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Second Presbyterian enjoys a full worship service every Sunday. Please join us each week for:
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11:00AM Worship (Winter Hours)
10:00AM Worship (Summer Hours)
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Order of Service Aug 16@10am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
August 16, 2026 12th Sunday After Pentecost
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Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship (based on Psalm 133)
L/ Hiney Matouv. How happy and good it is when the family lives in unity and harmony!
P/ Unity in God is like a precious oil that anoints and flows over the head.
L/ It is like the dew of Mt. Hermon which appears overnight on the heights as it touches heaven. It is life giving!
P/ Covenant love is a blessing from God; unity because we belong to God is a key to life!
Hymn of Praise: # 108 Come Christians, Join and Sing
Confession and Assurance
L/ Let us take a moment of silence to reflect on our need for forgiveness…
P/ We confess that we do not live into the family of believers. You think inclusively, adding more and more people and groups into your family but we like to think exclusively and limit those who see and know you. You emphasize the vision in scripture of a great multitude and we emphasize the scripture out of context saying the road is narrow. This means that while you love and love, even when the love is not returned or it is directed toward enemies; we spend time declaring those we don’t like as enemies and we learn hatred. It means that as you call us to serve, we first think about who is worthy. It means that we sin by trying to exclude your very children from hearing the Gospel while pretending that we proclaim it. Convict us Lord that we might follow your Light as our path instead of following the blind guides. Send your Spirit into our hearts that we might overflow with your love. Teach us your way!
L/ Hear these words of scripture: “I will cleanse them from their sins they commit against me; I will forgive their sins of rebellion against me.” (Jeremiah 33: 8) Beloved this is the Good News! Jesus has come and washed us in His blood and we are free now to love and serve Him! Amen!
Passing of Peace
Doxology
Children’s Chat Tammy Botts
Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Isaiah 56: 1-8
New Testament: Matthew 15: 12-28
Sermon “Unclean” Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon
Affirmation of Faith: (1562, The Heidelberg Catechism, PCUSA Book of Confessions 4.001)
L/ Q1-What is your only comfort in life and death?
All/ My only comfort is that I am not my own but belong—body and soul, in life and death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has paid fully for all my sins with His precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He watches over me in such a way, that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven, in fact all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to Him, Christ, by His Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.
We Offer Our Tithes of Time, Talent, and Resources
Special Music Pam Keverline
Hymn: Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow
Prayers of the People
Lord’s Prayer (using debts, debtors)
Prayer of Thanksgiving (from our Reformed Heritage)
L/ O Lord of abundance and grace, we are hungry. We are hungry for enough food for all people. We are hungry for justice that allows food to be given to ever one who needs it. You have come and told us that you are the bred of life, in whom we all have a share. Thank you for calling us to come to the Table where there is always a place for the poor and hungry. Thank you for calling the church, for equipping us to be your table here on earth where the Bread of Life is shared with ALL people. O God feed us, body and soul, that we might in turn feed others. (Rev. Claudio Carvalhaes, ELCA pastor and profession Union Theological Seminary (a PCUSA seminary), 2020)
Benediction
Closing Hymn: #286 Blest Be the Tie That Binds
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NEXT TUESDAY - August 11 . FREE Community Meal at Zion Community Ministry Center. Take-out only, 4:30pm to 5:30pm, 207 State Street, Oil City, PA.
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The Presbyterian Women hosted a picnic at Morrison Park Aug 6. Fun times. Good to have fellowship. Photos by Deacon Heather H.
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13 of us went to the Erie Seawolves on a church outing. It was a great day and they won too. So good to have fellowship together. Photos by Deacon Heather H.
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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.