September 6, 2026
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “Prelude for Piano” Kevin G. Pace
INTROIT
WELCOME Rev. Trip Porch
One: This is the day that the Lord has made
All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
*CALL TO WORSHIP By Nancy C. Townley
One: All heaven and earth proclaim the majesty of God’s creative power!
All: Praise God for the amazing and awesome beauty.
One: God has given to us codes by which to live together in harmony and peace.
All: In these commandments,
God has summed up the ways we must respect one another.
One: Rejoice in the goodness of God.
All: Let us raise God for God’s complete and steadfast love for us!
*HYMN 66 “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” PENTECOST
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Jeremy Carroll
God of the exodus,
you set us free, to live in community …and yet we keep wandering back to the ways of exploitation. We measure people by what they produce. We look away as our neighbors are taken. We have believed the story about our neighbor before we ever learned their name. We have wanted what is not ours, and called it fairness. We have let the ones who came before us become weightless, and we have been careless with the ones who come after.
Forgive us. Turn us back toward the people you have placed beside us.
Make us a community where no one has to be afraid of the person next door.
Silence is kept for individual confession…
Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*RESPONSE OF PRAISE 582“Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me” GLORY TO GOD
*PASSING OF THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all,
All: And also with you.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
ANTHEM “When In Our Music God Is Glorified” Charles V. Stanford
arr. Harriet Ziegenhals
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Mary Rebekah Fortman
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE Exodus 20:1-2, 12-20 CEB
Then God spoke all these words:
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery...
Honor your father and your mother so that your life will be long on the fertile land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Do not kill.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not steal.
Do not testify falsely against your neighbor.
Do not desire and try to take your neighbor’s house. Do not desire and try to take your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox, donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the horn, and the mountain smoking, the people shook with fear and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we’ll listen. But don’t let God speak to us, or we’ll die.” Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, because God has come only to test you and to make sure you are always in awe of God so that you don’t sin.”
SERMON Rev Trip Porch
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN INSERT “O God, You Give Us Neighbors” AURELIA
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE followed by the Lord’s Prayer
TIME OF OFFERING online giving is available at www.indianolapres.org/give
OFFERTORY “Flute Melody” Ellen Jane Lorenz
*OFFERTORY RESPONSE 709“God, We Honor You” ABUNDANT BLESSINGS
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
God, May these gifts care for our neighbors. Take what we bring and put it to work near us and far from us.
Let it protect somebody. Let it feed somebody. Let it say to someone that they are not alone. Amen.
*HYMN 203 Jesu,Jesu” CHEREPONI
TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” arr. Raluca Bojor
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