Morning Worship Service

Prelude: The Lord Is My Shepherd arr. Charles Callahan Yerahm Hong, violin

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

Holy Lord, we are not fit to come before you. We have no righteousness of our own to offer and we possess nothing to sacrifice that is worthy of the great debt that we owe you. We have not done what is just and right, but instead have frequently sinned in our words and our actions. We have not loved kindness and delighted our souls in doing others good. We have not walked humbly and wisely before you, but have walked in our own wisdom and followed the counsel of the world around us. Father, forgive us. Holy Spirit, take away our stony hearts and create in us true goodness and beauty. Give us grace to walk in your statutes out of the thankfulness for the rich salvation we have in Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 John 2:1–2

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Invocation

Hymn 265: Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain Tempus Adest Floridum

Responsive Reading: Psalm 112 (pew Bible p. 509)

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 305: Arise, My Soul, Arise Lenox

(During the 11am service, children ages 4-7 may go to the Catacombs for Praisemakers music.)

Offering Prayer Joe Park (9am)

Russell Pfeifer, ruling elder (11am)

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Offertory: Amazing Grace (9am) arr. Charles Callahan
Yerahm Hong, violin

Write Your Blessed Name (11am) K. Lee Scott
Tenth Church Choir

Scripture Reading: Psalm 121 (pew Bible p. 516)

Sermon: When Life Gets Tough Dr. Jonathan Gibson

Hymn 94: How Firm a Foundation Foundation

Benediction

Postlude: Improvisation Aaron Patterson

Serving today:
9am platform: Dr. Enrique Leal, Joe Park
11am platform: Rev. Josiah Vanderveen, Russell Pfeifer
Organist: Aaron Patterson

Rev. Dr. Jonathan Gibson (PhD, Cambridge University) is associate professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. Gibson previously served as associate minister at Cambridge Presbyterian Church in England. He is a contributor to and co-editor of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. His PhD was published as Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi (Bloomsbury).