Order of Worship

"Yuriria Convent” Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico (1550)

September 7, 2025 - Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Year C)

PRELUDE

by Doe Waters

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS - Everyone means EVERYONE!

September Birthdays & Anniversaries:  4 Art 8 Jeff & Nancy Pyrn / Rich Waters 12 Larry Butler 16 Ivy 21 Kelsey & Adam Spychala 24 Marge C. 25 Delight 29 Kurt Peck / Nancy Pyrn 30 Frank & Connie Lee 

Coffee Hour Schedule: 9/7 Jean B. 9/14 Olsens 9/21 Tanis

WWW.COIUM.ORG/OOW - Order of Worship webpage

9/6 9am-3pm - Farm Stand (Last opening: September 20)

9/9 10:30am - Women’s Corner (Zoom)

9/18 7:00pm - Church Council Meeting 

*INTROIT

TFWS 2129 "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus"

1 I have decided to follow Jesus,

I have decided to follow Jesus,

I have decided to follow Jesus -

no turning back, no turning back.

2 The world behind me, the cross before me,

the world behind me, the cross before me,

the world behind me, the cross before me -

no turning back, no turning back.

3 Though none go with me, still I will follow,

though none go with me, still I will follow,

though none go with me, still I will follow—

no turning back, no turning back.

*CALL TO WORSHIP (John Eilering)

We find it easy to say, “Yes, we will follow Christ.”

But sometimes discipleship makes uncomfortable demands on us.

Yet, in all of this, Christ calls us continually to follow.

He is present with us at all times.

Let us place our trust always in his guidance.

Let us open our hearts to his will and his ways. AMEN.

*OPENING HYMN

UMH 530 "Are Ye Able"

1. "Are ye able," said the Master,

"to be crucified with me?"

"Yea," the sturdy dreamers answered,

"to the death we follow thee."

Refrain:

Lord, we are able. Our spirits are thine.

Remold them, make us, like thee, divine.

Thy guiding radiance above us shall be

a beacon to God, to love, and loyalty.

2. Are ye able to remember,

when a thief lifts up his eyes,

that his pardoned soul is worthy

of a place in paradise?

(Refrain)

3. Are ye able when the shadows

close around you with the sod,

to believe that spirit triumphs,

to commend your soul to God?

(Refrain)

4. Are ye able? Still the Master

whispers down eternity,

and heroic spirits answer,

now as then in Galilee.

(Refrain)

OPENING PRAYER

Lord, from the very beginning of your creation, you breathed your love in to all that you made. You gave us the breath of life and asked us to be good stewards of all creation. You placed your trust and love in us. Help us to turn again with joyful hearts to you, placing our trust in all that you have done for us. Let us be a blessing for you. AMEN.

CHILDREN'S TIME - ALL CHILDREN, COME FORWARD! 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Forgiving God, we have messed up in so many ways. You gave us a wonderful world, filled with beauty, power, and majesty, and we have ravaged it - tearing away at its gifts with our own greed and cowardice. We have not treated this world or one another with compassionate love. We have turned our backs on situations of need in which we could have been instruments of help, healing, and peace. We have neglected service to others and have focused our lives on accumulating things and status. We have chased after false gods - greed, power, fame. You are the potter, O Lord. You fashioned us, but we focused on developing our flaws rather than working with our strengths. Please forgive us, Lord. Refashion us to be your people, celebrating your love in service to others. For we ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. AMEN.

WORDS OF ASSURANCE

God’s loving choice for you is peace and hope. God has fashioned you to be God’s people. Rejoice! For God is with you, reaching out to heal and care for you. AMEN.

COMMUNITY PRAYER & 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 trespasses

as we forgive those who trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power,

and the glory forever. AMEN.

RESPONSIVE HYMN

UMH 445 "Happy the Home When God Is there"

1. Happy the home when God is there,

and love fills every breast;

when one their wish, and one their prayer,

and one their heavenly rest.

2. Happy the home where Jesus' name

is sweet to every ear;

where children early speak his fame,

and parents hold him dear.

3. Happy the home where prayer is heard,

and praise is wont to rise;

where parents love the sacred Word

and all its wisdom prize.

4. Lord, let us in our homes agree

this blessed peace to gain;

unite our hearts in love to thee,

and love to all will reign.

SCRIPTURE READING

[Luke 14:25-33, CEB]

25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus. Turning to them, he said, 26 “Whoever comes to me and doesn’t hate father and mother, spouse and children, and brothers and sisters—yes, even one’s own life—cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn’t carry their own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

28 “If one of you wanted to build a tower, wouldn’t you first sit down and calculate the cost, to determine whether you have enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when you have laid the foundation but couldn’t finish the tower, all who see it will begin to belittle you. 30 They will say, ‘Here’s the person who began construction and couldn’t complete it!’ 31 Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down to consider whether his ten thousand soldiers could go up against the twenty thousand coming against him? 32 And if he didn’t think he could win, he would send a representative to discuss terms of peace while his enemy was still a long way off. 33 In the same way, none of you who are unwilling to give up all of your possessions can be my disciple.

This is the Word of God, for the People of God!

Thanks be to God!

SERMON

"Your Own Cross" (CJ Woo)

HOLY COMMUNION - THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

OFFERTORY - "giving.coium.org"

United Methodist Hymnal 95 "Doxology"

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 OF DEDICATION

Tender and knowing God, you have searched us and known us—every thought, every fear, every hope that stirs within. You wove us together with care, claiming us before we could speak your name. Receive these gifts, offered not from perfection but from hearts seeking you. Use them to shape a world more reflective of your love and shape us, too, into a people more open, more generous, more faithful. May our giving become a response to your knowing and our generosity a reflection of your grace. In the name of the one who knows us still. AMEN.

*CLOSING HYMN

UMH 338 "Where He Leads Me"

1. I can hear my Savior calling,

I can hear my Savior calling,

I can hear my Savior calling,

"Take thy cross and follow, follow me."

Refrain:

Where he leads me I will follow,

where he leads me I will follow,

where he leads me I will follow;

I'll go with him, with him all the way.

2. I'll go with him through the garden,

I'll go with him through the garden,

I'll go with him through the garden,

I'll go with him, with him all the way.

(Refrain)

3. I'll go with him through the judgment,

I'll go with him through the judgment,

I'll go with him through the judgment,

I'll go with him, with him all the way.

(Refrain)

4. He will give me grace and glory,

he will give me grace and glory,

he will give me grace and glory,

and go with me, with me all the way.

(Refrain)

SENDING FORTH & BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE

by Doe Waters