Prelude Men’s Choir

Grieve Not the Holy Spirit of God (Ephesians 4:30-32) Charles Lloyd

Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Jubilate Deo (Psalm 100) Charles Stanford

Call to Worship

Doxology (Trinity Hymnal 731) 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 King, you are our Creator; we are your creatures; you are holy, we have fallen and need your grace. You are the God of love; we are often self-absorbed and sometimes bitter. You are faithful; we are like the shifting sand. Father, have mercy on us. Please forgive what is past, and guide us today by your Holy Spirit; make your Word a light shining on the pathway ahead. We ask these things in the name of our Savior Jesus. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Colossians 2:13–14

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Invocation

Hymn 3: Give to Our God Immortal Praise Warrington

Responsive Reading: Psalm 93 (page 498)

Gloria Patri (Trinity Hymnal 734) 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.

Announcements

Hymn: In Christ Alone Keith Getty/Stuart Townend

(In the 11am service, Praisemakers, ages 4 to 2nd grade, may go to B2.)

Offering Prayer

Offertory: Psalm 121 Olivia Cresswell

Unto the hills I lift my eyes, for there my help is found: Jehovah made the heaven and earth; in him my hope is bound. He will not let your foot be moved. He slumbers not nor sleeps. He is your shade by day, by night, each watch your soul he keeps. Jehovah will preserve your soul; your day he walks before, your going out and coming in; he keeps you now and evermore.

Men’s Choir

Scripture Reading: Ezra 9 (page 395)

Sermon: The Scandal of a Compromised Church Dr. Liam Goligher

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

Benediction

Postlude: O Christ, Forgive Thy Servants Marcel Dupré

Serving this morning:
Travers Oliver, 9am platform
Rev. Carroll Wynne, 11am platform
Colin Howland, organ