Sunday, June 14th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 99:1-5

To be read aloud by someone in your home

The Lord reigns,
    let the nations tremble;
he sits enthroned between the cherubim,
    let the earth shake.
Great is the Lord in Zion;
    he is exalted over all the nations.
Let them praise your great and awesome name—
    he is holy.

The King is mighty, he loves justice—
    you have established equity;
in Jacob you have done
    what is just and right.
Exalt the Lord our God
    and worship at his footstool;
    he is holy.

Opening Prayer

  • Take a few moments to consider why it is good that God is a God of perfect goodness (holiness) and of justice. How does knowing this give us hope? How does it give us strength?

  • Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for who He is and the hope we have in Him.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #9

Congregational Singing

  • We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

  • Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Offering & Offertory

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

  • You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

  • Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - Micah 6:1-8

This morning’s Scripture reader is Rev Al Fletcher

Sermon: Justice, Mercy, Humility

Sunday, June 7th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 25:1-7

To be read aloud by someone in your home

In you, Lord my God,
    I put my trust.

I trust in you;
    do not let me be put to shame,
    nor let my enemies triumph over me.
No one who hopes in you
    will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
    who are treacherous without cause.

Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are God my Savior,
    and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
    for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
    and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
    for you, Lord, are good.

Opening Prayer

  • Take a few moments of quiet, and ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is anything you need to confess to Him now, or any wrong against another that you need to make right.

  • Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for His mercy and forgiveness, and asking Him to help you to be strengthened today to live rightly with Him and with others.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #8

Congregational Singing

  • We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

Greeting & Pastoral Prayer

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

  • You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

  • Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - John 2:13-25

This morning’s Scripture reader is Steve Minervino

Sermon: Our Greatest Need

Sunday May 31, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 4:3-8

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself;
    the Lord hears when I call to him.

Tremble and do not sin;
    when you are on your beds,
    search your hearts and be silent.
Offer the sacrifices of the righteous
    and trust in the Lord.

Many, Lord, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?”
    Let the light of your face shine on us.
Fill my heart with joy
    when their grain and new wine abound.

In peace I will lie down and sleep,
    for you alone, Lord,
    make me dwell in safety.

Opening Prayer

  • Take a few moments of silence, remembering the power of God and His presence with you, right now.

  • Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for His presence and asking Him to show Himself to you in new ways, as you worship today.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #7

Congregational Singing

  • We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

  • Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

  • These are difficult days in our country. Take a few minutes to ask for God to lead us in repentance for the wrongs we have done, for God’s mercy on our country, and for renewal and restoration for our land.

  • Close by praying the Lord’s Prayer together:

    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 and ever, Amen.

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

  • You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

  • Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - Romans 14:1-4, Romans 15:1-6

This morning’s Scripture reader is Pam Cullen

Sermon: Disputable Matters

Sunday May 24th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Call to Worship - Psalm 46:8-11

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Come and see what the Lord has done,
    the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease
    to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields with fire.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”

The Lord Almighty is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Opening Prayer

  • Take a few moments of silence, remembering the power of God and His presence with you, right now.

  • Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for His presence and asking Him to show Himself to you in new ways, as you worship today.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #6

Congregational Singing

  • We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

  • Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

  • This is Memorial Day Weekend, in which we remember those who have given their lives in service to our country.

  • Take a moment of silence in memory of those who have died, and to pray for the families and friends who continue to remember and mourn those they have lost.

  • Pray as well for those who are serving now in our armed forces and for the leaders of our country who continue to be faced with difficult situations and decisions. Pray for wisdom, courage - and for peace, and in and through that peace the further advance of the Gospel around the world.

Offering & Offeratory

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

  • You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

  • Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - I Timothy 1:3-5

This morning’s sermon comes to us from Dustin Ward, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Yarmouth, Maine

Sermon: Equipping God’s People - Equipping Against Strange Doctrines

Sunday May 17th, 2020

God Gathers Us

Announcements

Call to Worship - I Peter 1:3-9

To be read aloud by someone in your home

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Opening Prayer

  • Take a moment to think/share together the promises that are contained in these verses. What has God promised us? And what is the hope that we have because of those promises?

  • Now take a moment to pray, thanking God for His promises and the hope He gives us.

God Saves Us

Penney Families - Question #5

Congregational Singing

  • We encourage you to sing - make a joyful noise! If you play an instrument, play! If you have some favorite hymns or choruses, pick one or two and sing! Or make use of other technology to play some music, and listen and sing along.

  • Below are some hymns you can make use of if these would be a help to you:

Congregational Prayer

  • When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, His model prayer (what we call the Lord’s Prayer) included this request: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”. Jesus was not speaking of monetary debts, but rather those wrongs that we have committed against God and against others.

  • In other words, Jesus taught us to regularly consider how we have been living and confess our sins to God, asking for His forgiveness. AND Jesus taught us that in light of God’s forgiveness of us, we should forgive others.

  • If you are able (in light of the children you may have with you!), take a few moments of silence, considering your week and asking God to show you any area of sin you need to confess to Him, or any actions you need to take to make things right with others.

  • Then, pray asking for God’s forgiveness, and thanking God for His promise to forgive us when we ask.

  • 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

Offering

During this time when we can't gather on Sundays, we can still receive your offerings a couple of ways:

  • You can drop your offering in the locked mailbox outside the church office entrance

  • Or, you can mail them to the church at 393 Water Street, Augusta ME 04330.

Thank you for your continued support of Penney and its ministries!

Scripture Reading - John 2:1-12

This morning’s Scripture reader is Melissa Morrill

Sermon: New Creation, New Covenant