WELCOME TO WORSHIP
SCRIPTURE — James 1:2-4 & Romans 5:3-5 This is the word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. SERMON — “Contented People Use Trials as Growth Opportunities”
WE RENEW OUR COMMITMENT
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY • FEBRUARY 1, 2026 • 11:00AM
THE COMMUNITY GATHERS Welcome to worship at Centenary! We are a church for everyone. As you prepare for worship, we invite you to greet your neighbor and share the love of Christ. Please silence all mobile communication devices. †
Please stand as you are able
OFFERTORY Awake My Heart — Jane Marshall Awake my heart, and render to God thy sure defender, thy Maker, thy preserver, a song of love and fervor. Confirm my deeds and guide me: my day, with thee beside me, beginning, middle, ending, DOXOLOGY #95 Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow — OLD 100th Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below; praise God above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
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PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
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WE CELEBRATE HOLY COMMUNION
PRELUDE GREETING INTROIT
My God Is a Rock - arr. Shaw/Parker My God is a rock in a weary land, shelter in a time of storm.
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CALL TO WORSHIP Come, people of God, whether you carry joy or worry. We come, trusting God is at work in all things. Trials can shape perseverance within us. Perseverance forms character and gives rise to hope. This present hope will not disappoint us. God’s love has been poured into our hearts.
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HYMN OF PROCESSION #117 O God, Our Help in Ages Past — ST. ANNE
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AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword? No! In all things we are more than conquerors through the One who loved us. We are sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thanks be to God! Amen.
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GLORIA PATRI #71 Glory Be to the Father — GREATOREX Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
SERMON NOTES
WE HEAR THE WORD PROCLAIMED
INVITATION TO COMMUNION CONFESSION AND PARDON THE GREAT THANKSGIVING THE LORD’S PRAYER Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. RECEIVING OF ELEMENTS MUSIC AT COMMUNION CLOSING PRAYER Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery in which you have given yourself to us. Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your Spirit, to give ourselves for others, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
WE GO AS GOD’S PEOPLE INTO THE WORLD HYMN
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#368 My Hope Is Built — THE SOLID ROCK
BENEDICTION
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BENEDICTION RESPONSE The Lord Bless You and Keep You — John Rutter The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. Amen. (Numbers 6: 24-26)
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PARTICIPANTS IN WORSHIP PREACHING The Reverend Oliver Helsabeck Associate Minister of Congregational Care LITURGIST The Reverend Kate May Associate Minister with Children MUSIC Jonathan Emmons, Director of Music & Arts Joshua Sobel, Organist The Chancel Choir
CRUCIFER Hamilton Norman TORCHBEARERS Eleanor Coulter Thomas Saxon FLOWERS The Chancel flowers are given in loving memory of Sally DeRamus, Judson and Tom DeRamus, Elizabeth and Joe Edmondson, and Margaret and Brady Trull by the DeRamus Family.
POSTLUDE
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The anthem texts are printed with permission. One License A-707342 To This Table, Lord, We Come: Copyright 2000 GIA Publications
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