We Gather Together to Worship Our God
Prelude: Praise Him, Praise Him/ Chester Allen
Gathering Hymn: Songs of Faith #22 Living Waters
Today:
- 9 am, Sunday School for all ages. Preschool-7th meets downstairs, High School meets in the Fireside Room, and the Adult class is studying Christ in the Covenants in the Sanctuary.
- 10:30 Worship in the sanctuary.
- 5:30 pm, Tonight, Community Groups meet at the church. Fellowship meal, hymn sing, and then will break off into groups for prayer and study.
- 5:30 pm, Tonight, Young Adult Bible Study at Jay and Kayla’s. (Address in bulletin) Meal provided.
This Week:
- 5:00 pm, Wednesday, Sonlight Puppeteer practice.
- 5:30 pm, Wednesday, Kids’ Quest for pre-k—7th grade. Meal provided.
- 5:30 pm, Wednesday, J-Curve Study for the adults at the church. Meal provided. See Ron B. for more information.
- 5:30 pm, Wednesdays, New Members’ class for the middle and high schoolers.
- 6:15 pm, Wednesday, High School Youth Group at the Community Center.
- 6 am Thursday, Men’s Prayer-time and Bible Study.
- 8 am Saturday, Men’s Prayer-time and Bible Study.
General:
- 6:00 pm, February 5th, Hymn Sing and Fellowship. Please bring a dessert to share.
- 6:00 pm, February 6th. Deacon meeting.
- 6:30 pm, February 7th, Mercy Ministry Team meeting.
- 6-8 pm, February 24th, South Dakota Kids Belong Annual Gala at the Countryside Church in Spearfish; Dinner provided. Reserve your seat at americakidsbelong.ticketspice.com/rise-up-2023 Please see Clea B. for more information.
- We are participating in Bella Pregnancy Resource Center’s
Annual Baby Bottle Fundraiser. Simply pick up a baby bottle, take home and fill with cash, check, and change, and return by February 26th. - The next month’s worth of family devotionals is available. You may pick one up from the basket on the table in the Foyer. If you would like to continue to receive the printed copy, please fill out a response card.
- To help strengthen marriages, we will be starting a new Community Group called Love and Respect. If interested in attending, please fill out a response card.
- Giving Statements are available.
A Moment for Ministry: Bella Pregnancy Resource Center’s Annual Baby Bottle Fundraiser
Responsive Call to Worship: John 7: 37 – 38; Revelation 21: 6, 22: 27
Leader: On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
All: I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Leader: The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Prayer of Adoration
Hymn of Praise: Songs of Faith #33 May the Peoples Praise You
We Confess Our Sin
Responsive Reading: Jeremiah 2: 13; Isaiah 1: 16 – 18
Leader: Thus says the Lord, My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
All: Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
Leader: Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Prayer of Confession
Silent Confession of Sin
Assurance of Pardon: Psalm 103: 8 – 12
Leader: The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Hymn of Assurance: Songs of Faith #40 He Will Hold Me Fast
We Give Thanks To The Lord
Tithes and Offerings
Offertory: Give Me Jesus/ Negro Spiritual— Guest Violinist Asher Burke- The plantation songs are the spontaneous outbursts of intense religious fervor. The cadences of sorrow invariably turn to joy, and the message is ever manifest that eventually deliverance from all that hinders and oppresses the soul will come, and man will be free.
Doxology
We Hear God Speak
Small Talk
(Following this time, a nursery is available, Toddlers’ Church for ages 2-4, and Children’s Church for ages 5-8.)
Prayer of God’s People
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, The power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
God’s Way of Salvation Romans 11: 6 – 10
A copy of the sermon notes is available: 1-29-23 sermon notes
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Hymn of Response: Hymnal #465 Marvelous Grace of Our Loving Lord
We Are Dismissed with God’s Blessing
Benediction
Christ Liveth in Me (verse 1)
Postlude: For The Beauty of the Earth/ Conrad Kocher