Service for the Lord’s Day The Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, Ohio

154 W. Market Street www.CadizPresbyterian.org

Rev. Alan Jeffries, Pastor

October 11, 2020 11:00 AM

We believe The Presbyterian Church of Cadiz exists to share our faith in Jesus Christ with family, friends, and neighbors through

our: Outreach and Mission; Worship and Spirituality; Fellowship; and Communication.

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Prelude Welcome and Announcements Call to Worship Leader: The Lord is good! All: God’s steadfast love endures forever. Hymn #2 Come Thou Almighty King Call to Confession Leader: We and our ancestors have sinned. Our ancestors exchanged the glory of God for the image of a golden calf. They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt. While our means are different, our compulsions are the same. Let us confess our brokenness, for God is merciful and just and will forgive us our sin.

Prayer of Confession All: Holy God, you are the Lord our God, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And yet our trust in you is fragile, easily crushed by our bent toward indifference—the dismissal of your faithfulness as a result of our forgetfulness. Our trust is fragile, easily broken by the slightest pause—an answer to prayer not instantly given, a request for peace not immediately felt. Our trust is fragile, easily displaced by gods of our own making—the god of self-sufficiency, chased at any cost, the god of illusion, pursued in any form. Lord, have mercy on us, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

(silent prayer of confession)

Assurance of Pardon Leader: Beloved, hear the good news: Jesus Christ came to stand in the breach to reconcile us to God. We are forgiven and freed! Doxology No. 580

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.

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Sign of Peace First Reading Exodus 32:7-14 Second Reading Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Third Reading Philippians 4:1-9 Fourth Reading Matthew 22:1-14 Sermon “God’s Party” Rev. Alan Jeffries

Affirmation of Faith We believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. We believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Hymn #451 Open My Eyes That I Might See Prayers of the People and 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 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.

Hymn #625 How Great Thou Art Blessing

Postlude

Today’s Liturgy is from Feasting on the Word.

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Monday, October 12, 2020

Prayer Requests Weekly prayer requests from our Presbytery: Weekly prayer requests from our Presbytery: Mount Pleasant - First, Lorraine Dill; Neffs - Coalbrook. Prayer requests of our congregation: Sharon Andrews; Richard & Nancy Beckert; Ruth Blackburn; Hanna Blake; Jim Burchfield; LeAnn Butler; Jenny Zitko Carothers; Frederick Cowans; Brian Dowdle; Ronald Eberhart, Jr.; Barb Eckley; Louise Frontz; Taryn Graham; Kevin Gundlach (Ft. Wayne, IN); Jane Henwood; Jackie Hutyera; Bill Kyle; Jaynelle Mansfield’s mom & dad; Mary Markley; Wilma Matusik; Virginia McFarlan; Alison Merkel; Dave Misko; JoAnn Misko; Tom Mizer; Tom Ott; Dean Paolucci; Jay Poillucci; Robin Reynolds; Dianne Simmons; Kathy Stackhouse; Rick Stackhouse; Earl “Bud” Sullivan; Collin Tanner; Richard Tanner; Deanna Thompson; Naomi Trotter. CHURCH FAMILY: Please notify the church office whenever one of our church family members is in the hospital and/or is released. Thank you very much!

Our Military Family and Friends *Stationed in the States

*2nd Lt Ezekiel Misko *CWO 3 Eric Henwood Grandson of JoAnn Misko Son of Jane Henwood

*TSgt Marcus Gibson Son of Curt & Jenny Gibson

Please give us the names of your military people so that we can remember them weekly in prayer.

Today’s Scripture Reading - Matthew 22:1-14

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

22 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’ 5 But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ 10 Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, 12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.