First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
June 22, 2025
Second Sunday After Pentecost
Rev. Brian Copeland
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
When we long for your presence,
you are there with us, O source of comfort.
When we face dangers and perils,
you are there for us, O source of strength.
When we need to do justice,
you are there within us, O source of courage.
So we come with songs and praises,
that all the ends of the earth and all the families of the nations may know of your love.
Let us praise God!
HYMN: Standing on the Promises (insert)
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
In confession, we tell the truth about ourselves and our broken world, and the God of all Truth, who knows our limitations and loves our imperfections, has already forgiven us
and will always forgive us. Trusting in God’s infinite mercy, let us dare to tell the truth in prayer together.
God of Grace, we have harmed your children whom you love.
Because we do not understand them, we segregate them, we reject them, we demonize them, and we hurt them.
Forgive us, in your infinite love, and teach us to welcome all of your children
until our hospitality is as wide as your mercy.
Help us to understand others as we wish to be understood.
Guide us to love one another as you love us.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
This is the truth:
You are not the labels others place on you.
You are more than the boxes you check.
You are not the side of the aisle on which you stand, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
You belong to Christ, and Christ alone. Believe the good news of the gospel:
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.
SPECIAL MUSIC
CHILDREN’S TIME
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION (Unison) Liturgist
Faithful God, how blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Sanctify us by your Word and Spirit so that we may glorify you
in the company of the faithful; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: Galatians 3:23-29 Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 8:26-39 Rev. Brian CVopeland
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN: Goodness is Stronger Than Evil (insert)
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Unison) Adapted from the Confession of 1967, 9.32–33
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission.
His human life involves the church in the common life of all people.
His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of human well-being.
His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need.
His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations, and the awful consequences of the church’s own complicity in injustice.
In the power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong.
The church follows this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action.
So to live and serve is to confess Christ as Lord.
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. Offering plates are on the front and back tables.)
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 #286 Give to The Wind Thy Fears
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
LARGE PRINT BULLETINS ARE AVAILABLE. PLEASE ASK THE GREETER
Reminders:
June 22 – MFPC Picnic in the Park
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
