Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 27th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation:
A Prayer of Preparation:
Eternal God, you are the power behind all things: behind the energy of the storm, behind the heat of a million suns.
Eternal God, you are the power behind all minds: behind the ability to think and reason, behind all understanding of the truth.
Eternal God, you are the power behind the cross of Christ: behind the weakness, the torture and the death, behind unconquerable love.
Eternal God, we worship and adore you. Amen.
Call to Worship Psalm 67
Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Prayer of Invocation (The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 2 O Worship the King
OT Reading Proverbs 10:1-12
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer of Confession
Holy God, Father most gracious!
Rebuke us not in your anger, nor chasten us in your wrath!
Heal us from our sin, for we are troubled.
Deliver us for the sake of your steadfast love.
Our sins trouble us, O God.
We are troubled by how they have hurt others.
We are troubled by how they have hurt us.
Your ways are right! O righteous God!
And whenever we have refused to follow them
we have found out how right they are.
Have mercy on us, O God.
Words of Comfort and
Hear the gospel: If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confession of Faith
Nicene Creed (pg. 846 in Trinity Hymnal)
*Hymn of Response # 301 Join All the Glorious Names
Isaac Watts
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Preparation: # 379 Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading I Corinthians 13
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Mr. Steve Dornan
Love: The Christian Way of Life
*Song of Response # 597 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
The Lord's Day
Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 20th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation:
A Prayer of Preparation:
We praise you, we worship you, we adore you. You hold the heavens in your hand, all stars rejoice in your glory. You come in the sunrise and the song of morn and bless the splendor of the noonday. The stars in their courses magnify you, day and night tell of your glory. Your peace blows over the earth and the breath of you mouth fills all space. Your voice comes in the thunder of the storm and the song of the wind whispers of your majesty. You satisfy all things living with your abundance and our hearts bow at your presence. Accept us, your children, Eternal Father, and hearken to our prayer. Bend over us, Eternal Love, and bless us. Amen.
Call to Worship Psalm 21
Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Prayer of Invocation (The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 53 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
OT Reading Isaiah 55:1-8
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.
Words of Comfort and Promise
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
*Hymn of Response # 345 Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Confession of Faith
Nicene Creed (pg. 846 in Trinity Hymnal)
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Preparation: #358 For All the Saints
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading Hosea 2:16-23
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Mr. Chris Hayes
A Marriage Made in Heaven
*Song of Response # 347 The Church’s One Foundation
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
Lord’s Day, August 20th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation:
A Prayer of Preparation:
We praise you, we worship you, we adore you. You hold the heavens in your hand, all stars rejoice in your glory. You come in the sunrise and the song of morn and bless the splendor of the noonday. The stars in their courses magnify you, day and night tell of your glory. Your peace blows over the earth and the breath of you mouth fills all space. Your voice comes in the thunder of the storm and the song of the wind whispers of your majesty. You satisfy all things living with your abundance and our hearts bow at your presence. Accept us, your children, Eternal Father, and hearken to our prayer. Bend over us, Eternal Love, and bless us. Amen.
Call to Worship Psalm 21
Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Prayer of Invocation (The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 53 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
OT Reading Isaiah 55:1-8
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.
Words of Comfort and Promise
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
*Hymn of Response # 345 Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Confession of Faith
Nicene Creed (pg. 846 in Trinity Hymnal)
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Preparation: #358 For All the Saints
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading Hosea 2:16-23
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Mr. Chris Hayes
A Marriage Made in Heaven
*Song of Response # 347 The Church’s One Foundation
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Walk the Line
For some of you who have seen Walk The Line, you may still be humming Johnny Cash tunes in your mind. I confess I had listened very few times to Johnny Cash but as of now I have about 15 of his tunes in my Ipod. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon playing respectively Johnny Cash and June Carter, Walk the Line was truly a fascinating performance. I frankly can’t think of anyone else playing June Carter than Reese Witherspoon. All you have to do is listen to June Carter and realize that what Witherspoon did was remarkable. She was able to capture the accent, style, and essence of Johnny Cash’s partner. Joaquin Phoenix has the difficult task of imitating the inimitable. Johnny Cash is one of a kind. Joaquin Phoenix did his best and to me since you can never sound exactly like Cash, he was the closest there will ever be. Phoenix is one of the best that Hollywood offers today. Who can forget his cruel portrayal of Commodus in Gladiator and the dying Fireman in Ladder 49? Phoenix who received permission from Johnny Cash himself to play his role learned to play the guitar, took voice lessons, spent numerous hours mimicking Johnny Cash. This guy is passionate about what he does.
