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Order of Service Aug 30, 2026@10am Eastern
Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
August 30, 2026 14th Sunday After Pentecost
Prelude Tech Team
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship (based on Psalm 26)
L/ I turn to you for justice O Lord. Teach me to walk with integrity.
P/ Examine me and look at my faithfulness. Teach me to trust you O Lord in all things.
L/ Keep me from falling in with evil doers. Teach me to show your love to everyone I meet.
P/ Guide me to walk in worship and to proclaim your unfailing love.
L/ Keep the beauty of your house before me—the appreciation of your glory in the hearts of all the people.
P/ Let me stand as part of your family on level ground and offering praise in the congregation.
Hymn of Praise: # 20 All People That on Earth Do Dwell (vs 1-3)
Confession and Assurance
L/ Let us take a moment of silence to reflect on our need for forgiveness…
P/O Lord, you call us to proclaim the Gospel, but we remain silent and cower to evil. You call us to be reconciled to you and each other, but we are often content to stay in isolation. You call us to seek the good of all, but we give in to greed and oppression. You call us to fight pretensions and injustice, but sit idly by and in the process engage in endangering ourselves and others. Forgive us O Lord. Send your Spirit to reconcile us, and give us courage to actually live as your followers and bring your love to the world.
L/ Hear these words of scripture: “When you return to the Lord and obey, the Lord will restore you in compassion and gather you again from all the earth.” (Deuteronomy 30: 2-3). 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!
Hymn: #87 May Jesus Christ be Praised (vs 1 and 6)
Passing of Peace
Doxology (Gloria Patri)
Children’s Chat Tammy Botts
Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: 1 Chronicles 29: 10-18
New Testament: Matthew 16: 24-28
Sermon “Kingdom Priorities” 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
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/For Jesus, we praise Thee and we adore Thee O God. For all Thy glorious manifestations, secret inspirations, immediate workings; for all the ways heaven is pleased to come down upon us and have communion with the creatures and peoples of earth, we thank Thee. Build in us by the Spirit a true fellowship with the Father and the Son. And pour out that unspeakable gift of faith upon us. (Hezekiah Woodward, 1660, English Puritan Congregational teacher and pastor)
Benediction
Closing Hymn: #519 Something Beautiful
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Please join us in praying for the people of Nepal following catastrophic flash floods.
On 26 August, collapsing glacial ice and rock near the Nepal-China border unleashed a torrent of water, mud and debris through Himalayan valleys. Communities in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts are among the worst affected. Hundreds of people have died, many hundreds remain missing and homes, roads, bridges and places of worship have been destroyed or damaged. Rescue work continues amid the risk of further flooding.
The Anglican Church in Nepal has asked for urgent prayer, following reports that pastors and members of local churches are among those who have died or remain missing. Several churches have also been damaged.
Please pray for all those still unaccounted for, those who are grieving and families in urgent need of shelter, food, clean water and medicine. Pray also for pastors and church leaders serving devastated communities, and for all those leading rescue and relief efforts.
God of compassion,
draw near to the people of Nepal.
Comfort those who mourn,
protect those who remain in danger,
strengthen those searching for the missing
and sustain all who are serving their neighbours.
Bring help, healing and hope to every affected community.
Amen.
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🍊Donation help needed!🍑
Both Oil City and Rocky Grove's food pantries are in need of donations for the following items!
🌟Donate now to help a neighbor in need!
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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.