Approaching God
Welcome and
Announcements
Prelude
Call to Worship
Pastor: Let us approach God
faithfully, offering Him our love and devotion.
People: We will sing praises to His
Name and glorify God from our hearts.
Pastor: Come, let us truly worship the
One, Triune, and Living God. Amen.
First Hymn
Guide: Loving Lord, whose mighty acts reveal
to us Your divine power, creativity, and sovereignty over the entire universe,
we praise and adore You as our Creator and King. Your ways have been conveyed
to our people across the centuries and throughout all the nations, therefore we
approach You with awe and reverence, as well as dedication and devotion.
People: Gracious
God, each day of our lives You seek to instruct us and guide us by Your holy
counsel. Sometimes we rebelliously ignore Your advice and seek to do our own
sinful and selfish things. Forgive our foolish and faithless ways. Pardon us
for making bad choices and self-centered mistakes. Hear us now as we silently
confess our sins to You alone.
- Silent
Confessions -
Guide: Merciful Father, You have allowed
Jesus, Your Holy Son, to reclaim our lives, to teach us Your ways, and to save
our souls. His perfect obedience and supreme sacrifice has won our salvation. We
thank You for restoring us to Your everlasting love, and in the words of Christ
our Lord, we continue to pray saying, "Our Father …THE LORD’S PRAYER”
(debts/debtors).
Promise of the Gospel
Guide: Jesus
is the King of our lives, the Anointed and Holy One of God. He alone has the
authority to forgive our sins. Solely by His grace, we are cleansed of our
sinful past and returned to God's favor. Let us rejoice and be glad in Him, our
King of Kings and Lord of lords, both now and forever. Amen.
Gloria Patri
(sung-unison): Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is
now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
Family
Sermon (parents and all children, including Elementary school students come
forward)
Encountering God
Choir
Anthem
Prayers for Health and Healing
Pastor: We
call upon the Lord, in the midst of all our troubles, and He faithfully answers
us. We ask Him to save from false ways and self-deception, clinging on to His
eternal Truth. He is source of all our hope and the One who brings us healing. May
the Lord have mercy upon us, for we are frail and fearful. May He grant us
strength and renewal.
People: In
Your Holy Presence, Lord, we live our lives. We often need Your help and long
for deliverance from sickness and suffering, pain and discomfort, as well as anxiety
and stress. We seek Your peace this day and pray that You will heal us, including
our loved ones, from all that harms us in body, mind, heart, and soul.
Silent
Prayers for others and ourselves. A candle is lit.
Pastor: Loving
Lord, speak Your peace to us at this precious time and fill our hearts with Your
hope. In Jesus' Name, we pray. Amen. (Healing
prayer based on words & phrases from Psalm 120)
Unison Singing
of ‘Sanctuary.’
Prayer for Illumination
Reader: Holy Spirit, may Christ speak to
our hearts, permitting God to resurrect our hopes through these sacred scriptures.
May we receive and share the blessings of faith, strength, and love that we
encounter throughout these biblical texts.
In Jesus' Name, we ask. Amen.
Scripture
Readings
The Message
and the Apostles' Creed
Serving God
Offering
& Offertory
Prayer of Dedication
(In Unison –
led by pastor) Lord Jesus, all
that we are has been accomplished by Your grace. Take our tithes and gifts that
we freely offer to You, and use them for the preaching of Your Word, the
enhancement of Your Church, and the glorifying of Your Name. Amen.
Closing Hymn
Benediction
(in unison): May Christ urge
and inspire us to advance His ministry with our lives; may the Father's great
and everlasting love be treasured in our hearts and conveyed by our deeds; and
may the Holy Spirit keep us loving and serving the One, Triune, and Living God,
both now and evermore. Amen.
Doxology &
Postlude