The movie itself gives an aura of dark addictions and redemption. It doesn’t minimize the consequences of Cash’s sins and it doesn’t minimize his difficult childhood. From the famous gospel tunes to Walk the Line, Johnny Cash’s life seems to follow the life of so many well-known artists. Drugs, Sex and Country Music. This is the story of Johnny Cash. The man who married his sweetheart and earned innumerable praises from the media. In the end, Cash redeems himself from his addictions and actually is resurrected. A perfect fit role for an actor whose last name Phoenix means “Resurrection.” This movie gets an eight.
The movie itself gives an aura of dark addictions and redemption. It doesn’t minimize the consequences of Cash’s sins and it doesn’t minimize his difficult childhood. From the famous gospel tunes to Walk the Line, Johnny Cash’s life seems to follow the life of so many well-known artists. Drugs, Sex and Country Music. This is the story of Johnny Cash. The man who married his sweetheart and earned innumerable praises from the media. In the end, Cash redeems himself from his addictions and actually is resurrected. A perfect fit role for an actor whose last name Phoenix means “Resurrection.” This movie gets an eight.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Order of Worship
Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 13th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.” –John Calvin
A Prayer of Preparation:
To your name, Lord Jesus, help me to bow the knee and its worshiping, bow the head and all its thinking, bow the will and all its choosing, bow the heart and all its loving. Amen.
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation
Call to Worship Psalm 34:1-8
Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Prayer of Invocation (The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 342 Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
OT Reading Psalm 28
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer of Confession
Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against Your holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is nothing good in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore those who are penitent; according to Your promises declared unto men in Christ Jesus our Lord. Grant that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life; to the glory of His name. Ame
Words of Comfort and Promise
If you O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
*Hymn of Response # 349 O Thou Who the Shepherd of Israel Art
Confession of Faith
Apostles’ Creed (pg. 845 in Trinity Hymnal)
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Response # 353 I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading John 10:25-30
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Mr. Steve Wolters
Gathered, Protected, and Preserved
Corporate Response
Heidelberg Catechism # 54
Leader: What do you believe concerning “the holy catholic church”?
People: I believe that the Son of God through his Spirit and Word, out of the entire human race, from the beginning of the world to its end, gathers, protects, and preserves for himself a community chosen for eternal life and united in true faith. And of this community I am and always will be a living member.
*Song of Response # 348 Jesus, With Thy Church Abide
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
* Congregation Standing
Lord’s Day, August 13th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.” –John Calvin
A Prayer of Preparation:
To your name, Lord Jesus, help me to bow the knee and its worshiping, bow the head and all its thinking, bow the will and all its choosing, bow the heart and all its loving. Amen.
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation
Call to Worship Psalm 34:1-8
Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Prayer of Invocation (The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 342 Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
OT Reading Psalm 28
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer of Confession
Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against Your holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is nothing good in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore those who are penitent; according to Your promises declared unto men in Christ Jesus our Lord. Grant that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life; to the glory of His name. Ame
Words of Comfort and Promise
If you O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
*Hymn of Response # 349 O Thou Who the Shepherd of Israel Art
Confession of Faith
Apostles’ Creed (pg. 845 in Trinity Hymnal)
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Response # 353 I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading John 10:25-30
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Mr. Steve Wolters
Gathered, Protected, and Preserved
Corporate Response
Heidelberg Catechism # 54
Leader: What do you believe concerning “the holy catholic church”?
People: I believe that the Son of God through his Spirit and Word, out of the entire human race, from the beginning of the world to its end, gathers, protects, and preserves for himself a community chosen for eternal life and united in true faith. And of this community I am and always will be a living member.
*Song of Response # 348 Jesus, With Thy Church Abide
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
* Congregation Standing
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Order of Worship
Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 6th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
A Prayer of Preparation:
We do not presume to come to your table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own goodness, but in your all-embracing love and mercy. We are not worthy even to gather up the crumbs under your table, but it is your nature always to have mercy. So feed us with the body and blood of Jesus Christ, your Son, that we may forever live in him and he in us.
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation
Call to Worship Psalm 57
Leader: Lift up your hearts!
People: We lift them up to the Lord!
Leader: Be exalted, O God.
People: Let your glory be over the earth.
