(Image: “The Dance of the Golden Calf” from the Hortus Delectarian Artist, Herrad of Landsberg, Abbess of Hollenberg circa. 1130-1195 Manuscript Illumination)
©Order of Worship for Sunday May 10, 2026
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Mother’s Day
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Prelude:…….“Breath of God, Breath of Peace” ….…..Greg D.
Words: Adam M. L. Tice Music: Sally Ann Morris © 2009 GIA
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Coming of the Light:
Greetings:…………………………………….……Lorri B.
Announcements:……………………………………..Lorri B.
Acknowledgement of Mothers:………………..Lorri B.
Prayer for Mothers:…………………………………Lorri B.
Call to Worship:…………………………………..Elizabeth B.
Christ is Risen.
He is Risen Indeed.
Opening Prayer: ………Psalm 139:1-14…….Elizabeth B.
O LORD, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely.
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and night wraps itself around me,”
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Amen.
Opening Hymns: “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” #384 UMH
Words by Charles Wesley, music by John Zundel
1. Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling;
all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.
2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast!
Let us all in thee inherit;
let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
3. Come, Almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
4. Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
“Breath of God, Breath of Peace” #3145 W&S
Words: Adam M. L. Tice Music: Sally Ann Morris © 2009 GIA
Publications, Inc.
1. Breath of God, Breath of peace, Breath of love, Breath of life,
Breath of justice, Breath of passion, Breath creating, Breath of healing,
Breath of singing, Breath of praying, Come upon us,
come restore us, come inspire us, Breath of God.
2. Word of God, Word of peace, Word of love, Word of life,
Word of justice, Word of passion, Word creating, Word of healing,
Word of singing, Word of praying, Come upon us,
come restore us, come inspire us, Word of God.
3. Voice of God, Voice of peace, Voice of love, Voice of life,
Voice of justice, Voice of passion, Voice creating, Voice of healing,
Voice of singing, Voice of praying, Come upon us,
come restore us, come inspire us, Voice of God.
Passing of the Peace:………………………………Elizabeth B.
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
Gloria Patri:………“Glory Be to the Father” #71 UMH
Words: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th century
Music: Henry W. Greatorex, 1851
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.
Introduction of Guest Speaker:……………………Phillip J.
Giving of our tithes and offerings:…………………Lusi R.
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Offertory:………………“Your Hands”…………….Maggie L.
Words and Music: JJ Heller and Katheryn Herzig © 2008 Butter LID Publishing/Katie Herzig Music.
Offertory Response:………… “The Doxology”………..#94 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623; Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
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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 up-lifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Prayer After Receiving:………………………………….Lusi R.
Prayers of the People:…………………………………..Lusi R
The Lord’s Prayer:
Anthem:……………….“True Colors”………………Maggie L.
Words and Music: Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Old Testament Lesson:……..Exodus 3:1-14………Elizabeth B.
The golden calf
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters and bring them to me.”
So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.
He took these from them, formed them in a mold, and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a festival to the LORD.”
They rose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.
The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely;
they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'”
The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.
Now let me alone so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, and of you I will make a great nation.”
But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'”
And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
Hymn of Preparation:…“Sweet, Sweet Spirit” #334 UMH
Words and Music: Doris Akers, 1962 © 1962 Manna Music, Inc.
There’s a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place, and I
know that it’s the Spirit of the Lord; there are
sweet expressions on each face, and I
know they feel the presence of the Lord.
Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly Dove,
stay right here with us, filling us with your love;
and for these blessings we lift our hearts in praise;
without a doubt we’ll know that we have been
revived when we shall leave this place.
Sermon:……..“The Fullness of our Stories”………Ruth Krauss
Response to the Word:
Closing Hymn:……“Blessed Assurance” #369 UMH
Words: Fanny J. Crosby 1873 Music: Phoebe P. Knapp 1873
1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is Mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Dismissal with Blessing:………………………Lusi R.
Postlude:………………………………………………….Greg D.
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