Order of Worship

Welcome & Life in the Body

Call to Worship: Psalm 147:1 Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.

Prayer of Praise

Song #67 [add verse] All Creatures of Our God and King

Song #470 [add chorus] O Church, Arise

Scripture Reading 1 Timothy 4:6-10

Prayer of Confession

Assurance of Pardon: 1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

Song #223: How Deep the Father’s Love for Us

Song #595: Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Affirmation of Faith in the wisdom of God’s Word, from Psalm 119:97-104. [Congregation will read the text in bold.]

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.

I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore, I hate every false way.

Prayer of Petition

Song: Hallelujah for the Cross

Song #11: Only a Holy God

Sermon

Song #470 [last verse]: O Church, Arise

Benediction