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Call to Worship
Since, then, we have a great high priest
who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable
to sympathize with our weaknesses,
but we have one who in every respect
has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness,
so that we may receive mercy and find grace
to help in time of need.
—Hebrews 4:14-16
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
Love the Lord
Love the Lord your God
With all your heart
With all your soul
With all your mind and
With all your strength
(repeat)
With all your heart
With all your soul
With all your mind
With all your strength
Love the Lord your God
With all your heart
With all your soul
With all your mind and
With all your strength
I will serve the Lord
With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my mind and
With all my strength
(repeat)
With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my mind
With all my strength
I will serve the Lord
With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my mind and
With all my strength
With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my mind and
With all my strength
(repeat)
I will love you, Lord
With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my mind and
With all my strength
Lincoln Brewster © 2005 Integrity’s Praise! Music/BMI CCLI 241710
Blessed Be Your Name
Blessed be your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be your name
Blessed be your name
When I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be your name
Every blessing you pour out
I’ll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in
Lord still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
Blessed be your name
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be
Blessed be your name
Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be your name
Every blessing you pour out
I’ll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in
Lord still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord blessed be your name
Every blessing you pour out
I’ll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in
Lord still I will say…….
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
Beth & Matt Redman © 2002 Thankyou Music CCLI 241710
Prayer for the People, the City, and the Nations
Gifts
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Praise to the Lord
The Almighty, the King of creation
O my soul, praise him
For he is thy health and salvation
All ye who hear
Now to his temple draw near
Praise him in glad adoration
Praise to the Lord
Who o’er all things so wondrously reigneth
Shelters thee under his wings
Yea, so gently sustaineth
Hast thou not seen
How thy desires e’er have been
Granted in what he ordaineth
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Praise to the Lord
Who doth prosper thy work and defend thee
Surely his goodness and mercy
Here daily attend thee
Ponder anew
What the Almighty can do
If with his love he befriend thee
Praise to the Lord
O let all that is in me adore him
All that hath life and breath
Come now with praises before him
Let the ‘amen’
Sound from his people again
Gladly for aye we adore him
Let the ‘amen’
Sound from his people again
Gladly for aye we adore him
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Joachim Neander, Lobe den Herren © Public Domain CCLI 24171
Sermon
“A Thermostat — The Church is…”
Genesis 12:1-3
Prayer of Confession
Merciful God, we confess to you now that we have sinned.
We confess the sins that no one knows
and the sins that everyone knows.
We confess the sins that are a burden to us
and the sins that do not bother us
because we have grown used to them.
We confess our sins as a church.
We have not loved one another as Christ loved us.
We have not forgiven one another as God has forgiven us.
We have not given ourselves to love and service
for the world as Christ gave himself for us.
Father, forgive us.
Send the Holy Spirit to us,
that he may give us power to live as,
by your mercy, you have called us to live.
Through Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
Our assurance of pardon rests in God’s promise that time and again He will have compassion on us; tread our iniquities underfoot and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea, that they may never again be held against us.
— based on Micah 7:19
The Lord’s Supper
O Praise the Name (Anastasis)
I cast my mind to Calvary
Where Jesus bled and died for me
I see his wounds, his hands, his feet
My Savior on that cursed tree
His body bound and drenched in tears
They laid him down in Joseph’s tomb
The entrance sealed by heavy stone
Messiah still and all alone
O praise the name of the Lord our God
O praise his name forever more
For endless days we will sing your praise
O Lord, O Lord our God
Then on the third at break of dawn
The Son of heaven rose again
O trampled death, where is your sting
The angels roar for Christ the King
O praise the name of the Lord our God
O praise his name forever more
For endless days we will sing your praise
O Lord, O Lord our God
He shall return in robes of white
The blazing Son shall pierce the night
And I will rise among the saints
My gaze transfixed on Jesus’ face
O praise the name of the Lord our God
O praise his name forever more
For endless days we will sing your praise
O Lord, O Lord our God
O Lord, O Lord our God
Benjamin Hastings, Dean Ussher, Marty Sampson @ 2015 Hillsong Publishing, Capitol CMG Publishing CCLI 241710
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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