Here is the worship guide for Sunday, July 21, 2024.
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The livestream will begin at 10:30 a.m. on our Facebook page or YouTube page.
Welcome and Announcements
Opening Prayer
Hymn: “Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
Words: George Atkins. Music: William More.
Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God;
Will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the Word?
All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down;
Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.
Brethren, see poor sinners round you slumb’ring on the brink of woe;
Death is coming, hell is moving, can you bear to let them go?
See our fathers and our mothers, and our children sinking down;
Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.
Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other, too;
Let us love and pray for sinners, till our God makes all things new.
Then He’ll call us home to Heaven, at His table we’ll sit down;
Christ will gird Himself and serve us with sweet manna all around.
Song: “Jesus Messiah”
By Chris Tomlin, Daniel Carlson, Ed Cash, Jesse Reeves.
He became sin who knew no sin
that we might become His righteousness.
He humbled Himself and carried the cross.
Love so amazing, love so amazing.
Jesus Messiah, Name above all names,
Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel,
the Rescue for sinners,
the Ransom from heaven,
Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.
His body the bread, His blood the wine,
broken and poured out all for love.
The whole earth trembled and the veil was torn.
Love so amazing, love so amazing.
Jesus Messiah, Name above all names,
Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel,
the Rescue for sinners,
the Ransom from heaven,
Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.
All our hope is in You,
all our hope is in You,
all the glory to You, God,
the Light of the world.
Jesus Messiah, Name above all names,
Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel,
the Rescue for sinners,
the Ransom from heaven,
Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.
Song: “More Than Conquerors”
Words and music: Rend Collective.
When my hope and strength is gone,
You’re the one who calls me on.
You are the life, You are the fight that’s in my soul.
Oh, Your resurrection power burns like fire in my heart
when waters rise I lift my eyes up to Your throne.
We are more than conquerors, through Christ.
You have overcome this world, this life.
We will not bow to sin or to shame, we are defiant in Your name.
You are the fire that cannot be tamed,
You are the power in our veins, our Lord, our God, our Conqueror.
I will sing into the night Christ is risen and on high
Greater is He living in me than in the world.
No surrender, no retreat, we are free and we’re redeemed.
We will declare over despair You are the hope.
We are more than conquerors, through Christ.
You have overcome this world, this life.
We will not bow to sin or to shame, we are defiant in Your name.
You are the fire that cannot be tamed,
You are the power in our veins, our Lord, our God, our Conqueror.
Nothing is impossible, every chain is breakable;
with You, we are victorious.
You are stronger than our hearts, You are greater than the dark;
with You, we are victorious.
We are more than conquerors, through Christ.
You have overcome this world, this life.
We will not bow to sin or to shame, we are defiant in Your name.
You are the fire that cannot be tamed,
You are the power in our veins, our Lord, our God, our Conqueror.
Time of Prayer
Sermon: “Preach the Good News”
Romans 10:14–10:21 (ESV)
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
18 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
“Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”
19 But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
“I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
20 Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
“I have been found by those who did not seek me;
I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”
21 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Hymn: “Facing a Task Unfinished”
Original words by Frank Houghton. Original music by Samuel Wesley.
New words and music by Keith Getty, Ed Cash, and Fionán de Barra.
Facing a task unfinished, that drives us to our knees,
a need that, undiminished, rebukes our slothful ease.
We, who rejoice to know Thee, renew before Thy throne
the solemn pledge we owe Thee to go and make Thee known.
Where other lords beside Thee hold their unhindered sway;
where forces that defied Thee defy Thee still today.
With none to heed their crying for life, and love, and light,
unnumbered souls are dying and pass into the night.
We go to all the world, with kingdom hope unfurled.
No other name has power to save But Jesus Christ, the Lord.
We bear the torch that, flaming, fell from the hands of those
who gave their lives proclaiming That Jesus died and rose.
Ours is the same commission, the same glad message ours;
fired by the same ambition, to Thee we yield our powers.
We go to all the world, with kingdom hope unfurled.
No other name has power to save But Jesus Christ, the Lord.
O Father who sustained them, O Spirit who inspired,
Savior, whose love constrained them to toil with zeal untired,
from cowardice defend us, from lethargy awake!
Forth on Thine errands send us to labor for Thy sake.
We go to all the world, with kingdom hope unfurled.
No other name has power to save but Jesus Christ, the Lord.
We go to all the world, His kingdom hope unfurled.
No other name has power to save but Jesus Christ. the Lord.
Benediction
Titus 3:15b
Grace be with you all.