Songs:
“Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery” by Matt Papa, Matt Boswell & Michael Bleeker
© 2012 Dayspring Music, Bleecker Publishing & Centricity Music Publishing
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Anchor of Hope” by Brown Bannister & Ellie Holcomb
© 2011 Banistuci Music
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Hallelujah, What a Savior” by Philip Paul Bliss
Additional lyrics by Tommy Bailey
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Take My Life and Let it Be” by Frances Ridley Havergal & John W. Peterson
© 1971 John W. Peterson Music Company
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken & Louis Bourgeois
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
Call To Worship: Now and Forevermore
MEN: The love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
WOMEN: We dwell in Him and He in us.
MEN: Give thanks to the Lord and call upon His name! Make known His deeds among the peoples.
WOMEN: We will sing to Him, sing praises to Him, and speak of all His marvelous works.
ALL: All praise to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; to whom all honor and glory be now and forevermore. Amen!
Prayer: Soren Kierkegaard
Father in Heaven! You have loved us first, help us never to forget that You are love so that this sure conviction might triumph in our hearts over the seduction of the world, over the inquietude of the soul, over the anxiety for the future, over the fright of the past, over the distress of the moment. But grant also that this conviction might discipline our soul so that our heart might remain faithful and sincere in the love which we bear to all those whom You have commanded us to love as we love ourselves. You have loved us first, O God, alas! We speak of it in terms of history as if You have only loved us first but a single time, rather than that without ceasing You have loved us first many times and every day and our whole life through. When we wake up in the morning and turn our soul toward You – You are the first-You have loved us, first. If I rise at dawn and at the same second turn my soul toward You in prayer, You are there ahead of me. You have loved me first. When I withdraw from the distractions of the day and turn my soul toward You, You are there first, and thus forever. You have loved us more than first and only once.
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Creed: This is Our Faith
LEADER: Do you believe and trust in God the Father, source of all being and life, the one for whom we exist?
ALL: We believe and trust in Him.
LEADER: Do you believe and trust in God the Son, who took our human nature, died for us and rose again?
ALL: We believe and trust in Him.
LEADER: Do you believe and trust in God the Holy Spirit, who gives life to the people of God, and makes Christ known in the world?
ALL: We believe and trust in Him.
LEADER: This is the faith of the Church.
ALL: We believe and trust in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Source: Adapted from the Athanasian Creed