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Call to Worship
Our souls magnify the Lord!
Our spirits rejoice in God our Savior!
The mighty One has done great things for us!
Holy is God’s name!
Let us worship God.
For God is our Maker and our Redeemer;
from generation to generation God gives mercy.
—based on Luke 1:46-50
Come Christians Join to Sing
Come, Christians, join to sing
Alleluia! Amen!
Loud praise to Christ our King
Alleluia! Amen!
Let all, with heart and voice
Before his throne rejoice
Praise is his gracious choice
Alleluia! Amen!
Come, lift your hearts on high
Alleluia! Amen!
Let praises fill the sky
Alleluia! Amen!
He is our Guide and Friend
To us he’ll condescend
His love shall never end
Alleluia! Amen!
Praise yet our Christ again
Alleluia! Amen!
Life shall not end the strain
Alleluia! Amen!
On heaven’s blissful shore
His goodness we’ll adore
Singing forevermore
Alleluia! Amen!
Christian Henry Bateman © Public Domain CCLI 241710
Christ Is Risen
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
But fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely you’ve bled for us
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but heaven’s will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer’s crown
No burden great can hold you down
In strength you reign
Forever let your church proclaim
Christ risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
O, death, where is your sting
O, hell, where is your victory
O, church, come stand in the light
Our God is not dead, he’s alive, he’s alive
Christ risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Matt Maher, Mia Fieldes © 2009 Thankyou Music CCLI License 241710
Prayer for the People, the City, and the Nations
Gifts — Greater Than Our Hearts
You who are greater than our hearts,
Come make your faithful mercies known,
The mind of Christ to us impart
Your constant mind in us be shown
O let us by your cross abide
You, only you, resolved to know
The Lamb for sinners crucified
A world to save from endless woe
You who are greater than our hearts,
Come make your faithful mercies known,
The mind of Christ to us impart
Your constant mind in us be shown
Take us into your people’s rest
And we from our own works shall cease
With your meek Spirit arm our breast
And keep our minds in perfect peace
You who are greater than our hearts,
Come make your faithful mercies known,
The mind of Christ to us impart
Your constant mind in us be shown
Charles Wesley, Matthew S. Smith © 2009 detuned radio music CCLI 241710
Confession of Faith
We believe that God–
who is perfectly merciful and also very just
sent his Son to assume the nature
in which the disobedience had been committed,
in order to bear in it the punishment of sin
by his most bitter passion and death.
So God made known his justice toward his Son,
who was charged with our sin,
and he poured out his goodness and mercy on us,
who are guilty and worthy of damnation,
giving to us his Son to die, by a most perfect love,
and raising him to life for our justification,
in order that by him we might have immortality and eternal life.
—The Belgic Confession, Article 20 – The Justice and Mercy of God in Christ
God With Us
You’ve come to bring peace, to be love
To be nearer to us
You’ve come to bring life, to be light
To shine brighter in us
O Emmanuel, God with us
Our Deliverer, you are Savior
In your presence we find our strength
Over everything, our redemption
God with us, you are God with us
You’ve come to be hope to this world
For your honor and name
You’ve come to take sin, to bear shame
And to conquer the grave
O Emmanuel, God with us
Our Deliverer, you are Savior
In your presence we find our strength
Over everything, our redemption
God with us, you are God with us
You are here, you are holy
We are standing in your glory
You are here, you are holy
We are standing in your glory, Lord
Our Deliverer, you are Savior
In your presence we find our strength
Over everything, our redemption
God with us…
Our Deliverer, you are Savior
In your presence we find our strength
Over everything, our redemption
God with us, you are God with us
God with us, you are God with us
Jason Ingram, Leslie Jordan © 2012 Integrity’s Praise! Music Open Hands Music, Sony/ATV Timber Publishing CCLI241710
Sermon
“Our Great Advocate”
1 John 1:5 – 2:2
Prayer of Confession
Good Father and Sovereign God,
hear our prayer and forgive our sins,
cause your Word to sink deeply
into our hearts and lives,
that you may shape us into
the image of Christ.
Send your Spirit to cleanse, fill and renew.
Turn our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh.
And speak your Son into a broken world,
through our redeemed lives.
Through Jesus. Amen
The Lord’s Supper
Come Boldly to the Throne of Grace
Come boldly to the throne of grace
Ye wretched sinners come
And lay your load at Jesus’ feet
And plead what he has done
How can I come, some soul may say
I’m lame and cannot walk
My guilt and sin have stopped my mouth
I sigh, but dare not talk
Come boldly to the throne of grace
Though lost, and blind, and lame
Jehovah is the sinner’s friend
And ever was the same
He makes the dead to hear his voice
He makes the blind to see
The sinner lost he came to save
And set the prisoner free
Come boldly to the throne of grace
For Jesus fills the throne
And those he kills he makes alive
He hears the sigh or groan
Poor bankrupt souls, who feel and know
The hell of sin within
Come boldly to the throne of grace
The Lord will take you in, take you in
Brian T. Murphy, Clint Wells, D. Herbert © 2004 Clint Wells Music CCLI 241710
The Apostles’ Creed (for reflection)
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended to hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Doxology
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
Amen
Thomas Ken, Tune – OLD HUNDREDTH, Genevan Psalter (1551) attr. to Louis Bourgeois
Benediction
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