Prelude: Sonata in C Major, Movement I Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Living Church

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

Righteous God, if your mercy had bounds, who could stand before you? We come before you with sins unnumbered, in our thoughts and actions, in our words and attitudes. We have not loved you with our whole heart, and we have not loved our neighbor as we ought. Merciful Father, we have no merit of our own, no works which will commend us to you. We praise you that where our sin abounded, your grace much more abounds. Our only hope is in the cross of Jesus Christ, in his death and resurrection. By your Holy Spirit grant us grace to trust him more. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 Timothy 2:5–6

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

Invocation

Hymn 32: Great Is Thy Faithfulness Faithfulness

Responsive Reading: Psalm 103 (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.

Commissioning of Deaconesses (11am)

Joan Smith-Veterano (New Jersey parish)

Janice Roberts (Metro parish)

Hymn 305: Arise, My Soul, Arise Lenox

Offering Prayer Joe Park (9am)
John Ward, ruling elder (11am)

(Give online at tenth.org/give or mail checks to: 1701 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

Offertory: O How Amiable (11am) Ralph Vaughan Williams
Tenth Church Choir

Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 12:25-33 (pew Bible p. 294)

Sermon: Worship from the Heart Dr. Jonathan Master

Hymn 524: Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ Darwall

Benediction

Postlude: Sonata in C Major, Movement III Johann Sebastian Bach

Serving today:
9am platform: Rev. John, Joe Park
11am platform: Rev. Josiah Vanderveen, John Ward
Organist: Aaron Patterson

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.

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible, copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Hymns used by permission: CCLI# 2486853

The Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper will be observed at the 6:30pm service next Sunday, January 21.

The Westminster Shorter Catechism reminds us of the importance of coming to the Lord's Table in a worthy manner:

It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon Him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves. (Shorter Catechism, Answer 97)

Suggested Bible passages for preparation: Psalm 23, John 6:22–40, 1 Corinthians 11:17–32