We hope that you’ll join us for worship this Sunday at 9:30am. The doors are open, the chairs are spaced, and there is room at the Lord’s table for you to worship in person. But, if you’re more comfortable joining us online, you can see all the words that we’ll be using in worship below. Or, you can download and print a copy here.

PRELUDE – We Thank Thee

CALL TO WORSHIP –

Give the king your justice, O God,

   and your righteousness to a king’s son.

May he judge your people with righteousness,

   and your poor with justice.

May the mountains yield prosperity for the people,

   and the hills, in righteousness.

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,

   give deliverance to the needy,

   and crush the oppressor.

May he live while the sun endures,

   and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,

   like showers that water the earth.

In his days may righteousness flourish

   and peace abound, until the moon is no more.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

   who alone does wondrous things.

Blessed be his glorious name for ever;

   may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen.

SONG – Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven  #571

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Most High & Holy God, we live in a land with laws and leaders. We are told that the governments under which we live are ordained by you as your servants. Yet, we are called to obey your will rather than the ways of men. It is not an easy tension to live in; especially during such divided times. We confess that we contribute to the division. We confess that it’s hard for us to see good in those who disagree. So, we ask for the wisdom of your Spirit to see beyond our own politics to the peace that abounds through your love. Give us new eyes to judge with justice, new voices that defend the cause of the poor, and new hands that deliver those in need.  Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.

SONG – I’m Trading My Sorrows

WORDS OF ASSURANCE

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

SONG – Amazing Grace #693

SCRIPTURE – Jeremiah 36:1-10, 21-26

In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today. It may be that when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

Then Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words of the Lord that he had spoken to him. And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, ‘I am prevented from entering the house of the Lord; so you go yourself, and on a fast day in the hearing of the people in the Lord’s house you shall read the words of the Lord from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the people of Judah who come up from their towns. It may be that their plea will come before the Lord, and that all of them will turn from their evil ways, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.’ And Baruch son of Neriah did all that the prophet Jeremiah ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.

In the fifth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord. Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary; and Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king. Now the king was sitting in his winter apartment (it was the ninth month), and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him. As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was alarmed, nor did they tear their garments. Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the secretary Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.    

SERMON

SONG – Song of the Prophets  #53  vv. 1, 3, 18

PRAYERS

OFFERTORY – Thank You

BENEDICTION

SONG – Give Thanks #358