The Lord’s
Day
March 22, 2009
My mouth
will speak the praise of the Lord,
and all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.
(Psalm
145:21)
Prelude
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm
95:1–6
O come,
let us sing for joy to the Lord,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Let us
come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods,
In whose
hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
The sea
is His, for it was He who made it,
And His hands formed the dry land.
Come,
let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
*Gloria
Patri No. 734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymn I Sing the Mighty Power of God No. 119
Public Confession
O God, Maker
of heaven and earth, You are holy in all Your being and righteous in all Your
ways. Your laws are true and just. Against You and You only have we sinned; we
have done what is evil in Your sight. Hear these words, dear Father, and grant
us repentance. Restore to us the joy of our salvation. Look on us with mercy
for the sake of the One who gave Himself for us. Amen.
Words of
Comfort and Assurance Ephesians
2:4–7
But God, being
rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we
were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace
you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, in order that in the ages to come He might
show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Response Lead Me, Lord (following page)
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No.
731
*Declaring Our Faith[†] Creation
What do we believe about creation?
We believe that the Father created heaven and earth and
all other creatures from nothing, when it seemed good to Him, by His Word—that
is to say, by His Son.
What is the Son’s
relationship to creation in the present?
Even now the Son
sustains and governs creation, according to His eternal providence, and by His
infinite power, that creation may serve man, in order that man may serve God.
Pastoral Prayer
*Responsive
Reading Psalm
33:1–12
Sing for joy in the Lord,
O you righteous ones;
Praise is becoming to the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord
with the lyre;
Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.
Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
For the word of the Lord
is upright,
And all His work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.
By the word of the Lord
the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the Lord;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of
Him.
For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
The Lord
nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
The counsel of the Lord
stands forever,
The plans of His heart from generation to
generation.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.
*Hymn Wondrous King, All-Glorious No. 166
Public Reading of the Word 2
Peter 3
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon A Case of Spiritual Disorder James
4:1–10
*Hymn Thou Who Wast Rich beyond All Splendor No. 230
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper+
*Hymn Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ No. 524
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No. 740
* Congregation will please stand
+ Visitors: please see the note on the back of this
bulletin