Morning Worship Service

Prelude: Improvisation on God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Myron Roberts

Announcements Kelci Rose, Director of Christian Education & Women's Ministries (11am)

Call to Worship

Doxology 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, great God, whom we behold in awe and wonder, who has kept covenant and steadfast love with your people from age to age: we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances. We have known in our hearts what is right, and yet we did wrong anyway. We have been fascinated by evil, delighted with pleasing ourselves, satisfying our desires, pampering ourselves with pleasures. O Lord, great God, have mercy on us according to your steadfast love. We know you are a God who delights in goodness. Grant that we too might delight in goodness. These prayers we present to you, O Father, in the name of Jesus, the Lamb who was slain and yet lives forever more. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Psalm 103:8, 10–12

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Invocation

Hymn 226: As with Gladness Men of Old Dix

Responsive Reading: Psalm 102:1–17 (pew Bible p. 501)

Gloria Patri 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.

Hymn 230: Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendor Quelle Est Cette Odeur Agreable

Offering Prayer George McFarland, ruling elder (9am)
Paul Duggan, ruling elder (11am)

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Offertory: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly arr. Dale Wood

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 66:1-2 (pew Bible p. 625)

Sermon: The One to Whom I Look Dr. Jonathan Master

Hymn 203: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Mendelssohn

Benediction

Postlude: Personent Hodie arr. Rebecca Groom Te Velde

Serving today:
9am platform: Rev. John, George McFarland
11am platform: Dr. Enrique Leal, Paul Duggan
Organist: Rev. Colin Howland

This morning we welcome Dr. Jonathan Master, president of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He is author of several books and serves as a trustee of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and an executive council member of the Gospel Reformation Network.

Hymns used by permission: CCLI# 2486853