May 31, 2026 - Trinity Sunday
Prelude: Where Love Is Found
English folk tune/Biery
Welcome & Call to Worship
[Psalm 145]
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
The Lord upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.
Let us worship the LORD!
Holy, Holy, Holy (Hymn 138)
Heber/Dykes
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee
Who wert and art, and evermore shall be.
Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee,
Though the eye of sinfulness Thy glory may not see,
Only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee
Perfect in power, in love and purity.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth and sky and sea;
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Confession
Jesus, you prayed that your followers would all be one, as you are united with the Spirit and the Father. You made us to live in open fellowship with you and one another and to show your glory to the world. Forgive us when we receive your blessings but fail to share those blessings with others. Forgive us when what the world sees in us is not love or unity. Help us connect ever more deeply to you, and teach us to be a community where people can experience your radical love. Amen.
Silence
Great God, Your Love Has Called Us Here
Wren/St. Catherine
Great God, in Christ You set us free Your life to live, Your joy to share.
Give us Your Spirit’s liberty to turn from guilt and dull despair
And offer all that faith can do while love is making all things new.
Forgiveness in Jesus Christ
Peace
The peace of Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Doxology (Hymn 592)
Ken/Genevan Psalter
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Readings
John Lemm
Old Testament: Genesis 12:1–3
New Testament: John 17:20–26
Sovereign Lord of All Creation
Cross/PLEADING SAVIOR, American folk melody
Sovereign Lord of all creation, Ground of being, life and love;
Height and depth beyond description only life in You can prove:
You are mortal life’s dependence: thought, speech, sight are ours by grace;
Yours is every hour’s existence, Sovereign Lord of time and space.
Jesus Christ, the One for others, we, Your people, make our prayer:
Help us love as sisters, brothers, all whose burdens we can share.
Where Your name binds us together, You, Lord Christ, will surely be;
Where no selfishness can sever, there Your love the world may see.
Holy Spirit, rushing, burning Wind and flame of Pentecost,
Fire our hearts afresh with yearning to regain what we have lost.
May Your love unite our action. Nevermore to speak alone:
God, in us abolish faction, God, through us Your love make known.
Sermon: Love That Forms a People
Scott Starbuck
Theme: Love creates a community for the world
Response: O Christ, the Great Foundation (Hymn 443)
Lew/Wesley
O Christ, the great foundation on which your people stand
To preach your true salvation in every age and land:
Pour out your Holy Spirit to make us strong and pure,
To keep the faith unbroken as long as worlds endure.
Baptized in one confession, one church in all the earth,
We bear our Lord’s impression, the sign of second birth:
One holy people gathered in love beyond our own,
By grace we were invited, by grace we make you known.
Pastoral Prayer & The Lord's Prayer
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, and deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Call to Stewardship
Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.
-Acts 4:32
Sending: In Christ There Is No East or West (Hymn 439)
Oxenham/Reinagle
In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north;
But one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth.
In Christ shall true hearts everywhere their high communion find;
His service is the golden cord close-binding humankind.
Join hands, disciples of the faith, whate’er your race may be.
All children of the living God are surely kin to me.
In Christ now meet both east and west, in him meet south and north;
All Christly souls are one in him throughout the whole wide earth.
Charge & Benediction
Postlude: Holy, Holy, Holy
Dykes/Burkhardt
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