2024-04-14

Posted on Apr 13, 2024 in Bulletin |

Miracles Change the Heart

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
    • Apr 14 @ 1pm – Bowl for Fun – Plano Hometown Lanes
    • May 4 @ 9am – Womens Retreat “Nurturing The Garden of Your Soul”
    • May 8 @ 6:30pm – Missions (Mao Her)
    • May 11 @ 9am – Church Spring Cleaning
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Colossians 3:1-4 ESV
    • 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
    • 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
    • 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
    • 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 419 – I Am Thine, O Lord
    • UMH 156 – I Love to Tell the Story
    • We Believe – © Integrity Worship Music; Integrity’s Praise! Music; Life Worship; Travis Ryan Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 357 – Just as I Am, Without One Plea
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Miracles Change the Heart” – [Acts 9:32-43 ESV]
    • 32 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
    • 33 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.
    • 34 And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.
    • 35 And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
    • 36 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
    • 37 In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
    • 38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Please come to us without delay.”
    • 39 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
    • 40 But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
    • 41 And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
    • 42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. 43 And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 389 – Freely, Freely
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-04-07

Posted on Apr 6, 2024 in Bulletin |

Fear of the Lord, Bold preaching, One Heart=Growth

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
    • Apr 14 @ 1pm – Bowl for Fun – Plano Hometown Lanes
    • May 4 @ 9am – Womens Retreat “Nurturing The Garden of Your Soul”
    • May 11 @ 9am – Church Spring Cleaning
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Special Music
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 150 ESV
    • 1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!
    • 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!
    • 3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
    • 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
    • 5 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
    • 6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 400 – Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
    • King of Kings – © 2019 Hillsong Music Publishing Australia
    • Our God – © 2010 Atlas Mountain Songs
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 354 – I Surrender All
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Fear of the Lord, Bold preaching, One Heart=Growth” – [Acts 9:26-31 ESV]
    • 26 And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
    • 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
    • 28 So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.
    • 29 And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him.
    • 30 And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
    • 31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 364 – Because He Lives
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-03-31

Posted on Mar 30, 2024 in Bulletin |

The Scriptures Fulfilled

  • Choral Introit
  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
    • Apr 14 @ 1pm – Bowl for Fun – Plano Hometown Lanes
    • May 4 @ 9am – Womens Retreat “Nurturing The Garden of Your Soul”
    • May 11 @ 9am – Church Spring Cleaning
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – John 14:5-6 ESV
    • 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
    • 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 302 – Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
    • UMH 322 – Up from the Grave He Arose
    • UMH 304 – Easter People, Raise Your Voices
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 301 – Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “The Scriptures Fulfilled”
    • [Genesis 3:1-24 ESV]
    • 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
    • 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
    • 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'”
    • 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
    • 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
    • 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
    • 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
    • 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
    • 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
    • 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
    • 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
    • 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
    • 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
    • 14 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
    • 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
    • 16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
    • 17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
    • 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
    • 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
    • 20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
    • 21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
    • 22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever–“
    • 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
    • 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
    •  
    • [John 20:1-10 ESV]
    • 1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
    • 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
    • 3 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb.
    • 4 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
    • 5 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
    • 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there,
    • 7 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.
    • 8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
    • 9 for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
    • 10 Then the disciples went back to their homes.
    •  
    • [Luke 24:25-27 ESV]
    • 25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
    • 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
    • 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
    •  
    • [Matthew 27:51-53 ESV]
    • 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
    • 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
    • 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
    •  
    • [1 Corinthians 15:1-7 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.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 310 – He Lives
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-03-24

