Second Presbyterian Church
111 Reed St – Oil City, PA 16301
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Second Presbyterian enjoys a full worship service every Sunday. Please join us each week for:
9:45AM Sunday School (Winter Hours)
11:00AM Worship (Winter Hours)
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Order of Service April 27@11am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
April 27, 2025 2nd Sunday of Easter
Prelude Tech Crew
L/ Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
P/Christ is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship (Based on Psalm 118:14-29)
L/ The Lord is my strength and salvation! Shout for joy for God has done mighty things!
P/ I declare, because of God I will not die but live! I will proclaim what God has done!
L/ The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone. The Lord has done something marvelous!
P/ This is the day te Lord has made! Let us be glad and rejoice in it! Give thanks to the Lord for God is good. God’s love endures forever! Alleluia!
Hymn of Praise: # 1 Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
Prayer of Confession
L/ Let us take a moment to be silent before God, recalling to mind how we have gone against the image of God’s covenant community and confessing our guilt.
<silent confession>
P/O Lord God, you call us to proclaim the Good News, but we remain silent in the face of evil. You call us to be reconciled with each other but we seem content to live in separation away from them and grumbling in pessimistic bliss. You call us to seek the good in all but we fail to resist evil and turn everything over to those who oppress. You call us to stand and fight injustice, but we endanger others far and wide by our lack of resolve and gutless fear. Forgive us Lord. Reconcile us by the power of your Spirit and remake us in the Life redeemed by Jesus in his death and resurrection. We ask this in Jesus our Risen Lord. Amen.
Doxology “Glory be to the Father…”
Passing of the Peace
Special Music Pam Keverline
Children’s Chat Tammy Botts
Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
New Testament: Acts 5: 27-32
Gospel ; John 20: 19-31
Sermon “These things so you believe” Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon
Affirmation of Faith (Early Creed from Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-6 and Matthew 16:16)
All/ This is the Good News which we have received, in which we stand, and by which we are saved if we hold fast: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that He was buried, and that He was raised up on the third day. He appeared first to the women, then to Peter and the Twelve, then to many other faithful witnesses and finally to me. So, we believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
We Offer Our Tithes of Time, Talent, and Resources
Special Music Pam Keverline
Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow
Prayers of the People
Lord’s Prayer (using debts)
Prayer of Thanksgiving (from our Reformed Heritage)
L/ O Lord our God, we give you thanks for the new life you raise up in us through the mystery of our baptism---the sorrow of the heavy cross, the surprise of the empty tomb, the love that even death cannot destroy. By the power of the Holy Spirit, poured out on us in baptism, fill us with the joy of the resurrection so that we may be a living sign of your new heaven and your new earth. Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three yet one God forever. Amen. Alleluia! (PCUSA Book of Common Worship, 2018)
Benediction
L/ Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
P/ Christ is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Closing Hymn: # 297 I Love to Tell the Story
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The Rev. Jihyun Oh, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Executive Director of the Interim Unified Agency, mourns the loss of Pope Francis and offers thanks for his life and witness. Read the full statement here: pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2025/4/25/presbyterians-mourn-loss-pope-francis #PCUSA
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Friday Litany April 25, 2025
1 Peter 1:3
An Easter Litany of Praise
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Prayers for our siblings in Christ in the Roman Catholic Church and all of us at the death of Pope Francis. We mourn but celebrate the completion of his baptism and entry into eternal life. Jesus is Risen and by our baptism we are connected to his death and resurrection as well as one another in the communion of saints.
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Our Mission:
Led by the Spirit, we as a worshipping body of Christ, discern God’s will so as to participate in God’s mission at home, in our neighborhood and wherever HE sends us in the world.