MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE

The Calvary Baptist Church

Towson, Maryland

 

Eleven O’clock                                              April 27, 2008

http://www.calvarybaptist-towson.org

 

Frederick K. Weimert, Pastor

Glenn L. Wittstadt, Jr., Organist‑Director

 

 

 

PRELUDE       “Crown Him With Many Crowns”        David H. Hegarty, Tune: Diademata

                       

INTROIT

           

*CALL TO WORSHIP                        Psalm 66: 8-12, 16-20

Bless our God, O peoples,

let the sound of his praise be heard,

who has kept us among the living,

and has not let our feet slip.

For you, O God, have tested us;

you have tried us as silver is tried.

You brought us into the net;

you laid burdens on our backs;

you let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water;

yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.

I will come into your house with burnt offerings;

I will pay you my vows,

Come and hear, all you who fear God,

and I will tell what he has done for me.

I cried aloud to him,

and he was extolled with my tongue.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,

the Lord would not have listened.

But truly God has listened;

God has given heed to the words of my prayer.

Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer

or removed his steadfast love from me.

 

*HYMN 71:    “Come! Come! Everybody Worship”

 

INVOCATION followed by the Lord's Prayer  (The version we use is printed on the laminated card in the pew)

 

WELCOME & REGISTRATION

 

EXTENDED LIFE OF THE CHURCH

 

ANTHEM:         “Christ Is Alive”      by Thomas Williams           From Psalmodia Evaangelica, 1789      

 

PRAYER FROM THE PEOPLE:                   

           

*OFFERING               All things are Thine; no gifts have we,

                                    Lord of all gifts, to offer Thee,

                                    And hence with grateful hearts today,

                                    Thy own before Thy feet we lay.

 

OFFERTORY:         “Ye Servants of God”    Roger C. Wilson, Tune: Hanover

 

CHILDREN’S TIME  
 

SCRIPTURE:                          Acts 17:22-31             pg. 965             read by: Alta Schuster 

 

RESPONSIVE CALL TO PRAYER:

Throughout the city of Athens were temples full of beautiful marble statues, each one huge in its proportion, yet each one still a perfect human form.

            Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite…

The people of Athens would have recognized all of these deities.  They would have also recognized the others hailed as deities… those whose faces could be seen on the coins in their purses....

            The Caesars of Rome.

So in speaking of God, Paul turned the Athenian’s attention away from these gods which they knew all too well, to a God beyond their concrete images.

            He spoke instead of the unknown God.

This God could be seen in the wonder of creation, and the bountiful provisions God has made available for human beings.

This was the God who could never be known in the works of our hands.

Paul spoke of God, to these people, in images which had sprung from their religious imagination.

Lord God, teach us to be as wise as Paul in addressing the culture which surrounds us today.  Help us to recognize the gods fashioned by our world… Help us to find ways to call people beyond these lesser gods, to You, whom we know in the resurrected Christ.  Amen.

 

HYMN 47:  “God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens”

 

THE GOSPEL:                 John 14: 15-21                   pg. 939

 

SERMON:       “Can I Get Some Breathing Room?”

 

*INVITATION HYMN 241:  “Breathe on Me, Breath of God”

 

*BENEDICTION/RESPONSE    

 

POSTLUDE:               “Recessional”   John Wiegand

                                                 

                                                 

                                    *    Congregation standing.

 

The sanctuary flowers are given by

Don and Mary Lou Doty in memory of their families.

 

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 the first hymn.

 

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THIS   WEEK

 

 

TODAY:  Come downstairs after worship to celebrate Clara Bell’s Birthday.

 

WEDNESDAY

6:15 p.m.  Dinner

7:00 p.m.  Bible Study and Prayer

7:00 p.m.  No  Bell Choir Practice

 

 

April 28th   10:00 – 3:00 Sarah’s Hope. Come when you can to help.

 

CAKES FOR OUR DAILY BREAD can be brought on Friday or Saturday, but if you wait till Saturday remember the Festival will be going on.

 

NEXT SUNDAY:

 Worship at 10:00 a.m. This is Youth Sunday.  The Youth of our church will be leading the program for worship.

 

Remember that the Towson Spring Festival will be held May 3-4, including Sunday morning.  We will, therefore, be worshipping at 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning (May 4th), and there will be no Sunday School.  You are also encouraged to wear your "fair" instead of "good" clothes.