August 9, 2026

Ephesians 1:3-7

Order of Worship

August 9, 2026

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

Psalm 145G Blue Psalter, pg 952

We Will Extol You, God and King
1. We will extol you, God and King, and bless your holy name.
Day after day we’ll sing your praise, forever and forever.

Chorus: One generation will call to the next:

“Our God is good and his hand is strong!”

All of the world sings his marvelous acts

And our voice will join with theirs in the song.
1. Great is the Lord! In all his ways he’s greatly to be praised.
Were we to search for endless days, his greatness none could fathom.

(repeat chorus)
1. We contemplate the splendor of the world your hand has made.
Far greater still the majesty we see in the Creator!

(repeat chorus)
1. Now may your name be sung in every tongue in every place.
Singing the fame of your great love in ev’ry generation.

(repeat chorus)

Words: Greg Sheer ©2006 Faith Alive Christian Resources

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading: I Peter 2:2-10

² Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

⁴ As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

⁵ you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁶ For it stands in Scripture: ‘Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.’

⁷ So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,’

⁸ and ‘A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.’ They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (ESV).

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

Westminster Confession of Faith

3.2-6 – Of God’s Eternal Decree

2. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet has he not decreed anything because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.

3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death.

4. These angels and men, thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

5. Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, has chosen, in Christ, unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith, or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes moving him thereunto; and all to the praise of his glorious grace.

6. As God has appointed the elect unto glory, so has he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.

We Respond to God’s Presence

I Come by the Blood

You are the perfect and righteous God Whose presence bears no sin

You bid me come to Your holy place

How can I enter in When Your presence bears no sin?

Through Him, who poured out His life for me, The atoning Lamb of God

Through Him, and His work alone I boldly come

Chorus: I come by the blood, I come by the cross

Where Your mercy flows, From hands pierced for me

For I dare not stand on my righteousness

My every hope rests on what Christ has done

And I come by the blood

You are the high and exalted King, The One the angels fear

So far above me in every way, Lord, how can I draw near

To the One the angels fear?

Through Him who laid down His life for me And ascended to Your side

Through Him, through Jesus alone I boldly come

Chorus: I come by the blood, I come by the cross

Where Your mercy flows, From hands pierced for me

For I dare not stand on my righteousness

My every hope rests on what Christ has done

And I come

Chorus: I come by the blood, I come by the cross

Where Your mercy flows, From hands pierced for me

For I dare not stand on my righteousness

My every hope rests on what Christ has done

And I come by the blood

1994 Word Music, LLC (a div. of Word Music Group, Inc.) Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by Word Music Group, Inc.)

Blessed Be Our God and Father

Verse 1

Blessed be our God and Father who has filled our lives with blessing:

Every gift from heaven’s fullness now is ours in Jesus Christ.

Oh, what riches of His favor poured out freely from His throne!

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace.

Verse 2

Blessed be our God and Father who before the world’s foundation

Knew He’d make us pure and blameless, changing sinners into saints.

Oh, what mercy to be chosen and in love to bear His name!

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace.

Chorus:

Hallelujah! To Your name be all the glory!

Hallelujah! To Your name be all praise!

Verse 3

Blessed be our God and Father who with unimagined kindness

Gave His only Son to save us for the glory of His name.

Oh, what power in His passion, raised from death to endless reign!

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace.

Repeat Chorus twice

Words and music by Jon Althoff and David Zimmer © 2026 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI), adm. by Integrity Music. Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches. ARR CCLI #7276929

Lord, from Sorrows Deep I Call

Lord, from sorrows deep I call when my hope is shaken;

Torn and ruined from the fall, hear my desperation.

For so long I’ve pled and prayed: God, come to my rescue!

Even so the thorn remains; still my heart will praise you.

Chorus: Oh, my soul, put your hope in God;

My help, my Rock, I will praise him.

Sing, oh, sing through the raging storm.

You’re still my God, my salvation.

Storms within my troubled soul, questions without answers;

On my faith these billows roll; God, be now my shelter.

Why are you cast down, my soul? Hope in him who saves you!

When the fires have all grown cold, cause this heart to praise you.

(Repeat Chorus)

Should my life be torn from me, ev’ry worldly pleasure,

When all I possess is grief, God, be then my treasure.

Be my vision in the night, be my hope and refuge,

Till my faith is turned to sight; Lord, my heart will praise you!

(Repeat Chorus Twice)

Words & Music: Matt Boswell, Matt Papa © 2018 Getty Music Hymns and Songs / Getty Music Publishing / Love Your Enemies Publishing / Messenger Hymns (Capitol CMG Publishing / www.capitolcmgpublishing.com)

Children’s Lesson

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

Today’s Message

“Everyone Wants to Belong” – Part II

Ephesians 1:3-7

Rev. Dr. Don Galardi

Notes

I. Introduction

A. Belonging

B. Election and Predestination – Explicitly taught

C. Key Words

D. Views of Election

E. Thoughts for Reflection

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

I Sought the Lord

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew

He moved my soul to seek him, seeking me;

It was not I that found, O Savior true;

No, I was found, was found of thee.

It was not I that found, O Savior true;

No, I was found, was found of thee.

Thou didst reach forth thy hand and mine enfold;

I walked and sank not on the storm-vexed sea;

'Twas not so much that I on thee took hold,

As thou, dear Lord, took hold on me.

'Twas not so much that I on thee took hold,

As thou, dear Lord, took hold on me.

I find, I walk, I love; but, oh, the whole

Of love is but my answer, Lord, to thee!

For thou wert long beforehand with my soul;

Always, always thou lovedst me.

For thou wert long beforehand with my soul;

Always, always thou lovedst me.

