June 21st, 2026

ORDER OF WORSHIP 

June 21, 2026 

*Indicates those able may stand 

When the prelude begins, please quiet your hearts in preparation for worship 

Prelude Sandra Paton 

 

Welcome and Announcements Dr. Drew DiNardo 

 

Preparation for Worship Dr. Stuart Sacks 

 

*Call to Worship (Adapted from Psalm 95) 

One: Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation 

All: Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song 

One: For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. 

Invocation 

*Hymn 122 "God, All Nature Sings Thy Glory" 

1 God, all nature sings thy glory, and thy works proclaim thy might: ordered vastness in the heavens, ordered course of day and night, beauty in the changing seasons, beauty in the storming sea; 

all the changing moods of nature praise the changeless Trinity. 

2 Clearer still we see thy hand in man whom thou hast made for thee: ruler of creation's glory, 

image of thy majesty. 

Music, art, the fruitful garden, all the labor of his days, are the calling of his Maker to the harvest feast of praise. 

3 But our sins have spoiled thine image; nature, conscience only serve as unceasing, grim reminders of the wrath which we deserve. Yet thy grace and saving mercy, in thy Word of truth revealed, claim the praise of all who know thee, in the blood of Jesus sealed. 

4 God of glory, power, mercy, all creation praises thee; 

we, thy creatures, would adore thee now and through eternity. 

Saved to magnify thy goodness, grant us strength to do thy will, with our acts as with our voices 

thy commandments to fulfill. 

 

Call to Confession Rev. Nathan Titus 

 

Time of Silent Confession 

Words of Assurance 

*The Gloria Patri 

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. 

 

*3rd Sunday Confession of Faith (Heidelberg Catechism Q&A #1) 

1. What is your only comfort in life and in death? 
2. That I am not my own, but belong-body and soul, in life and in death-to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him. 

 

Psalter Reading (Psalm 51) Page 804 

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love;

according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 

Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, 

so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. 

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 

Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; 

wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 

Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. 

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 

Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. 

Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. 

Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. 

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 

In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem. 

Then there be righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to delight you; then bulls will be offered on your altar. 

 

Reception of New Members 

 

Pastoral Prayer and 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 

Offertory 

*Doxology 

Sermon Text  Mark 2:13-17 Page 837 

Sermon "Jesus Friend of Sinners” Dr. Drew DiNardo 

*Closing Hymn 498 "Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners!" 

1 Jesus! what a Friend for sinners! Jesus! lover of my soul; 

friends may fail me, foes assail me, he, my Savior, makes me whole. Refrain: 

Hallelujah! what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a Friend! 

Saving, helping, keeping, loving, he is with me to the end. 

2 Jesus! what a strength in weakness! Let me hide myself in him; 

tempted, tried, and sometimes failing, he, my strength, my vict'ry wins. [Refrain] 

3 Jesus! what a help in sorrow! While the billows o'er me roll, even when my heart is breaking, 

he, my comfort, helps my soul. [Refrain] 

4 Jesus! what a guide and keeper! While the tempest still is high, storms about me, night o'ertakes me, he, my pilot, hears my cry. [Refrain] 

5 Jesus! I do now receive him, more than all in him I find; he hath granted me forgiveness, I am his, and he is mine. [Refrain] 

*Benediction 

*Congregation Three-fold Amen 

*Postlude