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Sunday, October 19, 2025 -- 10:30am Worship Service
Welcome to Maxwell Street! We hope you will consider wearing a nametag so that we might get to know one another better. They can be found in the lobbies outside the sanctuary. You can find more helpful information inside this bulletin.
Greeting
Prelude - Feed My Lambs, Natalie Sleeth
MSPC Children’s Choir, Lydia Rufin, Director
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call to Worship
May the words of children root us in wonder.
May their laughter open us to joy.
May their tears soften our hearts that we might weep.
May their questions call us into justice.
May their prayers inspire us to work for peace.
May their dreams guide us closer to Beloved Community.
Jesus said, “Let the children come to me,
for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.
Come, let us worship God
+ Hymn 487 - These Treasured Children
+ Call to Confession
+ A Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, You call us to teach Your ways to our children, to build a world where every child is safe, fed, and free to grow in Your love. Yet we confess that we have turned away from Your wisdom. We have chosen comfort over compassion, silence over truth, and convenience over the hard work of justice. We have ignored the cries of the young, and the needs of those You call us to protect. Forgive us, Lord. Shape us again in Your image. Teach us to walk in Your ways, to seek justice with courage, and to love with the patience of Christ. Hear now our silent prayers of confession.
• Assurance of Pardon
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581, (Gloria Patri)
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Message
Prayer for Openness - Hymn 469 Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Lord, send your Spirit in this place.
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Send us love; send us power; send us grace.
Scripture Reading - Psalm 119.97-104, OT pg 562
Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn away from your ordinances, for you have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
This is the written testimony to the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Anthem - In Peace, In Peace, Through Christ the Door, Landa Cable Shute, Chancel Choir
Scripture Reading - Jeremiah 31.27-34, OT pg 568
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no longer say:
“The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge. The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
Sermon - “On Edge” Rev. Matt Falco
Statement of Faith - from The Second Helvetic Confession - Youth to Be Instructed in Godliness (Composed in 1561 in the Swiss-German Reformed Protestantism Tradition)
The Lord enjoined his ancient people to exercise the greatest care that young people, even from infancy, be properly instructed. Moreover, he expressly commanded in his law that they should teach them, and that the mysteries of the sacraments should be explained. Now since it is well known from the writings of the Evangelists and apostles that God has no less concern for the youth of his new people, when he openly testifies and says: “Let the children come to me; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven,”* the pastors of the churches act most wisely when they early and carefully catechize the youth…”
+ HYMN 53 - O God, Who Gives Us Life
Prayers of the People & THE LORD’s PRAYER
Offering
• Minute for Stewardship - Jean Harper
• INVITATION
• Offertory - Great Is Thy Faithfulness, arr. Robin Morrill
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 488 - I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry
Charge & Benediction
Benediction Response - Hymn 765, May the God of Hope Go with Us
May the God of hope go with us every day, filling all our lives with love and joy and peace.
May the God of justice speed us on our way, bringing light and hope to every land and race.
Praying, let us work for peace; singing, share our joy with all;
working for a world that’s new, faithful when we hear Christ’s call.
Postlude - Rigaudon, André Campra (1660-1744)
+ Indicates that the congregation is invited to stand in body and/or spirit.
Greeting
Prelude - Feed My Lambs, Natalie Sleeth
MSPC Children’s Choir, Lydia Rufin, Director
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call to Worship
May the words of children root us in wonder.
May their laughter open us to joy.
May their tears soften our hearts that we might weep.
May their questions call us into justice.
May their prayers inspire us to work for peace.
May their dreams guide us closer to Beloved Community.
Jesus said, “Let the children come to me,
for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.
Come, let us worship God
+ Hymn 487 - These Treasured Children
+ Call to Confession
+ A Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, You call us to teach Your ways to our children, to build a world where every child is safe, fed, and free to grow in Your love. Yet we confess that we have turned away from Your wisdom. We have chosen comfort over compassion, silence over truth, and convenience over the hard work of justice. We have ignored the cries of the young, and the needs of those You call us to protect. Forgive us, Lord. Shape us again in Your image. Teach us to walk in Your ways, to seek justice with courage, and to love with the patience of Christ. Hear now our silent prayers of confession.
• Assurance of Pardon
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581, (Gloria Patri)
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Message
Prayer for Openness - Hymn 469 Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Lord, send your Spirit in this place.
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Send us love; send us power; send us grace.
Scripture Reading - Psalm 119.97-104, OT pg 562
Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn away from your ordinances, for you have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
This is the written testimony to the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Anthem - In Peace, In Peace, Through Christ the Door, Landa Cable Shute, Chancel Choir
Scripture Reading - Jeremiah 31.27-34, OT pg 568
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no longer say:
“The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge. The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
Sermon - “On Edge” Rev. Matt Falco
Statement of Faith - from The Second Helvetic Confession - Youth to Be Instructed in Godliness (Composed in 1561 in the Swiss-German Reformed Protestantism Tradition)
The Lord enjoined his ancient people to exercise the greatest care that young people, even from infancy, be properly instructed. Moreover, he expressly commanded in his law that they should teach them, and that the mysteries of the sacraments should be explained. Now since it is well known from the writings of the Evangelists and apostles that God has no less concern for the youth of his new people, when he openly testifies and says: “Let the children come to me; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven,”* the pastors of the churches act most wisely when they early and carefully catechize the youth…”
+ HYMN 53 - O God, Who Gives Us Life
Prayers of the People & THE LORD’s PRAYER
Offering
• Minute for Stewardship - Jean Harper
• INVITATION
• Offertory - Great Is Thy Faithfulness, arr. Robin Morrill
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 488 - I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry
Charge & Benediction
Benediction Response - Hymn 765, May the God of Hope Go with Us
May the God of hope go with us every day, filling all our lives with love and joy and peace.
May the God of justice speed us on our way, bringing light and hope to every land and race.
Praying, let us work for peace; singing, share our joy with all;
working for a world that’s new, faithful when we hear Christ’s call.
Postlude - Rigaudon, André Campra (1660-1744)
+ Indicates that the congregation is invited to stand in body and/or spirit.