Sunday, July 7, 2024
Morning Worship in the Great Auditorium at 10:30 AM
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Please turn off cell phones
PRELUDE
Allegro (Concerto in G)
J. S. Bach
Praeludium in G
Felix Mendelssohn
RINGING OF THE BELL
CHORAL INTROIT
“Let All Now praise the Lord”
Mendelssohn
CALL TO WORSHIP
Mrs. Nancy Ann Gillan
President
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Inspired by Psalm 95:1–7
Leader:
Come let us sing for joy to the Lord.
Let us shout aloud to the Rock of our Salvation!
People:
Let us come before the Lord with thanksgiving
and extol God with music and song.
Leader:
For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
People:
In God’s hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
The sea is His, for He made it
and His hands formed the dry land.
Leader:
Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
People:
For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture,
the flock under His care.
*HYMN
“Come, Christians, Join to Sing”
Bateman / Trad. arr. Carr., harm Lovelace
Come, Christians, join to sing: Alleluia! Amen!
Loud praise to Christ our King: Alleluia! Amen!
Let all, with heart and voice,
before His throne rejoice;
Praise is His gracious choice. Alleluia! Amen!
Come, lift your hearts on high: Alleluia! Amen!
Let praises fill the sky: Alleluia! Amen!
He is our guide and friend; to us he’ll condescend;
His love shall never end: Alleluia! Amen!
Praise yet the Lord again: Alleluia! Amen!
Life shall not end the strain: Alleluia! Amen!
On heaven’s blissful shore His goodness we’ll adore,
Singing forevermore: Alleluia! Amen!
*APOSTLES’ CREED
I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day He arose from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen
PRAYER AND LORD’S PRAYER
Rev. Beth Whalley-Mitchell
Treasurer, OGCMA
GREETING
Mrs. Nancy Ann Gillan
President, OGCMA
OFFERTORY
Monica Ziglar
Soprano
“His Eye is on the Sparrow”
Charles Gabriel
*USHERS’ MARCH and DOXOLOGY
Praise God from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below:
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Amen
Please remain standing for the singing of the hymn
*HYMN
“America the Beautiful”
Bates / Ward
O beautiful for spacious skies,
for amber waves of grain;
For purple mountain majesties
above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for heroes proved
in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
that sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Thy liberty in law.”
ANTHEM
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
arr. P. Wilhousky
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps.
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps.
I can read His righteous sentence
By the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea.
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, Let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
Amen.
SERMON
“Heaven”
Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear
Assoc. Professor, Applied Theology,
Howard University School of Divinity
*CLOSING HYMN
“And Can It Be That I Should Gain”
Wesley/Campbell
And can it be that I should gain
an int’rest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be
that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Amazing love! How can it be
that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me!
‘Tis mystery all! Th’Immortal dies!
Who can explore His strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
to sound the depths of love divine!
‘Tis mercy all! Let earth adore,
let angel minds inquire no more.
Amazing love! How can it be
that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me!
Long my imprisoned spirit lay
fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray,
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free;
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
Amazing love! How can it be
that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me!
No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th’eternal throne,
and claim the crown, thro’ Christ my own.
Amazing love! How can it be
that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me!
BENEDICTION
Amen
Peter Lutkin
ORGAN POSTLUDE
Scherzo for Flute Pipes
Eric Thiman
After- Service Prayer:
You are welcome to come to the altar rail for prayer
* Those who are able will please stand
