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Image: Theodoros Stamos, Infinity Field (1980-81)
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Ordinary Time
The Christian year is anchored in the main events of the New Testament, and it provides a pattern for understanding the Christian life. We are now in the season after Pentecost, known as “Ordinary Time.” Having celebrated the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church at Pentecost, Ordinary Time signals the interim of the Church until Christ comes again in glory. Jesus is faithfully advancing His Kingdom in the power of His Spirit in this season. We anticipate the consummation of all things when Christ comes in glory as King of all.
Preparation for Worship
“A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.”
Andrew Murray
Call to Worship I Peter 1:3-4
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.
Declaration of Faith The Heidelberg Catechism, Q & A 57 (1563)
How does “the resurrection of the body” comfort you?
Not only my soul will be taken immediately after this life to Christ its head,1 but even my very flesh, raised by the power of Christ, will be reunited with my soul and made like Christ’s glorious body. 2
1 Luke 23:43; Philippians 1:21-23; 2 I Corinthians 15:20, 42-46, 54; Philippians 3:21; I John 3:2
Song of Adoration: King of Saints (Hart/Wells)
Mission Update WEPC Missional Community Group Network
Song of Praise: You Will Find Me (Ripp)
Old Testament Reading Job 19:25-27
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see Him with my own eyes —I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
Confession of Sin
Our gracious Father, You sent Your Son to die and rise to new life in order that death might be brought to an end and that we too might live a new life. Yet foolishly, we have chosen death over life. In our thoughts, words and deeds we have rebelled against You and Your intentions for us. In so doing, we have broken our fellowship with You. Whose love is better than life and Whom to know is life itself. In so doing, we have hurt others, Sometimes unintentionally and sometimes deliberately, and have diminished their lives. In so doing, we have damaged ourselves who have been created to reflect Your beauty. Father, forgive us our sin for Jesus’ sake. And grant that The Spirit that brought our crucified Lord from death to resurrection might renew us after the image of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Silent Confession
Words of Encouragement Ephesians 2:4-7
Because of His great love for us, God, Who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Song of Praise: God Who Saves (Senseman)
Children’s Sermon
Sermon — Philippians 3:17-4:1
17 Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. 18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. 1Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
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Songs of Praise
Love Immeasurable (Long)
Psalm 130 (Luther / Miner)
Before the Throne of God Above (Smith / Cook)
Benediction
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