Prelude
Create in Me a Clean Heart Victor Johnson
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, O Lord, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy Spirit, O Lord.
He Is the Everlasting God Joseph Martin
He is the everlasting God. He is the Holy One. He is the everlasting God of Abraham. The nations glorify his name, all his majesty proclaim. He is the everlasting God. He has measured the heavens, held the seas in his hands. He has held the mountains counted each grain of sand. The kings of earth all tremble, they bow before his throne. Who is his advisor, for he is God alone? Come join the celebration, break forth in jubilation. Come praise the God of Abraham. The nations glorify his name, all his majesty proclaim. He is the everlasting God!
Psalm 139 Allen Pote
Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know everything I do. When I rise, when I lie down, you are with me through and through. Before a word is on my tongue, you know what I will say, your presence follows me day by day. Where can I flee from your spirit? Where can I go to run away? If I go to heaven, or live in hell, you are there. Search me, O God, and know me. Try me and know my heart. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Amen.
Youth Choir of First Baptist Church, Mount Holly, NC
Sarah Summers, piano
Taylor Vancil, director
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
O Lord, you are our Father. We are your children. You are the potter; we are all the work of your hands. Forgive us Lord for how we have corrupted your good creation. Gracious Lord, you alone are righteous and holy, and in your presence no one can stand. Your gracious mercy is our only hope and we ask for your forgiveness. We pray for your cleansing touch to wash away our corruption, and to clothe us in the righteousness that is only found in the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose holy name we pray. Amen.
•The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
•Invocation
•Hymn 116: For the Beauty of the Earth Dix
Responsive Reading: Psalm 69:1–18 (page 482)
•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.
•Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
Prayer of Intercession (concluding with The Lord’s Prayer)
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Announcements
Reception of New Members
9am
Jonathan Davis, Northern Tier
Kyle Mangum, Metropolitan
Laura Mangum, Metropolitan
11am
George Cauffman, Brandywine
Jared & Megan Cochrum, Metropolitan
Travers & Sydne Oliver, Northern Tier
Katharine & Brian Savage, Metropolitan
Lily Savage, Metropolitan
Nathan Sneller, New Jersey
•Hymn 457: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing Nettleton
•Offering Prayer
Offertory: I Sing Because I’m Happy arr. Rollo Dillworth
I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free.
His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.
Youth Choir of First Baptist Church, Mount Holly, NC
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 12:25-29 (page 1009)
Sermon: Stirred, Not Shaken! Dr. Liam Goligher
•Hymn 441: Jesus Shall Reign Duke Street
•Benediction
•Postlude: Fanfare Antonio Soler
Serving this morning:
Jared Cochrum, 9am platform
Rev. Gavin Lymberopoulos, 11am platform
Colin Howland, organist