May 11, 2025

Order of Worship

May 11, 2025

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

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

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                             I Thessalonians 1:1-10

¹ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

² We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,

³ remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,

⁵ because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

⁷ so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

⁸ For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.

⁹ For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

The First Place

(Colossians 1:15-20)

Verse 1:

Jesus, the perfect picture of the unseen God.

Maker of things we cannot comprehend.

Wisdom, the earth displays your strength and beauty.

Sovereign, yes, every throne knows you are God.

Refrain:

Every inch of this universe belongs to you, O Christ.

For through you and for you it was made.

Your creation endures by the order of your hand.

So, you must have in all things the first place.

Verse 2:

Victor, over sin and death you triumphed.

First-born, you’ve shown us life beyond the grave.

Bridegroom, we long for you in expectation.

Jesus, your church rejoices to proclaim.

Repeat Refrain

Words: Matthew Westerholm © 1999 Matthew Westerholm. Music (THE FIRST PLACE irregular):Matthew Westerholm; arr. GregScheer © 1999 Matthew Westerholm.

We Respond to God’s Presence

Shout To The Lord

My Jesus, my Savior, Lord, there is none like you;

All of my days, I want to praise the wonders of Your mighty love.

My Comfort, my Shelter, Tower of Refuge and Strength;

Let every breath, all that I am, never cease to worship You.

Chorus:     Shout to the Lord, all the earth;

Let us sing power and majesty, Praise to the King.

Mountains bow down,

And the seas will roar at the sound of Your Name.

I sing for joy at the work of Your hands;

Forever I’ll love You, forever I’ll stand.

Nothing compares to the promise I have in You.

by Darlene Zschech ©  1993 Darlene Zschech/Hillsongs Australia, C/O Integrity Music, Inc. ARR CCLI #172212

For Your Gift of God the Spirit

1. For your gift of God the Spirit, power to make our lives anew,

Pledge of life and hope of glory, Savior, we would worship you.

Crowning gift of resurrection sent from your ascended throne,

Fullness of the very Godhead, come to make your life our own.

2. He who in creations’ dawning brooded on the lifeless deep,

Still across our nature’s darkness moves to wake our souls from sleep,

Moves to stir, to draw, to quicken, thrusts us through with sense of sin;

Brings to birth and seals and fills us—saving Advocate within.

3. He, himself the living Author, wakes to life the sacred Word,

Reads with us its holy pages and reveals our risen Lord.

He it is who works within us teaching rebel hearts to pray,

He whose holy intercessions rise for us both night and day.

4. He, the mighty God, indwells us; His to strengthen, help, empower;

His to overcome the tempter, ours to call in danger’s hour.

In his strength we dare to battle all the raging hosts of sin,

And by him alone we conquer foes without and foes within.

5. Father, grant your Holy Spirit in our hearts may rule today,

Grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered,

work in us his sovereign way.

Fill us with your holy fullness, God the Father, Spirit, Son;

In us, through us, then forever, shall your perfect will be done.

Words: Margaret Clarkson, 1959, © 1960 Hope Publishing Company. Music (FOR YOUR GIFT 8.7.8.7 D); Darwin Jordan © Darwin Jordan Music; arr. Marcus Hong. 2011, © Darwin Jordan Music

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 Our Coming King”

I & II Thessalonians

Notes

I. He ______________ Over History – His ___________ is Sure.

(I Thess. 1:9-10; 5:1-3; II Thess. 1:6-10)

II. He ______________ Our Hearts – His _____________ is Our Call.

(I Thess. 4:1-8; 5:23-24)

III. He _____________ His People – His _____________ is Our Hope.

(II Thess. 2:1-3; 13-17; 3:3-5)

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

Meekness and Majesty

1    Meekness and majesty, manhood and Deity

in perfect harmony, the Man who is God.

Lord of eternity dwells in humanity,

kneels in humility, and washes our feet.

Refrain:     Oh, what a mystery—meekness and majesty;

Bow down and worship, for this is your God.

2    Father’s pure radiance, perfect in innocence,

yet learns obedience to death on a cross,

Suffering to give us life, conquering through sacrifice,

and, as they crucify, prays,-“Father, forgive.”                (Refrain)

3    Wisdom unsearchable, God the invisible,

Love indestructible in frailty appears.

Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly,

lifts our humanity to the heights of his throne.         (Refrain)

Words & Music (MEEKNESS AND MAJESTY): Graham Kendrick  © 1986 ThankyouMusic (PRS), admin. Worldwide at EMICMG Publishing.com

Benediction