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Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Sunday, September 29, 2024. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily.
Service of Worship September 29, 2024
Nineteenth 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: Offertorio Kayleen Yuda
Lighting of the Candles
Ringing of the Bell
Welcome Rev. Eric S. Anderson
* Call to Worship: (based on Psalm 124) Christian Albano
Leader: If the LORD had not been on our side when our lives were stressed and hard
People: It might have felt like we were swallowed alive, beyond all help.
Leader: We could have been like those swept away in a flood,
People: Carried away in a raging torrent.
Leader: Blessed be God, who has sheltered and shielded us.
People: Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
All: Let us worship God!
* Hymn #181: You Are Salt for the Earth, O People (v. 1-4)
* Please join me in the Invocation: (based on Psalm 19:7-14) Christian Albano
We know your law is perfect, O LORD, and that our understanding of it is not. Make us wise. Rejoice our hearts. Guide us in the ways of righteousness, which are sweeter than the honeycomb. Following your lead brings great reward, but we struggle to know our own errors and find our hidden faults. Let the words of our mouths and the reflections of our hearts be acceptable to you, our rock and our redeemer. Amen.
Please be seated
WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
Anthem: God Shall Direct Thy Paths Doug Albertson
Eric Anderson
Time with the Children Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Scripture: Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Christian Albano
The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.’
Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of their tents. Then the Lord became very angry, and Moses was displeased. So Moses said to the Lord, ‘Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, “Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors”? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, “Give us meat to eat!” I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.’
So the Lord said to Moses, ‘Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you.
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.
Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, ‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’ And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, ‘My lord Moses, stop them!’ But Moses said to him, ‘Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!’
Mark 9:38-50
John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.
‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
‘For everyone will be salted with fire.Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’
Sermon: So I Don’t Whine Rev. Eric S. Anderson
WE RESPOND IN WORD AND DEED
Pastoral Prayer
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 #528: Sois la Semilla (You Are the Seed) (v. 1 Spanish, v. 1-2 English)
Call to Offering Christian Albano
God has called us to pray in our suffering and rejoice in our happiness. God has called us to pray for the sick and the needy. God has also called us to pray with our hands, our time, and our gifts. 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: Allegro 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 Christian Albano
We present these offerings to you, O God, as a prayer of action, commitment, and compassion. Accept them, we pray, in the name of the One whose actions, commitment, and compassion brought us grace: Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
* Hymn #562: Take My Gifts (v. 1-3)
Please be seated
Announcements Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Benediction Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Postlude: The Trumpet of Faith Kayleen Yuda
* Please stand if you are able.
Permissions
Offertorio
Giovanni Martini
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You Are Salt for the Earth, O People
Text by Marty Haugen, 1986
Tune BRING FORTH by Marty Haugen, 1986
© 1986 GIA Productions
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God Shall Direct Thy Paths
Greg Gilpin
Text: Proverbs 3:5-6
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Sois la Semilla (You Are the Seed)
Text by Cesareo Gabarain, 1979
Trans. By Raquel Gutierrez-Achon & Skinner Chavez-Melo, 1987
Tune ID Y ENSENAD by Cesareo Gabarain, 1979
© 1979 Ediciones Paulinas
Trans. © 1989, Abingdon Press
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Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi
arr. Kevin Norris
Tune: © 1979 Lorenz Publishing Company,
a division of The Lorenz Corporation
(Admin. by Music Services)
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Take My Gifts
Text by Shirley Erena Murray, 1991
© 1992 Hope Publishing Company
Tune TALAVERA TERRACE by Colin Gibson, 1991
© 1992 Hope Publishing Company Allegro
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The Trumpet of Faith
Edward N. Wetherill
Tune: © 1981 Lorenz Publishing Company
a division of The Lorenz Corporation
(Admin. by Music Services)
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moderator Stefan Tanouye
Lay Reader Christian Albano
Choir Accompanist Kanako Okita
Choir Director Doug Albertson
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Chapel Decorations Ruth Ohata
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Eli Yamaki
Ruth Niino-DuPonte, Bob Smith
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