The

First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina

At Worship

SUNDAY MORNING July 19, 2020 ELEVEN O’CLOCK AM

Seventh Sunday After Pentecost

The liturgical color today is green.

Green is the color of growth while the church is on mission

during the season of Pentecost.

THE GREETING Amy Russell

THE CHIMING OF THE TRINITY

THE INVOCATION Deborah Edwards

THE PRELUDE Prelude on “Children of the Heavenly Father”

Swedish melody, arr. Robert Hobby

THE CALL TO WORSHIP Deborah Edwards

As we are greeted each morning with birdsong and each evening with the hum of

summer’s life—the sounds of your creation;

We offer our gratitude to you, our Creator.

As we find redemption and reconciliation in our relationships and within ourselves;

We offer our gratitude to you, our Savior.

As we breathe the breath of this life, given to us in abundance;

We offer our gratitude to you, Spirit of life.

Let us worship our God, Creator, Savior, and Spirit, together.

THE HYMN OF PRAISE Children of the Heavenly Father TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA

THE PSALTER LESSON: Psalm 139:1-4, 13-16, 23-24 Deborah Edwards

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when

I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 3 You search out my path and my lying

down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue,

O Lord, you know it completely. 13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit

me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully

made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately

woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book

were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. 24 See if there

is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

THE CALL TO CONFESSION Tammy Hight

THE PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Lord, who dwells within our hearts, we confess that at times our hearts can feel divided.

We love you but we also love the things of this world. We want to seek first the

Kingdom of God but instead we seek first our own comfort.

Search me, O God, and know my heart today; Try me, O Savior, know my thoughts, I pray.

See if there be some wicked way in me; Cleanse me from every sin and set me free.

Merciful God, we do not want to do wrong on purpose. We do not want to hurt others. We

do not want to hurt your creation, but we know we do all of these things.

I praise you, Lord, for cleansing me from sin; fulfill your Word and make me pure within.

Fill me with fire where once I burned with shame; grant my desire to magnify your

name.

We open ourselves to you for re-creation and renewal. We feel vulnerable but we rest in

the promise of your forgiveness and unconditional love.

Lord, take my life, for I would live for you; Fill my poor heart with your great love so true.

Take all my will, my passion, self, and pride; I now surrender; Lord, in me abide.

Spirit of grace, reconcile and strengthen our hearts that we might better love and serve you.

O Holy Spirit, revival comes from you; Send a revival, my own heart renew. Your word

declares you will supply our need; For blessings now, O Lord, I humbly plead.

THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON

THE GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 13:24-33 Kaitlyn Burton

24 He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to

someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25but while everybody was asleep, an enemy

came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26So when the plants came

up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. 27And the slaves of the householder

came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did

these weeds come from?” 28He answered, “An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to

him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?” 29But he replied, “No; for in gathering

the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. 30Let both of them grow together

until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind

them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ 31 He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed

that someone took and sowed in his field; 32it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it

has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come

and make nests in its branches.’ 33 He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman

took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.’

THE GLORIA WESTMINSTER ABBEY

THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON: Genesis 28:10-22

10Jacob left Beer-sheba and went towards Haran. 11He came to a certain place and stayed

there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it

under his head and lay down in that place. 12And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up

on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and

descending on it. 13And the Lord stood beside him and said, ‘I am the Lord, the God of

Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and

to your offspring; 14and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall

spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the

families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring. 15Know that I am with

you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not

leave you until I have done what I have promised you.’ 16Then Jacob woke from his sleep

and said, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!’ 17And he was afraid, and

said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the

gate of heaven.’ 18So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his

head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 19He called that place

Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If

God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat

and clothing to wear, 21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then

the Lord shall be my God, 22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s

house; and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you.’

THE SERMON Awakenings Ronald Cava

THE HYMN Nearer, My God, to Thee BETHANY

THE CALL TO PRAYER Down to the River to Pray traditional, arr. Sheldon Curry

As I went down to the river to pray, studying about that good old way, and who shall

wear the starry crown, good Lord, show me the way.

O brothers, let's go down, come on down. Don’t you want to go down? O sisters, let's

go down, down to the river to pray. -traditional American

THE MORNING PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER Amy Russell

A CELEBRATION OF OUR GIFTS Tammy Hight

THE DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow LASST UNS ERFREUEN

THE BENEDICTION Ronald Cava

THE HYMN OF RESPONSE There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy WELLESLEY

THE POSTLUDE Trumpet Voluntary Gordon Young

Assisting with worship leadership today is Deacon of the Week Deborah Edwards.

Music for this morning’s service is offered by tenor Lee Faulkner and choral singers Kathleen

James, Jo Ellen Nowell, Tommy Nowell, and David Cole.

The Response in the Call to Confession is from the hymn text “Search Me, O God” by J. Edwin

Orr.

The flowers on the communion table are placed in loving memory of Clyde and Huel Jeffcoat

by Vivian and William Branch, Jr.

The First Baptist Church Henderson, North Carolina Ronald S. Cava, Senior Minister

Amy S. Russell, Associate Minister

Mark L. Hopper, Minister of Music and Organist

David Cole, Associate Minister of Music and Organist

Tammy C. Hight, Director of Childhood Discipleship

Kaitlyn Burton, Pastoral Intern

Linda O’Brien, Financial Secretary

Tammy Manning, Ministry Support Coordinator

Amber Jones, Administrative Support Coordinator

Robert Snow, Custodian

Marion D. Lark, Senior Minister Emeritus

Philip M. Young, Composer-in-Residence

Telephone (252) 438-3172

Fax (252) 438-3710

www.fbchenderson.net

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Opportunities for Worship and Service

SUNDAY

9:00 AM Virtual Sunday School

11:00 Morning Worship

Recording Posted on Facebook and Link Sent via Email

11:00 Previous Sunday’s Worship Service Aired on Spectrum

Channel 24

Noon 3rd Sunday Lunch Ministry

2:00 PM Worship Service Aired on WIZS – 100.1 FM and 1450 AM

WEDNESDAY 10:00 AM “Sacred Reading” Weekly Video Call