HOW GREAT THOU ART
Call to Worship: Psalm 63:1-8
If you are here this morning with a heart like the Psalmist - desiring God, clinging to God - that is not something that you have created in and of yourself, that is a gift of God through the Holy Spirit to reshape your loves and desires, to aim your affections toward the person and work of Christ. And if you’re here this morning maybe for the first time, maybe you have been dragged here against your will, maybe you’re here because for as long as you can remember you go to church on Sunday, maybe you’re here feeling indifferent or apathetic to the things of the Lord - you too cannot create in yourself greater desire and affection for Christ. Let’s all use these next songs as prayers, asking the Holy Spirit to lift our eyes to treasure and love Jesus more deeply. This next song opened our gathering last week on Resurrection Sunday. We’ll sing these truths again about who Jesus is as ruling, reigning King.
FOREVER NOW A CROWN
GOD, YOU’RE SO GOOD
Sermon: John 16:4-15
Truth without feeling is cold and brittle. Feeling without truth is soft, We need to fill our minds with truth - but we also need our affections stirred for the person and work of Christ. Again, that is not a work that you can accomplish in yourself - that is the work of the Holy Spirit to give us eyes to see more of who Jesus is and to live in light of who he is and what he’s done. Would you stand if you’re able, we’ll sing together.
THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD
ONLY A HOLY GOD
Benediction
Liturgy
Resurrection Sunday: Liturgy + Set List
FOREVER NOW A CROWN
Call to Worship: 10th Presbyterian Church Call to Worship
CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY
LAMB OF GOD
Let’s confess what we celebrate as followers of Jesus. I will read the parts marked ‘Leader,’ together we’ll read the parts marked ‘All’:
LEADER: Alleluia! Christ is risen.
ALL: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!
LEADER: Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
ALL: He has given us new life and hope. He has raised Jesus from the dead.
LEADER: God has claimed us as his own.
ALL: He has brought us out of darkness. He has made us light to the world.
LEADER: Alleluia! Christ is risen.
ALL: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!—based on 1 Peter 1:3-5, the Worship Sourcebook
Sermon: Hebrews 2:14-18
If God in Christ had never stepped down from heaven, laying aside his glory, taken on his flesh and blood, lived the perfect life, died the death we deserve, become our sin, if none of those things had ever happened, God would still be worthy of our worship, adoration, and obedience. How much more, as followers of Jesus should we respond with worship, adoration, and obedience in light of the propitiation of Christ? We’re going to respond now as we sing about how Jesus is, what He has done, and who He has called us to be. Would you stand if you’re able…
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE BLOOD
NO BODY
Benediction
Good Friday: Liturgy + Set List
TRISAGION
Invitation to Rest
God, it is good to be near You.
Would you help me become aware of your presence and nearness in this moment?
Psalm 46:10
MAN OF SORROWS
Invitation to Remember
God, where was I far from You today? Whether in thought, word, or deed?
Hebrews 8:12
LAMB OF GOD
Invitation to Rejoice
God, would you show me how to endure in light of the fullness of joy, and pleasures forevermore promised to me as a follower of Christ?
Psalm 16:11
JESUS PAID IT ALL
Sermon: Leviticus 16
Invitation to Repent
God, in Your kindness would You lead me to repentance?
Romans 2:4
HOLY MEDLEY
Holy Is Our God/We Fall Down/Holy Forever/Open The Eyes of My Heart
COMMUNION MEDLEY
Lord, I Need You/Grace Alone/Thank You Jesus for the Blood
The Lord’s Supper
Book of Common Prayer Corporate Confession
Invitation to Request
Father, would You give me the ability to respond like Jesus: requesting of You honestly, while also in humility surrendering to Your will?
Matthew 26:39
SON OF SUFFERING
Benediction/Sending/Further Time of Reflection
24 March: Liturgy + Set List
TRISAGION
Call to Worship: Psalm 8
GOOD GOD
YET NOT I BUT THROUGH CHRIST IN ME
Book of Common Prayer Corporate Confession
Sermon: Colossians 1:15-20
The Apostles’ Creed
Baptism Affirmations
LIVING HOPE
Benediction
17 March: Liturgy + Set List
GOOD GOD
Call to Worship: Psalm 68:4-6, 19-20
Good morning and welcome to worship on this Lord’s Day, and this fifth Sunday in the season of Lent. During Lent, we remember our death and the sin that has won for us death. But more than that, we remember the life of Christ - the life that is ours through Christ - because God is a God of salvation.
