Please sign and date the Welcome Book
and pass it to the row behind.
*CALL TO WORSHIP
As we offer a welcome to stranger and friend,
as we are embraced in their kindness,
we choose to be people of life and blessing.
As we serve others in God's name,
as we receive blessings from those we do not know,
we choose to walk in God's way.
As we forgive those who have hurt us,
as we reach out to those we have harmed,
we choose to be reconciled to our sisters and brothers.
*OPENING HYMN UMH 128
Grace
United Methodist
Church
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017
6TH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
8:00 A.M.
“He Leadeth Me: O
Blessed Thought”
UNISON PRAYER
Gentle Jesus, help us to bring back the sweetness into this
world that has been carved with cruelty and destruction.
Help us to mend the wounds we have inflicted on others
and ourselves. Call us with compassion to see others as
your children, as our kindred, and that all have the
possibility of repentance, redemption, forgiveness, and
healing, for nothing is impossible for you. But Dearest
Jesus, we are hurt, we are angry, and we are tired.
Bitterness comes to our mouths, and it is hard to swallow.
Help us to find your goodness in others and in the world,
and help us to make the world sweet again, as you
intended. Amen.
*=Please stand as you are able
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
GATHERING
PRELUDE
PROCLAIMING
CHILDREN’S SONG UMH 277
“Tell Me the Stories of Jesus”
(vs. 1)
Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear; things I would
ask him to tell me if he were here; scenes by the wayside,
tales of the sea, stories of Jesus, tell them to me.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Children are invited to come forward. All children are invited to be in
worship. Childcare is provided for infants 0 – 3 year olds in the Nursery
each Sunday morning (7:45-11:30).
HYMN TFWS 2168
“Love the Lord Your God”
GOSPEL READING
Matthew 5:21-37
SERMON
“The Spirit of the Words”
Rev. Dr. Heecheon Jeon
Conference Superintendent
for the Central District
of the Iowa Conference
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SENDING FORTH
*CLOSING HYMN UMH 568
“Christ for the World We Sing”
*BENEDICTION
*RESPONSE UMH 668
“Let Us Now Depart in Thy Peace”
Let us now depart in thy peace, blessed Jesus. Send us to
our homes with God’s love in our hearts. Let not the busy
world claim all our loyalties. Keep us ever mindful, dear
Lord, of thee. Amen.
SILENT PRAYER
POSTLUDE
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE PRAYER JESUS TAUGHT US
Our Father (Creator, Mother), 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.
RESPONDING
WORSHIP LEADERS: Pastor Dave Swinton; Josh Morgan,
pianist.
(In hymns and prayers, please use language that makes worship most meaningful,
enriching, and inclusive.)
UMH = United Methodist Hymnal; TFWS = The Faith We Sing.
All music used under CCLI 2388999.
Call to Worship by Thom M. Shuman. Unison Prayer by Mindi Welton-Mitchell
(http://rev-o-lution.org). Used with permission.
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY UMH 94 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all
creatures here below; Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the
source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power
uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
3700 COTTAGE GROVE
DES MOINES, IOWA 50311
(515) 255-2131
www.gracedesmoines.org