Morning Worship Service

Prelude: Sonata No. 1, Adagio Felix Mendelssohn

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 God our Father, forgive us for thinking less of you than we ought; for we think your truth too high, your will too hard, and your power too remote; but they are not! We humbly ask that you resolve our confused minds with your word, redirect our divided wills with your law, restore our troubled consciences with your forgiveness, and revive our anxious hearts with your presence, for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Romans 5:6–8

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Invocation

Hymn 100: Holy, Holy, Holy! Nicaea

Responsive Reading: Psalm 116 (pew Bible p. 510)

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 648: My Jesus, I Love Thee Caritas
(There will be no Praisemakers today.)

Offering Prayer John Ward, ruling elder (9am)

George McFarland, ruling elder (11am)

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Offertory: Fairest Lord Jesus (9am) arr. Frederick Swann

Steal Away (11am) arr. Howard Helvey
Tenth Church Choir

Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus. Steal away, steal away home, I ain't got long to stay here. My Lord, He calls me, He calls me by the thunder, the trumpet sounds within my soul, I ain't got long to stay here.

Scripture Reading: John 3:16 (pew Bible p. 888)

Sermon: Love that Leads to Life Dr. Jonathan Master

Hymn 81: O Love of God, How Strong and True Jerusalem

Benediction

Postlude: Entrée, Op. 62 No. 1 Marcel Dupré

Serving today:
9am platform: Dr. Enrique Leal, John Ward
11am platform: Rev. Brock Garrigan, George McFarland
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