ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING
Call to Worship: Psalm 40:16-17
When we gather, we gather to seek God. God is not hidden or hiding, He has revealed himself in his Word through His Son and in the gathering of His people. So let me encourage you - don’t just sing, seek. Seek the God who reveals Himself, who draws near to those who draw near to Him. Let’s sing about who Jesus is, what He has done, and who He has called us to be:
ABIDE
O PRAISE THE NAME (ANASTASIS)
Sermon: Mark 9:14-32
Scripture tells us, that faith is a gift. So let me encourage you, the right response to God’s Word preached this morning is not: ‘I know what I’ll do, I’ll go and have more faith.’ You and I are incapable of drumming up faith in our own strength. And that is a bit offensive to our American sensibilities of wanting to try harder, do better, and pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. The failure to pray is an admission of our own pride and attempts and self-sufficiency. And I don’t want to leave this moment and say, ‘Go pray out there, but let’s pray right here and now.‘ Maybe that prayer needs to be a confession of sin, maybe that prayer for you needs to be silence as you listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to you, maybe that is a prayer that looks less like words and more like action as you walk in obedience to God as you are sent this morning. But let’s take a few moments to pray individually, and then we will use the words of these next songs to pray corporately.
ONLY A HOLY GOD
RAISE UP THE CROWN (ALL HAIL THE POWER)
Benediction