Public Domain

Benediction

Order of Worship

August 9, 2026

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

Psalm 145G Blue Psalter, pg 952

We Will Extol You, God and King
1. We will extol you, God and King, and bless your holy name.
Day after day we’ll sing your praise, forever and forever.

Chorus: One generation will call to the next:

“Our God is good and his hand is strong!”

All of the world sings his marvelous acts

And our voice will join with theirs in the song.
1. Great is the Lord! In all his ways he’s greatly to be praised.
Were we to search for endless days, his greatness none could fathom.

(repeat chorus)
1. We contemplate the splendor of the world your hand has made.
Far greater still the majesty we see in the Creator!

(repeat chorus)
1. Now may your name be sung in every tongue in every place.
Singing the fame of your great love in ev’ry generation.

(repeat chorus)

Words: Greg Sheer ©2006 Faith Alive Christian Resources

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading: I Peter 2:2-10

² Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

⁴ As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

⁵ you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁶ For it stands in Scripture: ‘Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.’

⁷ So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,’

⁸ and ‘A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.’ They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (ESV).

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

Westminster Confession of Faith

3.2-6 – Of God’s Eternal Decree

2. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet has he not decreed anything because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.

3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death.

4. These angels and men, thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

5. Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, has chosen, in Christ, unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith, or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes moving him thereunto; and all to the praise of his glorious grace.

6. As God has appointed the elect unto glory, so has he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.

We Respond to God’s Presence

I Come by the Blood

You are the perfect and righteous God Whose presence bears no sin

You bid me come to Your holy place

How can I enter in When Your presence bears no sin?

Through Him, who poured out His life for me, The atoning Lamb of God

Through Him, and His work alone I boldly come

Chorus: I come by the blood, I come by the cross

Where Your mercy flows, From hands pierced for me

For I dare not stand on my righteousness

My every hope rests on what Christ has done

And I come by the blood

You are the high and exalted King, The One the angels fear

So far above me in every way, Lord, how can I draw near

To the One the angels fear?

Through Him who laid down His life for me And ascended to Your side

Through Him, through Jesus alone I boldly come

Chorus: I come by the blood, I come by the cross

Where Your mercy flows, From hands pierced for me

For I dare not stand on my righteousness

My every hope rests on what Christ has done

And I come

Chorus: I come by the blood, I come by the cross

Where Your mercy flows, From hands pierced for me

For I dare not stand on my righteousness

My every hope rests on what Christ has done

And I come by the blood

1994 Word Music, LLC (a div. of Word Music Group, Inc.) Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by Word Music Group, Inc.)

Blessed Be Our God and Father

Verse 1

Blessed be our God and Father who has filled our lives with blessing:

Every gift from heaven’s fullness now is ours in Jesus Christ.

Oh, what riches of His favor poured out freely from His throne!

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace.

Verse 2

Blessed be our God and Father who before the world’s foundation

Knew He’d make us pure and blameless, changing sinners into saints.

Oh, what mercy to be chosen and in love to bear His name!

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace.

Chorus:

Hallelujah! To Your name be all the glory!

Hallelujah! To Your name be all praise!

Verse 3

Blessed be our God and Father who with unimagined kindness

Gave His only Son to save us for the glory of His name.

Oh, what power in His passion, raised from death to endless reign!

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace.

Repeat Chorus twice

Words and music by Jon Althoff and David Zimmer © 2026 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI), adm. by Integrity Music. Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches. ARR CCLI #7276929

Lord, from Sorrows Deep I Call

Lord, from sorrows deep I call when my hope is shaken;

Torn and ruined from the fall, hear my desperation.

For so long I’ve pled and prayed: God, come to my rescue!

Even so the thorn remains; still my heart will praise you.

Chorus: Oh, my soul, put your hope in God;

My help, my Rock, I will praise him.

Sing, oh, sing through the raging storm.

You’re still my God, my salvation.

Storms within my troubled soul, questions without answers;

On my faith these billows roll; God, be now my shelter.

Why are you cast down, my soul? Hope in him who saves you!

When the fires have all grown cold, cause this heart to praise you.

(Repeat Chorus)

Should my life be torn from me, ev’ry worldly pleasure,

When all I possess is grief, God, be then my treasure.

Be my vision in the night, be my hope and refuge,

Till my faith is turned to sight; Lord, my heart will praise you!

(Repeat Chorus Twice)

Words & Music: Matt Boswell, Matt Papa © 2018 Getty Music Hymns and Songs / Getty Music Publishing / Love Your Enemies Publishing / Messenger Hymns (Capitol CMG Publishing / www.capitolcmgpublishing.com)

Children’s Lesson

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

Today’s Message

“Everyone Wants to Belong” – Part II

Ephesians 1:3-7

Rev. Dr. Don Galardi

Notes

I. Introduction

A. Belonging

B. Election and Predestination – Explicitly taught

C. Key Words

D. Views of Election

E. Thoughts for Reflection

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

I Sought the Lord

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew

He moved my soul to seek him, seeking me;

It was not I that found, O Savior true;

No, I was found, was found of thee.

It was not I that found, O Savior true;

No, I was found, was found of thee.

Thou didst reach forth thy hand and mine enfold;

I walked and sank not on the storm-vexed sea;

'Twas not so much that I on thee took hold,

As thou, dear Lord, took hold on me.

'Twas not so much that I on thee took hold,

As thou, dear Lord, took hold on me.

I find, I walk, I love; but, oh, the whole

Of love is but my answer, Lord, to thee!

For thou wert long beforehand with my soul;

Always, always thou lovedst me.

For thou wert long beforehand with my soul;

Always, always thou lovedst me.

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