- GREAT ARE YOU LORD
- ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING
SERMON
- LORD, I NEED YOU
BAPTISMS
- BUILD MY LIFE
- ALL HAIL THE POWER (RAISE UP THE CROWN)
Set List
SERMON
BAPTISMS
Welcome/Call To Worship: Isaiah 44:6-8
Corporate Confession:
We are not righteous, no, not one;
We do not understand;
We do not seek for God.
We all have turned aside; together we have become worthless,
Not one of us does good, not even one.
Our throats are an open grave, and we use our tongues to deceive.
Our lips are venomous, our mouths are full of curses and bitterness.
Our feet are swift to shed blood;
in our path there is ruin and misery,
and the way of peace we have not known.
There is no fear of God before our eyes.
From Romans 3:10-18
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Communion: Psalm 86:8-13
WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 5:1-8, 11-12
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CONFESSION: Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. In Your mercy forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways, to the glory of Your holy name. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Welcome/Call to Worship:
to all who are weary and need rest
to all who mourn and long for comfort
to all who feel worthless and wonder if God cares
to all who fail and desire strength
to all who sin and need a Savior
this church opens wide her doors with a welcome from Jesus Christ, the ally of His enemies, the defender of the guilty, the justifier of the inexcusable, the friend of sinners, welcome. [10th Presbyterian Call to Worship]
Responsive Reading: Romans 8:32-39
Communion: Psalm 27:1-5
WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 145:13-21
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Communion
Confession/Assurance: Romans 3:10-12, Isaiah 53:6, Romans 5:6
Welcome/Call To Worship: Hebrews 11:1-3
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Communion: Romans 8:1,28,38-39
Welcome/Call to Worship: John 1:14,16-17
Responsive Reading: Romans 6:1-14
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Communion
Responsive Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10
Welcome/Call to Worship: John 1:1-5, 14
Sermon: 'Christ Alone'
Benediction/Missional Blessing: Brothers and sisters, rest in the reality that your life is hidden with Christ in God. And God the Father is infinitely pleased with you, because God the Father is infinitely pleased with Christ the Son. By the power of His Holy Spirit, walk with God this week.
The second movement of the Gospel story liturgy is ‘The Fall.’
Sin has distorted, warped and broken everything and everyone. As we gather God’s people, some enter acutely aware of this reality – addiction, illness, suffering, death, fractured relationships, fears, the list is endless. Those people need to be reminded that they are not alone in their sin – here we are as a family of the wounded walking looking to our Suffering Servant King (Isaiah 53).
As we gather, some enter believing like the Pharisee’s that outward law keeping, rule following, a polished perfect life shakes free the stain of sin and makes us right with God. As we gather, some enter with an awareness of sin lying dormant, waiting to be awoken by the Holy Spirit.
It is the kindness of God that leads us to repentance, and repentance only comes with the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit (Rom 2:4). So we do not run from the reality of sin and brokenness in our world and in our lives as we gather. In fact, as we trust the kindness of God to reveal the beauty and perfection of Christ, we will come face to face with the depth of depravity that is the human heart… thankfully this is not where the story ends.
Welcome/Call To Worship: Psalm 145
•GREAT ARE YOU LORD
•YOUR GRACE
•JESUS, I AM RESTING
Sermon: Isaiah 44
Communion [Hab 3:2, Rom 12:1, 1 Cor 11:26]
•JESUS, ONLY JESUS
•JESUS!
Spurgeon said, ‘The most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the Gospel.’ Why? Because we are forgetful people. Scripture is full of commands to ‘remember.’ And full of examples of those who forget – no sooner does Israel step foot out of 400 years of slavery do they long for the ‘comforts’ of their former bondage (Exodus 16). After Joshua dies, a whole generation is lost to idol worship because those older failed to pass along the works of the Lord (Judges 2). Paul reminds the church in Galatia not to submit to a yoke of slavery – because they had forgotten their true identity as children of God.
The Gospel – the good news of who Jesus is and what He has done demands a response: worship. So we want to use our liturgy to remind people of the Gospel. To rehearse the old old story – that God is the Author of CREATION, at the FALL we sinned and as a result all things were broken and distorted, but God promised REDEMPTION which is accomplished in and through the work of Christ on the cross, RESTORATION with God and one another is won for us in that completed work, and one day we will be fully GLORIFIED – perfected as we sing and celebrate the Gospel story in the very presence of God for all eternity.
There is nothing more essential, or of greater significance we can offer those we are leading and serving than to help tell the Gospel story. Over the last several months all of the people who have been putting set lists together have been using this Gospel pattern – Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration, Glorification in the structure and order of our songs. So as you practice, think and prepare for Sundays – rehearse the gospel again and again and again – because ‘…we never move on from the cross, only into a deeper understanding of it.’
Rehearsing and Remembering,
AB
Welcome/Call to Worship: Psalm 89:1-4
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Communion: THERE IS A REDEEMER
Revelation 12:10-11