DOXOLOGY|AMEN
Call to Worship: Psalm 150
One of the things I say often is that when we gather, we join worship that is already in progress. Scripture tells us that day and night around the throne of God, the saints and the angels, the living creatures and the elders are declaring God’s holiness and worth. Creation itself is responding in worship to its Creator. And when we gather we join the universal, global Church made up of people from every tribe, tongue, nation, and language - all those who have gone before us, and those who will come after us in responding to God. This morning we are going to learn a new song that is a reminder that we join worship already in progress, but also that as followers of Jesus we are called to live lives of daily worship.
CHRIST BE MAGNIFIED
EVER BE
Sermon: James 1:19-25
Communion Reflection Questions:
“...let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger…”
Jesus has spoken to us through His Word.
Take a moment to quiet your heart and mind.
Being quick to listen, invite His Holy Spirit to speak to you now.“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”
How might the Holy Spirit be leading you to respond at this moment?
Repent of sin? Experience His comfort? Confess Jesus as Lord?
How might the Holy Spirit be leading you to live differently as you leave?
Communion
Last night in Buffalo, NY, a gunman opened fire in a grocery store intentionally trying to kill people who bear God's image in their black bodies. Jesus said that hating someone in your heart is as good as murdering them. You and I can be hearers of God’s Word and mourn and grieve the sin out there that causes people to pick up a gun and destroy the life of another. But to be hearers and doers of God’s Word is to mourn and grieve and uproot the sin in us - the sin that causes us to hate - which is as good as murder. We need the Holy Spirit, and the people of God deeply and desperately to be hearers as well as doers of God’s Word. Would you stand, let’s sing…
HOW CAN IT BE
Benediction