2023-08-13
Fast and Furious, Not The Movie
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sep 10 after worship – Ice Cream Social
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Nahum 1:7 ESV
- 7 The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 733 – Marching to Zion
- UMH 577 – God of Grace and God of Glory
- UMH 394 – Something Beautiful
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 389 – Freely, Freely
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Fast and Furious, Not The Movie” – [Revelation 16 ESV]
- 1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”
- 2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
- 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.
- 4 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
- 5 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
- 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”
- 7 And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!”
- 8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.
- 9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.
- 10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish
- 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.
- 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
- 13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.
- 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
- 15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
- 16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
- 17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
- 18 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
- 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
- 20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found.
- 21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 701 – When We All Get to Heaven
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-08-06
More Angels In Action
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sep 10 after worship – Ice Cream Social
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Isaiah 6:1-7 ESV
- 1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
- 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
- 3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
- 4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
- 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”
- 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
- 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
- Worship Hymns
- WS 3031 – God Leads Us Along
- UMH 133 – Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
- Above All – © 1999 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2215 – Cares Chorus
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “More Angels In Action” – [Revelation 15 ESV]
- 1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
- 2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire–and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
- 3 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
- 4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
- 5 After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened,
- 6 and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.
- 7 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,
- 8 and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 666 – Shalom to You
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-07-30
The Great Harvest
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sep 10 after worship – Ice Cream Social
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Joel 3:12-14, 16 ESV
- 12 Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
- 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
- 14 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- 16 The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 601 – Thy Word Is a Lamp
- Shout to the Lord – © 1993 Wondrous Worship
- UMH 70 – Glory Be to the Father
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2158 – Just a Closer Walk with Thee
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The Great Harvest” – [Revelation 14:12-20 ESV]
- 12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
- 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
- 14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
- 15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
- 16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
- 17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
- 18 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”
- 19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
- 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- TFWS 2223 – They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-06-25
The Great Battle on Earth
- Welcome | Announcements
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Jul 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Psalm 121 ESV
- 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
- 2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
- 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
- 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- 5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
- 6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
- 7 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
- 8 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 171 – There’s Something About That Name 2x
- UMH 306 – The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done
- UMH 717 – The Battle Hymn of the Republic v1-4
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2025 – As the Deer
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The Great Battle on Earth” – [Revelation 12:13-17 ESV]
- 13 And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
- 14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
- 15 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
- 16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
- 17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 370 -Victory in Jesus
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-06-18
Satan Cast Out
- Welcome | Announcements
- Jun 23 @ 8am to 5pm – Garage Sale
- Jun 24 @ 8am to Noon – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Jul 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Psalm 148:11-14 ESV
- 11 Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
- 12 Young men and maidens together, old men and children!
- 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
- 14 ESV – He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD!
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 73 – O Worship the King
- UMH 144 – This Is My Father’s World
- TFWS 2071 – Jesus, Name above All Names (2x)
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 354 – I Surrender All v1,3,4
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Satan Cast Out” – [Revelation 12:7-12 ESV]
- 7 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,
- 8 but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
- 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world–he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
- 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
- 11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
- 12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 110 – A Mighty Fortress Is Our God v 1,3,4
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-06-11
The Woman and The Dragon
- Welcome | Announcements
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Jul 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Psalm 148:1-6 ESV
- 1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights!
- 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts!
- 3 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!
- 4 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
- 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created.
- 6 And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 103 – Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
- UMH 361 – Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
- Above All – © 1999 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2167 – More Like You
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The Woman and The Dragon” – [Revelation 12:1-6 ESV]
- 1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
- 2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.
- 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
- 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
- 5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
- 6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 368 – My Hope Is Built
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-06-04
The Seventh Trumpet
- Welcome | Announcements
- Jun 4 – Plano Methodist Church Special Offering
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night”
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Jul 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – OGRP 207 “The Light of Christ”
- Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
- For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
- And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
- And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.
- For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit
- For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 529 – How Firm a Foundation
- UMH 64 – Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
- Here I Am To Worship – © 2000 Thankyou Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2036 – Give Thanks
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The Seventh Trumpet” – [Revelation 11:15-19 ESV]
- 15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
- 16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,
- 17 saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
- 18 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
- 19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-05-28
The LORD’s Power Manifest in Real Time
- Welcome | Announcements
- May 31 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Jun 3 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- Jun 4 – Plano Methodist Church Special Offering
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night”
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- July 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Hebrews 1:1-4 ESV
- 1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
- 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
- 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
- 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 465 – Holy Spirit, Truth Divine
- TFWS 2191 – Eternal Father, Strong to Save
- 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
- Offering
- Choral Prayer Hymn
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The LORD’s Power Manifest in Real Time” – [Revelation 11:1-4 ESV]
- 1 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,
- 2 but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
- 3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 696 – America the Beautiful
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-05-21
Eating the Scroll?
- Welcome | Announcements
- May 24 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Jun 3 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- Jun 4 – Plano Methodist Church Special Offering
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night”
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- July 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – UMH 677 – Listen, Lord (A Prayer)
- O Lord, we come this morning knee-bowed and body-bent before thy throne of grace.
- O Lord – this morning – bow our hearts beneath our knees, and our knees in some lonesome valley.
- We come this morning like empty pitchers to a full fountain, with no merits of our own.
- O Lord, open up a window of heaven, and lean out far over the battlements of glory, and listen this morning.
- Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 512 – Stand By Me
- UMH 176 – Majesty, Worship His Majesty
- TFWS 2022 – Great Is the Lord
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 557 – Blest Be the Tie That Binds
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Eating the Scroll?” – [Revelation 10 ESV]
- 1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
- 2 He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
- 3 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
- 4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”
- 5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
- 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,
- 7 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.
- 8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
- 9 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”
- 10 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.
- 11 And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 580 – Lead On, O King Eternal
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-05-14
Angels and Trumpets (Part 3)
- Welcome | Announcements
- May 17 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- May 20 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- Jun 4 – Plano Methodist Church Special Offering
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night”
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- July 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – [Psalm 93 ESV]
- 1 The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
- 2 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
- 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
- 4 Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!
- 5 Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 526 – What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- UMH 328 – Surely the Presence of the Lord
- Blessed Be Your Name – © 2002 Thankyou Music
- Offering
- Choral Prayer Hymn
- Intercessory Prayer
- Baptism
- Sermon – “Angels and Trumpets (Part 3)” – [Revelation 9:13-21 ESV]
- 13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,
- 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
- 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
- 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
- 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
- 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
- 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
- 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
- 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 334 – Sweet, Sweet Spirit
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-05-07
Angels and Trumpets (Part 2)
- Welcome | Announcements
- May 10 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- May 20 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- Jun 4 – Plano Methodist Church Special Offering
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night”
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- July 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – [Psalm 104:1-5 ESV]
- 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
- 2 covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.
- 3 He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;
- 4 he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.
- 5 He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 154 – All Hail the Power of Jesus Name
- UMH 626 – Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
- TFWS 2034 – Blessed Be the Name of the Lord
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2160 – Into My Heart
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Angels and Trumpets (Part 2)” – [Revelation 9:1-12 ESV]
- 1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
- 2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
- 3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
- 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
- 5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.
- 6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
- 7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
- 8 their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;
- 9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
- 10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
- 11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
- 12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 571 – Go, Make of All Disciples
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-04-30
Angels and Trumpets (Part 1)
- Welcome | Announcements
- May 3 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- May 6 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- May 6 – Life Line Screening
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night” @ Northwestern Medicine Field in Geneva $8/person $10/parking
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- July 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Prelude (Choral Introit)
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – [1 Chronicles 16:24-27 ESV]
- 24 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
- 25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods.
- 26 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
- 27 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 140 – Great Is Thy Faithfulness
- UMH 404 – Every Time I Feel the Spirit
- Cornerstone – © 2011 Hillsong MP Songs
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2203 – In His Time
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Angels and Trumpets (Part 1)” – [Revelation 8:6-13 ESV]
- 6 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.
- 7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
- 8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
- 9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
- 10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
- 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
- 12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
- 13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 133 – Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-04-23
Seal 7
- Welcome | Announcements
- Apr 26 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- May 6 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- May 6 – Life Line Screening
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Prelude
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – [Psalm 96:1-6 ESV]
- 1 Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!
- 2 Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
- 3 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
- 4 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
- 5 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
- 6 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 378 – Amazing Grace
- In Christ Alone – © 2001 Thankyou Music
- TFWS 2074 – Shout to the Lord
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2167 – More Like You
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Seal 7” – [Revelation 8:1-5 ESV]
- 1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
- 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
- 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,
- 4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
- 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- TFWS 2002 – I Will Call upon the Lord
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-04-16
We Will Stand Before The Throne
- Welcome | Announcements
- Apr 16 @ 1pm – Bowl For Fun @ Plano Hometown Lanes $10 per person
- Apr 19 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- May 6 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- May 6 – Life Line Screening
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Prelude
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – UMH 321 – Sundays of Easter
- Almighty God, you give us the joy of celebrating our Lord’s resurrection.
- Give us also the joys of life in your service, and bring us at last to the full joy of life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 371 – I Stand Amazed in the Presence
- UMH 298 – When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
- UMH 308 – Thine Be the Glory
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 389 – Freely, Freely
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “We Will Stand Before The Throne” – [Revelation 7 ESV]
- 1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.
- 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,
- 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
- 4 And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
- 5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
- 6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
- 7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
- 8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.
- 9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
- 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
- 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
- 13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”
- 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- 15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
- 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
- 17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 399 – Take My Life, and Let It Be
- Benediction
- Postlude
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2023-04-09
It’s Not a Lie!
- Welcome | Announcements
- Apr 12 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Apr 15 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- May 6 – Life Line Screening
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- Prelude (Choral Introit @ sunrise service)
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – UMH – 320 – Easter Vigil or Day
- Almighty God, through Jesus Christ you overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life.
- Grant that we, who celebrate the day of our Lord’s resurrection, may, by the renewing of your Spirit arise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 302 – Christ the Lord Is Risen Today v 1-4
- UMH 304 – Easter People, Raise Your Voices
- UMH 322 – Up from the Grave He Arose
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- At The Cross (Love Ran Red) – © Countless Wonder Publishing
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “It’s Not a Lie!”
- [Acts 13:26-35, 46-48 ESV]
- 26 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
- 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
- 28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
- 29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
- 30 But God raised him from the dead,
- 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
- 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
- 33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
- 34 And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
- 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’
- …
- 46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
- 47 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'”
- 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
- [1 Corinthians 15:1-7, 12-22 ESV]
- 1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
- 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain.
- 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
- 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
- 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
- 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
- 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
- …
- 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
- 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
- 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
- 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
- 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
- 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
- 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
- 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
- [Romans 5:6-10 ESV]
- 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person–though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die–
- 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
- 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 310 – He Lives
- Benediction
- Postlude
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