Morning Worship Service

Prelude

Psalm-Prelude (Ps. 37:11) (9am) Herbert Howells

Choral from Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue (11am) Healey Willan

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

Holy God, we confess to you that we are habitual sinners, daily transgressing your commandments. We admit our struggle with temptation; our sinful affections are easily enticed, and we often lack the resolve to resist. Rather than seeking to mortify our sin, we attempt to keep it hidden from you and from others. Merciful Father, expose our folly and help us to turn to you in our need. Strengthen us by the power of your Holy Spirit, that we might flee temptation and hearken to your voice. Sanctify us by your Truth, and help us live according to your precepts. We pray these things in the name of Jesus, our great Savior. 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 298: The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns St. Magnus

Responsive Reading: Psalm 31:1–8

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,
and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

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.

Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us and our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered death and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall

have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets. And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. 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.

Hymn 255: O Jesus, We Adore Thee Meirionydd

(During the 11am service, children ages 4-7 may go to the Catacombs for Praisemakers music.)

Offering Prayer

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Offertory

Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word (9am) Johann Sebastian Bach

Since By Man Came Death (11am) George Frideric Handel

Tenth Church Choir

Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18–31 (pew Bible, p.952)

Sermon: The Power of the Cross Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn

Hymn 252: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Hamburg

Benediction

Postlude

Prelude and Fugue in g minor (9am) Dietrich Buxtehude

Courante (11am) Louis Couperin

Serving today:
Rev. Greg Hobaugh, 9:00am platform
George McFarland, 11am platform
Colin Howland and Aaron Patterson, organists