Prelude: Air Herbert Howells

Call to Worship

Invocation

Hymn 246: Man of Sorrows! What a Name Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Prayer of Confession

O Lord, great God, whom we behold in awe and wonder, who has kept covenant and steadfast love with Your people from age to age: we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.  We have known in our hearts what is right, and yet we did wrong anyway. We have been fascinated by evil, delighted with pleasing ourselves, satisfying our desires, pampering ourselves with pleasures. O Lord, great God, have mercy on us according to Your steadfast love. We know You are a God who delights in goodness. Grant that we too might delight in goodness. These prayers we present to You, O Father, in the name of Jesus, the Lamb who was slain and yet lives forever more. 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.

Doxology 733 Lasst Uns Erfreuen

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; alleluia, alleluia!
Praise him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Prayer of Illumination

Old Testament Reading: Joshua 1:1–9 (pew Bible p. 178)

Hymn 510: Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose Stella

Confession of Faith: Westminster Larger Catechism Question 21

Question: Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?
Answer: Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God, in eating the forbidden fruit, and thereby fell from the estate of innocency wherein they were created.

Offering Prayer

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Offertory: Precious Lord, Take My Hand arr. Ovid Young

New Testament Reading: Jude 17–25 (pew Bible p. 1027)

Sermon: How to Contend for the Faith Rev. Brock Garrigan

Hymn 604: Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart Marion

Benediction

Postlude: Tuba Tune Norman Cocker

Serving this evening:

Platform: George McFarland
Organist: Rev. Colin Howland

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