Posted on Jun 11, 2022 in Bulletin |
Engage The Bible – Deuteronomy 8:1-3 & 1 Peter 1:23-25
- Prelude
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sun July 17 | 11:30am Church Picnic (Parking Lot and Dining Hall)
- Fri July 29 | 7pm Feed My Starving Children – please contact Gerri Henze
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – UMH 762 – Psalm 30
- 1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up, and did not let my foes rejoice over me.
- 2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you healed me.
- 3 O Lord, you brought up my soul from Sheol,
- restored me to life from among those gone down to the pit.
- 4 Sing praises to the Lord, O his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name.
- 5 Surely the Lord’s anger is but for a moment; the Lord’s favor is for a lifetime.
- Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
- 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
- 7 By your favor, O Lord, you had established me as a strong mountain;
- you hid your face, I was dismayed.
- 8 To you, O Lord, I cried, and to the Lord I made supplication:
- 9 “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit?
- Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
- 10 Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me! O Lord, be my helper!”
- 11 You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
- 12 that my soul may praise you and not be silent.
- O Lord, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
- Reading – [Matthew 24:3-14 ESV]
- 3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
- 4 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.
- 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
- 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
- 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
- 8 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
- 9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
- 10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
- 11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
- 12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
- 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
- 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- Worship Hymns
- Living Hope – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
- WS 3105 – In Christ Alone
- Lord, I Need You – © 2011 sixsteps Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 601 – Thy Word Is a Lamp
- Intercessory Prayer
- Confirmation
- Sermon – “Engage The Bible”
- [Deuteronomy 8:1-3 ESV]
- 1 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.
- 2 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
- 3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- [1 Peter 1:23-25 ESV]
- 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
- 24 for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
- 25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
- Closing Hymn
- Benediction
- Postlude