Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
Psalm 33:1-8 ESV
Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous!
Praise befits the upright.
Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Our Sung Call to Worship
All Creatures of Our God and King (different 4th verse)
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
Lord, you have graciously revealed yourself and your will to us.
But we have forsaken your ways to seek our own.
You revealed yourself in the things that have been made.
Yet we did not honor you as God or give thanks to you.
You revealed your moral will to our consciences.
Yet we practice the very things we condemn.
You revealed yourself in the pages of Scripture.
Yet we have not kept your word. In breaking even one command, we break them all.
You revealed yourself in your Son, Jesus Christ.
Yet we have not loved him with our whole heart. We have not loved one another as he loved us.
In all these ways, we have sinned and are without excuse.
We approach you with no merit of our own.
We come before you through faith in the Word of God.
We approach you through Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION
Our Sung Confession
I Lay My Sins on Jesus
Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Profession of Assurance
Remember the Gospel
Hebrews 1:1-4, John 1:1, 14, 16-18 (CSB)
Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways.
In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son.
God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe through him.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Indeed, we have all received grace upon grace from his fullness,
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God.
The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s side—he has revealed him.
Our Sung Profession of Assurance
And Can It Be
Thanksgiving and Petition
We Give Thanks in Prayer and Offer Petitions to God
We express our gratitude to God our Father for Christ’s work on the cross for us and bring our requests before him. In bringing our requests, we confess that we believe God truly is a good father, who cares about our needs and gives us what he knows is best.
We Give Thanks by Giving
We give financial offerings to support the work of the church because of our gratitude to God. By giving we confess we are trusting in God’s provision for us as well.
We Give Thanks in Song
How Firm A Foundation (3rd verse in this version we won’t be singing)
Scripture Reading
We hear the scripture text of the sermon read.
2 Timothy 3 ESV 2017
1But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Sermon
Sola Scriptura – Steve Vardeman
Sending
Having heard and confessed the Gospel, we are sent into the world on mission in Christ, which we express in both song and spoken word.
Sending Song
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Blessing
Blessing from Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.