Evening Worship Service

Prelude: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus arr. Joyce Jones

Call to Worship

Invocation

Hymn 179: Hallelujah! Thine the Glory Thine The Glory

Prayer of Confession

Merciful God and Father, you are the God of love. You have commanded us to love you with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves. We confess our love is tempered by selfishness. We are often impatient and unkind; we keep a record of wrongs; we insist on our own way; we envy and fight for attention. O Lord, please forgive us and soften our hard hearts. May Christ’s blood shed on the cross move us to love you more dearly, and love others as we have been loved in him. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

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

Scripture Reading: Romans 12:14–21 (pew Bible, p.948)

Hymn 605: All the Way My Savior Leads Me All The Way

Confession of Faith: Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 26

Question: How does Christ execute the office of a king?
Answer: Christ executes the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

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: Children of the Heavenly Father arr. Joyce Jones

Sermon: Called to Be Saints Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn 706: Jesus Lives, and So Shall I Jesus, Meine Zuversicht

Benediction

Postlude: Fugue in c minor Johann Sebastian Bach

Serving this evening:
Rudy Heuer, platform
Colin Howland, organist