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Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Sunday, July 28, 2024. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily.
Service of Worship July 28, 2024
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Rev. Eric S. Anderson, Pastor
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Please note that audio and video of this service are being live streamed on the Internet and will be recorded. The right rear section of the sanctuary will not be captured by any cameras. Please be aware that in other sections you may be visible at times.
Prelude: Agincourt Hymn Kayleen Yuda
Lighting of the Candles
Ringing of the Bell
Welcome Rev. Eric S. Anderson
* Call to Worship: (based on Psalm 45:10-18) Gloria Kobayashi
Leader: All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD. All your faithful praise you!
People: We speak of the glory of your realm. We tell of your power.
Leader: The LORD upholds all who are falling. God raises up those who are bowed down.
People: When our eyes look to you, you raise up food from the ground in due season.
Leader: Your hand opens to satisfy the needs of every living thing.
People: Draw near to us, O God, as we call: as we call to you in truth.
All: Let us worship God!
* Hymn #51: O Sing a Song of Bethlehem (v. 1-4)
* Invocation (based on Psalm 14) Gloria Kobayashi
We know fools who say in their hearts and with their lips and with their actions, “There is no God.” We see their deeds, we see the wreckage of human misery they leave behind. Have any among us any knowledge? Are there any who know the LORD? Be the refuge of the poor, O God. Be the deliverance that comes from Zion. Restore the fortunes of suffering people, O God, and we will rejoice and be glad.
Please be seated
WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
Anthem: Here I Am, Lord Kayleen Yuda
Time with the Children
Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-15 Gloria Kobayashi
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, ‘This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.’ So David sent messengers to fetch her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, ‘I am pregnant.’
So David sent word to Joab, ‘Send me Uriah the Hittite.’ And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, ‘Go down to your house, and wash your feet.’ Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. When they told David, ‘Uriah did not go down to his house’, David said to Uriah, ‘You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house?’ Uriah said to David, ‘The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing.’ Then David said to Uriah, ‘Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.’ So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day, David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, ‘Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.’
John 6:1-21
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, ‘Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?’ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, ‘Six months’ wageswould not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.’ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, ‘There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?’ Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, ‘Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.’ So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, ‘This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.’
When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and started across the lake to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The lake became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the lake and coming near the boat, and they were terrified. But he said to them, ‘It is I; do not be afraid.’ Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the land towards which they were going.
Sermon: Enough of This Rev. Eric S. Anderson
WE RESPOND IN WORD AND DEED
Pastoral Prayer Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen
* Hymn #476: My Life Flows on in Endless Song (v. 1-4)
Call to Offering Gloria Kobayashi
As human beings, we have the power to create, and we have the power to destroy. In this moment, let us choose the power of creation, of compassion, and of healing. Let us be part of the ministry of Christ. Whether you share your gift here in the church today, through a gift online, or via an envelope in the mail, let the offering now be received.
Offertory: Gloria Tibi Trinitas Kayleen Yuda
* Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Amen
* Offertory Prayer Gloria Kobayashi
Accept these gifts, O God, which your people place in your care. Accept our offered hearts, O God, and turn them to the work of healing. Combine our gifts together, O God, and may all people be filled with good things, in body, mind, and soul. Amen.
* Hymn #553: There Is a Balm in Gilead (v. 1-3)
Please be seated
Announcements Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Benediction Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Postlude: Festival March Kayleen Yuda
* Please stand if you are able.
Permissions
Agincourt Hymn
John Dunstable,
Edited by E. Power Biggs
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O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
Text by Louis F. Benson, 1899
Tune KINGSFOLD trad. English melody
Harm. by Ralph Vaughn Williams, 1906
© 1906, Oxford University Press
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Here I Am, Lord
Dan Schutte
Text: Based on Isaiah 6.
Text and Music © 1981, OCP. All rights reserved.
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My Life Flows on in Endless Song
(How Can I Keep from Singing)
Text by Robert Lowry, 1869
Vs. 3 by Doris Plenn, 1957
© 1957 Sanga Music
Tune ENDLESS SONG attrib. to Robert Lowry, 1869
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Gloria Tibi Trinitas
Thomas Tallis
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There Is a Balm in Gilead
African-American spiritual
Public Domain
Tune BALM IN GILEAD, African-American spiritual
Public Domain
Festival March
William Stickles
© 1949, Ethel Smith
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Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moderator Stefan Tanouye
Lay Reader Gloria Kobayashi
Choir Accompanist Kanako Okita
Choir Director Doug Albertson
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Chapel Decorations Laura Ota
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Eli Yamaki
Ruth Niino-DuPonte, Bob Smith
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