Evening Worship Service

Prelude: O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing Jeanne Demessieux

Call to Worship

Invocation

Hymn 179: Hallelujah! Thine the Glory Thine The Glory

Text: William MacKay (1867)

We praise thee, O God! for the days of our youth,
for the bright lamp that shineth — the Word of thy truth.

Refrain
Hallelujah! thine the glory, hallelujah! we sing;
hallelujah! thine the glory, our praise now we bring.

We praise thee, O God! for the Son of thy love,
for Jesus who died and is now gone above. (Refrain)

We praise thee, O God! for thy Spirit of light,
who has shown us our Savior and scattered our night. (Refrain)

All glory and praise to the Lamb that was slain,
who has borne all our sins and has cleansed ev’ry stain! (Refrain)

Prayer of Confession

Our great God, we confess before you the pride which dominates much of our lives. Like the disciples, we cannot help comparing ourselves to others. We inwardly boast that our own sin is not as bad as another’s. We outwardly gossip and disparage our neighbors. We are prone to favoritism; easily forgiving those most like us, and condemning others. O God, may your awesome holiness humble us to the dust. Fill our vision with Christ crucified, and by your Spirit help us to love others as you have loved us in Christ. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 John 4:9–10

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Doxology Tallis’ Canon

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Reading: Matthew 18:15–20

15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. 18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Hymn: Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive Martyrdom

(Students in grades 1–6 may go to the Catacombs for Tenth Children’s Music.)
Text: Rosamond Harklots (1969)

Confession of Faith: Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 90

Question: How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
Answer: That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it with our lives.

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: Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia arr. Colin Howland

Chamber Choir

Sermon: Family Feud Rev. Gavin Lymberopoulos

Hymn 122: God, All Nature Sings Thy Glory Ode to Joy

text: David Clowney (1960)

God, all nature sings thy glory, and thy works proclaim thy might;
ordered vastness in the heavens, ordered course of day and night;
beauty in the changing seasons, beauty in the storming sea;
all the changing moods of nature praise the changeless Trinity.

Clearer still we see thy hand in man whom thou hast made for thee;
ruler of creation’s glory, image of thy majesty.
Music, art, the fruitful garden, all the labor of his days,
are the calling of his Maker to the harvest feast of praise.

But our sins have spoiled thine image; nature, conscience only serve
as unceasing, grim reminders of the wrath which we deserve.
Yet thy grace and saving mercy in thy Word of truth revealed
claim the praise of all who know thee, in the blood of Jesus sealed.

God of glory, power, mercy, all creation praises thee;
we, thy creatures, would adore thee now and through eternity.
Saved to magnify thy goodness, grant us strength to do thy will;
with our acts as with our voices thy commandments to fulfill.

Benediction

Postlude

Serving this evening:
George McFarland, platform
Aaron Patterson, organist

Sermon Notes