PRAISE TO THE LORD THE ALMIGHTY-GOOD GOOD FATHER
Call To Worship: Psalm 17:15
One of the things we confess as we gather is that we are far too easily satisfied. We are satisfied with created things more than our Creator. The truth is we need God’s help to love God. We need God’s help to see God as the source of our life and joy, rather than a means to our life and our joy. So let’s pray that as we gather and sing today that God would help us to see and treasure Him together:
GREAT ARE YOU LORD
God is the giver of life and salvation. One of the things that we can wrongly believe as followers of Jesus is that we only need Jesus for our salvation. But we need Jesus every moment of every day as the One who saves us, keeps us, sustains us, and grows us up into maturity. This morning we’re going to teach you a new song that gives language to the ongoing work of Christ in our lives. Let’s sing together:
YET NOT I BUT THROUGH CHRIST IN ME
Sermon: Colossians 1:24-29
If you want a deep, rich, mature life, you will not always have an easy and comfortable life. If you want a deep, rich, and mature faith - a deep walk with the Lord - you will not have an easy and comfortable faith. But as followers of Jesus we know that when we lose our lives, we find our lives. When we die to ourselves, we live to Christ. So we can treasure Christ more than ourselves. We can grow together rather than isolate and withdrawal. We can live on God’s mission rather than our own mission because we being made mature and complete in Christ. Let’s stand and celebrate what Christ has done for us as His people…
LIVING HOPE
Benediction
Treasure
26 June: Liturgy + Set List
BEFORE THE THRONE
Call to Worship: Psalm 73:25-26, 28
Every one of us moves through our lives seeking strength, security, and refuge. Whether that is in ourselves, or in something or someone outside of ourselves. Part of what we do when we gather with the people of God is to confess and profess that everything and everyone - including us - will fail. But God will never, can never, and has never failed. So we can join our hearts with the Psalmist saying, who do we have in heaven beside you? God, we desire to desire you more than all things. Let’s let these songs not just shape our time together this morning, but our lives lived in response to our God who cannot fail.
GRAVES INTO GARDENS
HIS MERCY IS MORE
Sermon: James 4:1-12
It is the kindness of God that He reveals our sins to us. When we cover our sin, God exposes our sin. When we uncover our sin, God covers us in Christ’s completed work on our behalf. And it is God’s kindness that He reveals Himself to us as the One who satisfies the desire of every longing heart. Maybe you need to use this time to sit and continue to reflect, remember, and repent. Maybe you need to sit quietly and allow these words to wash over you. Maybe you need to stand and celebrate the One who satisfies your soul. But let’s continue to respond together.
I SHALL NOT WANT
I STAND AMAZED (HOW MARVELOUS)
Benediction
May 3: Tuesday Refocus
“The more bored you are with the things of God, the more vulnerable you will be when difficulty comes.” - Jared C. Wilson
Apathy is easy.
It requires no work, no effort, no surrender.
Only indifference.
But wonder is cultivated by the heart that burns within from encountering Christ (Luke 24:32).
It grows as we taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8).
It is awakened as the morning when we are satisfied with the steadfast love of God (Psalm 90:14).
Treasuring Christ anchors us in the immovable character of God, rather than our circumstances (Hebrews 13:8, James 1:17).
Spirit, awaken our hearts to see, know, delight, and obey Jesus. In Your power, and in the name of Christ we pray, amen.
Treasuring,
AB