Service Preview for September 30

Service Preview for September 30

Baby Dedication

Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.

Our Spoken Call to Worship
From Psalm 47:1-2, 5-6 (ESV)

Clap you hands, all you peoples;
shout to God with loud songs of joy.

For the LORD, the Most High, is awesome,
a great king over all the earth.

God has gone up with a shout,
the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to God, sing praises;
sing praises to our King, sing praises.

Our Sung Call to Worship
Cannons

Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.

Our Spoken Confession
Forgive us our sins, O Lord.

Forgive us the sins of our youth and the sins of our age,
the sins of our soul and the sins of our body,
our secret and our whispering sins,
our presumptuous and our careless sins,
the sins we have done to please ourselves,
and the sins we have done to please others.

Forgive us the sins that we know,
and the sins that we know not;
forgive them, O Lord,
forgive them all
because of your great goodness
given to us through the work of Jesus.

Grant us the healing that comes from your presence
and the cleansing that comes from your Word.

Amen.

TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION

Our Sung Confession
Did Christ Over Sinner’s Weep

Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Remember the Gospel
From Romans 5:8-9 (ESV)

Hear the Good News!

God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since we have now been justified by his blood,
how much more shall we be saved
from God’s wrath through him!

Amen! Thank you God!

Our Sung Profession of Assurance
Man of Sorrows

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.
On the first Sunday of each month we have two offerings—one for the general fund and a second one for the benevolence ministry of our church.

We Give Thanks in Song
We Stand And Worship

Scripture Reading
Luke 2:39-52
39 And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. 43 And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, 44 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances,45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.48 And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.” 49 And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” 50 And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God!

Sermon
Luke 2:39-52 – Jesus: The Son of Joseph and Mary – Pastor Michael Felkins

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
I Stand Amazed

Blessing
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.