Welcome to Worship at the McPherson Church of the Brethren
We invite your active participation in the life of this congregation, as together we continue to grow in grace and seek justice for God's creation.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Welcome Video
♫Gathering Music | “All Are Welcome” | Peterson/Olson
Congregation and Worship Band; Director/Pianist, Kevin Jones
Sharing Time – Joys and Concerns | Jean Hendricks
♫Centering Music | “Come and See!” Spiritual | arr. James Denton
Ellen Gilbert, organ
Words of Confession | Based on Exodus 32: 1-14 | The Golden Calf
ONE: When the wait is long and the way is unclear, we are tempted to look for gods we can see,
control, and understand
ALL: Yet God, our awesome God, is the one who brought us out of bondage into freedom.
ONE: Let us gather not to fashion an image of our own liking, but to worship the invisible,
holy, and living God.
ALL: Let us bow down in awe before our God, turning away from the false idols and
securities of this world and embracing the way of our awesome God; the way of LOVE.
♫Responsive Song | “Awesome God” | Rich Mullins
Congregation and Worship Band
Our God is an awesome God. He reigns from heaven above.
With wisdom, power and love, our God is an awesome God.
Scripture of Assurance | Isaiah 25: 1-9
25 O God, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have
done wonderful things, things planned long ago. 2 You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified
town a ruin, the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. 3 Therefore strong people
will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you. 4 You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge
for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the
ruthless, is like a storm driving against a wall 5 and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of
foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
6 On this mountain God will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine – the
best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain God will destroy the shroud that enfolds all
peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; 8 God will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign God will
wipe away the tears from all faces; God will remove the people’s disgrace from all the earth.
God has spoken. 9 In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in God, and God saved us.
This is God, we trusted in God; let us rejoice and be glad in God’s salvation.”
♫Song of Celebration | “Beyond a Dying Sun” | #323
Message for the Kids | Barbara Wagoner
Invitation to Give
You may Give online or send a check made payable to "McPherson Church of the Brethren,"
200 N. Carrie, McPherson, KS 67460
♫Offering Music | “We Are Called” | arr. Mark Hayes
Ellen Gilbert, piano
Scripture Focus | Matthew 22: 1-14 | The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come,
but they refused to come.
4 “Then he sent some more servants and said,
‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened
cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 “But they paid no attention and went off - one to his field, another to his business.
6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged.
He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8 “Then he said to his servants,
‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad
as well as the good, and 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 wedding
clothes. 12 He asked,
‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’
The man was speechless. 13 “Then the king told the attendants,
‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
♫Scripture Song | “As We Gather at your Table”
Sung to the tune of #26 "Holy Spirit, Come with Power”
Message | “Will We Rejoice?” | Jerry Bowen
♫Sending Song | “Lord, with Devotion we Pray” | #79
Please be seated for the Sending Words and Sending Music
Sending Words | Philippians 4: 6-9
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard
your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, [family], whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such
things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me or seen in me - put it into practice.
And the God of peace will be with you.
♫Sending Music | Winter Games | David Foster
Kevin Jones, piano
Videography and Editing: Eric Goering
Music Coordinator: Ellen Gilbert
Choir Director: Becky Snell
Technical Crew: Eric Goering, Ryan Goering, Shane Kirchner, Steve Lolling & Chris Whitacre
Chancel Decoration Team: Jill Brax, Colleen Gustafson, Janette Hess, Michele Johnson, Shane Kirchner, Marie Neher & Lara Schoming
