HOW GREAT THOU ART
Call to Worship: Psalm 96:1-6
African Church Father, Augustine said, ‘He who sings, prays twice.’ Our songs are more than words and music put together. Our songs are prayers. We pray the things we believe, we pray the things we need to believe, and we pray the things we desire to believe. And when we gather in this room we sing to God, but we sing to one another. We pray to God and we pray with and for one another. Even if you are not a singer, even if these songs are not familiar to you, don’t withhold your songs and prayers from your brothers and sisters in this room. We need to hear one another confess and profess these truths about who God is, what He has done, and who He has called us to be. Let’s pray and sing together:
CHRIST BE MAGNIFIED
SON OF SUFFERING
Sermon: James 5:13-18
The arms of Christ extended upon the cross are the same arms that invite you and me to draw near with confidence to the throne of grace to receive mercy and help in time of need. So let’s draw near with confidence together and confess our sin to God and to one another:

Merciful God,
We confess that we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed,
by what we have done, and what we have left undone.
We have nto loved You with our whole heart and mind and strength.
We have not loved our neightbors as ourselves.
In Your mercy, forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways, to the glory of Your holy name.
Through Christ, our Lord.
Amen.

Brothers and sisters, hear the good news: for those who are in Christ, there is a never-ending stream of mercy towards us in and through Christ. Let’s sing together: