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10:00am blended service, in-person and livestreamed

Sunday School classes for ages Pre-K to middle school + two adult classes at 9:00am (September through May)

Parking is available in our parking lot.

10/18/2026

Join us at 10AM for Sunday Worship!

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Remember to send prayer requests to [email protected] so they can be read during the service.

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October 18, 2026 – Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Welcome to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

PRELUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“The God of Abraham Praise” arr. by Mark Hayes

GREETING & OPENING PRAYER

CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively)
Leader: May the nations quake and the peoples tremble.
People: God sits enthroned in the heavens, bringing justice and righteousness.
Leader: May the mountains tremble and the seas roar.
People: God’s glory is stronger than the foundation of the earth.
Leader: May the humble seek the living God.
People: God’s goodness and mercy sustain the faithful in times of trial.
Leader: Come, let us worship the Lord.

PRAISE & WORSHIP SONGS – led by the Praise Team
“Let Everything That Has Breath” by Matt Redman
“Still” by Reuben Morgan

THOUGHTS FOR CHILDREN – Diane Troiano

SHARING OF CONCERNS
Prayer requests that have been emailed to [email protected] will be shared. Viewers may also share Joys and Concerns with each other through the Facebook comment feed.

UNISON PRAYER
Mighty God, awe us with your glory as you pass before us, and reveal the radiance of your presence. May we embody your word as we strive to live as a holy people, and as we seek to share your message of love with the world. Amen.

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

SHARING OF JOYS

THE SCRIPTURE LESSON – Nicole Blomquist
Matthew 22:15-22 (NIV)
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?”

But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

Reader: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.

GLORIA PATRI (UMH #70)

THE APOSTLES’ CREED (UMH #881)

HYMN OF PREPARATION
“Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” (UMH #103)

THE MESSAGE – Rev. Dr. Michael Roberts, Sr.
“Greed”

TITHES & OFFERINGS INVITATION
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St. Mark’s UMC
1700 Limestone Road
Wilmington, DE 19804
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• Text GIVE to 302-204-2499

ANTHEM – Chancel Choir
“What Will We Promise, What Will We Give” by Joseph M. Martin & J. Paul Williams

DOXOLOGY & THANKSGIVING (UMH #95)

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“Come Unto The Lord” by William Bay, arr. by L. Dean Bye

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license -732996 and CCLI with license #20257085.

10/11/2026

Join us at 10AM for Sunday Worship!

Please let us know you are worshipping with us by clicking this link: https://forms.gle/9N5gn1oP5D1wdxXP8

Remember to send prayer requests to [email protected] so they can be read during the service.

We support online giving! Find more info at https://www.stmarksumcde.org/give

If the Facebook feed has any issues, feel free to join us on the main stream at live.stmarksumcde.org

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October 11, 2026 – Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Welcome to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

PRELUDE – Keith Gallion
“I Surrender All” by Winfield S. Weeden & Judson Vandeventer, arr. by Bernadine Johnson
“If We Are the Body” by Mark Hall

GREETING & OPENING PRAYER

CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively)
Leader: Rejoice in God always!
People: Rejoice in God’s steadfast love.
Leader: Rejoice in Christ’s enduring grace.
People: Rejoice in God’s saving Word.
Leader: Rejoice in the Spirit’s gentle guidance.
People: Rejoice in God’s healing presence.
Leader: Again, I say, rejoice!

PRAISE & WORSHIP SONGS – led by the Praise Team
“All the People Said Amen” by Maher, Morgan & Moak
“The Wonderful Cross” by Tomlin, Watts, Walt, Reeves & Mason

THOUGHTS FOR CHILDREN – Judy Austin

SHARING OF CONCERNS
Prayer requests that have been emailed to [email protected] will be shared. Viewers may also share Joys and Concerns with each other through the Facebook comment feed.

UNISON PRAYER
Holy God, we come into your house with praise on our lips and songs of joy in our hearts. We come to stand firm in our conviction: that good is stronger than evil, that love is stronger than hate, that truth will ultimately win the day. We come to be grounded in Christ. May your Spirit move among us today, making us more like Jesus we pray, amen.

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

SHARING OF JOYS

THE SCRIPTURE LESSON – Jeff Wilson
Matthew 22:1-14 (NIV)
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Reader: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.

GLORIA PATRI (UMH #70)

THE APOSTLES’ CREED (UMH #881)

HYMN OF PREPARATION
“Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” (UMH #361)

THE MESSAGE – Rev. Dr. Michael Roberts, Sr.
“Entitlement”

TITHES & OFFERINGS INVITATION
• Give by Mail or Bank Transfer
St. Mark’s UMC
1700 Limestone Road
Wilmington, DE 19804
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• Text GIVE to 302-204-2499

ANTHEM – Chancel Choir
“God Chose Us” by Joseph M. Martin & J. Paul Williams

DOXOLOGY & THANKSGIVING (UMH #95)

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“Grace Alone” by Scott Wesley Brown & Jeff Nelson, arr. by Mark Hayes

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license -732996 and CCLI with license #20257085.

09/27/2026

Join us at 10AM for Sunday Worship!

Please let us know you are worshipping with us by clicking this link: https://forms.gle/9N5gn1oP5D1wdxXP8

Remember to send prayer requests to [email protected] so they can be read during the service.