Prayer of Invocation
(The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 30 Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
NT Reading Galatians 5:16-26
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Corporate Prayer of Confession (See Insert)
Words of Comfort and Promise
Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a Spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father
(Rom. 8:14-15).
*Hymn of Response # 424 Shepherd of Souls, Refresh and
Bless (Tune: St. Agnes)
* Congregation Standing
Affirmation of Faith
Westminster Larger Catechism #162, 163, 168
Leader: What is a sacrament?
People: A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church, to signify, seal, and exhibit unto those that are within the covenant of grace, the benefits of his mediation; to strengthen and increase their faith, and all other graces; to oblige them to obedience; to testify and cherish their love and communion one with another; and to distinguish them from those that are without.
Leader: What are the parts of the sacrament?
People: The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ's own appointment; the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified.
Leader: What is the Lord’s Supper?
People: The Lord's Supper is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to the appointment of Jesus Christ, his death is showed forth; and they that worthily communicate feed upon his body and blood, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace; have their union and communion with him confirmed; testify and renew their thankfulness, and engagement to God, and their mutual love and fellowship each with other, as members of the same mystical body.
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Consecration # 586 Take My Life, and Let It Be
(Tune: St. Bees)
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading Romans 13:11-14
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
* Congregation Standing
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Rev. Robert Barnes
The Challenge of Change
The Lord’s Supper
Prayer of Commitment
Unison: Almighty and ever-living God, we thank You for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ; and for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the Body of Your Son, and heirs of Your eternal kingdom. And O, Lord, grant us this other benefit: that You will never allow us to forget these things; but having them imprinted on our hearts, may we grow and increase daily in the faith which is at work in every good deed. And now, Father, send us out to do the work You have given us to do, to love and serve You as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord. To Him, to You, and to the Holy Spirit, be honour and glory, now and forever. Amen.
Benevolent Offering
*Song of Response #427 Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands
Written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
* Congregation Standing
Lord’s Day, August 6th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost
A Prayer of Preparation:
We do not presume to come to your table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own goodness, but in your all-embracing love and mercy. We are not worthy even to gather up the crumbs under your table, but it is your nature always to have mercy. So feed us with the body and blood of Jesus Christ, your Son, that we may forever live in him and he in us.
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation
Call to Worship Psalm 57
Leader: Lift up your hearts!
People: We lift them up to the Lord!
Leader: Be exalted, O God.
People: Let your glory be over the earth.
Prayer of Invocation
(The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration# 30 Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
NT Reading Galatians 5:16-26
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Corporate Prayer of Confession (See Insert)
Words of Comfort and Promise
Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a Spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father
(Rom. 8:14-15).
*Hymn of Response # 424 Shepherd of Souls, Refresh and
Bless (Tune: St. Agnes)
* Congregation Standing
Affirmation of Faith
Westminster Larger Catechism #162, 163, 168
Leader: What is a sacrament?
People: A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church, to signify, seal, and exhibit unto those that are within the covenant of grace, the benefits of his mediation; to strengthen and increase their faith, and all other graces; to oblige them to obedience; to testify and cherish their love and communion one with another; and to distinguish them from those that are without.
Leader: What are the parts of the sacrament?
People: The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ's own appointment; the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified.
Leader: What is the Lord’s Supper?
People: The Lord's Supper is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to the appointment of Jesus Christ, his death is showed forth; and they that worthily communicate feed upon his body and blood, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace; have their union and communion with him confirmed; testify and renew their thankfulness, and engagement to God, and their mutual love and fellowship each with other, as members of the same mystical body.
Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology
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.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Consecration # 586 Take My Life, and Let It Be
(Tune: St. Bees)
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading Romans 13:11-14
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
* Congregation Standing
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon Rev. Robert Barnes
The Challenge of Change
The Lord’s Supper
Prayer of Commitment
Unison: Almighty and ever-living God, we thank You for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ; and for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the Body of Your Son, and heirs of Your eternal kingdom. And O, Lord, grant us this other benefit: that You will never allow us to forget these things; but having them imprinted on our hearts, may we grow and increase daily in the faith which is at work in every good deed. And now, Father, send us out to do the work You have given us to do, to love and serve You as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord. To Him, to You, and to the Holy Spirit, be honour and glory, now and forever. Amen.
Benevolent Offering
*Song of Response #427 Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands
Written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
* Congregation Standing
Friday, August 04, 2006
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