July 13, 2025

Order of Worship

July 13, 2025

Welcome

Gathering the Family Together

Light of God

1. Light of God, come dwell within your people,

As intended from the dawn of time.

Make your goodness, echoed through creation, our desire;

Joy of The Divine.

Chorus:     Holy Spirit, break through our darkness,

Holy Spirit, breathe through our lives.

Light of God, come, radiant and glorious;

Perfect wisdom in this world today.

2. Light of God, come to Your fallen people,

As we follow in the steps of Christ.

May Your fragrance beautify Your people,

As we mirror our Creator’s light.                   (Repeat Chorus)

3. Light of God, come claim Christ’s stolen glory.

Burn the shadows with the flame of Truth.

May Your church rise, stars in the darkness,

Giving glory to the Lord of Light.                  (Repeat Chorus)

4. Light Divine, come Father of all beauty;

Son of goodness, Spirit of all Truth.

Move us, use us, people of Your vision,

As we wait for our returning King.                (Repeat Chorus)

“Light of God” by Keith & Kristyn Getty. Copyright © 2005 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing)

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                                                  2 John 1-3

¹ The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,

² because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:

³ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

God of the Word

Out of the babble that surrounds us, out of the chaos that’s within,

Where can we go to find our meaning? Is there a place we can begin?

God of the Word, now let the Word be spoken.

Word of our God, come visit us with grace.

Rise like a fragrance, like a chord of music, filling all this holy place.

Words and Music (SAN FRANCISCO): Ken Medema (b. 1943) © 1993 Ken Medema Music/Brier Patch Music

We Respond to God’s Presence

Let the Earth Resound

1. Let the earth resound with songs of praise

to the Father’s power and love;

For the One who set each star in place chose to set His heart on us.

To the One whose might gives victory, yet whose mercies never cease;

As the tapestry of history tells the story of His grace.

Chorus:

King Immortal Faithful God; Crowned with splendour, rich in love.

Let the heavens and the earth resound with songs of praise to You.

2. Let the earth be stilled before the sight of a Father’s sacrifice

That revealed the depths of love divine in the face of Jesus Christ.

Through a life of full obedience and a death in agony,

He removed the rebel’s punishment and He set the pris’ner free.

Repeat Chorus

3. Let the earth resound with songs of faith at the wonder yet to come,

When all sin and pain are put to death

and the Church and Christ are one.

When we stand as God’s great family and we meet the Father’s gaze,

And share in His eternal joy as we join in ceaseless praise.

Repeat Chorus

Copyright © 2005 Thankyou Music/Adm. by worshiptogether.com songs excl. UK & Europe, adm. by Kingsway Music. tym@kingsway.co.uk. CCLI #172212.

Psalm 45A                                                                  Blue Psalter, pg 278

For the Honor of Our King

Verse 1

For the honor of our King, every skill we have, we bring:

No one stirs the heart to sing like our royal Savior.

Verse 2

When he speaks, the truth is heard, grace and power in every word:

Falsehood trembles at the sword of our royal Savior.

Verse 3

Righteousness and joy are found, lasting justice will abound,

All because the King is crowned as our royal Savior.

Verse 4

See the splendor of Christ’s bride led in honor to his side—

Chosen, loved and beautified by her royal Savior.

Verse 5

Now, and to eternal days, all God’s people join to raise

One unending song of praise to our royal Savior

Words: Martin Leckebusch ©2002 Kevin Mayhew Ltd. Music (MONKLAND): J. Freylinghausen”s Geistreiches Gesangbuch, 1704; adapt. John Antes, ca. 1800; arr. John Wilkes, 1861, P.D.

The Greatest Commands

Verse 1 (Alto; All women first time through):

Love one another, for love is of God.

He who loves is born of God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God,

For God is love, God is love.

Verse 2 (Bass; All men first time through this section):

Love bears all things,

Believes all things,

Love hopes all things,

Endures all things.

Verse 3 (Tenor):

God is love, God is love, God is love.

God is love, God is love, God is love.

God is love, God is love, God is love.

God is love, God is love, God is love.

Verse 4 (Soprano):

Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.

With all thy soul, all thy strength, all thy mind.

Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,

For God is love, God is love, God is love.

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

Sermon Series: Route 66 – Redemption Road

“Christ is the Teacher of Life”

II John

Notes

I. Christ is the Teacher of _________________

(II John 1-4)

II. Christ is the Teacher of _________________.

(II John 5-6)

III. Christ’s Teaching Leads to _______________.

(II John 7-11)

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

We Are Called

Verse 1

Come! Live in the light! Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!

We are called to be light for the kingdom,

to live in the freedom of the city of God.

Refrain

We are called to act with justice.

We are called to love tenderly.

We are called to serve one another,

to walk humbly with God.

Verse 2

Come! Open your heart! Show your mercy to all those in fear!

We are called to be hope for the hopeless

so hatred and blindness will be no more.

Repeat Refrain

Verse 3

Sing! Sing a new song! Sing of that great day when all will be one!

God will reign, and we’ll walk with each other

as sisters and brothers united in love.

Repeat Refrain

Words and Music (WE ARE CALLED) David Haas (b 1957) ©1988 GIA Publications, Inc

Benediction