Posted on Mar 2, 2024 in Bulletin |
The Road Less Traveled
- Welcome | Announcements
- Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study (Skip Mar 4)
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
- Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
- Mar 23 @ 6:30pm – Game Night
- Mar 28 @ 7pm – Maundy Thursday – Stations of The Cross
- Mar 29 @ 7pm – Good Friday Service
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Proverbs 3:1-6 ESV
- 1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
- 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
- 3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
- 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
- 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 89 – Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee
- UMH 128 – He Leadeth Me O Blessed Thought
- UMH 364 – Because He Lives
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 338 – Where He Leads Me
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The Road Less Traveled”
- [Acts 8:25-40 ESV]
- 25 Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
- 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.
- 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship
- 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
- 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”
- 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
- 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
- 32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.
- 33 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”
- 34 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”
- 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.
- 36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
- 37 And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he replied, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
- 38 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
- 39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
- 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
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- [Isaiah 53:7-8 ESV]
- 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
- 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
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- [Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV]
- 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
- 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 98 – To God Be The Glory
- Benediction
- Postlude