First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
June 15, 2025
Trinity Sunday
Rev. Brian Copeland
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
Not a day passes that we see the work of your fingers, the work of your wisdom, O God,
and do not feel awe.
Sheep, birds, and fish, you made with detail and care.
And then you made us: each formed from the earth.Fragile and strong, wise, with so much to learn,
we can’t help but sing your praises.
Let us worship God!HYMN #139 Come, Thou Almighty King
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
The triune God mercifully and graciously
invites us into a relationship of wholeness.
In humility and truth,
let us confess the sin
that keeps us from the life God intends.Holy God,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
Mother, Lover, and Friend,
one God in three persons,
mutual and whole,
we confess our relationships are not that way.
We have been too selfish;
or we have given too much;
or we have accepted too little.
Our sin drives us away from one another
and from you.
Forgive us and restore us.Draw us close that we may know life
in all of its fullness.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
God’s love is poured out through the Holy Spirit.
This is love from God’s own heart, love that cleanses and renews.
This is good news!
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!
SPECIAL MUSIC
CHILDREN’S TIME
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION (Unison) Liturgist
Holy, Holy, Holy One,
guide us by the Spirit of truth
to hear the Word of life you speak,
and to give all glory, honor, and praise
to your threefold name;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Liturgist
1Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? 2On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; 3beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: 4"To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.
22The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. 23Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth-26when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil. 27When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, 29when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, 31rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: John 16:12-15 Rev. Brian Copeland
12 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine. For this reason, I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN: I Believe in the Father (attached)
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Unison) Adapted from the Confession of 1967, 9.07
Jesus Christ is God with humankind.
He is the eternal Son of the Father, who became human and lived among us
to fulfill the work of reconciliation.
He is present in the church by the power of the Holy Spirit to continue and complete his mission.
This work of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,is the foundation of all confessional statements about God, humanity, and the world.
Therefore, the church calls all people to be reconciled to God and to one another.JOYS AND CONCERNS
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Holy God, One-in-Three and Three-in-One, hear us as we pray for your blessing,
saying: Holy, triune God, have mercy on us.
INVITATION TO THE OFFERING (Offering plates are not passed.
PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Unison)
Generous God, we give you thanks
for all your blessings to us.
Use these gifts we offer
as a sign of your great love for the world,
so that all may know and share
the abundance of your grace;
in your holy name we pray. Amen.
HYMN #138 Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
*LARGE PRINT BULLETINS ARE AVAILABLE. PLEASE ASK THE GREETER.
Reminders:
June 26* – MFPC Picnic in the Park (*date change)
June 29 – 200th Anniversary Committee stained glass window presentation following worship
June 30 – Doug’s to Go fundraiser to benefit Weedsport Fire Dept. Aux.
July 3 – Blood Drive
July 7-11 – VBS at Sennett Federated Church. Volunteers needed.
July 31 – Doug’s to Go to benefit WFPC
