February 25, 2024

Order of Worship

Sunday, February 25, 2024

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Gathering the Family Together

It Is Well with My Soul

1. When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,

It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Refrain:    It is well, (It is well,) with my soul, (with my soul,)

It is well, it is well, with my soul.

2. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,

Let this blest assurance control,

That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,

And hath shed His own blood for my soul.             (Repeat Refrain)

3. My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought—

My sin—not in part but the whole,

Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!          (Repeat Refrain)

4. And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,

The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;

The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,

Even so—it is well with my soul.                            (Repeat Refrain)

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Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                                           Isaiah 53:8-12

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?

⁹ And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹ Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe:

My Hope Rests Firm

1. My hope rests firm on Jesus Christ, He is my only plea.

Though all the world should point and scorn,

His ransom leaves me free, His ransom leaves me free.

2. My hope sustains me as I strive and strain towards the goal;

Though still I stumble into sin,

His death paid for it all, His death paid for it all.

3. My hope provides me with a spur to help me run this race:

I know my tears will turn to joy the day I see His face,

The day I see His face.

4. My hope is to be with my Lord, to know as I am known;

To serve Him gladly all my days in praise before His throne,

In praise before His throne.

Copyright © 2001 Thankyou Music/Adm. by worshiptogether.com songs excl. UK & Europe, adm. by Kingsway Music. tym@kingsway.co.uk. Used by permission.

We Respond to God’s Presence

Magnificent, Marvelous, Matchless Love

1    Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love;

too vast and astounding to tell.

Forever existing in worlds above,

now offered and given to all.

Oh, fountain of beauty eternal;

the Father, the Spirit, the Son.

Sufficient and endlessly generous:

Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.

2    Creation is brimming with thankfulness,

the mountains, exultant they stand;

The seasons rejoice in Your faithfulness,

all life is sustained by Your hand.

You crown every meadow with color;

You paint every shade in the sky;

Each day the dawn wakes as an encore of

Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.

Refrain:    How great, how sure His love endures forevermore.

Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.

3    What grace, that you entered our brokenness;

You came in the fullness of time.

How far we had fallen from righteousness,

but not from the mercies of Christ.

Your cross is our door to redemption;

Your death is our fullness of life;

That day, how forgiveness flowed as a flood:

Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.

Refrain:    How great, how sure His love endures forevermore.

Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.

Bridge:      United in your resurrection, You lift us to infinite heights.

Could anything sever or take us from

magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.

Refrain:    How great, how sure; His love endures forevermore.

Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love. (Repeat Refrain)

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Children’s Sermon Song:

Jump into the Light

Verse:       Jump, Jump, Jump

Into The Light, Light, Light

Run, Run, Run Away

From What's Not Right

Jump, Jump, Jump

Out Of The Dark, Dark, Dark

Run To Jesus

And Give Him Your Heart                (Repeat Verse)

Chorus:     He Is The Light; He Is The Light

He Is The Light; The Light                     (Repeat Chorus)

Repeat the Verse.

“Jump Into the Light” Jana Alayra. Copyright Montjoy Music. www.janaalayra.com

Children’s Sermon

Pastoral Prayer

The basket to receive His tithes and our offerings

is located on the left as you leave the Sanctuary.

We Worship Through Hearing

Sermon Hymn:

All My Boast Is in Jesus

Verse 1

What wonder of wonders, what love is this; that Christ would die for me!

His goodness, His merit, His righteousness, this sinner’s only plea.

O foolish pride, be crucified; the work is finished!

Chorus:

All my boast is in Jesus; all my hope is His love.

And I will glory forever in what the Cross has done.

Verse 2

Now fully forgiven, my life is filled with graces underserved.

For mercy that flowed down that sacred hill, let praises now return.

Rise up, my soul, and bless the Lord! Who else is worthy?

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:

O, Praise the One, forever blessed! Him alone my heart adores.

And I will boast in nothing else than the love of Christ my Lord

Repeat Bridge

Verse 3

I boast not in riches, in strength or might, but in the grace of God.

I glory in weakness, to live is Christ in plenty or in want.

That I may know that all may see His power within me!

Repeat Chorus

Coda:

Now I stand in this freedom; ransomed, clean in His sight,

And I cannot be ashamed for my boast is Jesus Christ.

My boast is Jesus Christ. Forever, my boast is Jesus Christ.

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Today’s Message

“Make It So!”

John 3:16

Ron DeHaas

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

The Power of the Cross

Oh, to see the dawn Of the darkest day:

Christ on the road to Calvary.

Tried by sinful men, Torn and beaten, then

Nailed to a cross of wood.

Chorus:              This, the pow’r of the cross:

Christ became sin for us;

Took the blame, bore the wrath—

We stand forgiven at the cross.

Oh, to see the pain Written on Your face,

Bearing the awesome weight of sin.

Ev’ry bitter thought, Ev’ry evil deed

Crowning Your bloodstained brow.                     Repeat Chorus

Now the daylight flees; Now the ground beneath

Quakes as its Maker bows His head.

Curtain torn in two, Dead are raised to life;

“Finished!” the vict’ry cry.                                   Repeat Chorus

Oh, to see my name Written in the wounds,

For through Your suffering I am free.

Death is crushed to death; Life is mine to live,

Won through Your selfless love.

Final Chorus:    This, the pow’r of the cross:

Son of God—slain for us.

What a love! What a cost!

We stand forgiven at the cross.

by Keith Getty & Stuart Townend.  © 2005 Thankyou Music. CCLI #172212

Benediction