We Gather Together to Worship Our God
Prelude: I Am His, and He Is Mine/James Mountain
Gathering Hymn: Praise to the King Medley
Announcements:
Today:
- 9:00 Sunday School for all ages. Pre-k – 8th meet downstairs, the High School class meets in the Fireside Room, and the Adult Class meets in the Sanctuary.
- 10:30 Worship in the sanctuary.
This Week:
- 6:00 pm, Monday, A Charlie Brown Christmas Play Rehearsal.
- 5:30 pm, Wednesday, Kids’ Quest and Middle School Youth, for grades pre-k—8th. Meal provided.
- 6:15 pm, Wednesday, High School Youth Group, grades 9-12th, at the church. Meal provided.
- 6:30 pm, Wednesday, Habits of the Household Study during Kids’ Quest. This study helps you discover simple habits to create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other. A nursery for ages 0-3 is available during this time.
- 6:20 am, Thursday, Men’s Prayer-time and Bible Study.
- 10:00 am, and 6:30 pm, Thursday, Women’s Bible Study, “No Empty Word: Relentless Pursuit, A Study on Hosea.”
- 6:30 pm, Thursday, Bella Pregnancy’s Annual Gala for Life. If you are interested in attending, please contact the church office for a ticket.
- 7:00 am, Saturday, Men’s Prayer-time and Bible Study.
- 1:00 pm, Saturday, Trash Pick Up (rain date of October 26th). Please see Daniel B. and/or the newsletter for more information.
General:
- October 20th, we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper.
- 5:30 pm, October 20th, Young Adult Bible Study at Jay and Kayla’s (address in bulletin). Meal provided.
- 5:30 pm, October 20th, “Respectable Sins” study at the church. This group begins with a potluck meal and fellowship, sing hymns together, study, and end in prayer.
- 6:00 pm, October 20th, “Respectable Sins” study at Allen and Karen’s. This is a great option for those in the Piedmont area. Dessert provided.
- 6:00 pm, October 27th, Reformation Day Service. Fellowship to follow; please bring a dessert to share.
- 8:45 am, November 1st, MomCo meets at the church.
- 6:30 pm, November 4th, Mercy Ministry Team Meeting at the church. This will be an in-person meeting, but anyone who prefers to meet by Zoom please let Daniel B. know, and he will send you the link. Also please ask Daniel B. any questions or concerns you may have.
- Women’s Ministry Discipleship Groups: There is still an opportunity to sign up for a discipleship group until October 15th. These groups will begin meeting once a month in November and discuss a book entitled, “True Woman 201, Ten Elements of Biblical Womanhood.” See the table in the Foyer for registration information.
Responsive Call to Worship: Revelation 19:1, 6-7, 5:13
Leader: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.”
All: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!”
Leader: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
Prayer of Adoration
Hymn of Praise: Songs of Faith #27 Behold Our God
We Confess Our Faith
Responsive Reading:
Leader: In these last days God has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
All: The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
Hymn of Response: Jesus, Name Above All Names
We Confess Our Sin
Call to Confession: Acts 3: 19
Leader: Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Silent Confession of Sin
Corporate Prayer of Confession:
All: O God of grace, You have credited my sin to the account of your Son and credited His righteousness to my account. Christ, the righteous one, was clothed in my shame and sin, that I might be adorned in His robes of righteousness.
But often in my Christian walk I am still in rags. My best prayers are stained with sin and tainted with selfish desires. I am too often sorry only for the trouble sin has brought to my life rather than for how my sin has broken my relationship with You. I need to repent of my faulty repentance.
Give me a broken and contrite heart by helping me to daily see the exceeding sinfulness of my sin, the exceeding righteousness of your salvation, the exceeding glory of Christ, and the exceeding wonder of your grace. I ask all of this in the name of your precious Son who loved me and gave His life for me, Amen.
Assurance of Pardon: Titus 3: 4 – 7
Leader: But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Hymn of Assurance: Hymnal #523 My Hope Is In The Lord
We Give Thanks To The Lord
Tithes and Offerings
Offertory: The Old Rugged Cross/ George Bennard (1873-1958)
Doxology
We Hear God Speak
Small Talk
(Following this time, a nursery is available for ages 0-2, Toddlers’ Church for ages 2-4, and Children’s Church for ages 5-8.)
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.
Prayer of God’s People
The Son of Man Daniel 7
A copy of the sermon notes is available: 10-13-24 sermon notes
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Hymn of Response: Songs of Faith #1 Ancient of Days
We Are Dismissed with God’s Blessing
Benediction
Hymn: All Hail King Jesus
Postlude