Metropolitan United Church
London Ontario, Canada
Sunday June 28, 2026
Prelude: Sonatina in C for four hands - Muzio Clementi
Welcome & Announcements
The National Anthem - O Canada
Lighting the Christ Candle
Call to Worship - The Grace
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with you.
All: And also with you.
Hymn - VU#256 – O God Beyond All Praising - Thaxted
Opening Prayer
A New Creed: Let us declare our faith together:
We are not alone, we live in God's world.
We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God's presence, to live with respect in creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.SanctusHoly, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty
God in three persons, blessed Trinity!
Circle Time
Anthem - Let us with a gladsome mind - Alan Ridout
Pastoral & Lord's Prayer
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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. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever, and ever. Amen.
Call for the Offering
Offertory Prayer
O Lord, giver of life and source of freedom
We know that all we have received is from your hand.
You call us to be stewards of your abundance,
the caretakers of all you have entrusted to us
Help us to always use your gifts wisely
and teach us to share them generously.
May our faithful stewardships bear witness
to the love of Jesus Christ in our lives. Amen.
Doxology (VU#541)
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.
Hymn - (Text found on the screens) - Jerusalem
Scripture Reading – The Epistle of Jude 1-4, 17-25 (NRSVA)
Message: Please Stand Up!
"Contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints." Jude 3b
Rev. Dr. David McMaster
Hymn - VU#642 – Be Thou My Vision vv.1, 2, 3 - Slane
The Sacrament of Holy Communion
Communion Anthem – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn - VU#642 – Be Thou My Vision vv. 4, 5 - Slane
Commissioning & Benediction
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, 25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
Choral Amen - Day by Day - Harold Friedell
Musical Postlude: Medley of Canadian FolkTunes - Gerhard Wuensch
