Strong in Christ

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. 

Hebrews 12:28-29

Prelude

Welcome and Announcements

Introit        

Call to Worship*                                                         

1 Corinthians 5:7-8

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Hymn of Praise*                                                    

#3

“Give to Our God Immortal Praise”

Invocation*

Confession of Faith                            

Westminster Confession of Faith 29.3-4

Trinity Hymnal p. 865

Preparation for Confession of Sin                 

Jeremiah 2:9a, 13

Therefore I still contend with you, declares the LORD...for 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.

Confession of Sin

Assurance of Pardon                                        

Psalm 68:19-20

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah! Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.    

Hymn of Assurance*                                                 

#295

“Crown Him with Many Crowns ”

Giving of Tithes and Offerings                        

Prayer of Response

Scripture Reading*                      

Psalm 100:1-5

Romans 5:1-11

Doxology*                                     

#731 (Old Hundredth)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Taken from “Trinity Hymnal Revised Edition”, ©1990 Great Commission Publications, Inc. Used by permission.

Prayer of Intercession

Preaching of God’s Word                        

Pastor Scott Edburg

“Strong in Christ”

Philippians 4:10-13

Communion

Hymn of Affirmation                                               #565

“All for Jesus!”

Benediction*                                               

Philippians 4:7

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.        

Response*                                                                            #345

(Tune only: Austrian Hymn)

Glory be to God the Father;

Glory be to God the Son,

Dying, risen, ascending for us,

Who the heavenly realm has won;

Glory to the Holy Spirit:

To One God in Persons Three—

Glory both in earth and heaven,

Glory, endless glory be.

Postlude*