Posted on Mar 23, 2024 in Bulletin |

Arrival of The True King

  • Choral Introit
  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
    • Mar 28 @ 7pm – Maundy Thursday – Stations of The Cross
    • Mar 29 @ 7pm – Good Friday Service
    • Mar 31 @ 6:30apm – Easter Sunrise Service
    • Apr 14 @ 1pm – Bowl for Fun – Plano Hometown Lanes
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 8:1-6 ESV
    • 1 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!
    • 2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
    • 3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
    • 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
    • 5 Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.
    • 6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,
    • 7 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
    • 8 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,
    • 9 to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones.
    • Praise the LORD!
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 280 – All Glory, Laud, and Honor
    • Above All – © 1999 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music
    • TFWS 2160 – Into My Heart
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 159 – Lift High the Cross
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Arrival of The True King”
    • [Luke 19:28-40 ESV]
    • 28 And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
    • 29 When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,
    • 30 saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.
    • 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.'”
    • 32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.
    • 33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
    • 34 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”
    • 35 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.
    • 36 And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
    • 37 As he was drawing near–already on the way down the Mount of Olives–the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,
    • 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
    • 39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
    • 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
    •  
    • [Zechariah 9:9-13 ESV]
    • 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
    • 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
    • 11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
    • 12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.
    • 13 For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 308 – Thine Be the Glory
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-03-17

Posted on Mar 23, 2024 in Bulletin |

I Have Overcome The World

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
    • Mar 23 @ 6:30pm – Game Night
    • Mar 28 @ 7pm – Maundy Thursday – Stations of The Cross
    • Mar 29 @ 7pm – Good Friday Service
    • Mar 31 @ 6:30apm – Easter Sunrise Service
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 8:1-6 ESV
    • To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
    • 1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
    • 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
    • 3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
    • 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
    • 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
    • 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 152 – I Sing The Almighty Power Of God
    • UMH 154 – All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name
    • At The Cross (Love Ran Red) – © Countless Wonder Publishing
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 328 – Surely The Presence Of The Lord
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “I Have Overcome The World” – [John 16:25-33 ESV]
    • 25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
    • 26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
    • 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
    • 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
    • 29 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!
    • 30 Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
    • 31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
    • 32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
    • 33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2162 – Grace Alone
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-03-10

Posted on Mar 9, 2024 in Bulletin |

Testimony Sunday

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Kids & Adults)
    • Mar 23 @ 6:30pm – Game Night
    • Mar 28 @ 7pm – Maundy Thursday – Stations of The Cross
    • Mar 29 @ 7pm – Good Friday Service
    • Mar 31 @ 6:30apm – Easter Sunrise Service
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Matthew 10:18 ESV
    • 18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 64 – Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
    • UMH 98 – To God Be The Glory
    • 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2166 – Christ Beside Me
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Testimony Sunday”
    • Testimony – Jordyn
    • Testimony – Lori
    • Testimony – Linda
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2223 – They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-03-03

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.
    •  
    • [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?
    •  
    • [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

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2024-02-25

Posted on Mar 2, 2024 in Bulletin |

The Acts of Stephen

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School & Adult Sunday School
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
    • Mar 1 – Easter Lilies deadline
    • 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 – Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV
    • 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
    • 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Worship Hymns
    • We Believe – © Integrity Worship Music; Integrity’s Praise! Music; Life Worship; Travis Ryan Music
    • UMH 529 – How Firm A Foundation
    • UMH 641 – Fill My Cup Lord
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2215 – Cares Chorus x2
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Reading – Acts 7:1-53 ESV
  • Sermon – “The Acts of Stephen” – [Acts 7 ESV]
    • 1 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?”
    • 2 And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
    • 3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’
    • 4 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
    • 5 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
    • 6 And God spoke to this effect–that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
    • 7 ‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’
    • 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
    • 9 “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
    • 10 and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
    • 11 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
    • 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
    • 13 And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
    • 14 And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
    • 15 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,
    • 16 and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
    • 17 “But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
    • 18 until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.
    • 19 He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.
    • 20 At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house,
    • 21 and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
    • 22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
    • 23 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
    • 24 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.
    • 25 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.
    • 26 And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’
    • 27 But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
    • 28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
    • 29 At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
    • 30 “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
    • 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord:
    • 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
    • 33 Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
    • 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
    • 35 “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’–this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
    • 36 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
    • 37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’
    • 38 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
    • 39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
    • 40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
    • 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
    • 42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
    • 43 You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
    • 44 “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.
    • 45 Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,
    • 46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
    • 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
    • 48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
    • 49 “‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
    • 50 Did not my hand make all these things?’
    • 51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
    • 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
    • 53 you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”
    • 54 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.
    • 55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
    • 56 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
    • 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.
    • 58 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
    • 59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
    • 60 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2165 – Cry Of My Heart
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-02-18

Posted on Mar 2, 2024 in Bulletin |

Who’s Job Is It?

