Sunday February 1st Worship Service on Zoom

(Image: “Saving Grace to all Humankind” Washington National Cathedral Washington, DC, United States, Stained Glass)

©Order of Worship for Sunday February 01, 2026

Welcome Home Worship Series

Holy Communion

The worship video will be available live at 11:00 am

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Prelude.……………………………………………Greg D.
 
Coming of the Light:
 
Greetings:……………………………………………….Pastor Liz
 
Announcements:…………………………………………Lorri B.
 
Call to Worship:……………Psalm 84……………Lorri B.
How dear to me is your dwelling, O God
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longs, indeed it faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise.
Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
As they go through the valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob!
Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed.
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly.
O Lord of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you.

Opening Prayer:…………………………………………..Lorri B.
 
Through Christ you make us a new creation, O God,
for with him we pass from sin to the new life of grace.
Accept our prayers in the warm embrace of your compassion,
and welcome all people to the festive banquet of your table,
where we may rejoice in your love
and celebrate the inheritance you have given to us.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
 
Opening Hymn: “Grace Greater than Our Sin” #365 UMH
Words: Julia H. Johnston, 1911 Music: Daniel B. Towner, 1910
 
Grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that will pardon and
cleanse within, grace, grace, God’s grace,
grace that is greater than all our sin!
 
Giving of our Tithes and Offerings:…………….Pastor Liz
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Offertory:……………………………………………………Greg D.
 
Prayer After Receiving:……………………………..Pastor Liz
 
The Prayers of the People:…………………………Pastor Liz
 
Epistle Lesson: …..Ephesians 2:1-10…….……Elizabeth
Alive in Christ
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.
All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else, but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ–by grace you have been saved–and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God– not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.
 
Message: …….“Open Door:  Justifying Grace”……..Pastor Liz
 
Response to the Word: 
 
Dismissal with Blessing:……………………………Pastor Liz
 
Postlude:……………………………………………………Greg D.

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