July 13, 2025
Firth Sunday after Pentecost
July 13, 2025 Livestream Worship: Online Bulletin
Bringing in the Light of Christ
Chiming of the Trinity
Prelude
There Is a Balm in Gilead arr. Karen Whitaker
Welcome
Call to Worship
Leader: Love is patient, love is kind.
People: It does not insist on its own way.
Leader: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
People: Love never ends.
All: Let us worship the God who is love.
Hymn
Hymn of Promise UMH#707
A Reading from the Old Testament
Micah 6:6-8
Psalm of Response
Psalm 103:6-14 UMH pp. 824 -825
Please sing the response.
Reading from the Gospels
Matthew 5:43-48
Sermon
The Risk and Power of Redemptive Love | Rev. Kelly Dotson
Joys, Concerns, and Prayers of the People with the Lord’s Prayer
Our Mother, our Father,
source of all life and liberation,
your presence is holy,
and your dream of justice is coming.
Let your will be done
not just in heaven, but here on earth —
in the streets and shelters,
in the jails and boardrooms,
in every place where your children suffer.
Our Mother, our Father,
source of all life and liberation,
your presence is holy,
and your dream of justice is coming.
Let your will be done
not just in heaven, but here on earth —
in the streets and shelters,
in the jails and boardrooms,
in every place where your children suffer.
Give us today the bread we need —
and the courage to share it with others.
Forgive us for the ways we have harmed,
just as we forgive those who have harmed us.
Lead us not into the temptations of power, apathy, or fear,
but deliver us from every system that destroys.
For your reign of love, justice, and peace
has no end.
Amen.
Hymn
What Does the Lord Require UM
Blessing and Sharing of Christ’s Light
Postlude
Jesus Calls Us arr. Gene Roberson
Announcements
Today’s worship participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Kelly Dotson
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Worship Arts Associate: Patty Higgins
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