14 | 15

Jun 2025

Traditional Services

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH

TRADITIONAL SERVICES

Wesley Sanctuary 7.30am | 9.30am (Live-streamed) | 11.30am | 5.00pm

15 June 2025 | Trinity Sunday | Fathers’ Day

1st Sunday after Pentecost

Liturgical Colour: White

Lectionary Readings:
Proverbs 8:1–4, 22–31; Psalm 8;
Romans 5:1–5; John 16:12–15

Hymns:
Let All Creation’s Wonders
Holy Spirit, Truth Divine (UMH 465)
O Spirit of the Living God (UMH 539)

Sermon:
Knowing Where We Are Going (Daniel 1:1–7)

 

I.  GATHERING

We gather in the Lord’s name weekly to be renewed in our hearts and minds. Our worship of God is a response to his revelation as he reveals his truth to us through Scripture, sermon, prayers and songs 


MEDITATION VERSES

“ . . . when he, the Spirit of truth, comes,
he will guide you into all the truth.”
John 16:13a

. . . we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Romans 5:3b–4

PREPARATION PRAYER 

May we feel your presence this day, Holy Spirit,
like the people gathered on that Day of Pentecost.
May you rush into our hearts and fill our souls.
Empower us to live a life more faithful to God. Amen.
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PRELUDE
Organ Instrumental
Spirit SongUMH 347, Choir


GREETING

L: May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
P: And also with you.


PRAYER OF CONFESSION

All: O God, you who are always doing a new thing,
we confess that we sometimes close windows
against the fresh air of new ideas,

against the noise of other people’s worries,
against the winds of change.

God of every place and time,
we confess that we often draw the curtains
against people who are different,

against world news or community concerns.

Forgive us our insulation in our locked homes,
our shuttered churches,

the security systems on our hearts.

Open up our lives,
and let your Spirit blow through. Amen.

CALL TO WORSHIP *Psalm 8

All:

1 LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.

L:

2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.

P:

3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

L:

5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet: 

P:

7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,

and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas. 

All:

9 LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! 


OPENING HYMN *
Let All Creation’s Wonders
Words: Martin Leckebusch (2001) Kevin Mayhew Ltd
Music (THAXTED): Gustav Holst, 1921, P.D. 


SCRIPTURE READINGRomans 5:1–5

1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace
in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 

3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings,
because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.

5 And hope does not put us to shame,
because God’s love has been poured out
into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,
who has been given to us. 

All: Thanks be to God!


PRAYER HYMN
Holy Spirit, Truth DivineUMH 465

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER OF THE PEOPLE

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ASAS)

MUSICAL INTERLUDE


II.   SERMON      
Sermon Title Knowing Where We Are Going 
Scripture Text Daniel 1:1–7
Speaker Pastor Dato’ Dr Daniel Ho  

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Pastor Daniel is Founding Senior Pastor of Damansara Utama Methodist Church, a church he was involved in starting with a small team of people in 1980.

A major part of his time nowadays is spent in mentoring pastors, CEOs and business leaders of companies and young working adults. He speaks in company functions and secular audiences relating to leadership, culture, social and economic issues besides preaching in churches/organisations across the world. Pastor Daniel also serves as adviser to several organisations and cooperatives and contributed to several books and magazines.

Pastor Daniel and Doris are grandparents to three grandchildren.


III.   WE RESPOND IN SHARING AND GIVING

We respond to God’s Word through the sharing of peace, participating in and praying for the programs and initiatives of the church, as we seek to grow in our discipleship journey, offering time, money, and gifts where help is needed as God’s stewards. 

Welcome

Sharing of God's Peace *
Shalom to You   UMH 666

Family News

Offertory Prayer

Tithes and Gifts to God

7.30am

Glorious Savior
Words and Music: Cindy Berry
© 2007 Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. 

Dawnbreakers

9.30am 

Glory to God (Whose Goodness Shines on Me)
Words and Music: Paul M. Vasile
Arranged by Joel Raney
© 2008 Hope Publishing Co. and this Arr. © 2024 Paul M. Vasile
Percussionist: Lim Meng Keh 

John Wesley Choir

11.30am

Hallelujah to the Lamb
Words and Music: Don Moen and Debbye Graafsma
Arranged by Tim Brooks; Vocal arrangement by Jay Rouse
© 1997 Integrity's Hosanna! Music  

Wesley Chorale

5.00pm

Above All
Words and Music: Lenny LeBlanc and Paul Baloche
Arranged by Mark Hayes
© 1999 and this Arr. 2004 Integrity's Hosanna! Music 

Wesley Heralds

Doxology * 
Now Thank We All Our God UMH 102, St. 3

IV.   SENDING FORTH

Having been renewed in our hearts and minds, we are to go forth into the world as Christ’s ambassadors in the ministry of reconciliation. 

CLOSING HYMN * 
O Spirit of the Living God UMH 539


BENEDICTION *

POSTLUDE


Prayer Ministry at the Altar
If you need someone to pray with you, please proceed to the inner rails of the altar area. If you wish to pray alone, please use the outer rails.


* Congregation may stand.

Visit https://wesleymc.org/wm/resources for the newer songs covered this year.

 

 

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Singapore 179493
Singapore
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