GRACE ALONE
TRISAGION
BCP Corporate Confession
Sermon: Galatians 4:4-7
If you want to know what God the Father is like - look to the Son. Scripture says we see the glory of God in the face of the Son, and Jesus says in the gospels: if you know me you know the Father, because I have done nothing that I have not first heard and seen from the Father. And if you want to know the Son, look to the Spirit - who leads us into all truth, which is Jesus, who seals and guarantees our salvation, and who reminds us of who we are. Let’s use these next few songs as prayers of invitation, inviting the Spirit to move the truth we may know in our heads, down into our hearts, and to be embodied in our lives.
HOLY (JESUS YOU ARE)
HOW DEEP THE FATHER’S LOVE FOR US
Benediction
10 March: Liturgy & Set List
TRISAGION
Call to worship: Psalm 150
Welcome to this fourth Sunday during Lent, and this family worship weekend. Throughout the Psalms, the Psalmist speaks to his own heart reminding it of what is true, because our hearts do not always tell us the truth we need to tell them what to believe. This next song is a new one that speaks to our hearts about who God is, what He has done, and who he has called us to be…
GOOD GOD
HOLY FOREVER
Every week during the season of Lent we have taken time to confess our sins to God and to one another. Many times people believe they only need to confess their sin to God when they first accept they need a rescuer in Jesus. But the act of confession is not a one-time act, but the continual act of followers of Jesus. The Bible tells us that we are to confess our sins to God so that we might be forgiven and to our brothers and sisters so that we might be healed. Let’s confess our sins to God and one another:
LEADER:
Merciful God, for the wrong things that we have done,
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the right things that we have failed to do,
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the times we have acted without love
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the times we have reacted without thought
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the ways we have not loved You with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength
ALL:
Forgive us
A prayer of confession, especially mindful of Children, The Worship Sourcebook
Brothers and sisters, hear the Good News: if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Praise the Lord, amen.
Sermon: John 17:24
In the 1700s, Jonathan Edwards said:
God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light. And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light.
The apostle tells us that "God is love"; and therefore, seeing he is an infinite being, it follows that he is an infinite fountain of love.
Seeing he is an all-sufficient being, it follows that he is a full and overflowing, an inexhaustible fountain of love. And in that he is an unchangeable and eternal being, he is an unchangeable and eternal fountain of love.
There, even in heaven, dwells the God from whom every stream of holy love, yea, every drop that is, or ever was, proceeds. There dwells God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, united as one, in infinitely dear, and incomprehensible, and mutual and eternal love...
And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of
the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love.
Would you stand if you’re able as we sing to the fountain of all love…
DOXOLOGY (English/Spanish)
HYMN OF HEAVEN
Benediction
3 March: Liturgy & Set List
TRISAGION
Call to Worship: Psalm 119:25-34
Good morning, welcome to worship on this Lord’s Day, and this third Sunday in the season of Lent. Often one of the ways people observe this season is through fasting. Giving up temporary pleasures, small comforts, little places we seek to find life - but we also feast on the place we find true and abundant life - God’s Word. So let’s sing God’s word, read, pray, preach, and live God’s Word…
THE SOLID ROCK
KING OF KINGS
BCP Corporate Confession
Sermon: 2 Peter 1:16-21
The Apostles’ Creed
Communion
I STAND AMAZED (HOW MARVELOUS)
Benediction
25 February: Liturgy & Set List
GLORIOUS DAY
Call to Worship:
Welcome to worship on this Lord’s Day, and this second Sunday in the season of Lent. During Lent we reflect upon and repent of our sin, we reflect on te cross, and look with joy to the hope of the resurrection. So if you are here as a follower of Jesus you can sing words like ‘I ran out of the grave…’ not because of something you have done, but because of Christ’s completed work on your behalf. Let’s celebrate who Jesus is and what he’s done as we sing:
O PRAISE THE NAME (ANASTASIS)
TRISAGION
Take a few moments now to name and confess your sin to the Lord, turning from your sin, and turning toward Christ…
Let’s confess our sin to God and to one another:
Book of Common Prayer Corporate Confession
Sermon: Mark 15:40-16:8
Would you stand if you’re able? Buried with Christ in baptism into death, raised to newness of life - this is what we witness in baptism. And if you’re here as a follower of Christ, we are going to confess what we believe about our faith in the words of the Apostles’ Creed.
