Parenting Done Right

But the LORD is in his holy temple;

let all the earth keep silence before him.

Habakkuk 2:20

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*                                                    

#100

“Holy, Holy, Holy”

Invocation*

Confession of Faith                            

Westminster Shorter Catechism #13-14

Trinity Hymnal p. 870

Preparation for Confession of Sin                 

Psalm 19:12-13

Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.

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*                                                 

#523

“My Hope Is in the Lord”

Giving of Tithes and Offerings                        

Prayer of Response

Scripture Reading*                      

Isaiah 49:1-7

Galatians 3:15-29

Doxology*                                     

#731

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

“Parenting Done Right”

Luke 2:22-40

Communion

Hymn of Affirmation                                               #535

“O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus!”

Benediction*                                               

Numbers 6:24-26

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Response*                                                                              

#273

(Verse 4 only)

Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!

Praise eternal as his love; Alleluia!

Praise him, all ye heav’nly host, Alleluia!

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia!

Postlude*