Posted on Aug 3, 2024 in Bulletin |
Miracles, Confusion, & Violent Opposition
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Aug 18 – Ice Cream Social
- Sep 14 @ 3pm – Softball Game @ dome
- Sep 20 & 21 – Mission Opportunity
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Joshua 1:5-8 ESV
- 5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
- 6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
- 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
- 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 368 – My Hope Is Built
- UMH 178 – Hope of the World
- Our God – © 2010 Atlas Mountain Songs
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 351 – Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Miracles, Confusion, & Violent Opposition” – [Acts 14:8-23 ESV]
- 8 Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked.
- 9 He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
- 10 said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and began walking.
- 11 And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
- 12 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
- 13 And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.
- 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,
- 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
- 16 In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
- 17 Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
- 18 Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.
- 19 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- 20 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
- 21 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
- 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
- 23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 57 – O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
- Benediction
- Postlude