Organ Prelude: “Arietta” by Rick Parks
Call to Worship & Invocation
Hymn: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” Words: Robert Robinson, 1758, Music: NETTLETON by John Wyeth, 1813
Come, Thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of God’s unchanging love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come.
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God.
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace, now like a fetter,
Bind my yielded heart to Thee.
Let me know Thee in Thy fullness;
Guide my by Thy mighty hand
Till, transformed, in Thine own image,
In Thy presence I shall stand.
Scripture: Hosea 11: 1-11
Sermon: HOW FAR LOVE GOES by Rev. Martha Dominy
Prayer
Hymn: “O Love that Will Not Let Me Go” Words: George Matheson, 1882, Music: ST. MARGARET by Albert L. Peace, 1884
O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in Thee.
I give Thee back the life I owe,
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
O light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee.
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.
Benediction
Organ Postlude: “Jesus, Source of Life and Pleasure” by John M. Rasley, arranged from the Tune: Schmücke Dich” by Johann Crüger (The title is suggested by the third stanza of the hymn “Deck Thyself with Joy and Gladness” by Johann Frank, 1618-1677.)
Organist/Pianist: Ms. Marilyn Glover