Songs:
“I Stand Amazed (How Marvelous)” by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Jesus Strong and Kind” by Colin Buchanan, Jonny Robinson, Michael Farren & Rich Thompson
© 2019 CityAlight Music, Wanaaring Road Music, and remaining portion is unaffiliated
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Jesus, What a Friend for Sinners” by John Wilbur Chapman, Rowland Hugh Prichard, and Matthew S. Smith
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“How Deep the Father’s Love for Us” by Stuart Townend
© 1995 Thankyou Music
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken, Louis Bourgeois
Public Domain CCLI# 2003690
Call To Worship: Lord of All Our Days
O God, You are Lord of all our days and all our nights. Every star in heaven answers Your call and offers their joyful obedience. As we come to worship You today, stir our hearts to respond to You in like manner.
As we end one week and begin another, grant us the peace of knowing we belong to You. Open our eyes to see the security of Your sovereignty and the wonders of Your love.
To Your care we commend our souls. To Your will we bow our own. To Your grace we happily surrender, receiving from You what we have not deserved.
Now we raise our glad hallelujahs! Now we offer You all glory and praise! O Creator God, be blessed to receive our most grateful thanksgivings. Let every heart shout it aloud: Amen! Amen!
Classic Prayer: William Barclay
O God, our Father, we remember all the failures of today. Forgive us for any promises we broke today, or any resolutions we failed to keep. Forgive us for any friends we failed today, or any people we hurt. Forgive us for any carelessness in our work today, or any neglect of duty. Forgive us for any mean, ungenerous, or dishonorable deed today, for any false, impure, or angry word. O God, our Father, we remember all who have helped us today. We thank Thee for those who helped us with our work, who helped us to resist our temptations. We thank Thee for anyone who gave us a word of thanks, of encouragement, of praise, or of appreciation. We thank Thee for those who sent us happier on our way, because we met them. More than anything else we thank Thee for Jesus, our Savior and our Friend. Grant that we may show our penitence for our failures, and our gratitude for Thy gifts by waking to do better tomorrow, and to walk more closely with Thee. This we ask for Thy love’s sake, AMEN.
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Creed: What is Grace?
LEADER: What is grace?
PEOPLE: Grace is God’s undeserved gift of His love, mercy and help, which He freely offers to us who, because of our sin, deserve only condemnation.
LEADER: For what purpose does God give you grace?
PEOPLE: God gives me grace in Christ for the forgiveness of my sins, redemption from sin’s power, healing of sin’s effects and growth in holiness, to my final transformation into the likeness of Christ.
LEADER: Can you earn God’s grace?
PEOPLE: No. God gives His grace freely and enables me to receive it. Everything I do for God should be in response to His love and grace made known in Christ, for “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us,” and “we love because He first loved us.”
Source: ACNA, Questions 109, 110 & 111; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:19