Lord’s Supper Order of Service

Prelude

Welcome

Prayer of Invocation

Call to Worship: Isaiah 55:1-7  

Hymn 79 Ho! Ye That Thirst

Responsive Scripture Reading: 80 Psalm 25:6-9

New Song: His Mercy is More. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsjA5Yf8XA

Scripture Reading:  Acts 26:4-23

Testimony of Salvation

Hymn  232 I Will Sing of My Redeemer

Prayer for Missionary

Homily

Fence

Hymn  88 God Be Merciful to Me

Prayer of Consecration

Distribution of Elements – Hymn  224 Before the Throne of God Above, 235 My Jesus I Love Thee

Closing Hymn  His Mercy is More

Benediction

Postlude

Order of Service 01/09

Discouraged runners tend to drop out. After having given us the theological reasons to keep running, the writer now turns to the practical act of calling upon us to encourage each other in Hebrews 12:12-17.

Psalm 42 calls us to worship, where one who was discouraged and disheartened learned to look up and out at God. We can be encouraged that our Great High Priest has our name graven on his hands and written on His heart, so we sing of that in “Before the Throne of God”.

The writer of Hebrews quotes Isaiah 35 in Hebrews 12:12, so we read this Scripture as our Old Testament reading.

We then have the joy of a child dedication.

Galatians 5:22-6:10 records the way believers may exhort each other. After prayer, we offer God both our sacrifices of labour and of praise, with the consoling hymn “Jesus, Lover of My Soul”.

After meditating together on Hebrews 12, we depart with a sung and spoken benediction.

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Prelude

 

Hymn 13 Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow

Announcements

Call to Worship:   Psalm  42

Prayer of Invocation

Song 7 Before the Throne of God

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 35:1-10

Child Dedication

Scripture Reading:  Galatians 5:22-6:10

Pastoral Prayer

Offering: Hymn 321 Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Sermon: Hebrews 12:12-17 The Protection of Exhortation

Hymn 345 May the Grace of Christ Our Saviour

Benediction

Postlude

Order of Service 25/08

Running a long race can be discouraging. Today’s text in Hebrews 12:5-11 encourages us to consider that the pain of training is parental in nature, and deliberate in design.

We begin with Psalm 107, in which we see God’s deliberate ordering of circumstances to cause men to “cry out” to the Lord is humble faith. We agree with the psalmist  that “men should give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!” We then sing of this goodness in the hymn “It Is Well With My Soul”.
Our Old Testament reading is Psalm 73, where Asaph compared his life to that of the unbeliever and thought it unfair – until he understood that God’s designs for His children are very different than those for the unsaved. Those who are in Christ can sing “How Firm a Foundation” of the promises of God, since God designs “our dross to consume, and our gold to refine” in the fire of trials. Though “God Moves In a Mysterious Way”, we can trust His designs. Our second reading describes how Paul found out the Fatherly purpose of his trial, in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10.
After petitionary prayer, we present our offering, and sing our hymn of the month “My Song is Love Unknown”. We then study Hebrews 12:5-11, and close with “What God Ordains Is Always Good.”

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Hymn 12 Glory Be to the Father

Announcements

Call to Worship: Psalm 107:1-15

Prayer of Invocation

Hymn 214 It Is Well With My Soul

Scripture Reading: Psalm 73:1-28

Hymn 241 How Firm a Foundation

Hymn 325 God Moves in a Mysterious Way

Scripture Reading: 2 Cor 12:1-10

Pastoral Prayer

Offering: Hymn 142 My Song is Love Unknown

Sermon: Hebrews 12:5-11 The Perfecting Pain of God’s Parenting

Song 36 What God Ordains Is Always Good

Benediction

Postlude

Order of Service 18/08

Hebrews 12:1-4 are justly celebrated as magnificent verses encouraging endurance, by fixing our eyes upon Jesus, the Finisher of the Faith. We do that this morning in corporate worship. We are called to worship by Psalm 47. We then exalt our King by singing of His perfections as Final Prophet, Priest, and King, in “Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour”.