The Apostles’ Creed
Baptism Affirmations
Baptisms
NO BODY
Benediction
18 February: Liturgy & Set List
REJOICE
Call to Worship: Psalm 24
Welcome to this Lord’s Day and this first Sunday in the season of Lent. Lent is the forty days leading up to Resurrection Sunday - a time of reflection, repentance, and renewal where we consider our sins and the cross. So every week in the Lenten season we will confess our sins to God and one another in prayer and in song. Let’s sing these truths together:
TRISAGION
THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD
When we glimpse the glory, holiness, and otherness of God, we become all the more aware of our own sin, brokenness, and unholiness. So let’s take a few moments now to confess our sins to God and one another:
Book of Common Prayer Corporate Confession
Would you take a few moments in the quiet of your own heart to confess your sin to God…
Brothers and sisters, hear the good news: God does not treat us as our sins deserve.
Sermon: Nehemiah 8
Baptism
We have seen our sister confess and profess her faith through Baptism, and now together we will confess and profess our faith in the words of the Apostles’ Creed:
The Apostles’ Creed
I SHALL NOT WANT
BE THOU MY VISION
Benediction
11 February: Liturgy & Set List
HOLY HOLY HOLY
Call to Worship: Psalm 96
We ascribe to the Lord his value and worth, not because our recognition makes it any more or less true - not because God needs to be reminded of His own character, but because we forget these things are true. Let’s sing about the heart, character, and worth of our God:
PSALM 134 (BLESS THE LORD)
LAMB OF GOD
Sermon: Mark 15:1-39
Before sin was in the world, salvation was already present. God had sewn redemption and rescue into the story of humanity before the foundation of the world. And even into eternity - if you are a follower of Jesus - we will spend celebrating and worshiping in response to Christ’s completed work on the cross. Let’s put language to that reality as we sing together now. Would you stand if you’re able:
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE BLOOD
ALL HAIL KING JESUS
Benediction
4 February: Liturgy & Set List
ALL I HAVE IS CHRIST
Call to Worship: Psalm 25:1-15
We gather we after week to gaze upon the Lord, to follow the path of steadfast love and faithfulness that is ours in Christ. But that is not something we can do in our own strength, we need the empowering of the Spirit in us, but we also need one another. So as we sing this morning, don’t just look at the screen, don’t just close your eyes, look around at your brothers and sisters - sing encouraging them to keep to the path of steadfast love and faithfulness.
CHRIST BE MAGNIFIED
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE BLOOD
Sermon: Mark 14:53-72
Whether you are here this morning feeling the weight of sin and shame for your denial of Christ, or you are here this morning feeling like you have only ever followed Jesus at a distance, the invitation is the same: to draw near to the One who has first drawn near to us in Christ. Would you stand if you’re able, we’ll sing together.
THERE IS A REDEEMER
IS HE WORTHY
Benediction
21 January: Liturgy + Set List
PSALM 134 (BLESS THE LORD)
Call to Worship: Psalm 139:1-6, 15-18
God who created everything takes thought for you. And part of the reason we gather is to turn our thoughts, our attention, and our affection upon the Creator of all things.
HOW GREAT THOU ART
WHAT YOU SAID
All sin is rooted in unbelief - that God is not who he says he is, that he is holding out on you. We need to sing words like: ‘You are good, and everything you do is good, you are kind and everything you do is kind, you don’t fail, you haven’t and you never will,’ first, because it’s true - it is who God has revealed himself to be in his word and in his son. But even on my best day, and in my own strength I don’t believe these things - I need the Holy Spirit to remind me of these truths, I need my brothers and sisters to remind me of these truths when I don’t believe. We’re going to take a few moments now to 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 by what we have left undone.
We have not loved You with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors 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: The Lord who loves you says in his word that his anger is for a moment, but his favor is for a lifetime. Amen.
Sermon: Mark 14:10-25
The Lord’s Supper
The Apostles’ Creed
A THOUSAND HALLELUJAHS
Benediction