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Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Sunday, September 15, 2024. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily.
Service of Worship September 15, 2024
Seventeenth 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: Rise Up, Ye Saints of God Kayleen Yuda
Lighting of the Candles
Ringing of the Bell
Welcome Rev. Eric S. Anderson
* Call to Worship: (based on Proverbs 1:20-33) Anna Kennedy
Leader: Wisdom cries out in the streets, raising her voice to all who pass by.
People: “How long will you love your ignorance? How long will you scoff without knowledge?”
Leader: Wisdom begs to pour out her thoughts and make known her words,
People: But people have refused. They have rejected Wisdom’s outstretched hand.
Leader: Without wisdom, humanity plants the seeds of its own disasters.
People: With wisdom, we live securely without dread of the future.
All: Let us worship God!
* Hymn #531: God, Speak to Me, That I May Speak (v. 1-4)
* Invocation (based on Psalm 19) Anna Kennedy
The heavens tell your glory, O God. The air breathes and the night declares your knowledge, not in words that we can hear, but in revelation any human being can perceive. In your words our hearts rejoice, our eyes clear, our souls revel as in the sweetness of honey. Let the words of our mouths and the reflections of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, our rock and our redeemer. Amen.
Please be seated
WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
Anthem: Sonatina Op.20 No.2 3rd mvt. Kanako Okita
Time with the Children Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Scripture: Isaiah 50:4-9a Anna Kennedy
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens—
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backwards.
I gave my back to those who struck me,
and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
from insult and spitting.
The Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame;
he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who are my adversaries?
Let them confront me.
It is the Lord God who helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
All of them will wear out like a garment;
the moth will eat them up.
James 3:1-12
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits.
How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
Sermon: The Coconut Wireless Tongue 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 #586: Come to Tend God’s Garden (v. 1-3)
Call to Offering Anna Kennedy
God has filled our hearts with wisdom. God has filled our lives with blessing. May we bless others by sharing our wisdom. May we bless others by sharing our blessings. 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: Trusting Thee 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 Anna Kennedy
With our voices we declare our trust in you, O God, and with our voices we ask your grace to receive these gifts from our hands, to bless those who offer them, and to raise up those with whom we share them. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
* Hymn #522: I Love to Tell the Story (v. 1-4)
Please be seated
Announcements Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Benediction Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Postlude: O Magnify the Lord Kayleen Yuda
* Please stand if you are able.
Permissions
Rise Up, Ye Saints of God
Robert Powell
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God, Speak to Me, That I May Speak
Text by Frances Ridley Havergal, 1972
Tune CANONBURY by Robert Schumann, 1872
Public Domain
Sonatina Op.20 No.2 3rd mvt.
Friedrich R. Kuhlau
Public Domain
Come to Tend God’s Garden
Text by John A. Dalles, 1992
© 1992 by John A. Dalles
Tune KING’S WESTON by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1925
© 1931 Oxford University Press
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Trusting Thee
Edward Broughton
Tune: © 1978 Lorenz Publishing Company
a division of The Lorenz Corporation
(Admin. by Music Services)
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I Love to Tell the Story
Text by Katherine Hankey, 1866
Tune HANKEY by William G. Fischer, 1869
Public Domain
O Magnify the Lord
Donald Lee Moore
Tune: © 1979 Lorenz Publishing Company,
A division of The Lorenz Corporation
(Admin. by Music Services)
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Dates to Remember
Today, September 15 – Deacons Meeting
Announcement
Foodland’s Give Aloha during the month of September–
Please support Church of the Holy Cross by making a donation at any Foodland, or Sack N Save during the month of September. 100% of your gift will go directly to our organization and Foodland will match a portion of your contribution.
Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moderator Stefan Tanouye
Lay Reader Anna Kennedy
Choir Accompanist Kanako Okita
Choir Director Doug Albertson
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Chapel Decorations Jane Kawazoe
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Eli Yamaki
Ruth Niino-DuPonte, Bob Smith
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