Sunday Service 7/26/2026

Prelude & Opening Chimes

Greeting & Announcements – Ron Gagnon

Pastor Joe Delaporta

(Worship Opening)

Opening Meditation

Scripture Reading: Psalm 23:1

A psalm of David.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

Hymn #11 A Mighty Fortress is Our God

*Invocation

(Prayer)

Vocal Prayer Opening

Prayer Requests

Pastoral Prayer--Opening

Quiet Meditation

Pastoral Prayer—Conclusion

Lord‘s Prayer (debts)

Our Father Who art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever.  Amen

Hymn Glory Be to the Father

Hymn #448 Open My Eyes That I May See

Offering

  Offertory Prayer-Dedicating our Offerings & Lives

  Offertory Music

  Doxology #554

Choral Anthem

(Ministry of the Word)

Scripture Reading: Isaiah53:1-6

Who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4 Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

Message: The Blessings of Suffering - Colossians 1:24 - 2:5

Hymn #230 Higher Ground

Benediction

GOD, make the door of this house wide enough to receive all who need human love and the knowledge of a FATHER’S care; make it narrow enough to shut out pride, envy and all unworthy purpose; make its threshold low enough so that it be no stumbling-block to childhood, weakness, or straying feet; but make it high enough to turn back the tempter‘s power.