Order of Worship
Sunday January 7, 2024
We extend a warm welcome to all our visitors this morning! Visitors, please complete the welcome card in the pew rack and put it in the offering plate or scan the QR code on the “Announcements” page so we may know how to best minister to/with you. Let’s prepare our hearts with silent Bible reading, meditation, and prayer before the service begins.
PRAISE We Acknowledge God’s Majesty
PRELUDE
*PRAISE SONG - Come People of the Risen King
*CALL TO WORSHIP - Psalm 28:6-9
Leader: Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
All: The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Leader: The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
All: Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
*PRAISE SONGS
All My Ways are Known to You, All to Us
*INVOCATION
CORPORATE CONFESSION For the New Year
All: O Lord, length of days does not profit me except the days which are passed in your presence, in your service, to your glory. Give me a grace that precedes, follows, guides, sustains, sanctifies, aids every hour, that I may not be one moment apart from you, but may rely on your Spirit to supply every thought, speak in every word, direct every step, prosper every work, build up every little bit of faith, and give me a desire to show forth your praise, testify your love, advance your kingdom. I launch my ship on the unknown waters of this year, with you, O Father, as my harbor, you, O Son, at my helm, you, O Holy Spirit, filling my sails. Guide me to heaven with my loins girded, lamp burning, my ear open to your calls, my heart full of love, my soul free. Give me your grace to sanctify me, your comforts to cheer, your wisdom to teach, your right hand to guide, your counsel to instruct, your law to judge, your presence to stabilize. May your fear be my awe, your triumphs my joy.
SILENT CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON - Psalm 32:1-2
“Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”
CONSECRATION We Surrender Our Lives to Christ
SCRIPTURE READING - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
*HYMN 32 Great Is Thy Faithfulness
THE OFFERING - Luke 6:37-38
"Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
OFFERTORY All is Well Faith Choir
Michael W. Smith & Wayne Kirkpatrick
Arr. John Leavitt
*HYMN 731 Doxology
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION Collin Kenny
SCRIPTURE TEXT 1 Peter 2:1-12
SERMON - We Are Christ’s Possession
Zach Fiol
*HYMN 599 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE
*Please stand as you are able
PRELUDE
*PRAISE SONG - Come People of the Risen King
*CALL TO WORSHIP - Psalm 28:6-9
Leader: Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
All: The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Leader: The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
All: Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
*PRAISE SONGS
All My Ways are Known to You, All to Us
*INVOCATION
CORPORATE CONFESSION For the New Year
All: O Lord, length of days does not profit me except the days which are passed in your presence, in your service, to your glory. Give me a grace that precedes, follows, guides, sustains, sanctifies, aids every hour, that I may not be one moment apart from you, but may rely on your Spirit to supply every thought, speak in every word, direct every step, prosper every work, build up every little bit of faith, and give me a desire to show forth your praise, testify your love, advance your kingdom. I launch my ship on the unknown waters of this year, with you, O Father, as my harbor, you, O Son, at my helm, you, O Holy Spirit, filling my sails. Guide me to heaven with my loins girded, lamp burning, my ear open to your calls, my heart full of love, my soul free. Give me your grace to sanctify me, your comforts to cheer, your wisdom to teach, your right hand to guide, your counsel to instruct, your law to judge, your presence to stabilize. May your fear be my awe, your triumphs my joy.
SILENT CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON - Psalm 32:1-2
“Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”
CONSECRATION We Surrender Our Lives to Christ
SCRIPTURE READING - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
*HYMN 32 Great Is Thy Faithfulness
THE OFFERING - Luke 6:37-38
"Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
OFFERTORY All is Well Faith Choir
Michael W. Smith & Wayne Kirkpatrick
Arr. John Leavitt
*HYMN 731 Doxology
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION Collin Kenny
SCRIPTURE TEXT 1 Peter 2:1-12
SERMON - We Are Christ’s Possession
Zach Fiol
*HYMN 599 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE
*Please stand as you are able
