Songs:
“To God Be the Glory” by Fanny Jane Crosby
Public Domain CCLI# 2003690
“O Praise the Name (Anástasis)” by Benjamin Hastings, Dean Ussher & Marty Sampson
© 2015 Hillsong Music Publishing
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“There is a Redeemer” by Melody Green
© 1982 Birdwing Music; BMG Songs, Inc.; Ears To Hear; and Birdwing Music
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Christ Be in My Waking” by Simon Brading & Stuart Townend
© 2011 Thankyou Music
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken & Louis Bourgeois
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
Call To Worship: We Bless You, God of All Mercies
ALL: We bless you, God of all mercies, for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life;
WOMEN: We praise you for your boundless love revealed to us in your son, our Lord, Jesus Christ; for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.
MEN: Give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise,
WOMEN: Not only with our lips but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days;
ALL: Through Jesus Christ our Redeemer, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit,be all honor and glory now and forever. Amen! Amen! Amen!
Prayer: Anslem, 11th Century Bishop of Canterbury
O God, Thou art life, wisdom, truth, bounty, and blessedness, the Eternal, the only true Good! My God and my Lord, Thou art my hope and my hearts joy. I confess, with thanksgiving that Thou hast made me in Thine image, that I may direct all my thoughts to Thee, and love Thee. Lord, make me to know Thee aright, that I may more and more love, and enjoy, and possess Thee. And since, in the life here below, I cannot fully attain this blessedness, let it at least grow in me day by day, until it all be fulfilled at last in the life to come. Here be the knowledge of Thee increased, and there let it be perfected. Here let my love to Thee grow, and there let it ripen; that my joy being here great in hope, may there in fruition be made perfect.
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Creed: The Providence of God
Leader: What do you understand by the providence of God?
People: Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which God upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that: leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty—all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but by his fatherly hand.
Leader: How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?
People: We can be patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that no creature will separate us from his love…
Heidelberg Catechism, questions 27 & 28