Worship Service - August 31, 2003

THIS WEEK

If you have a special prayer request please fill out a pink card, found in the pews, bring it forward and place it on the communion table either before the service or during

SUMMER SUNDAY MORNINGS:
Remember that this summer we are having a special Sunday morning Theology Class at 9:45 a.m. The subjects and teachers will be:

8/31 The Kingdom of God – Already and Not Yet - Dr. Glenn Morris Sr.

SUMMER THURSDAY NIGHTS:
7:00 -8:30 p.m. For the remainder of the summer there will be a class to introduce us to the Old Testament.
Come …and bring your questions. These classes will continue through September 4th.

YOUNG ADULT PICNIC at the home of Fred and Judy Weimert, 944 Radcliffe Rd., (410-825-5366) on Saturday September 6th at 6:00 p.m. Children are welcome to come with their parents.

WEDNESDAY EVENING MEETINGS will begin on Wednesday September 10th. The fall Congregational Meeting will be held on Sunday September 21st following the Worship Service.

MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE

The Calvary Baptist Church Towson, Maryland
Eleven O’clock August 31, 2003

Frederick K. Weimert, Pastor
Glenn L. Wittstadt, Jr., Organist?Director

WELCOME & REGISTRATION
EXTENDED LIFE OF THE CHURCH

PRELUDE “With Prayerful Heart”
by Bertha R. Frick

INTROIT 2226: "Bind Us Together"

*CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 45: 1-2, 6-9
My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king;
my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips;
therefore God has blessed you forever.
Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever.
Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;
you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God,
your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

*HYMN 48: "Morning Has Broken"

INVOCATION Followed by the Lord’s Prayer

SOLO: “Heart of Worship”
Soloist: Candace Geelhaar

PRAYER FROM THE PEOPLE Bruce Edwards

*OFFERING We give Thee but Thine own,
What e'er the gift may be;
All that we have is Thine alone,
A trust, O Lord, from Thee.

OFFERTORY: “A Moment of Prayer”
by Louise E. Stairs

CHILDREN’S TIME

HEBREW BIBLE: Song of Solomon2: 8-13 pg. 581
read by Frank Kaufmann

RESPONSIVE CALL TO PRAYER:
There is something about being young and in love…
Both being in love, and being young.

To be inebriated with the wine of infatuation…
Frozen in place by the visage of the beloved.

With heart and legs to leap and bound…
And rootless enough to respond to the call "Come
away."

There is something about being young and in love…
May we never grow so old as to forget it.

May our hearts never become so hard as not to be able to leap up.
May we never be so rooted, as not to respond to the
call… "Come Away." Amen.

*HYMN 509: "Your Love, O God, Has Called Us Here"

THE GOSPEL: Mark 7: 1-23 pg. 874

SERMON: The Nature of Love

*INVITATION HYMN 2230:
"Lord, We Come to Ask Your Blessing"

Decisions of faith are personal decisions. It is for us to choose if we will believe in God. Decisions of faith are also public and corporate decisions. When we choose to follow Jesus we are choosing to become part of the “Body of Christ”, the Church. If you would like to confirm the decision you have made to begin your life of faith or continue that life as a part of this congregation, come forward as we sing the invitational hymn and speak with the worship leader about your decision.

*BENEDICTION/RESPONSE

POSTLUDE: “Te Deum Landamus”
by Chester Nordman

* Congregation standing

Love and Law

True Love is founded in rocks of Remembrance
In stones of Forbearance and mortar of Pain.
The workman lays wearily granite on granite,
And bleeds for his castle 'mid sunshine and rain.

Love is not velvet, not all of it velvet,
Not all of it banners, not gold-leaf alone.
'Tis stern as the ages and old as Religion.
With Patience its watchword, and Law for its throne.

N. Vachel Lindsay