A Deeper Life 3: Loving God with Our Heart and Soul

Sunday, June 28, 2026
10:30 AM 11:30 AM 10:30 11:30

Union Presbyterian Church 200 E Main St Endicott, NY, 13760 United States (map)

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We live in a society that assumes love is a feeling… and it often is, and can be experienced that way. But love is also an action, a verb, one that can help us to find those emotions within ourselves. What kinds of actions can help us to experience love for God in our heart and soul?

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A Deeper Life 3
Loving God with Our Heart and Soul
Psalm 95:1-7; Matthew 6:5-8; Colossians 3:14-17

Union Presbyterian Church

June 28, 2026

Sharing the Light of Christ, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Liturgist: Barbara Ann Dailey Preacher: Rev. Pat Raube

Welcome

This is the day that the Lord has made!

Let us rejoice and be glad in it! ~Psalm 118:24

Announcements Barbara Ann Dailey

Prelude Chris Bartlette

“Morning Has Broken,” Larry Shackley

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Call to Worship From 1 John 4

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God;

everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 

God is love!

Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. 

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God,

and God abides in them.

Let us worship!

* Hymn # 475

“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

(Public Domain)

Come, thou Fount of every blessing;

Tune my heart to sing thy grace;

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,

Call for songs of loudest praise.

Teach me some melodious sonnet,

Sung by flaming tongues above;

Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,

Mount of God’s unchanging love!

Here I raise my Ebenezer;

Hither by thy help I’m come;

And I hope, by thy good pleasure,

Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wandering from the fold of God;

He, to rescue me from danger,

Interposed his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor

Daily I’m constrained to be!

Let that grace now, like a fetter,

Bind my wandering heart to thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love;

Here’s my heart; O take and seal it;

Seal it for thy courts above.

* Call to New Life  

The call to love is at the heart of our faith. So, why is it so hard? Let us open our hearts, and think and pray honestly about what holds us back.

* Prayer for Wholeness and Peace

Patient God, forgive us
for all our fancy talk of love
when we barely live it;
for watering down love
into something pleasant and personal
when you call us to love the world;
for walling ourselves off from love
when it is offered to us;
for loving the word love
and not loving you who are Love.
Have mercy on us, and fill our hearts,
with the kind of love that can change the world. Amen.

* Assurance of God’s Love From Psalm 103 and 1 John 4

The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. 

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God;  

everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 

Bless the Lord, each soul, and do not forget all God’s benefits— 

God is the one who forgives all your sinfulness, 
It is God who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy. 

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 

Beloved, let us love one another! 

* Sharing of the Peace

May the peace of our loving God be with you.

And also with you.

Let us offer one another a sign of God’s peace.

Scripture Psalm 95 (Responsive) The Book of Common Worship, 1991

Come, let us sing to the Lord;

let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before God’s presence with thanksgiving

and raise a loud shout to the Lord with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God,

and a great Sovereign above all gods.

The Lord holds the caverns of the earth,

and sustains the heights of the hills.

The sea belongs to God, who made it,

whose hands have molded the dry land.

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee,

and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For the Lord is our God,

and we are the people of God’s pasture and the sheep of God’s hand.

O, that today you would hearken to God’s voice!

Time for Young Disciples Rev. Pat Raube

Music: “Let All the World in Every Corner Sing” (Hymn #636)

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Anthem Summer Choir

“Those Who Are Holy,” Christopher Webber

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Those who are holy, loved of God,

Those whom God will to bless,

Must put on kindness, patience, peace,

Compassion, gentleness.

Whatever grievances you bear,

Forgive them readily;

Forgive as Christ forgave, and live

In love and unity.

Let Christ’s own peace rule in your hearts

For you were called to peace;

As those who share a common life,

Let thankfulness increase.

In love admonish, wisely teach,

Let Christ’s Word dwell in you;

Sing psalms and hymns and songs of praise;

Give thanks in all you do.

Scripture Matthew 6:5-6

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners, in order that they may be seen by other people. Truly I tell you, they have received their recompense. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Creator who is in secret; and your Creator who sees in secret will reward you.”

Scripture Colossians 3:14-17 NRSVUE

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Response Holy Wisdom, Holy Word:

Thanks be to God!

Sermon “Loving God with Our Heart and Soul” Rev. Pat Raube

* Affirmation of Faith From “A Brief Statement of Faith,” PCUSA

In life and in death we belong to God. Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve.

In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying, “Come, Lord Jesus!”

With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

* Hymn # 693

“Though I May Speak,” Hal H. Hopson

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Though I may speak with bravest fire,

And have the gift to all inspire,

And have not love, my words are vain,

As sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

Though I may give all I possess,

And striving so my love profess,

But not be given by love within,

The profit soon turns strangely thin.

Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control;

Our spirits long to be made whole.

Let inward love guide every deed;

By this we worship, and are freed.

Prayers of the People

The 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 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. Amen.

Prayer Response # 587 “Alleluia!” Fintan O’Carroll, Christopher Walker

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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Call for Offering     

* Doxology # 606 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

(Public Domain)

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,

Praise him, all creatures here below:

Praise him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

* Dedication of Offering 

* Hymn # 683

“Lord of All Hopefulness,” Jan Struther

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Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,

Whose trust, every childlike, no cares could destroy:

Be there at our waking and give us, we pray,

Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.

Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,

Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe:

Be there are our labors and give us, we pray,

Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.

Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,

Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace:

Be there at our homing and give us, we pray,

Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.

Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,

Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm:

Be there at our sleeping and give us, we pray,

Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.

* Benediction

Postlude Chris Bartlette

“Let All Things Now Living,” Lloyd Larson

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Where an * is indicated, please rise in body and/or in spirit.

Scripture Translations from the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, “A Women’s Lectionary for the
Whole Church,” Year A, unless otherwise noted.

Prayer for Wholeness and Peace by Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett, deepwellworship.com.

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