Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
L: 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
C: 2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
L: 3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
C: 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
L: 5 The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
C: 6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
L: 7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
C: 8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
ESV Ps 121:1–8.
Our Sung Call to Worship
Psalm 121
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
L: Oh Lord I have nurture bitterness
I have counted up every slight.
Oh Lord self-pity and resentment has ruled my heart;
Lord I have spiraled down in murky night,
I have insisting that I had the right to hate and hate again.
C: O, my Lord I am ashamed;
O, my Lord, forgive.
Our Sung Confession
I Am Ashamed by Sandra McCracken
Assurance and Peace
We confess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession of Assurance
“He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Colossians 1:13-14
Our Sung Confession of Assurance
The Gospel Changes Everything by Meredith Andrews
Thanksgiving and Petition
We Give Thanks in Prayer
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 Display 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 sung by Fernando Ortega (this song may vary from how it will be sung in our service)
Show Us Christ by Sovereign Grace
Scripture Reading
We hear the scripture text of the sermon read.
Colossians 1:3-14
Sermon
Sermon: Pastor Michael Felkins; The Great Work of the Gospel: Redemption
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
He Will Hold Me Fast by Ada Ruth Habershon and Matthew Merker
Benediction
May you walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
May you give thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Blessing adapted from Col 1:10–12.