Guide for Home Worship
November 22, 2020
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
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer, academic and Christian apologist
“Deep in our timid hearts is a desire to be loved mildly, nothing more. That way, we retain control, we set the terms, we avoid risk. Our loving God, in His ferocious intensity, will have none of it.”
~ Ray Ortlund, contemporary pastor and author
“‘Aslan is a lion – the Lion, the great Lion.’ ‘Ooh’ said Susan. ‘I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion’… ‘Safe?’ said Mr Beaver … ‘Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), an excerpt from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“The gospel of justifying faith means that while Christians are, in themselves still sinful and sinning, yet in Christ, in God’s sight, they are accepted and righteous. So we can say that we are more wicked than we ever dared believe, but more loved and accepted in Christ than we ever dared hope — at the very same time. This creates a radical new dynamic for personal growth. It means that the more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you. But on the other hand, the more aware you are of God’s grace and acceptance in Christ, the more able you are to drop your denials and self-defenses and admit the true dimensions and character of your sin.”
~ Timothy Keller
“Let us wonder; grace and justice
Join and point to mercy’s store;
When through grace in Christ our trust is,
Justice smiles and asks no more.”~ John Newton (1725-1807), Anglican pastor
Opening Prayer
(select someone from your group to open your service in prayer)
Call to Worship
Isaiah 60:1-4 (NIV)
LEADER: Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
CONGREGATION: See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
ALL: Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
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)
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)
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.
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Prayer Time
(You may have an open time of prayer or select someone to pray)
Listen to Sermon
“The Goodness & Severity of God“
preached by Pastor Doug Cooper
selected passages (NASB)
Exodus 34
5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with [Moses] as he called upon the name of the LORD. 6 Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7 who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8 Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.
Acts 2
36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.”
37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9
1 Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; 4 and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” 5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, 6 but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.” 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 8 Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus. 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
Confession of Faith
adapted from Matthew 16 and Galatians 2:20
LEADER: Christian, who do you say Jesus is?
CONGREGATION: I say He is the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed King of Heaven and Earth…the Son of the living God.
LEADER: And what is true of you now that you are in Christ?
CONGREGATION: I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life, which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.
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)
HIS MERCY IS MORE
(Matt Papa, Matt Boswell)
What love could remember no wrongs we have done?
Omniscient, all knowing, he counts not their sum.
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore.
Our sins, they are many, his mercy is more.
What patience would wait as we constantly roam?
What father, so tender, is calling us home?
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor.
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more.
CHORUS:
Praise the Lord,
His mercy is more.
Stronger than darkness, new every morn.
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more.
What riches of kindness he lavished on us.
His blood was the payment, his life was the cost.
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford.
Our sins, they are many, his mercy is more.
(CHORUS)
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Benediction
(The leader or individual should read this aloud relishing in the confident assertion that Christ has conquered.)
Luke 12:29-32
LEADER: Do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
PEOPLE: Amen!