Welcome to our online worship for Sunday, July 26, 2020
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Grace Sufficient
The Season of Pentecost
Prelude
Brian Turner
Rejoice, The Lord Is King
UMH 715
Words: Charles Wesley  Music: John Darwall
TUNE: DARWALL'S
 
Rejoice, the Lord is King!
Your Lord and King adore!
Mortals, give thanks and sing
And triumph evermore.
Lift up your heart! Lift up your voice!
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
Lift up your heart! Lift up your voice!
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
Special Music
Andrea Bailey and Brian Turner
All Belong Here
The Many

When you’re not sure who you really are
When all you feel is the shape of your scars
And you have more wounds than you can count
Open your eyes, look all around
You aren’t alone, this is your home

Chorus:
Come and remember who you are here
Do this to remember who I am
Come and remember you belong here
All belong here

When you don’t know how to forgive
When locked doors seem like the only way to live
And you’ve got more questions than you can count
Open your eyes, look all around
You aren’t alone, this is your home
[Chorus]

Bridge
At this table come as you are
Broken and bleeding’s ok
At this table eat and be filled
Come and drink in this grace.
[Chorus]
Prayer
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O God of all times and places, we pray for you Church, which is set today amid the perplexities of a changing order, and face to face with new tasks. Baptize her afresh in the life-giving spirit of Jesus. Bestow upon her a great responsiveness to duty, a swifter compassion with suffering, and an utter loyalty to your will. Help her to proclaim boldly the coming of your kingdom. Put upon her lips the ancient gospel of her Lord. Fill her with the prophets’ scorn of tyranny, and with a Christlike tenderness for the heavy laden and downtrodden. Make her valiant to give up her life to humanity, that, like her crucified Lord, she may mount by the path of the cross to a higher glory; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen    
               
  Walter Rauschenbusch
​Scripture
II Corinthians 12: 1-10​
Paul’s Vision and His Thorn

12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows-- 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Do You Need More Grace? 

The Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 12, prayed three times for the Lord to remove a thorn in the flesh. We are not sure what trial that Paul was facing. Many think that it was a physical illness of some sort. God’s response was not to take away the thorn but to give Paul; more grace! God told him that when we are weak and depend of God’s grace, we are stronger in our faith and our witness for Christ. Could you use some more of God’s grace? Do you know someone that could as well?​
Message 
Pastor John Fowler
Grace Sufficient 


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Offertory
Andrea Bailey and Brian Turner
Your Grace Still Amazes Me 
Phillips, Craig, and Dean

My faithful Father, enduring friend
Your tender mercy's like a river with no end
It overwhelms me, covers my sin
Each time I come into your presence I stand in wonder once again

Chorus:
Your grace still amazes me
Your love is still a mystery
Each day I fall on my knees
'Cause Your grace still amazes me
Your grace still amazes me

Oh patient savior, You make me whole
You are the author and the healer of my soul
What can I give You, Lord what can I say
I know there's no way to repay You only to offer You my praise [Chorus]

It's deeper, it's wider, it's stronger, it's higher
It's deeper, it's wider, it's stronger, it's higher
Than anything my eyes can see [Chorus]

Kid's Message 
Kim Garland 
(4 videos)
Postlude 
Brian Turner
For Those Tears I Died
arr. by Dino
​May God's love  
burn so brightly in your
heart that others
feel its warmth!  

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My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 
​John 10:27 NLT