2024-07-21

Posted on Jul 27, 2024 in Bulletin |

Praise the Lord, the Potter Broke the Mold

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • July 28 – School Supplies deadline for Kendall County Community Food Pantry
    • Aug 18 – Ice Cream Social
    • Sep 14 @ 3pm – Softball Game @ dome
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 146
    • 1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!
    • 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
    • 3 Put not your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
    • 4 Their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
    • 5 Happy are those whose help is in God of Jacob,
    • whose hope is in the Lord, their God,
    • 6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
    • who keeps faith for ever;
    • 7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry.
    • The Lord sets the prisoners free;
    • 8 the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
    • The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    • the Lord loves the righteous.
    • 9 The Lord watches over the sojourners,
    • and upholds the widow and the orphan; but the Lord brings the way of the wicked to ruin.
    • 10 The lord will reign for ever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
    • Praise the Lord!
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 158 – Come Christians Join To Sing
    • UMH 522 – Leave It There
    • TFWS 2023 – How Majestic Is Your Name
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2086 – Open Our Eyes
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2152 – Change My Heart Oh God
  • Sermon – “Praise the Lord, the Potter Broke the Mold”
    • [Isaiah 64:8 ESV]
    • 8 But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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    • [Jeremiah 18:1-6 ESV]
    • 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
    • 2 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”
    • 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.
    • 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
    • 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me:
    • 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
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    • [Romans 9:19-21 ESV]
    • 19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
    • 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
    • 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
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    • [John 9:1-7 ESV]
    • 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
    • 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
    • 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
    • 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
    • 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
    • 6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud
    • 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 382 – Have Thine Own Way
  • Benediction
  • Postlude