Morning Worship Service

Prelude: Pavan William Byrd

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

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 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.

Invocation

Hymn 38: Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise St. Denio

Responsive Reading: Psalm 35:11–28

Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!
I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.
They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!” (continued)
You have seen, O Lord; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!
Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Vindicate me, O Lord, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!
Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart's desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

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: Reception of New Members

9am

Mary Schuelke, Metropolitan
Matt Schuelke, Metropolitan

11am

Nathan Abir, Metropolitan
Victor Allen, Metropolitan
Cyrus Majidy, Metropolitan
Sean Marren, New Jersey
Rebekah Nelson, Western Surburbs
Luke Norvell, Metropolitan

Hymn 516: Jesus, I Live to Thee Trentham

Offering Prayer

(For online giving go to tenth.org/give or mail checks to: 1701 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

Offertory: My Song Is Love Unknown (11am) John Ireland/arr. James Kirkby

Summer Choir

Scripture Reading: John 17:20–26 (pew Bible, p. 903)

Sermon: Wholeness In Christ Dr. Scott Redd

Hymn 347: The Church's One Foundation

Prayer for High School Graduates (11am) Aurelia

Benediction

Postlude: Galliard William Byrd

Serving today:
Dr. Liam Goligher, 9am & 11am platform
Aaron Patterson, organist