Morning Worship Service

Prelude: How Lovely Are the Messengers from St. Paul Felix Mendelssohn

Nicaea Brass

Welcome

Announcements

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

Almighty God, your Church is one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. Lord, we lament how our sin divides your Church. We often fail to see how our actions, our convictions, and our attitudes contribute to disunity. We lack forbearance and patience with one another. We insist on our own way. We do not trust those who have different opinions than ours. Have mercy on us, most merciful Father, and grant us your peace. Unite us by your Holy Spirit, we pray, and help us serve you and one another in love and humility. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Micah 7:18–19

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Invocation

Hymn 382: God Himself Is with Us Wunderbarer König

text: Gerhard Tersteegen (1729)

God himself is with us: let us now adore him, and with awe appear before him.
God is in his temple — all within keep silence, prostrate lie with deepest rev'rence.
Him alone God we own, him, our God and Savior; praise his name forever.

God himself is with us: hear the harps resounding! See the crowds the throne surrounding!
"Holy, holy, holy" — hear the hymn ascending, angels, saints, their voices blending!
Bow thine ear to us here: hear, O Christ, the praises that thy church now raises.

O thou fount of blessing, purify my spirit; trusting only in thy merit,
like the holy angels who behold thy glory, may I ceaselessly adore thee,
and in all, great and small, seek to do most nearly what thou lovest dearly.

Responsive Reading: Psalm 128

Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!
May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!

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.

Living Church: Summer Medical Institute Dr. Laura Layer

Psalm 8 St. Magnus

(In the 11am service, Praisemakers, an interactive music program for ages 4-7, may go to the Catacombs.)

O Lord, our Lord, in all the earth how excellent your name!
For you have set above the heavn's your glory and your fame.

From infants' and from children's lips you ordered praise to sound
to silence all your enemies, the wicked to the confound.

When I regard the heav'ns you made, your fingers' work I trace;
I see the moon and shining stars which you have set in place.

I ask myself, "What then is man that you should give him thought—
the son of man, that you to him such gracious care have brought?"

You made him little less than those who dwell in heav'n above,
and you have crowned and honored him with glory from above. (continued on next page)

You made him ruler of the works created by your hand;
you placed all things beneath his feet to be in his command.

All sheep and oxen, birds and fish, all beasts both wild and tame.
O Lord, our Lord, in all the earth how excellent your name!

Offering Prayer

(In person offerings may be made via the oak boxes. Give online at tenth.org/give or mail checks to:
1701 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

Offertory: I Am the Living Bread Orlando di Lassus/arr. Colin Howland

Nicaea Brass

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.

Scripture Reading: Revelation 3:7–13

7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. 8 “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you. 10 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. 11 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. 12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. 13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Sermon: An Open Door Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn: I Know that My Redeemer Lives Duke Street

Text: Samuel Medley (1776)

I know that my Redeemer lives!
What joy this blest assurance gives!
He lives, he lives, who once was dead;
he lives, my everliving head!

He lives triumphant from the grave;
he lives eternally to save;
he lives exalted, throned above;
he lives to rule his church in love.

He lives and grants me daily breath;
he lives, and I shall conquer death;
he lives, and while he lives, I’ll sing;
he lives, my Prophet, Priest, and King!

He lives, all glory to his name!
He lives, my Savior, still the same;
what joy this blest assurance gives:
I know that my Redeemer lives!

Benediction

Postlude: Give Honor to the Lord from Cantata 129 Johann Sebastian Bach/arr. Colin Howland

Nicaea Brass

Serving today:
Greg Hobaugh, 9:00am platform
Jared Cochrum, 11:00am platform
Colin Howland, organist

Nicaea Brass:
Nathaniel Hepler, trumpet
Eric Schweingruber, trumpet
Kathryn Mehrtens, horn
Paul Arbogast, trombone
Brian Brown, tuba

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