Call to Worship

1 Kings 8:23

23 and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

Song of Worship

To God be the Glory

Old Testament Reading

Psalm 25

Teach Me Your Paths

 Of David.

1 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I trust;
    let me not be put to shame;
    let not my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
    they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all the day long.

6 Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
    for they have been from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
    according to your steadfast love remember me,
    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

8 Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
9 He leads the humble in what is right,
    and teaches the humble his way.
10 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
    for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

11 For your name's sake, O Lord,
    pardon my guilt, for it is great.
12 Who is the man who fears the Lord?
    Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
13 His soul shall abide in well-being,
    and his offspring shall inherit the land.
14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,
    and he makes known to them his covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
    for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
    for I am lonely and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
    bring me out of my distresses.
18 Consider my affliction and my trouble,
    and forgive all my sins.

19 Consider how many are my foes,
    and with what violent hatred they hate me.
20 Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!
    Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
    for I wait for you.

22 Redeem Israel, O God,
    out of all his troubles.

Worship Through Songs of Adoration

Every Promise of Your Word

Standing on the Promises of God

Behold the Lamb

Confession of Faith

Question 24:

Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?

Answer:

God, out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, having chosen a people to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out ot the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.

Scripture:

Jeremiah 31:33; Acts 13:48; Romans 5:21; Ephesians 1:3-4; 2 Thessalonians 2:13.

Source:

Keach's Catechism, 1677

Worship Through Reading & Listening to God's Words

Galatians 3:15-16

The Law and the Promise

15 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.

Worship Through Proclamation

Galatians 3:15-16 - Covenant and Community, Part 1

Song of Response

Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

Benediction & Commission

Ephesians 2:12-13

12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Call to Worship

Ruth 1:16-17

16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Song of Worship

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Old Testament Reading

Psalm 119:57-64

Heth

57 The Lord is my portion;
    I promise to keep your words.
58 I entreat your favor with all my heart;
    be gracious to me according to your promise.
59 When I think on my ways,
    I turn my feet to your testimonies;
60 I hasten and do not delay
    to keep your commandments.
61 Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,
    I do not forget your law.
62 At midnight I rise to praise you,
    because of your righteous rules.
63 I am a companion of all who fear you,
    of those who keep your precepts.
64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love;
    teach me your statutes!

Worship Through Songs of Adoration

Come, Thou Almighty King

God of Grace and God of Glory

O Church of Christ, Invincible

Confession of Faith

Question 50:

Why does Christ sit at the right hand of God?

Answer:

Because Christ is ascended into heaven for this end, that He might appear as a head of His church, by whom the Father governs all things.

Scripture:

Matthew 28:18; John 5:22; Ephesians 1:20-21, 23; Colossians 1:18.

Source:

The Heidelberg Catechism, 1563

Worship Through Reading & Listening to God's Words

Exodus 24:3-8

3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” 4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. 6 And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Worship Through Proclamation

Exodus 24:3-8 - Covenant and Community, Part 2

Song of Response

God, Our Father, We Adore Thee

Benediction & Commission

Hebrews 13:20-21

Benediction

20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Call to Worship

Colossians 2:8

8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Song of Worship

Behold Our God

Old Testament Reading

Psalm 111

Great Are the Lord's Works

1  Praise the Lord!
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
    in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
2 Great are the works of the Lord,
    studied by all who delight in them.
3 Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
    and his righteousness endures forever.
4 He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and merciful.
5 He provides food for those who fear him;
    he remembers his covenant forever.
6 He has shown his people the power of his works,
    in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
7 The works of his hands are faithful and just;
    all his precepts are trustworthy;
8 they are established forever and ever,
    to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
9 He sent redemption to his people;
    he has commanded his covenant forever.
    Holy and awesome is his name!
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
    all those who practice it have a good understanding.
    His praise endures forever!

Worship Through Songs of Adoration

Immortal, Invisible

Onward March, All-Conquering Jesus

Crown Him with Many Crowns

Confession of Faith

Question 26:

How does Christ execute the office of a king?

Answer:

In subduing us to Himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.

Scripture:

Psalm 2:6-9, 110:1-3; Matthew 12:28, 28:18-20; John 17:2; 1 Corinthians 15:24-26; Colossians 1:13, 2:15.

Source:

The Westminster Shorter Catechism, 1646-47

Worship Through Reading & Listening to God's Words

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Worship Through Proclamation

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 - Covenant and Community, Part 3

Song of Response

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

Benediction & Commission

James 1:5

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.