Morning Worship Service

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

Living Church: Tenth City Fellowship Noah Settelen

Prelude: Rathbun: In the Cross of Christ I Glory Robert Powell

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: Psalm 130:3–4

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Invocation

Hymn 6: O Come, My Soul, Bless Thou the Lord Tidings

Responsive Reading: Psalm 144 (pew Bible p. 524)

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 703: Loved with Everlasting Love Everlasting Love

(During the 11am service, children ages 4-7 may be dismissed to Basement Room 5 for Praisemakers music.)

Offering Prayer Dr. Jonny Gibson (9 & 11am)

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Offertory: Song 46: Drop, Drop Slow Tears (9am) David Blackwell

Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from Messiah (11am) George Frideric Handel
Tenth Church Choir

Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows! He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. (Isaiah 53:4–5)

Scripture Reading: Psalm 42:1–5 (pew Bible p. 469)

Sermon: Hope for the Discouraged Rev. Lowell Ivey

Hymn 521: My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less Solid Rock

Benediction

Postlude: Toccata in C Major Johann Sebastian Bach

Serving today:
9am platform: Dr. Jonny Gibson, Dr. Enrique Leal
11am platform: Dr. Jonny Gibson, Dr. Enrique Leal
Organist: Rev. Colin Howland

Lowell Ivey was set free in prison while serving a seventeen year sentence for armed robbery. He was released on parole in 2009. After graduating from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 2015, Lowell served a yearlong internship at Covenant Community Church (OPC) in Taylors, South Carolina. He was called and ordained as a church planter in 2016 to Reformation Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. That church organized in 2019, and planted two daughter congregations, Peninsula Reformed Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Yorktown, Virginia, and All Saints Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Suffolk, Virginia. In 2024, Lowell sensed the Lord calling him to serve the church on both sides of the prison walls as Director of Metanoia Prison Ministries. Lowell longs to see the church growing in faithfulness to its calling to bring Christ to the prisoner and the prisoner to Christ. Lowell is married to Mae, the granddaughter of a Presbyterian (PCUS) missionary who was murdered with two of Mae's uncles in Brazil in 1976. Mae grew up with her nine siblings on Fazenda Boas Novas (Good News Farm) located on the edge of the Amazon basin in northern Brazil. There she learned how to do lots of things Lowell will never know how to do! Together they have six covenant children: Geneva (11), Titus (9), Lydia (7), Isaiah (5), Ian (3), and Simeon (newborn).