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Mon @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Sun @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
    • Mar 1 – Easter Lilies deadline
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Mark 10:43-45 ESV
    • 43 But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
    • 44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.
    • 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Worship Hymns
    • TFWS 2130 – The Summons
    • UMH 569 – We’ve A Story To Tell To The Nations
    • UMH 507 – Through It All
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2203 – In His Time
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Who’s Job Is It?” – [Acts 6:1-7 ESV]
    • 1 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.
    • 2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
    • 3 Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.
    • 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
    • 5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.
    • 6 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
    • 7 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 555 – Forward Through the Ages
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-02-11

Posted on Mar 2, 2024 in Bulletin |

The Name

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Sun @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
    • Feb 12 @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Feb 14 @ 5:30pm – Soup and Bread Supper
    • Feb 14 @ 7pm – Ash Wednesday Service
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Special Music
  • Reading – Acts 5:17-30 ESV
    • 17 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy
    • 18 they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.
    • 19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,
    • 20 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
    • 21 And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
    • 22 But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,
    • 23 “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.”
    • 24 Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.
    • 25 And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
    • 26 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
    • 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,
    • 28 saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
    • 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
    • 30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
  • Call To Worship – Philippians 2:8-11 ESV
    • 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
    • 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
    • 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
    • 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Worship Hymns
    • In Christ Alone – © 2001 Thankyou Music
    • Jesus Messiah – © 2008 sixsteps Music
    • UMH 171 – There’s Something About That Name
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 526 – What A Friend We Have In Jesus
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “The Name”
    • [Acts 5:31-42 ESV]
    • 31 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
    • 32 And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
    • 33 When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
    • 34 But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.
    • 35 And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men.
    • 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
    • 37 After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.
    • 38 So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;
    • 39 but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,
    • 40 and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
    • 41 Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
    • 42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
    •  
    • [Ezekiel 20:14, 44 ESV]
    • 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
    • …
    • 44 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
    •  
    • [Isaiah 48:9, 11 ESV]
    • 9 “For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.
    • …
    • 11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
    •  
    • [Isaiah 66:5 ESV]
    • 5 Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name’s sake have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
    •  
    • [Psalm 25:11 ESV]
    • 11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
    •  
    • [Acts 9:16 ESV]
    • 16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
    •  
    • [Luke 21:17 ESV]
    • 17 You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.
    •  
    • [John 15:21 ESV]
    • 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 536 – Take The Name Of Jesus With You
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-02-04

Posted on Mar 2, 2024 in Bulletin |

We Can’t Hide The Truth

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Sun @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
    • Feb 5 @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Feb 14 @ 5:30pm – Soup and Bread Supper
    • Feb 14 @ 7pm – Ash Wednesday Service
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Choral Introit
  • Reading – Colossians 3:8-10 ESV
    • 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
    • 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
    • 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 139:1-6 ESV
    • To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
    • 1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
    • 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
    • 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
    • 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
    • 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
    • 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
  • Worship Hymns
    • TFWS 2002 – I Will Call Upon The Lord
    • Your Grace Is Enough – © 2003 Thankyou Music; spiritandsong.com
    • TFWS 2039 – Holy Holy
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2164 – Sanctuary
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “We Can’t Hide The Truth”
    • [Acts 5:1-11 ESV]
    • 1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
    • 2 and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
    • 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
    • 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
    • 5 When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.
    • 6 The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.
    • 7 After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
    • 8 And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”
    • 9 But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
    • 10 Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
    • 11 And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
    •  
    • [Exodus 17:1-7 ESV]
    • 1 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
    • 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
    • 3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
    • 4 So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
    • 5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
    • 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
    • 7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
    •  
    • [Leviticus 10:1-3 ESV]
    • 1 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them.
    • 2 And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
    • 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.'” And Aaron held his peace.
    •  
    • [Numbers 20:1-13 ESV]
    • 1 And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.
    • 2 Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
    • 3 And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!
    • 4 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
    • 5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”
    • 6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,
    • 7 and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
    • 8 “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.”
    • 9 And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
    • 10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”
    • 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
    • 12 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
    • 13 These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them he showed himself holy.
    •  
    • [Proverbs 6:17 ESV]
    • 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
    •  
    • [Proverbs 12:22 ESV]
    • 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
    •  
    • [Ephesians 4:21-25 ESV]
    • 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
    • 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
    • 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
    • 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
    • 25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2173 – Shine Jesus Shine
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-01-28

