Liturgy

30 June: Liturgy & Set List

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  • GOOD GOD

    Call to Worship: Psalm 19

    So many aspects of our lives are lived on autopilot. We make so many decisions every day, it would be too much for our brains to consciously consider every factor. Like getting in the car, driving to a location and thinking for a moment ‘how did I get here?’ We can so easily do that when we arrive at church on a Sunday morning. Present in our body but not in heart or mind. We walk through the doors with no expectation no anticipation that God is speaking to us through His Word by His Spirit among His people. Can I encourage you, do not allow your heart to be on autopilot as you are here, ask the Spirit to help you be present to the God who is speaking and to His people as we gather. Let’s sing…

  • BETTER IS ONE DAY/FACEDOWN

  • I SHALL NOT WANT

    Read Psalm 119:9-16

    May it be true for you and for me. As we have heard God speak to us by His Word, let’s respond with words of dependence upon Him. Would you stand if you’re able…

    Sermon: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

  • LORD, I NEED YOU

  • BE THOU MY VISION

    Benediction

26 May: Liturgy + Set List

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  • CREATOR

    Call to Worship: Micah 6:6-8

  • A THOUSAND HALLELUJAHS

  • THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD

    God is great, and He is good, and He is kind. And he could have chosen to reveal nothing of Himself to us. But we know from Scripture that God is three persons in one God - the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. This morning is Trinity Sunday, the day in the Church calendar when we recognize and celebrate the work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in salvation. The Church calendar, unlike the calendar that we follow as modern, western people, is oriented around the life of Jesus. So we are going to take a moment to pray these ancient words as we set our attention and affection on the person and work of the Trinity:

Glory to the Father who created us;

Glory to the Son who redeemed us;

Glory to the Spirit who sanctifies us;

Glory to the most high and undivided Trinity.

Whose work is inseparable,

Whose kingdom abides,

World without end,

Amen.

A Trinity Sunday, Prayer of St Augustine

Sermon: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Scripture says that we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And when Christ returns His glory will be undeniable because the glory of God will cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. Let’s set our attention and affection on the One who has come and is coming again. Would you stand if you’re able, we’ll sing together…

  • HYMN OF HEAVEN

  • RAISE UP THE CROWN (ALL HAIL THE POWER)

Benediction

19 May: Liturgy + Set List

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  • HOLY HOLY HOLY

    Call to Worship: Psalm 16

    One of the reasons we gather is to set the Lord before our eyes again. To be reminded that for all who are in Christ, our lives are held secure in His perfect life and work. Let’s sing about who he is and what he’s done:

  • THE SOLID ROCK

  • WHAT YOU SAID

    Scripture tells us that the foolishness of God is still wiser than the wisdom of man. God is good, but sometimes it does not feel like He is good. Because He is more than we could understand. I think the disciples felt similarly as they saw the resurrected Jesus - don’t go, stay, we want to hold on to you! And Jesus says, it is better that I go, because when I go I will send to you a Helper - the Holy Spirit who will convict of sin, comfort you in your affliction, remind you what I have said, be the sign, seal, and guarantee of your salvation. This morning is Pentecost Sunday, where we remember and celebrate the sending of the Holy Spirit to indwell the life of every believer. We are going to take a minute now to thank God for His Spirit, I will read these words, and then together we will pray:

Almighty God, on this day, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, you revealed the way of eternal life to every race and nation:

Pour out this gift anew, that by the preaching of the Gospel your salvation may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Pentecost Prayer, the Book of Common Prayer

Sermon: 1 Timothy 3:1-13

  • ABIDE

  • HOLY IS OUR GOD

Benediction

5 May: Liturgy + Set List

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  • PSALM 134 (BLESS THE LORD

    Call to Worship: Psalm 84

    God is present everywhere, always. But at the time of this Psalm, the presence of God dwelt among his people in the temple. But now, because of the life, death, resurrection, ascension, and sending of the Holy Spirit - the presence of God dwells in the heart of every follower of Christ. And perhaps we are never more aware of the presence of God because He is uniquely present when the people of God gather because he inhabits our praises, he is in our midst by the power of the Spirit. With our feet on the ground here in North Carolina, because of Christ we stand in the very presence of God, and God is in our midst right here and right now. We sing to a God who is not far from us, but has drawn near to us in and through Christ and the Holy Spirit. Let’s sing about who he is and what he’s done…

  • REJOICE

  • THIS I BELIEVE (THE CREED)

