Announcements 09/27/2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PLAYSCHOOL: John Calvin’s Playschool Trunk or Treat will be October 23rd. They are asking for candy donations and will put a box marked for Halloween candy in the narthex. Please do not donate candy with nuts in it to protect children with allergies.
SHARED WORSHIP: Mark your calendars. John Calvin will be closed on Sunday, October 4th for a shared worship service at Chinese Presbyterian Church for World Communion Sunday. There will be a potluck afterwards. Please bring a dish to share. If you would like to participate in the service as a greeter, reader, offering collector, or communion server, please see Mary Antil.
TABLE CLOTH DINNER: mark your calendars! Our next table cloth dinner will be held on Wednesday, September 30th at 6:30p at Copeland’s located on 1319 W Esplanade Ave, Kenner, LA 70065.
PW FOOD DRIVE The annual PW Fall Food Drive will be from Sunday, October 4 to Sunday, October 18. The food will be given to Jefferson Presbyterian Church Food Bank, a USDA-certified food bank. The food is distributed twice a month—the first and third Saturdays, servicing between 130 and 160 clients each Saturday. This is the only food bank in the area that is open on Saturday. Donations come mainly from Second Harvest with other churches, groups, and individuals contributing. Boxes will be provided to receive your donations. Should you choose to make a monetary donation, please make the check out to the church and indicate that it is for the Food Drive. We appreciate your support!
CALENDAR:
09/30 Table Cloth Dinner 6:30p
10/01 PW Council Meeting 10a
10/04 Shared Worship Service at CPC 11a, John Calvin will be closed
Order of Worship 09/27/2026
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 27th, 2026 Ten Thirty in the morning
Pulpit Supply: CP Ford J. Dieth
Liturgist: Joan Albright
Please silence all cell phones.
Bold face indicates congregational participation.
✝ Please stand, in body or spirit
THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED IN
PRELUDE “Oceans (Where My Feet Fail)” by Hillsong UNITED
WORDS OF WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADORATION
INTROIT “Be Exalted, O God”
*CALL TO WORSHIP
ONE: Why do you come to this place?
MANY: We seek the path of righteousness and truth.
ONE: We come with open hearts and minds seeking to learn
MANY: We learn from the one whose authority is founded on God’s love.
ONE: Friends, lend your ears and open your hearts because this is God’s house, built by love and sustained by hope, where God seeks to align our work and witness.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Grant us, Lord,
not to be anxious about earthly cares, but to love that which is above, and even now, while we live among transient things, to hold fast to those things that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever. Amen.
✝HYMN[Blue476][GTG41] “O Worship the King, All Glorious Above”
REPENTANCE
*CALL TO CONFESSION
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Eternal God, we come before you aware that you know the truth of our hearts before we can utter a word. You know when our good intentions exceed our capacity for gospel living. You know when we embrace the good news of liberation with our lips but don’t change our actions. Forgive our shortcomings and the times we have failed to live the words we say. Restore us in the confidence of people who have heard good news and remind us that even when we arrive late, there is still work to be done. Amen.
Here now are our silent prayers of confession…
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
ONE: Friends, believe this good news, in Christ we are new creations. We are forgiven; we are set free; and we are made ready to live the living Word.
MANY: Thanks be to God
✝GLORIA PATRI [Blue#579[ [GTG581]
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.
THE WORD READ AND PROCLAIMED
*PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
RESPONSE [Blue#586] [GTG#601] “Amen”
1st Scripture Psalm 25: 1-9
2nd Scripture Matthew 21: 23-32
ONE: The Word of the Lord
MANY: Thanks be to God
✝HYMN [Blue306][GTG630] “Fairest Lord Jesus”
SERMON “Are Purple Feet Evidence of Belief?” CP Ford J. Dieth
RESPONSE
✝AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Apostle’s Creed
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
RECEIVING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY “Go Down, Moses” sung by Ron Palmisano as vocalist
✝ DOXOLOGY [GTG#606]
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
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 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.
RESPONSE “Hear Our Prayer O Lord”
Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord;
incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace. Amen.
✝HYMN [Blue403][GTG465] “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
✝PARTING PRAYER
Gracious God,
give us humble hearts that seek your truth and faithful spirits that follow your will. Keep us from empty words and outward appearances, and help us to live our faith through obedient action. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
✝RESPONSE [Blue306][GTG630] “Fairest Lord Jesus” 1st verse only
POSTLUDE “Say Yes” by Agatha Moses
*Liturgical material taken from the “Weekly Liturgy” of the Presbyterian Outlook. ©Presbyterian Outlook, 2026.
Note: the hymn lyrics in the bulletin and on the projection screen are from the Glory To God Hymnal (© 2013 Westminster John Knox Press), which we are transitioning to. Words in the “Blue” Presbyterian Hymnal (© 1990) in your pew may differ slightly. The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
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