First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
July 27, 2025
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Rev. Brian Copeland
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE Liturgist
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; God’s glory will dwell in our land.
Let us hear what God will speak!
Righteousness and peace will kiss each other; faithfulness will spring up from the ground.
Let us hear what God will speak!
God will speak peace to God’s people, to those who turn to God in their hearts.
Let us hear what God will speak!
HYMN: God, Real Your Presence (Insert)
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
God’s salvation is at hand, that God’s glory may dwell in us. Turning towards God, let us confess the ways we have sinned.
Gracious God, we humbly confess that we have fallen short of who you call us to be.
We seek peace and comfort in our lives, ignoring the needs of those around us.
We live our lives in ways that bring chaos and calamity to our neighbors.
Cleanse us from sin and show us your steadfast love, so that in turning to you,
we may seek unity and peace for all of creation.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
Beloved, God has forgiven all of your trespasses. You are alive together with God.
Know that you are forgiven and be at peace. Amen.
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION (Unison) Liturgist
Faithful God, how blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Sanctify us by your Word and Spirit so that we may glorify you in the company of the faithful; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 85 The Message Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 11:1-13 Rev. Brian Copeland
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN #403 What a Friend We Have in Jesus
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Unison) Adapted from the Confession of 1967, 9.32–33
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission. His human life involves the church in the common life of all people. His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of human well-being. His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering
so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need.
His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations, and the awful consequences of the church’s own complicity in injustice. In the power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong. The church follows this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action. So to live and serve is to confess Christ as Lord.
JOYS AND CONCERNS
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, we pray for the fulfillment of God’s promise,
saying: In faith, O God, we seek your grace.
INVITATION TO THE OFFERING (Offering plates are not passed. Offering plates are on the front and back tables.)
PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Unison)
Generous God, we give you thanks for all your blessings to us. Use these gifts we offer
as a sign of your great love for the world, so that all may know and share the abundance of your grace; in your holy name we pray. Amen.
HYMN: Sweet Hour of Prayer (Insert)
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
Reminders:
July 28 – our turn to help at the food pantry, 6:30pm
July 31 – Doug’s to Go at our church to benefit WFPC
Aug. 31 – Marcellus friends joining us for worship at WFPC
