Order of Worship
Sunday, November 8, 2020
We extend a warm welcome to all our visitors this morning! Visitors, please complete the Welcome card in the pew rack and put it in the offering plate, so we may know how best to minister to/with you. Let’s prepare our hearts with silent Bible reading, meditation, and prayer before the service begins.
PRAISE (We Acknowledge God’s Majesty)
PRELUDE Come To The Altar
*HYMN OF PRAISE Let Us Love And Sing And Wonder
*CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 95:6-7 and Psalm 96:9, 13
Leader: Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
All: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
Leader: Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!
All: for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
*PRAISE SONGS O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
The Lord Is My Salvation
*INVOCATION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
All: Most Holy God, our heavenly Father, we confess that You have redeemed us by Your sovereign grace. At one time we were dead in our trespasses and sins. We were blind and could not see. But, Father, You are rich in mercy. You caused us to be born again to a living hope. You sought us when we were strangers. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. It is not that we sought You, Father; rather, we confess freely that it was you who sought us. And You have called us to seek others as we have been sought. You have commanded us to preach the gospel to every creature. And, we have not sought others as we have been sought by You. Often we have not even cared. Our silence is sin. Our coldness is dishonoring to You. Forgive us, Father. Wash us afresh in the blood of the Lamb. And renew us by the Holy Spirit such that we will be changed into those who are burdened by the plight of the lost -a plight that we ourselves once were in. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
SILENT CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON Hebrews 9:27-28
“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”
CONSECRATION (We Surrender Our Lives to Christ)
*HYMN 335 Gracious Spirit Dwell With Me
THE OFFERING Proverbs 11:4
“Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.”
Doxology: Hymnal, p. 731
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Steve Tuel
SCRIPTURE TEXT Matthew 18:15-20
SERMON “Dealing With Sin” John Armstrong
*HYMN 307 Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE
*Congregation standing if able.
For 2020, we are continuing to provide a basic Family Worship plan to help enable our families more regularly worship together during the week. In each weekly bulletin, we will provide a Daily Bible Reading plan from “M’Cheyne Daily Bible Reading Plan”, weekly questions from the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and a hymn for you to learn together.
Week 45:
Weekly Hymn: 521 My Hope is Built on Nothing Less…
https://youtu.be/Ty8tw7ydxB4
Shorter Catechism–
- Q89 How is the Word made effectual to salvation? /
Answer: The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.
- Q90 How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? /
Answer: That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
Bible Reading:
Mon –11/9 – 2 Kings 24, Hebrews 6, Joel 3, Psalms 143
Tue – 11/10 – 2 Kings 25, Hebrews 7, Amos 1, Psalms 144
Wed – 11/11 – 1 Chronicles 1, 2, Hebrews 8, Amos 2, Psalms 145
Thurs – 11/12 – 1 Chronicles 3, 4, Hebrews 9 Amos 3, Psalms 146, 147
Fri – 11/13 – 1 Chronicles 5, 6, Hebrews 10, Amos 4, Psalms 148, 149, 150
Sat – 11/14 – 1 Chronicles 7, 8, Hebrews 11, Amos 5, Luke 1:1-38
Sun – 11/15 – 1 Chronicles 9, 10, Hebrews 12, Amos 6, Luke 1:39-80
A Look at Next Week
Sermon Text: Matthew 18:21-35
Praise Music: Creation Sings
Come to the Altar
Hymns: 85 The Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hearing assistance and large print pew Bibles are available during the worship service. Please contact an usher for assistance.
Women in the Church – All women in the church are invited to participate in an upcoming new Women’s Bible study on the book of I Peter – A Living Hope in Christ by Jen Wilkin. We will utilize Zoom video conferencing to conduct the study. Our next study will be Saturday, November 21st at 9:00 am and will continue to meet on the following dates December 5th, January 16 and 30th.
The study book is available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/PeterLivingChristGospelCoalition/dp/143005154X/ref=sr_1_1crid=10EP6WUOWNAPW&dchild=1&keywords=i+peter+jen+wilkin&qid=1597771978&sprefix=I+Peter%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1 )
If you have any questions, please contact Christine Stalnaker (CStalnaker786@cs.com)
Communion – We are having communion today Sunday, November 1st.
New Meal Ministry Coordinators – Monica Paire has stepped down as coordinator of Faith’s Meal Ministry. The new team is Maria Rochford, Anna Newman, and Ellen Nicodemus. Please contact them via email, text, phone, or Slack with any meal requests or questions. And please join us in thanking Monica for her many years of faithful service to this ministry.
