HOUSE OF THE LORD
Call to Worship: Psalm 86:4-10
Maybe you came in this morning singing ‘there is joy in the house of the Lord,’ and not feeling particularly joyful. If you are here this morning as a follower of Jesus, I have good news for you: joy is never tied to a circumstance but is tied to the person and completed work of Christ. We can have joy because we can come with boldness before the throne of grace to receive mercy from God because of Christ. We are people who have been forgiven not just partially, not just temporarily, but eternally and forever. This morning in our series in The Apostles’ Creed we will look at a line that is something we talk about often in church - that we have the forgiveness of sins. And this is something we should speak about regularly, but with all things that are familiar, we can often treat them casually. And this morning we’re going to teach you a new song that puts language around the reality that our forgiveness in and through the completed work of Christ is final, full, and forever…
FORGIVEN FOREVER
GRAVES INTO GARDENS
Sermon: 1 John 1:5-2:2
If we truly understood the depth of our forgiveness in Christ, how quick we would be to confess our sin to God, and one another, and seek forgiveness from God and one another. How quick we would be to forgive those who have sinned against us. Let’s confess what we believe about our faith through the words in the Apostles’ Creed:
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
COME THOU FOUNT
Benediction: Psalm 103:8-11