FEB 15, 2026 ORDER OF WORSHIP

 

WELCOME Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist

 

PRELUDE Dr. Banks

 

INVOCATION (Remain Seated) Liturgist

 

Wise and faithful God,

You call us not only to believe, but to listen; not only to gather, but to obey. As we come into your presence, quiet our pride, soften our resistance, and open us to your wisdom.

Teach us to trust your ways over our own, and to receive your guidance with humility. Shape our hearts so that we may be formed by your truth rather than hardened by our own desires.

Amen.

**CALL TO WORSHIP Liturgist

Leader: Come, all who seek wisdom and understanding.

People: We come to listen for the voice of God.

Leader: The way of the Lord leads to life and peace.

People: We choose trust over rebellion, and humility over pride.

Leader: Let us worship the God who instructs and corrects in love.

People: We open our hearts to be taught and transformed.

**UMH HYMN #435 “O God of Every Nation”

Verse 1

O God of every nation

Of every race and land

Redeem the whole creation

With Your almighty hand

Where hate and fear divide us

And bitter threats are hurled

In love and mercy guide us

And heal our strife-torn world

 

Verse 2

From search for wealth and power

And scorn of truth and right

From trust in bombs that shower

Destruction through the night

From pride of race and station

And blindness to Your way

Deliver every nation

Eternal God we pray

 

Verse 3

Lord strengthen all who labor

That all may find release

From fear of rattling saber

From dread of war's increase

When hope and courage falter

Lord let Your voice be heard

With faith that none can alter

Your servants under gird

 

Verse 4

Keep bright in us the vision

Of days when war shall cease

When hatred and division

Give way to love and peace

Till dawns the morning glorious

When truth and justice reign

And Christ shall rule victorious

O'er all the world's domain

 

OFFERING & OFFERTORY

 

**DOXOLOGY    

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Praise Him above ye heav’nly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

 

OFFERTORY PRAYER Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

JOYS AND CONCERNS Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

PASTORAL PRAYER

LORD’S PRAYER

 

SCRIPTURE READING Jude 1:5-13 NRSV Liturgist

5 Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 

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6 And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day. 

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7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. 

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8 Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones., 

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9 But when the archangel Michael disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 

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10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct. 

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11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion. 

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12 These are blots on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted; 

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13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

 

RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE Liturgist

Liturgist:  The Word of God for the people of God.

Congregation:  Thanks be to God.

 

SPECIAL MUSIC Dr. Banks

 

SCRIPTURE READING 2 Timothy 3:1-9 NIV Rev. Jacob T Jackson

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 

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2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 

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3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 

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4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

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5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. 

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6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 

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7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 

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8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 

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9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

 

RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE Rev. Jacob T Jackson

Pastor:  The Word of God for the people of God.

Congregation:  Thanks be to God.

 

SERMON “Jude: Echoes” Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

 

**UMH HYMN #560 “Help Us Accept Each Other”

Verse 1

Help us accept each other

As Christ accepted us

Teach us as sister brother

Each person to embrace

Be present Lord among us

And bring us to believe

We are ourselves accepted

And meant to love and live

 

Verse 2

Teach us O Lord Your lessons

As in our daily life

We struggle to be human

And search for hope and faith

Teach us to care for people

For all - not just for some

To love them as we find them

Or as they may become

 

Verse 3

Let Your acceptance change us

So that we may be moved

In living situations

To do the truth in love

To practice your acceptance

Until we know by heart

The table of forgiveness

And laughter's healing art

 

Verse 4

Lord for today's encounters

With all who are in need

Who hunger for acceptance

For  and for righteous and  bread

We need new eyes for seeing

New hands for holding on

Renew us with Your Spirit

Lord free us make us one

FELLOWSHIP BLESSING Youth Representative

God of patience and truth,

As we share time together, help us practice wisdom in how we speak and listen. Let our fellowship be a place where humility grows and where we encourage one another to walk faithfully in the way you set before us. Send us out attentive to your voice and willing to follow.

Amen.

**BENEDICTION Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

POSTLUDE Dr. Banks

(Please be seated as the postlude closes our service)