Coronado Community Church
Post Office Box 181680, Coronado, California 92178
www.coronadocommunitychurch.com (619) 437-6827
Minister: The Rev. Stephen J. Mather (619) 437-8757
Minister Emeritus: The Rev. Dr. Thomas P. Warmer
Director of Ministries Emerita: Marlys Simmons
Administrator: Candace Tyler
Christian Life: Sara Wood
Director of Music: Elizabeth Kimery
Pianist: Sharon Axelson
Treasurer & Financial Secretary: Al Ovrom
Board Chairperson: Jeff Tyler
Child Care (age 3 & under) 9:45 - 11:00 AM
Choir Rehearsals Thursdays 7:00 PM
Church Copyright License 3078215 Exp 2/28/2014
Continuing Prayers for Members of our Congregation:
Anita Bumgardner (Home Bound)
Ruth Doherty (Assisted Living, La Mesa)
Colleen Finley Kaminski (To Have Surgery)
Ken Kaminski (Recovering From Illness)
Laurie McCaull (Illness)
Clark Shelby (Assisted Living)
Edie Walsh (Continuing Therapy)
Marty Williams (Home Bound)
Prayers for Family Members:
Carrie Allard (Carol Raiter’s Daughter)
Gene Kimery (Elizabeth’s Husband)
Eve Jeter (Tom Jeter’s Granddaughter)
Lee Mather (Pastor Steve’s Father)
Sue Muser (Sara Wood’s Sister)
Debra Patrick (Don’s & Donna’s daughter)
Sunday, July 7, 2013 – 10:00 a.m.
A Celebration of the Word
“Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?” -Psalm 139:7
PRELUDE TO WORSHIP Barbara Fowler Gaultney
“My Lord Is Near Me All The Time”
GREETINGS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and FELLOWSHIP
Reviewing the Prayer Concerns
INTROIT Melodie Tunney “Come Before Him”
*CALL TO WORSHIP
One: The work of the Creator is visible.
All: Let us respond with praise.
One: The example of Jesus is apparent.
All: Let us respond with obedience.
One: The wind of the Spirit is blowing.
All: Let us respond with joy.
One: The word of God is calling.
All: Let us worship in spirit and in truth.
*HYMN OF PRAISE, No. 15 Nettleton
“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
CALL TO CONFESSION - Liturgist Marlys Simmons For God so loved the world that He gave His only son. God has done the loving and the work. All we need to do is believe and accept that we are loved. At times we stubbornly refuse God’s love. We want to live life on our terms. But when we come to our senses, we know God is there ready to hear our confession, and embrace us as only a loving parent can.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION – Congregation
Everlasting God, forgive us for being consumed with petty concerns rather than seeking eternal values. We have pursued our own agendas, shoring up our egos, rather than offering you our fears and seeking our security in you. You are our dwelling place, yet we have strayed far from home and doubted your steadfast love. You bless us with abundance, yet we lament meaninglessness in the brevity of our lives. Grant purpose to our days and significance to our labors. Help us to receive each new day as a gift and to use your gift wisely and well. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.
SILENT MEDITATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our custom is to join hands for 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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
Our nation was founded by men and women who believed their destinies were shaped by God. Their past identity did not define them, only their future. We are invited to shake off the old self and embrace the new person that God would have each of us become. Friends: Believe the good news of the gospel. In Jesus Christ we are a new creation.
ANTHEM Jay Althouse
“Walkin to Jordan”
THE FIRST TESTAMENT LSEEON Psalm 30:1-7, 11-12
ACTIVITIES CALENDAR
Today – Sunday, July 7, 2013
10:00 a.m. Worship Celebration - Sacrament of Holy Communion
11:05 a.m. Fellowship and Refreshments
11:05 a.m. Prayers for Healing and Laying on of Hands
11:20 a.m. After-church Lunch Bunch – Inquire at Entrance for location
Monday – July 8
4:30 p.m. Women’s Bible Study – Contact Laurie McCaull, 435-7019
Summer Location: 1101 Coronado Ave. (Ann Williams)
Thursday – July 11
6:00 p.m. Bell Choir Rehearsal – Resurrection Lutheran Church
5th Street and Orange Avenue
7:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal (same location)
Next Sunday – July 14, 2013
Scriptures: Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37
Sermon: "The Neighbor"
Head Usher: Christine Duryea
Greeters: Suzanne Scribner, Edie Walsh
Ushers : Berti Rhinehart, Suzanne Scribner, Edie Walsh
Cookies: Val & Phil Papaccio
Coffee: A. Ovrom, S. Strickland, B. Sturgeon, S. Zylstra Juice:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Getting to Know One Another is much easier if you will register your name, address and phone number and relationship to the church on the Friendship Pad that is circulated during the Welcome and Announcements. If you are near any visitors (or someone you don’t know), note their name and invite them to join you for refreshments after Worship.
