August 23, 2026
10:00 am
PRELUDE
God of Grace
Paul Manz 1919-2009
*HYMN
No. 464 God of Grace and God of Glory
*INVITATION TO GATHER
For as in one body we have many members
and not all the members have the same function,
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,
and individually we are members one of another.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us:
to speak truth to power; to minister in love; to teach; to encourage; to give;
to lead; to care.
Paul, Romans 12:4-8
*INVOCATION
*JESUS’ PRAYER
Our Father/Mother/Creator, 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 sins, as we forgive those who sin 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.
*SUNG RESPONSE
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CHILDREN’S TIME
BAPTISM
ANTHEM Morning Has Broken arr. Mark Hayes
PASTORAL PRAYER
FIRST READING Exodus 1:8-2:10
Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them . . . But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites . . .
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live . . .Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. “This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said . . . She named him Moses, “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
*PULPIT HYMN No. 365 Wash, O God, Your Sons and Daughters
SECOND READING Matthew 16:13-20
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist but others Elijah and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
SERMON “On This Rock”
OFFERTORY Valse-Choro Villa-Lobos
*DOXOLOGY
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
*HYMN No. 611 Rise Up, O Saints of God!
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE Diademata Edwin Childs (b.1945)
*Indicates standing
PARTICIPANTS:
Clergy: Brandon Perrine
Liturgist: Janet Nelson (8:30 a.m.), April Albrecht (10 a.m.)
Organist/Pianist: Daniel Segner
Musicians: Gary McCann, Paul Laprade
A/V Tech: Steve Kierstead
Today’s chancel flowers are given by:
Francisco & Judy Lopez
In loving memory of our parents and brothers:
Inocencio & Maria Lopez, Jose and Isreal, Lester & Cathy Bemis, and Michael.
