley, Edgar Weedon, Bud Windham, Kathryn George, Morgan Creek, Tad and Thaeda Franz, Margie MacClay, Bernie Morris, Darlene Raines, Mike Williams, Coralee Adkins, Evelyn Cabral, Janet Cogliano, Tommy Pittman, Nancy Howell, Phoebe King; Kathleen Purdy, Ruth Shepherd.
We update our Prayer Concerns on a regular basis. Please make us aware of any individuals that we need to include on our list. Thank you.
Eleventh Sunday after
Pentecost
August 28, 2011
Jesus Predicts His Death
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Matthew 16:21-28
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