Thank you for joining us in worship this morning!

Here are the congregational

lyrics and prayers for our 9:30 traditional Drive-in service. You can tune
into the service at 89.5 FM on your car radio
Responsive Call to Worship (Psalm 139:1, 13-17):
Leader: O Lord, you have searched me and know me. You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
People: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
Leader: I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
People: My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
Leader: All the days ordained for me were written in our book before one of them came to be.
People: How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them.

Opening Hymn: Morning Has Broken

Morning has broken, like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
Praise for the singing! praise for the morning! Praise for them springing fresh from the Word!

Sweet the rain's new fall sunlit from heaven, Like the first dewfall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, Sprung in completeness where God’s feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning Born of the one light, Eden saw play!
Praise with elation, praise every morning, God's recreation of the new day!

Unison and Silent Prayers of Confession Call to Confession: Isaiah 49:15

Gracious and Loving God, Your life pulses in each of our hearts, and your love permeate each
of our lives. Your care sustains us in each moment, and your compassion guides us in each
situation. When we fall, you lift us; when we fail you restore us; when we are wounded, you
nurse us; when we grieve, you weep with us. But, we have failed to love as you do. We have
filled our minds with selfish dreams and violent plans; we have made our hearts cold and
empty of compassion; we have forgotten we are yours, and distorted your image within us.
As a mother disciplines her children, we ask you to discipline us; As a mother forgives the
sons and daughters who hurt her, we ask you to forgive us; As a mother calls her children to
be reconciled with their siblings, we ask you to lead us to reconciliation with one another. In
Christ's Name, Amen. Affirmation of Grace: Galatians 2:20

Response: For the Beauty of the Earth | vs. 4

For the joy of human love, Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above, For all gentle thoughts and mild,
Lord of all, to Thee we raise, This our hymn of grateful praise. Amen.

05/09/2021
Message: A Mother's Metrics (1 Thessalonians 2:7-9)
Pastor David Redding

Hymn: Honor Christian Mothers

Note: Hymn Tune "Onward, Christian Soldiers"
Honor Christian mothers, instruments of God,
Raising faithful families, worshiping the Lord.
Teaching His commandments, showing us the way:
Love and faith and kindness, teaching us to pray.
Honor Christian mothers, instruments of God,
Raising faithful families, worshiping the Lord.

Honor Christian mothers, Heaven’s gift of love.

Join with them in service to the Lord above.
Follow their example, let your light so shine
All will see your goodness, praise the One Divine.
Honor Christian mothers, instruments of God,
Raising faithful families, worshiping the Lord.
Musical Offering: I Can Only Imagine | Bart Millard
Tyler Tucker
Closing Hymn: Our Father God in Heaven
Hymn Tune: 'The Church's One Foundation
Our Father God in heaven on whom our world depends,
to you let praise be given for families and friends;
for parents, sisters, brothers, a home where love belongs,
but on this day for mothers, we bring our thankful songs.

What wealth of God's bestowing for all the world to share!

what strength of heart outgoing to children everywhere!
Our deepest joys and sorrows a mother's path must trace,
and earth's unknown tomorrows are held in her embrace.

How well we know the story that tells of Jesus' birth,

the Lord of heaven's glory become a child of earth;
a helpless infant sleeping, yet King of realms above,
to find in Mary's keeping the warmth of human love.

Our Father God in heaven, to you we lift our prayer,

that every child be given such tenderness and care,
where life is all for others, where love your love displays:
for God's good gift of mothers let earth unite in praise!

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05/09/2021