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1 Mark Wheeler
Haggai 2:1-9, Ezra 3:10-13
01/22/2023
“God Is at Work Doing New Things” (Katie Stark)
Lidgerwood Presbyterian Church
Welcome to worship friends – we are so glad you are here today! – a quick word about our boiler/furnace – we are in for a treat today – we’ll introduce her in more detail in a bit – but know that we are in for a treat today – our Presbytery’s Missional Expeditor (yeah, we have that – and we’re the only one!), the Rev. Katie Stark, is bringing us God’s Word today!
Let’s begin with our Prelude of Praise #377 . . . We Praise You, O God
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And let’s join in as Ashley Davis leads us in our Call to Worship –
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Good morning Friends! Welcome worship at Lidgerwood!! Shalom Aleichem!
We are in the middle of a short series in Genesis 12 that asks us to see how God is calling us forward and what that call might mean in terms of how God uses us to bless the world around us with God’s Good News!
Today. Katie leads us in a discovery of God might already be doing right now!
We have been talking about how the year 2023 is a BIG year for the life of Lidgerwood Presbyterian Church because it is, in fact, our first full year in our 2nd century of ministry from this particular building. That is worthy of celebration! But it is also worthy of a little extra special attention at trying to discover precisely what God might have in store for us in our 2nd century of ministry!
Welcome, friends, from around the world, to this worshipping community!
Let’s take a second to welcome each other, those in the room and across the globe, to a moment of Sabbath in God’s presence and peace, and with others whom we love and with whom we grow together. Tell your loved ones, whoever you can see, “The WONDER of Christ be with you – and also with you!!”
Welcome to this “gathering” in God’s name. We are assembled in NorthEast Spokane, WA, along with people from all over the world. We are very glad you are “here” with us.
Be filled with God’s Holy Spirit presence and power, in your homes, through your phones and computers, in this building here, and in your lives. Pray with us … and hear and be transformed by God’s Word.
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Choir –! Thank you for leading us in worship with this Sunday’s Choral Anthem – listen to these words – this song is a prayer for God’s help – but it also declares what God does in our lives: It Is Well with My Soul
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Listen in as Ashley opens our Prayer time in Confession and Thanksgiving
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12 Gloria Patri
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- what are some praises, thanksgivings, adorations we want to offer?
- Is there a person or a situation you want to lift to our Lord for His answers and grace?
16 We pray this in the name of Jesus, who taught us to pray: [The Lord’s Prayer]
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The Old Testament Prophet Haggai, chapter 2, begins with these words:
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1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
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4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, 5 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. 6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
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7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. 9 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”
Let’s prepare to receive a Word from our Majestic God by singing a song of Song of Devotion and Praise – that also calls His followers to be together – Ten-thousand Times Ten-thousand – #746!!
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Rev. Katie Stark, Presbytery Missional Expeditor and Co-Director of Cyclical Inland Northwest – bring us God’s Word!
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10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”
And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, (C)old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.
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Receive our tithes and offerings as symbols of our very lives and livelihood, given as response to Your life given for us! Bless it, and by it bless the world around us. In Christ’s name, Amen.
– Offering (4449 N Nevada St, Spokane, 99207 ; HERE, or text 833-976-1333, code “Lidgerwood”)
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31-34 Expedition Song #712 – The Kingdom of God Is Justice and Joy –
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Katie’s Benediction:
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- Annual Congregational Meeting & Potluck Lunch –January 29, to receive our Annual Report and to elect all our new officers – correct one budget item (Terms of Call)
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