Sunday, February 15, 2026 -- 10:30am Worship Service
In celebration of Black History Month, this week’s cover art is by Augustin Kolawole Olayinka, “The Transfiguration of Jesus” (1997).
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.
INTROIT 411 - God Is Here Today
God is here today;
as certain as the air I breathe,
as certain as the morning sun that rises,
as certain when I sing you’ll hear my song.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE - Prelude in F minor, Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
CALL TO WORSHIP
May this gathering today be a time and space when we find a moment ‘in and out of time’.
A moment of meeting with You when the daily veil that at times covers our world and our lives is removed and we see Your glory.
Glory revealed in the beauty of the universe You have created,
beauty revealed in the community we are part of, beauty revealed to us in Your precious word, most of all, beauty revealed in the love of
Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Help us again today to come away with You to a quiet place, to meet with You in new ways,
ways that help us glimpse how things really are when we truly come into Your presence, when we truly allow Your light to transform us and the
whole world.
Let us worship God together.
+ Hymn 662 - Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
+ CONFESSION & PARDON
Merciful God, it is good for us to be here, but we also tremble and recoil as did the disciples on the mountain. For we have not lived gloriously, nor listened to the One who bids us take up our cross and live the costly life of faith. We have prostrated ourselves before the false brightness of lesser lights, which blazon their false claims of truth, or fulfilment, or hope. Humbly we ask for Your forgiveness. Hear us now as we offer up our silent confessions…
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581, (Gloria Patri)
PASSING OF THE PEACE
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
PRAYER FOR OPENNESS
Transfiguring God, before Your Son suffered on the cross You revealed His true glory on the holy mountain. As we now, by faith, behold the light
of His face and glimpse His glory may we be strengthened to bear thecross, and that we may reflect His glory to the world around, we pray in the
name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Scripture Reading - 2 Peter 1.16-21 NT pg 236 (NRSVUE)
ANTHEM - He Watching Over Israel, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1947), Chancel Choir, Loren Tice, piano
SCRIPTURE READING - Matthew 17.1-9 NT pg 18
SERMON - “Tranfigured On the Mountain” or “It Is Good For Us To Be Here”, Rev. Matt Falco
STATEMENT OF FAITH - From The Confession of 1967 (Inclusive Language Version)
God’s sovereign love is a mystery beyond the reach of the human mind. Human thought ascribes to God superlatives of power, wisdom, and goodness.
But God reveals divine love in Jesus Christ by showing power in the form of a servant, wisdom in the folly of the cross, and goodness in receiving sinful
men and women. The power of God’s love in Christ to transform the world discloses that the Redeemer is the Lord and Creator who made all things to
serve the purpose of God’s love.
+ HYMN 366 -Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S (Debts & Debtors)
Offering
• Offertory - From the Nets of Our Labors, Chancel Choir, Lauren Falco, violin
• 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 192 -Lord, the Light of Your Love is Shining (Shine, Jesus, Shine)
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
Benediction Response - Hymn 733, We All Are One in Mission
We all are one in mission; we all are one in call, our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all. A single, great commission compels us from above to plan and work together that all may know Christ’s love.
POSTLUDE - Marche de Fête, Henri Büsser (1872-1973)
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.
INTROIT 411 - God Is Here Today
God is here today;
as certain as the air I breathe,
as certain as the morning sun that rises,
as certain when I sing you’ll hear my song.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE - Prelude in F minor, Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
CALL TO WORSHIP
May this gathering today be a time and space when we find a moment ‘in and out of time’.
A moment of meeting with You when the daily veil that at times covers our world and our lives is removed and we see Your glory.
Glory revealed in the beauty of the universe You have created,
beauty revealed in the community we are part of, beauty revealed to us in Your precious word, most of all, beauty revealed in the love of
Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Help us again today to come away with You to a quiet place, to meet with You in new ways,
ways that help us glimpse how things really are when we truly come into Your presence, when we truly allow Your light to transform us and the
whole world.
Let us worship God together.
+ Hymn 662 - Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
+ CONFESSION & PARDON
Merciful God, it is good for us to be here, but we also tremble and recoil as did the disciples on the mountain. For we have not lived gloriously, nor listened to the One who bids us take up our cross and live the costly life of faith. We have prostrated ourselves before the false brightness of lesser lights, which blazon their false claims of truth, or fulfilment, or hope. Humbly we ask for Your forgiveness. Hear us now as we offer up our silent confessions…
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581, (Gloria Patri)
PASSING OF THE PEACE
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
PRAYER FOR OPENNESS
Transfiguring God, before Your Son suffered on the cross You revealed His true glory on the holy mountain. As we now, by faith, behold the light
of His face and glimpse His glory may we be strengthened to bear thecross, and that we may reflect His glory to the world around, we pray in the
name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Scripture Reading - 2 Peter 1.16-21 NT pg 236 (NRSVUE)
ANTHEM - He Watching Over Israel, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1947), Chancel Choir, Loren Tice, piano
SCRIPTURE READING - Matthew 17.1-9 NT pg 18
SERMON - “Tranfigured On the Mountain” or “
STATEMENT OF FAITH - From The Confession of 1967 (Inclusive Language Version)
God’s sovereign love is a mystery beyond the reach of the human mind. Human thought ascribes to God superlatives of power, wisdom, and goodness.
But God reveals divine love in Jesus Christ by showing power in the form of a servant, wisdom in the folly of the cross, and goodness in receiving sinful
men and women. The power of God’s love in Christ to transform the world discloses that the Redeemer is the Lord and Creator who made all things to
serve the purpose of God’s love.
+ HYMN 366 -Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S (Debts & Debtors)
Offering
• Offertory - From the Nets of Our Labors, Chancel Choir, Lauren Falco, violin
• 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 192 -Lord, the Light of Your Love is Shining (Shine, Jesus, Shine)
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
Benediction Response - Hymn 733, We All Are One in Mission
We all are one in mission; we all are one in call, our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all. A single, great commission compels us from above to plan and work together that all may know Christ’s love.
POSTLUDE - Marche de Fête, Henri Büsser (1872-1973)