Prelude

What Wondrous Love Is This? arr. Evelyn Larter

What wondrous love is this, O my soul, that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul? When I was sinking down beneath God’s righteous frown, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul. And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on. And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing and joyful be, and through eterinity I’ll sing on.

He Shall Feed His Flock from Messiah George Frideric Handel

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Come unto to him, all ye that labor, come unto him, that are heavy laden, and he will give you rest. Take his yoke upon you, and learn of him; for he is meek and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Suzannah Waddington, soprano

Call to Worship

•Doxology (Trinity Hymnal 731) Old Hundredth

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below;

Praise him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

•Prayer of Confession

Lord God, eternal and almighty Father, we acknowledge and confess before your holy majesty that we are poor sinners, conceived and born in guilt and corruption, prone to do evil, unable of our selves to do any good, who, by reason of our depravity, transgress without end your holy commandments. Therefore, we have drawn upon ourselves, by Your just sentence, condemnation and death. O most merciful Father, grant us the daily increase of the grace of your Holy Spirit, that acknowledging from our inmost heart our own unrighteousness, we may be touched with sorrow that shall work true repentance, and that your Spirit, mortifying all sin within us, may produce the fruits of holiness and righteousness well pleasing in your sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

•The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Romans 8:1–2

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

•Invocation

•Hymn 92: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Ein Feste Burg

Responsive Reading: Psalm 66 (page 480)

•Gloria Patri (Trinity Hymnal 734) Meineke

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.

•Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, light of light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us and our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried; and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets. And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Announcements

•Hymn 658: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All Sarah

(Praisemakers and KLICK will not meet today and will meet on June 2.)

•Offering Prayer

Offertory: How Deep the Father’s Love for Us Stuart Townend
Suzannah Waddington, soprano

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 6:10–20 (page 979)

Sermon: The Christian and the Kingdom of Antichrist Dr. Liam Goligher

•Hymn 575: Soldiers of Christ, Arise Diademata

•Benediction

Postlude: Fanfare Richard Purvis

Serving this morning:
Dr. Deryck Barson, Jared Cochrum, 9am platform
Rev. Carroll Wynne, 11am platform
Colin Howland, organist