The Lord’s Day
June 26, 2011
O my strength, I will sing
praises to Thee;
for God is my stronghold, the
God who shows me lovingkindness.
(Psalm 59:17)
Prelude
Apostolic
Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm 67
God be
gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us,
That
Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations.
Let
the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.
Let
the nations be glad and sing for joy; for You will judge the peoples with uprightness
and guide the nations on the earth.
Let
the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.
The
earth has yielded its produce; God, our God, blesses us. God blesses us, that
all the ends of the earth may fear Him.
*Gloria Patri No. 734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymn From All That Dwell below the Skies No. 7
Public
Confession
O God, forgive us for
straying from the path of righteousness and for not using our words to build
up. Forgive us for our lack of compassion and for thinking of You wrongly as we
considered our circumstances.
Words of
Assurance Titus 2:11-14
For the grace of God has
appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and
worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,
looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God
and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every
lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession,
zealous for good deeds.
Response O for a
Closer Walk with God (facing page)
Prayer for
the Tithe and Offerings
Collection
of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No. 731
*Declaring Our Faith[†] Fisher’s Catechism
Our Shorter
Catechism says that the decrees of God are His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of
His will, whereby, for His own glory, He has foreordained whatsoever comes to
pass. What does the word “counsel”
mean?
This term refers to the
eternity, wisdom, and immutability of God’s determinations.
Is the decreeing act of God
one simple act only?
Yes; because of the perfect
oneness or simplicity of God’s nature, on account of which He could not but
decree all things at once.
Why then do we speak of the
divine decrees as various or many?
Because of the many objects
which the decreeing act of God respects. The things decreed are many, but the
act decreeing is but one only.
Pastoral
Prayer
*Responsive
Reading Psalm 98
O sing
to the Lord a new song, for He
has done wonderful things,
His
right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.
The Lord has made known His salvation;
He has
revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.
He has
remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness to the house of Israel;
All
the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Shout
joyfully to the Lord, all the
earth;
Break
forth and sing for joy and sing praises.
Sing
praises to the Lord with the
lyre; with the lyre and the sound of melody.
With
trumpets and the sound of the horn shout joyfully before the King, the Lord.
Let
the sea roar and all it contains,
The
world and those who dwell in it.
Let
the rivers clap their hands;
Let
the mountains sing together for joy before the Lord; for He is coming to judge the earth;
He
will judge the world with righteousness,
And
the peoples with equity.
*Hymn O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing No. 164
*Public Reading of the Word Acts 24
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon
Hymn Take Thou
Our Minds, Dear Lord No. 593
Sacrament of the
Lord’s Supper+
*Hymn O God beyond All Praising No.
660
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No. 740
*
Congregation will please stand
+ Visitors: please see the note on the back of this bulletin