Songs:
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” by Elisha Hoffman & Anthony Showalter
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing” by Charles Wesley
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Our God Will Go Before Us” by Keith Getty, Matt Boswell & Matt Papa
© 2023 Getty Music Hymns and Songs, Getty Music Publishing, Love Your Enemies Publishing, and Messenger Hymns
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Our Great God” by Fernando Ortega & Mac Powell
© 2002 New Spring, Word Music & Dejamesolo Music
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken & Louis Bourgeois
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
Call To Worship: Make a Joyful Noise
LEADER: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into His presence with singing!
PEOPLE: I will praise the Lord as long as I live I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
LEADER: Believers in Christ, bless the Lord; Let all that is within you bless his holy name!
PEOPLE: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!
ALL: Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever! Amen!
Prayer: Thomas Lye
Lord God, you and you alone should be the sole object of our trust. May there be but one string to the bow of our faith: that is you, our Lord. May we not rest in anything other than you. Forgive us when we trust in our heads, for our own understanding is an unsafe place to lean. Forgive us when we trust in our hearts, for they are so deceitful and wicked. Forgive us when we trust in our vigor, for our hands will soon hang down and faint. Forgive us when we trust in any excellences, for the best of us in our best state is altogether vanity. Forgive us when we trust in riches, for riches are fair-faced nothings, taking flight like birds. Forgive us when we trust in human allies, for they prove not to be staffs but broken reeds. But on this the arm of trust may safely lean: your almighty arm and power; and your infinite goodness, mercy, and bounty.
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Creed: The Glory of God and Everlasting Life
LEADER: How can we glorify God?
PEOPLE: We glorify God by enjoying Him, loving Him, trusting Him, and by obeying His will, commands, and law.
LEADER: What is idolatry?
PEOPLE: Idolatry is trusting in created things rather than the Creator for our hope and happiness, significance and security.
LEADER: What hope does everlasting life hold for us?
PEOPLE: It reminds us that this present fallen world is not all there is; soon we will live with and enjoy God forever in the new city, in the new heaven and the new earth, where we will be fully and forever freed from all sin and will inhabit renewed, resurrection bodies in a renewed, restored creation.
Source: New City Catechism, Questions 6, 17 & 52