Evening Worship Service

Prelude: These are the holy Ten Commandments, BWV 678 Johann Sebastian Bach

Call to Worship

Invocation

Hymn 111: This Is My Father's World Terra Beata

Prayer of Confession

Righteous God, if Your mercy had bounds, who could stand before You? We come before You with sins unnumbered, in our thoughts and actions, in our words and attitudes. We have not loved You with our whole heart, and we have not loved our neighbor as we ought. Merciful Father, we have no merit of our own, no works which will commend us to You. We praise You that where our sin abounded, Your grace much more abounds. Our only hope is in the cross of Jesus Christ, in His death and resurrection. By Your Holy Spirit grant us grace to trust Him more. Amen

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Ephesians 2:4–6

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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 13:1–7 (pew Bible, p.948)

Hymn 528: My Faith Looks Up to Thee Olivet

Confession of Faith: Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 29

Question: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
Answer: We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by His Holy Spirit.

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: Thy Will Be Done Craig Courtney

Tenth Church Choir

Norman Carter, piano

Our cup was filled with darkness. Our cup was filled with death. Christ took our cup and drank it, and gave us life, and gave us hope, gave us Himself. My Father, let this cup pass from me; yet not my will, O Lord, but Thine be done. In blackest night we hear Him in dark Gethsemane. Pleading with the Father for one more way, for one more hope, for one more day. Then they took our Savior, and led Him to a tree; and there they broke His body, poured out His life, put Him to death—to rise again! My Father, let this cup pass from me; yet not my will, O Lord, but Thine be done.

Sermon: The Powers That Be Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn 407: The Day You Gave Us, Lord, Is Ended St. Clement

Benediction

Postlude: These are the holy Ten Commandments, BWV 679 Johann Sebastian Bach

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