Audio Recordings of Today’s Service may be ordered on the literature table by the door. The Compact Discs are $ 3.00 each and will be available the following Sunday.
A Service of Healing and Laying on of Hands will be conducted after the benediction near the pulpit area. This is for anyone who wishes intercessory prayer for specific needs. Dr. Warmer will be leading the prayers.
The Greatest Prayer - A Study of the Lord's Prayer
Recently, a graduating high school student charged with delivering a valedictory address to his classmates, went to the podium and proceeded to tear up his speech. In its place he read the Lord's Prayer. Did he have the faintest idea of the subversive material in that prayer?
This Fall, a new study group will form to look at this most famous prayer. We have all recited it so many times that it has lost some of its freshness. Do we know the background of its phrases and allusions, references Jesus may be making to his Jewish faith, and the history of Palestine in the first century? Begin now your own personal reading in preparation for our time together.
Recommended reading:
The Greatest Prayer - Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of The Lord's Prayer, by John Dominic Crossan. Harper One Publishers, 2010.
Gourmet Take-Out Sale Today. Please support your CCC choir.
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – Congregation
We believe in God, as the origin and destiny of life and its meaning. This God is one. There is no other, and we will not give to ourselves or to others what belongs to God and God alone. We believe in Jesus as the Christ, the one who showed us what God is like, and what it looks like to live faithfully in response to God. There is no other Christ, and we will follow him as we follow no other.
We believe the God of Jesus encounters us in the whole of life – not in the special and extraordinary, so much as in the ordinariness of our lives. There is no other force, destiny, or magic at work in the world that compares to him. And we will welcome the presence of God’s Spirit with us, everywhere, in all things, and in all people. Amen
*THE HYMN RESPONSE Paul E. Hoffman
There is nothing in the heav’ns above, nor in hidden depths of earth
that can keep the Savior’s love from us, for by his sinless death
God’s Son has conquered ev’ry foe. There is nothing left to fear.
For God’s love, God’s love is always near.
THE GIVING OF OUR TITHES and OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY arr. Jim Lucas
“Lord I Want To Be A Christian In-A My Heart”
*DOXOLOGY – No. 253 Old 100th
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.
PASTORAL PRAYER And Response by Congregation Mother Teresa Lead us from death to life, from falsehood to truth, from despair to hope, from fear to trust. Lead us from hate to love, from war to peace. Let peace fill our hearts. Let peace fill our world. Let peace fill our universe.
*HYMN OF CONSECRATION, No. 396 King’s Weston “When the Church of Jesus”
THE EPISTLE LESSON Galatians 6:7-16
SERMON Rev. Stephen J. Mather
“Do Not Grow Weary in Doing What Is Right”
SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER and Response
God of abundance, you have fed us with the bread of life and cup of salvation; you have united us with Christ and one another; and you have made us one with all your people in heaven and on earth. Now send us forth in the power of your Spirit, that we may proclaim your redeeming love to the world and continue forever in the risen life of Christ our Savior. Amen.
*HYMN OF DEDICATION
“Spirit Song”
O, let the Son of God enfold you with his Spirit and his love,
Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.
O, let him have the things that hold you, and his Spirit like a dove
Will descend upon your life and make you whole.
(REFRAIN) Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs,
Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.
O, come and sing this song with gladness, as your hearts are filled with joy,
Lift your hands in sweet surrender to his name.
O, give him all your tears and sadness; give him all your years of pain,
And you’ll enter into life in Jesus’ name.
(REFRAIN)
*BENEDICTION and POSTLUDE Hank Beebe “Go Out With Joy”
*Those who are able, please stand