Guide for Home Worship
March 28, 2021
The following page will take you through the order of worship for this Sunday. To access the recorded songs and sermon, use the embedded audio players in each section.
Please note: the song and sermon audio may not be available until Saturday evening.
Printable Worship Guide
Printable Children’s Bulletin
Time of Reflection
“What happens the next morning [the triumphal entry] is not a spontaneous act of outrage but a planned demonstration. Planned for prime time and maximum exposure, it was a ‘demonstration’ calculated to interrupt business as usual and bring the nearness of God’s reign abruptly, forcefully, to the attention of all.”
~ R.T. France (1938-2012), New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric
“I really don’t see how any of us are going to be leaders of the sort that Jesus spoke of unless we completely divest ourselves of our popular notions today of self-actualization and self-esteem…. The best way to find out whether or not you really have a servant’s heart is to see what your reaction is when somebody treats you like one…. How do we expect to follow One Who took up a cross and not encounter suffering? He is not looking for heroics. He’s looking for those who are willing to follow him down that road of sorrows no matter how tiny the form that cross may take.”
~ Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015), Christian author and speaker, whose husband was killed on the mission field
“It’s time now to harvest what little that grew
This man they call Jesus who planted the seeds has come for the fruit
And the best that I’ve got isn’t nearly enough
He’s glad for the crop but it’s me that He loves.”~ Andrew Peterson, “Just As I Am”
“Many people visualize a God who sits comfortably on a distant throne, remote, aloof, uninterested, and indifferent to the needs of mortals, until, it may be, they can badger him into taking action on their behalf. Such a view is wholly false. The Bible reveals a God who, long before it even occurs to man to turn to him, while man is still lost in darkness and sunk in sin, takes the initiative, rises from his throne, lays aside his glory, and stoops to seek until he finds him.”
~ John R.W. Stott (1921-2011), Anglican priest, theologian and author
“You cannot love in moderation
You’re dancing with a dead man’s bones
Lay your soul on the threshing floor
I heard the distant battle drum
The mockingbird spoke in tongues
Longing for the day to comeI set my face, forsook my fears
I saw the city through my tears
The darkness soon will disappear
And be swallowed by the sun
I am coming home…!”~ Matthew Perryman Jones, “Land of the Living”
Opening Prayer
(select someone from your group to open your service in prayer)
Call to Worship
from Psalm 118 (ESV)
LEADER: Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say,
PEOPLE: “His steadfast love endures forever.” Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
LEADER: This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
PEOPLE: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
LEADER: This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success!
PEOPLE: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD. The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us.
LEADER: Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar! You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.
PEOPLE: Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Song
(sing as a group and/or sing along to recorded versions)
MAN OF SORROWS
(Brooke Ligertwood, Matt Crocker)
Man of sorrows, Lamb of God
By His own betrayed,
The sin of man and wrath of God
Has been on Jesus laid.
Silent as He stood accused,
Beaten, mocked and scorned.
Bowing to the Father’s will
He took a crown of thorns.
CHORUS:
Oh that rugged cross, my salvation,
Where Your love poured out over me.
Now my soul cries out hallelujah!
Praise and honor unto Thee.
Sent of heaven God’s own Son
To purchase and redeem.
And reconcile the very ones
Who nailed Him to that tree.
(CHORUS)
BRIDGE:
Now my debt is paid,
It is paid in full.
By the precious blood
That my Jesus spilled.
Now the curse of sin
Has no hold on me,
Whom the Son sets free,
Oh is free indeed.
(CHORUS)
See the stone is rolled away,
Behold the empty tomb.
Hallelujah God be praised!
He’s risen from the grave!
(CHORUS)
©2012 Hillsong Publishing CCLI#1791178
Sharing
- When you think of the “signs and wonders” of Jesus, what comes to mind first, and why do you think He did these things? What was the point?
- As we celebrate Palm Sunday, what about the “Kingship” of Jesus do you find unique?
- Why do you think it’s difficult for us when our service goes unrecognized?
Prayer Time
(You may have an open time of prayer or select someone to pray)
- Pray for our shared churches, that all who gather within them might behold and truly see the Glory of Jesus as we continue on in John’s Gospel, and that seeing, we might believe!
- Pray for the universal Church, gathered all around the globe, that we would all be gripped by the unique Glory of Jesus, and that it would instruct and impact our service and witness.
- Appeal to God, that He might pour out His Spirit throughout the world and bring about a unique movement in which many would come to behold and truly see His Glory, and that seeing they might believe.
Listen to Sermon
“The Sign of Service“
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
Download Audio
John 2:1-11 (ESV)
1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Confession of Faith
1 John 4:9-11
LEADER: By this the love of God was manifested among us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
CONGREGATION: In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
LEADER: Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Sharing Time
(have everyone share one thing that struck them from the sermon)
Song
(sing as a group and/or sing along to recorded versions)
I WILL GLORY IN MY REDEEMER
(Steve Cook, Vicki Cook)
I will glory in my Redeemer,
Whose priceless blood has ransomed me.
Mine was the sin that drove the bitter nails,
And hung Him on that judgment tree.
I will glory in my Redeemer,
Who crushed the power of sin and death.
My only Savior before the holy Judge:
The Lamb Who is my righteousness,
The Lamb Who is my righteousness.
I will glory in my Redeemer.
My life He bought, my love He owns.
I have no longings for another,
I’m satisfied in Him alone.
I will glory in my Redeemer,
His faithfulness my standing place.
Though foes are mighty and rush upon me,
My feet are firm held by His grace,
My feet are firm held by His grace.
I will glory in my Redeemer,
Who carries me on eagle’s wings.
He crowns my life with loving kindness,
His triumph song I’ll ever sing.
I will glory in my Redeemer,
Who waits for me at gates of gold.
And when He calls me it will be paradise,
His face forever to behold,
His face forever to behold.
©2001 Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by Integrity’s Hosanna! Music) CCLI#1791178
Benediction
(The leader or individual should read this aloud relishing in the confident assertion that Christ has conquered.)
Romans 15:5-6
LEADER: May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
PEOPLE: Amen!