    Sermon: Ephesians 2:19-22

    If you are here this morning as a follower of Christ, you have not been saved to be a person, you have been saved to be a people. The people of God, the family of God, the dwelling place of God, the temple of God. And together we’ll remind ourselves of who we were, what Christ has done, and who has called us to be. Let’s read from Ephesians 2…

    LEADER:
    And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world,
    following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
    ALL:
    among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—

    LEADER:
    by grace you have been saved—

    ALL:

    and raised us up with him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace
    in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

    LEADER:
    For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

    ALL:
    For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Let’s sing a song that has been on the lips of the Church for generations…

  • DOXOLOGY

  • IS HE WORTHY

    Benediction

7 April: Liturgy + Set List

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  • HOW GREAT THOU ART

    Call to Worship: Psalm 63:1-8

    If you are here this morning with a heart like the Psalmist - desiring God, clinging to God - that is not something that you have created in and of yourself, that is a gift of God through the Holy Spirit to reshape your loves and desires, to aim your affections toward the person and work of Christ. And if you’re here this morning maybe for the first time, maybe you have been dragged here against your will, maybe you’re here because for as long as you can remember you go to church on Sunday, maybe you’re here feeling indifferent or apathetic to the things of the Lord - you too cannot create in yourself greater desire and affection for Christ. Let’s all use these next songs as prayers, asking the Holy Spirit to lift our eyes to treasure and love Jesus more deeply. This next song opened our gathering last week on Resurrection Sunday. We’ll sing these truths again about who Jesus is as ruling, reigning King.

  • FOREVER NOW A CROWN

  • GOD, YOU’RE SO GOOD

    Sermon: John 16:4-15

    Truth without feeling is cold and brittle. Feeling without truth is soft, We need to fill our minds with truth - but we also need our affections stirred for the person and work of Christ. Again, that is not a work that you can accomplish in yourself - that is the work of the Holy Spirit to give us eyes to see more of who Jesus is and to live in light of who he is and what he’s done. Would you stand if you’re able, we’ll sing together.

  • THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD

  • ONLY A HOLY GOD

    Benediction

Resurrection Sunday: Liturgy + Set List

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  • FOREVER NOW A CROWN

    Call to Worship: 10th Presbyterian Church Call to Worship

  • CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY

  • LAMB OF GOD

    Let’s confess what we celebrate as followers of Jesus. I will read the parts marked ‘Leader,’ together we’ll read the parts marked ‘All’:

    LEADER: Alleluia! Christ is risen.


    ALL: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!


    LEADER: Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    ALL: He has given us new life and hope.
 He has raised Jesus from the dead.


    LEADER: God has claimed us as his own.


    ALL: He has brought us out of darkness.
 He has made us light to the world.


    LEADER: Alleluia! Christ is risen.

    ALL: He is risen indeed. Alleluia! 


    —based on 1 Peter 1:3-5, the Worship Sourcebook

    Sermon: Hebrews 2:14-18

    If God in Christ had never stepped down from heaven, laying aside his glory, taken on his flesh and blood, lived the perfect life, died the death we deserve, become our sin, if none of those things had ever happened, God would still be worthy of our worship, adoration, and obedience. How much more, as followers of Jesus should we respond with worship, adoration, and obedience in light of the propitiation of Christ? We’re going to respond now as we sing about how Jesus is, what He has done, and who He has called us to be. Would you stand if you’re able…

  • THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE BLOOD

  • NO BODY

    Benediction

Good Friday: Liturgy + Set List

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  • TRISAGION

Invitation to Rest

God, it is good to be near You.

Would you help me become aware of your presence and nearness in this moment?

Psalm 46:10

  • MAN OF SORROWS

Invitation to Remember

God, where was I far from You today? Whether in thought, word, or deed?

Hebrews 8:12

  • LAMB OF GOD

Invitation to Rejoice

God, would you show me how to endure in light of the fullness of joy, and pleasures forevermore promised to me as a follower of Christ?

Psalm 16:11

  • JESUS PAID IT ALL

Sermon: Leviticus 16

Invitation to Repent

God, in Your kindness would You lead me to repentance?

Romans 2:4

  • HOLY MEDLEY

Holy Is Our God/We Fall Down/Holy Forever/Open The Eyes of My Heart

  • COMMUNION MEDLEY

Lord, I Need You/Grace Alone/Thank You Jesus for the Blood

The Lord’s Supper

Book of Common Prayer Corporate Confession

Invitation to Request

Father, would You give me the ability to respond like Jesus: requesting of You honestly, while also in humility surrendering to Your will?

Matthew 26:39

  • SON OF SUFFERING

Benediction/Sending/Further Time of Reflection