View Online | Sunday Worship Service with Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel

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Oct 4, 2020, 8:00 am9:00 am
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Join us for worship on Sunday, October 4, 2020 with Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University. The service will have magnificent music provided Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music and by Eric Plutz, University Organist.

The recorded service is available at 8am here Chapel Sunday Service and join us for Bible Study at 10am with Alex Miller-Knaack, Chapel Seminary Intern. Email Alex Miller-Knaack, at [email protected] with questions and information to connect to the Bible Study. Bring your coffee, your questions, and yourself. We’ll gather together for an hour to wrestle with what Scripture has for us today.

This service will remain archived after the premiere (along with concerts and other amazing programs), and we encourage you to return to them whenever you might find that to be helpful.  The bulletin for this service is below.

Bulletin for October 4, 2020: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Invitatory: Prelude on “Simple Gifts” by Wilber Held (1914-2015)

Welcome and Announcements: Dean Boden

Call to Worship: Alexandra Miller-Knaack

Reading: Psalm 19

The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims God’s handiwork.  Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens God has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom from the wedding canopy, and like a strong man runs its course with joy.  Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and nothing is hid from its heat.  

The law of God is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of God are sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of God are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of God is clear, enlightening the eyes; the fear of God is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of God are true and righteous altogether.  More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb.  Moreover by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. But who can detect their errors? Clear me from hidden faults.  Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O God, my rock and my redeemer.

Anthem: Give Me Jesus by LL Fleming

Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14

I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my God. For Christ I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

Sermon: “Step Into A World” by Dean Thames

Hymn: Guide My Feet   Guide My Feet

Lyrics: Guide my feet while I run this race, guide my feet while I run this race, guide my feet while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain.

Hold my hand while I run this race, hold my hand while I run this race, hold my hand while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain.

Stand by me while I run this race, stand by me while I run this race, stand by me while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain.

Pastoral Prayer

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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for Princeton: O Eternal God, the source of life and light for all peoples, we pray you would endow this University with your grace and wisdom: give inspiration and understanding to those who teach and to those who learn; grant vision to its trustees and administrators; to all who work here and to all who bear her name give your guiding Spirit of sacrificial courage and loving service.  Amen.

Anthem: For the Beauty of the Earth by Phillip Stopford

Benediction

Voluntary: Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

University Chapel Staff: The Rev. Alison L. Boden, Ph.D., Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel; The Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel; Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music; Eric Plutz, University Organist; Elizabeth Powers, Chapel Administrator; Alexandra Miller-Knaack, Seminarian Intern; Edgar Gomez, Sexton; Lisa McGurr, Sexton

The University Chapel is a welcoming community of faith.  We gather to sing God's praises, to hear God's living Word, to seek justice, and to proclaim God's love for all people.

Calendar: Sunday, October 11, 2020, University Chapel Service. The preacher will be Dr. Patrick B. Reyes.

For additional information, please visit chapel.princeton.edu or call 609-258-3047.

Sponsor
Office of Religious Life