We support online giving! Find more info at https://www.stmarksumcde.org/give

If the Facebook feed has any issues, feel free to join us on the main stream at live.stmarksumcde.org

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September 27, 2026 – Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Welcome to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

PRELUDE – Keith Gallion
“Honey in the Rock” by Lake, Ligertwood & Wong
“His Glory and My Good” by Fielding, Robinson & Thompson

GREETING & OPENING PRAYER

CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively)
Leader: Moses listened to the guidance of the Lord rather than the quarreling of the people.
People: We will set aside our grumbling and quarrels, that we may hear the voice of God more clearly.
Leader: The poetry of the psalmist invites us to “give ear” to Divine teaching.
People: We will incline our ears and listen for ways to share the presence of God.
Leader: The letter to the Philippians encourages them and us to have the same mind as Christ, and to empty ourselves, that we might be filled.
People: We will humble ourselves we Christ was humble, opening our very lives to the ongoing call of God.

PRAISE & WORSHIP SONGS – led by the Praise Team
“You Shine” by Brian Doerksen
“All Who Are Thirsty” by Brenton Brown & Glenn Robertson

THOUGHTS FOR CHILDREN – Nikki Blomquist

SHARING OF CONCERNS
Prayer requests that have been emailed to [email protected] will be shared. Viewers may also share Joys and Concerns with each other through the Facebook comment feed.

UNISON PRAYER
Loving God, you led our ancestors in faith through the wilderness as a pillar of cloud by day and a fiery pillar by night. You quenched their thirst and shared manna to satisfy their hunger. We often wish we could see you now in such celestial wonders. Yet we know you are near. We feel your Spirit presence, sustaining us along life’s journey. Amen.

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

SHARING OF JOYS

THE SCRIPTURE LESSON – Nikki Blomquist
Exodus 17:1-7 (NIV)
Water From the Rock
The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the test?”

But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

Reader: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.

GLORIA PATRI (UMH #70)

THE APOSTLES’ CREED (UMH #881)

HYMN OF PREPARATION
“God Will Take Care of You” (UMH #130)

THE MESSAGE – Rev. Dr. Michael Roberts, Sr.
“Nostalgia”

TITHES & OFFERINGS INVITATION
• Give by Mail or Bank Transfer
St. Mark’s UMC
1700 Limestone Road
Wilmington, DE 19804
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• Text GIVE to 302-204-2499

ANTHEM – Chancel Choir
“Shout to the North” by Martin Smith, arr. by Lloyd Larson

DOXOLOGY & THANKSGIVING (UMH #95)

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” by Chisholm & Runyan, arr. by Melody Bober

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license -732996 and CCLI with license #20257085.

09/20/2026

Join us at 10AM for Sunday Worship!

Please let us know you are worshipping with us by clicking this link: https://forms.gle/9N5gn1oP5D1wdxXP8

Remember to send prayer requests to [email protected] so they can be read during the service.

We support online giving! Find more info at https://www.stmarksumcde.org/give

If the Facebook feed has any issues, feel free to join us on the main stream at live.stmarksumcde.org

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September 20, 2026 – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Welcome to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

PRELUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“Serenity (Meditation No. 4)” by John Turner

GREETING & OPENING PRAYER

CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively)
Leader: In their wilderness wandering, the Israelites grumbled. The Lord lit their way and provided nourishment.
People: In our life journeys, we will give thanks for the providence of the Holy One.
Leader: In their daily work, the laborers in the field grumbled with resentment over gracious giving.
People: In our daily lives, we will rejoice at generosity shown to others.
Leader: As we seek to live our lives by the example of Christ, may we delight in God’s grace.
People: We will offer caring presence and abundant generosity. We will even endeavor to give up our grumbling.

PRAISE & WORSHIP SONGS – led by the Praise Team
“Today is the Day” by Lincoln Brewster & Paul Baloche
“He Knows My Name” by Tommy Walker

THOUGHTS FOR CHILDREN – Debbie Faith

SHARING OF CONCERNS
Prayer requests that have been emailed to [email protected] will be shared. Viewers may also share Joys and Concerns with each other through the Facebook comment feed.

UNISON PRAYER
Gracious and loving God, we give thanks for the many ways we see your abiding presence throughout scripture and within our own lives. You hear not only our praise but also our complaints. Teach us to hear our own grumbling as a signifier to redirect our thoughts and lives to gratitude and generosity. In hearing our own complaints, may we look to Christ Jesus for examples of grace. And may we follow your Holy Spirit to offer presence to one another, as we walk in faith together, amen.

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

SHARING OF JOYS

THE SCRIPTURE LESSON – Ken Copeland
Matthew 20:1-16 (NIV)
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Reader: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.

GLORIA PATRI (UMH #70)

THE APOSTLES’ CREED (UMH #881)

HYMN OF PREPARATION
“Morning Has Broken” (UMH #145)

THE MESSAGE – Rev. Dr. Michael Roberts, Sr.
“A Fair Wage”

TITHES & OFFERINGS INVITATION
• Give by Mail or Bank Transfer
St. Mark’s UMC
1700 Limestone Road
Wilmington, DE 19804
• Give Online at stmarksumcde.org/give
• Text GIVE to 302-204-2499

ANTHEM – Chancel Choir
“I Love You, Lord” by Laurie Klein, arr. by Jack Schrader

DOXOLOGY & THANKSGIVING (UMH #95)

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“Hiding Place” Setting by Jonathan Kohrs

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license -732996 and CCLI with license #20257085.

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