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Second Presbyterian Church Oil City

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Order of Service Feb 9@11am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
February 9, 2025 5th Sunday After Epiphany

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Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship (Based on Psalm 71)
L/ In you O Lord have I taken refuge; rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness.
P/ Let me not be filled with shame but humbly rest on the rock of my salvation, to whom I should always turn and rely. You O God are the bedrock of my being and the fortress of my soul against evil.
L/ Deliver me from the wicked; let the truth shine from my life to expose evil and show Truth. For only you are my Hope and Refuge.
P/ I will sing to the One I have relied on since I was in my mother’s womb. I will sing praise to you O God, for you have saved me from death and given me the Life!

Hymn of Praise: Here I Am, Lord (Glory to God Hymnal #69)

Prayer of Confession
L/ Hear this scripture: “Here is the proof of God’s Amazing Love: While we were still sinners Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8). This assurance of faith and forgiveness calls us to confess and repent. Take a moment to silently confess your need for Jesus.

All/ Holy God, Merciful Savior, in your presence and in front of each other we not only admit but actually confess that we have failed to be what you created us to be. We have sinned, in wandering from your ways, in wasting your gifts, in forgetting to love you and neighbors, and self. By your mercy recreate us that we might live in your light and abide in your ways for the sake of Jesus Christ Your Son and our Savior! Amen.

Special Music Pam Keverline

Minute for Mission/ Call to Discipleship Mission Committee
“How are we at Second Presbyterian Missional?” Or
“Everything you didn’t know we do as a church and how to be a disciple.”

Passing of Peace
L/ May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance and may you share these with all you meet. (Jude 2) Greet each other with the peace of Christ.

Children’s Chat Tammy Botts

Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Isaiah 6: 1-8
New Testament: Luke 5: 1-11

Sermon “Sent as Sinners; Remade in the Light.”
Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon

Affirmation of Faith A Brief Statement of Faith (1989, PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions 11.3)

ALL: In life and death, we belong to God. Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve. We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image, male and female, of every race and people, to live as one community. But we rebel against God; we hide from our Creator. Ignoring God’s commandments, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept the lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care. We deserve God’s condemnation. Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation. In His everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarah chose a covenant people to bless all the families of the earth. Hearing our cry, God delivered the children of Israel from the house of bondage. Loving us still, Go makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant. Like a mother who will not forsake her children, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, God is faithful still. With believers in every time and place we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We Offer Our Tithes of Time, Talent, and Resources
Special Music Pam Keverline
Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow

Prayers of the People and the Lord’s Prayer (using debts)

Prayer of Thanksgiving (from our Reformed Heritage)
L/ Guiding and loving God, empower us to be your hands and feet. Help us to glorify you by serving others. Send us to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and warm those who are cold. By our actions and words, make us witnesses of your great love and your passion for rescuing your people. Protect and teach as we step in our journey to becoming the people you want us to be. Fill us with the Holy Spirit and enable us to serve faithfully and joyfully. (Daniel Vos, Pastor, Reformed Church in America, 2019)

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