July 28, 2024 - Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

Welcome! It is a joy to worship with all of you! May God bless our time together. OPENING HYMN: 493 — Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: page 38 — Service of the Word THE PRAYER OF THE DAY C: (sung) Amen. OLD TESTAMENT LESSON: Exodus 24:3-11 3 Moses came and reported to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordi- nances. Then all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do.” 4 Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He got up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He set up twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 He sent young Israelite men, who offered whole burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings of cattle to the Lord. 6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and he splashed half of the blood on the altar. 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it out loud to the people and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do. We will obey.” 8 Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people. He said, “Look, here is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord made with you by means of all these words.” 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet they saw what looked like a pavement of sapphire as clear as the sky. 11 The Lord did not lay his hand on the dignitaries of the people of Israel. They gazed at God, and they ate and drank. RESPONSIVE PSALM OF THE DAY: Psalm 84 P: How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! C: My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD. P: Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you. C: Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; P: I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. C: O LORD Almighty, blessed are they who trust in you. All: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. NEW TESTAMENT LESSON: 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 8God is able to make all grace overflow to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will overflow in every good work. 9 As it is written: He scattered; he gave to the poor. His righteousness remains forever. 10 And he who provides seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing, and will increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be made rich in every way so that you may be generous in every way, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. VERSE OF THE DAY: John 6:68 Alleluia. Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Alleluia. GOSPEL: John 6:1-15 1 After this, Jesus crossed over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias). 2A mlarge crowd followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he was performing on those who were sick. 3 Jesus went up on the hillside and sat down there with his disciples. 4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near. 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 But Jesus was saying this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have just a little.” 8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what is that for so many people?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. There were about five thousand men. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves and, after giving thanks, he distributed pieces to those who were seated. He also did the same with the fish—as much as they wanted. 12 When the people were full, he told his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted.” 13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with pieces from the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. 14 When the people saw the miraculous sign Jesus did, they said, “This really is the Prophet who is coming into the world.” 15 When Jesus realized that they intended to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself. HYMN OF THE DAY: 353 — Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness SERMON: 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 Jesus Loves to Give to Us and through Us APOSTLES’ CREED OFFERING THE PRAYER OF THE CHURCH AND THE LORD’S PRAYER HYMN: 482 — Forgive Us, Lord CLOSING PRAYER AND BLESSING CLOSING HYMN: 566 — We All Are One in Mission Used with permission through our CCLI Copyright License #21115061 and Streaming License #21115078. Streamed with permission under OneLicense #A-700000.