SERVICE FOR
THE LORD’S DAY

April 27, 2025

The Second Sunday of Easter

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE

Liturgist, Judy Reyburn

CALL TO WORSHIP – based on Romans 6:9-10

Leader: Christ is risen from the dead. Alleluia!

People: We know that since Christ was raised from the dead,
he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Leader: The death he died, he died to sin once for all;

People: but the life he lives, he lives to God.

*OPENING HYMN #247 The Day of Resurrection

*OPENING PRAYER

*PRAISE SONG Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me

GUIDED PRAYER

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — 2 Corinthians 9:6-9

We believe that whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each person should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to us, so that in all things at all times, having all that we need, we will abound in every good work.  As it is written: “He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” Amen.

RECEPTION OF NEW MEMBERS

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, 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 debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.  Amen.

WORSHIPING GOD WITH OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS

       Offertory 

       *Offertory Response — Doxology #808

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

       *Prayer of Dedication

OLD TESTAMENT READING: Malachi 3:6-12

Pastor:  The Word of the Lord

People:  Thanks be to God

SERMON: Rev. David Garrison

START HERE

Series: Malachi: No Greater Love

“Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’” — Malachi 3:7

*CLOSING HYMN #523 Trust and Obey

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE

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This Sunday’s Scripture reading:

6        “I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD Almighty.

         “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’

8        “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.

         “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’

         “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse —the whole nation of you — because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,” says the LORD Almighty. 12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty.

— Malachi 3:6-12 (NIV)