Morning Worship Service

Prelude: Passacaglia from Symphony in G Major Leo Sowerby

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

Our God and Father, we praise you that your mercies are new every morning; great is your faithfulness! We confess that we are daily in need of your grace, for sin clings so closely that we can hardly do anything from a pure heart. We need your Holy Spirit to sanctify us by your Word and keep us from all manner of temptation and evil. Grant us the assurance that in Christ we are no longer slaves to sin, and that in him we are new creations. Lord, have mercy upon us, for the sake of your dear Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Hebrews 10:12–14

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 7: From All that Dwell Below the Skies Duke Street

Responsive Reading: Hebrews 11:8–16

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.

Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

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 377: Jesus, Where’er Your People Meet Warrington
(During the 11am service, children ages 4-7 may go to the Catacombs for Praisemakers music.)

Offering Prayer Joe Park (9am)

Jim Sweet, ruling elder (11am)

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Offertory: Improvisation (9am) Aaron Patterson, organ

Holy Ghost, Dispel Our Sadness (11am) arr. Mark Schweitzer
Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness, pierce the clouds of sinful night; come, O source of sweetest gladness, breathe your life and spread your light. Loving Spirit, God of peace, great distributor of grace, rest upon this congregation; hear, O hear our supplication. From that height which knows no measure, as a gracious show’r descend; bringing down the richest treasure man wish or God can send. Heav’nly Glory, shining down from the Father and the Son, grant us your illumination; rest upon this congregation. Come, O best of all donations God can give or we implore; having your sweet consolations we need wish for nothing more. Come with unction and with pow’r, on our souls your graces show’r; author of the new creation, make our hearts your habitation. Amen. Tenth Summer Choir

Scripture Reading: Psalm 84 (pew Bible p. 493)

Sermon: Longing for Heaven, Longing for God Dr. Jonathan Gibson

Hymn 424: Shepherd of Souls, Refresh and Bless St. Agnes

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper

The Sursum Corda (Lift up your hearts)

The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
Lift up your hearts!
We lift them up to the Lord!
Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.
It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

It is right and good and a joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks unto You, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God. Therefore, with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Your glorious Name; evermore praising You, and saying:

“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.”

Words of Institution

Distribution of the Bread

Distribution of the Cup

Wine is in the outer ring in clear cups. Grape juice is in the inner rings in darker cups. Please register your attendance for communion on one of the golden slips of paper and place in one of the oak boxes when you leave the church or log into tenth.org/communion.

Proclamation of the Mystery of our Faith: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again!

Hymn539: Jerusalem the Golden Ewing

Benediction

Postlude: Improvisation Aaron Patterson, organ

Serving today:
9am platform: Dr. Enrique Leal, Bert Fink, Joe Park
11am platform: Rev. Brock Garrigan, Bert Fink, Jim Sweet
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).

Hymns used by permission: CCLI# 2486853