Posted on Jan 27, 2024 in Bulletin |

Prayer Is Non-negotiable

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Sun @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
    • Jan 29 @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Reading – Acts 4:1-10 ESV
    • 1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
    • 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
    • 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
    • 4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
    • 5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,
    • 6 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
    • 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
    • 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,
    • 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
    • 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead–by him this man is standing before you well.
  • Call To Worship – Romans 12:11-12 ESV
    • 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
    • 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 657 – This Is the Day
    • UMH 474 – Precious Lord, Take My Hand
    • Lord, I Need You – © 2011 sixsteps Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 496 – Sweet Hour of Prayer
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Special Music
  • Sermon – “Prayer Is Non-negotiable”
    • [Acts 4:23-31 ESV]
    • 23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
    • 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
    • 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
    • 26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’–
    • 27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
    • 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
    • 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,
    • 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
    • 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
    •  
    • [1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV]
    • 17 pray without ceasing,
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 352 – It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-01-21

Posted on Jan 20, 2024 in Bulletin |

Are We Seeing?

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Jan 22 @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
    • Jan 28 to Feb 4 @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Reading – Luke 13:10-13 ESV
    • 10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
    • 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.
    • 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.”
    • 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 1:1-6 ESV
    • 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
    • 2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
    • 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
    • 4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
    • 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
    • 6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 378 – Amazing Grace v 1,3,4,6
    • UMH 451 – Be Thou My Vision
    • Our God – © 2010 Atlas Mountain Songs
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 349 – Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus x2
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Special Music
  • Sermon – “Are We Seeing?” – Acts 3:1-10 ESV
    • 1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
    • 2 And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.
    • 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.
    • 4 And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.”
    • 5 And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
    • 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”
    • 7 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
    • 8 And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
    • 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God,
    • 10 and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 474 – Precious Lord, Take My Hand
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-01-14

Posted on Jan 13, 2024 in Bulletin |

Words, Witness, Salvation

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Jan 21 to Feb 4 @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
    • Jan 22 @ 6:30pm – Bible study
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Reading – Acts 4:32-37 ESV
    • 32 Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
    • 33 And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
    • 34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold
    • 35 and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
    • 36 Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,
    • 37 sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
  • Call To Worship – Philippians 1:12-14 ESV
    • 12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,
    • 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
    • 14 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 334 – Sweet, Sweet Spirit
    • Jesus – © 2016 Capitol CMG Paragon
    • Blessed Be Your Name – © 2002 Thankyou Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2167 – More Like You
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Words, Witness, Salvation” – Acts 2:42-47 ESV
    • 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
    • 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.
    • 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common.
    • 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
    • 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
    • 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2279 – The Trees of the Field
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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2024-01-07

Posted on Jan 6, 2024 in Bulletin |

Witnesses

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Jan 14 to Mar 1 – Heifer Project
    • Jan 14 @ 9am – Adult Sunday School (4 weeks)
    • Jan 22 @ 6:30pm – Bible study
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
    • Reading – Luke 2:1-12
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Acts 2:29-33 ESV
    • 29 “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
    • 30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne,
    • 31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
    • 32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
    • 33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 254 – We Three Kings
    • UMH 219 – What Child Is This
    • 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 393 – Spirit Of The Living God
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Witnesses” – Acts 1:1-10 ESV
    • 1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
    • 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
    • 3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
    • 4 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
    • 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
    • 6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
    • 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
    • 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
    • 9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
    • 10 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 251 – Go Tell It On The Mountain
  • Benediction
  • Postlude

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