Our reading from the Tanakh is a Messianic prophecy that Messiah would “set His face as a flint” and persevere to the end. We can run with endurance, because He did. We follow this up with a folk hymn that anticipates finishing the race, because our hope is that “To Be With Christ” is better far. We add a doxology to this with “Glory Be to the Father”.

Our New Testament reading contains the promise that overcomers, those who finish, will inherit the glories and joys of the New Jerusalem. For the joy set before us, we endure. We then pray as a church family, before offering our gifts, while singing our hymn of the month, “My Song is Love Unknown”. We then study Hebrews 12:1-4, and finish with the hymn “May the Mind of Christ My Saviour”. We depart with God’s blessing.

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Prelude

Song 31 Speak O Lord

Announcements

Call to Worship: (Hymn 38) Psalm 47:1-2, 5-6

Prayer of Invocation

Hymn 192 Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour

Scripture Reading: Psalm 50:4-10

Song 35 To Be With Christ

Hymn 12 Glory Be to the Father

Scripture Reading:  Revelation 21:1-7

Pastoral Prayer

Offering: Hymn 142 My Song is Love Unknown

Sermon: Hebrews 12:1-4 Faithful to the Finisher of the Faith – to the Finish!

Hymn 250 May the Mind of Christ, My Saviour

Benediction

Postlude

Order of Service 11/08

Prelude

Song Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery

Announcements

Call to Worship: Psalm 119:65-69

Prayer of Invocation

Hymn 10 Come Thou Almighty King

Scripture Reading: Exodus 14:5-31

Hymn 216 My Hope is Built on Nothing Less

Hymn 142 My Song is Love Unknown

Scripture Reading: John 5:39-47

Pastoral Prayer

Offering

Sermon: Hebrews 11:23-40: Faith From Moses to Messiah

Hymn 260 Am I a Soldier of the Cross?

Benediction

Postlude

Lord’s Supper Order of Service 04/08

Prelude

Welcome

Prayer of Invocation

Call to Worship:  Revelation 5:6-12

Hymn 197 Behold the Glories of the Lamb

New Hymn 142 My Song is Love Unknown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv7OZSoA22w

CCD Declaration #15

Scripture Reading: James 4:8-10

Hymn 76 How Sad Our State

Silent Prayer

Prayer of Confession

Scripture Reading: Romans 5:1-2

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Hymn 232 I Will Sing of My Redeemer

Fence

Prayer of Consecration

Distribution of Elements – Hymn 229 And Can It Be; Hymn 212 Here is Love

Closing Hymn 250 May the Mind of Christ, My Saviour

Benediction

Postlude

Order of Service 04/08

To walk by faith is to lovingly draw near to God for the hope of His excellent glory. Hebrews 11:8-22, our sermon text, illustrates what faith looks like.

We are called by God to worship Him through a reading of Psalm 100. We then unite our voices in the triumphant hymn, “Come Christians Join to Sing”.

Our Old Testament reading gives us the dramatic account of Abraham offering up Isaac in obedient faith. We then sing praise to Abraham’s God in “The God of Abraham Praise”. We follow this with a paraphrase of Psalm 23, “Good Shepherd of My Soul” where David teaches us that the life of a believer is one of a sheep following the Lord in trusting faith.

Our New Testament reading in 2 Corinthians teaches us the difference between walking by faith and walking by sight. We then lift our hearts in faith and pray a petitionary prayer together. Our faith responds to God in giving, while we prepare our hearts with “Speak, O Lord”. We put out the welcome mat for God’s Word, before closing with the doxology and benediction.

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Prelude

Song 33 Thou Art Worthy O Lord

Call to Worship: Responsive Reading 15 (Psalm 100)

Prayer of Invocation

Hymn 190 Come Christians Join to Sing

Scripture Reading: Genesis 22:1-19

Hymn 7 The God of Abraham Praise (6 stanzas)

Song 17 Good Shepherd of My Soul

Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:9

Pastoral Prayer

Offering: Congregational Song 31 Speak, O Lord

Sermon: Hebrews 11:8-22: The Faith of the Patriarchs

Announcements

Hymn 13 Doxology

Benediction

Postlude