Worship Guide
October 13, 2024
Call to Worship
Psalm 121:1-8(ESV)
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Worshiping God by Singing
How Firm a Foundation
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How firm a foundation, you saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in his excellent Word!
What more can he say than to you he has said,
to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
Fear not, I am with you, O be not dismayed;
for I am your God, and will still give you aid;
I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand,
upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.
When through the deep waters I call you to go,
the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
for I will be with you, your troubles to bless,
and sanctify to you your deepest distress.
When through fiery trials your pathway shall lie,
my grace, all-sufficient, shall be your supply;
the flame shall not hurt you; I only design
your dross to consume and your gold to refine.
The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to his foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake.
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Worshiping God by Confessing Our Faith
Jesus said, “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”
Jesus also said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.”
from John 6:37 and 10:27
Worshiping God by Singing
He Will Hold Me Fast
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When I fear my faith will fail,
Christ will hold me fast
When the tempter would prevail,
He will hold me fast
I could never keep my hold
through life's fearful path
For my love is often cold,
He must hold me fast.
He will hold me fast
He will hold me fast
For my Savior loves me so
He will hold me fast
Those He saves are His delight,
Christ will hold me fast
Precious in His holy sight,
He will hold me fast
He'll not let my soul be lost,
His promises shall last
Bought by Him at such a cost,
He will hold me fast.
He will hold me fast
He will hold me fast
For my Savior loves me so
He will hold me fast
For my life He bled and died,
Christ will hold me fast
Justice has been satisfied,
He will hold me fast
Raised with Him to endless life,
He will hold me fast
Till our faith is turned to sight,
When He comes at last.
He will hold me fast
He will hold me fast
For my Savior loves me so
He will hold me fast
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Prayer
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Missionary of the Week: John and Karen Stodghill
MTW - Belize
Community Church of the Week: Church of the Holy Comforter
Rev. David Booman
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Presbytery Church of the Week: Sardinia Presbyterian Church
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Worshiping God by Hearing His Word
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Series: Don't Stop Believin'
​Sermon: The Danger of Apostasy
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4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. 7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. 9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things-- things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:4-12
It is ____________ for those who ____________ from Christ to be ____________ to ____________.
To commit apostasy is to ____________ and ____________ ____________.
Apostasy and ____________ may be ____________ but are definitively ____________.
____________ ____________ faith ____________.
Action point:
____________ to ____________. He is our ____________ ____________.
Let’s be ____________ to have the ____________ ____________ of our hope by clinging to Christ firm to the end.
Worshiping God by Singing
The Church’s One Foundation
The church’s one foundation,
is Jesus Christ her Lord,
she is his new creation
by water and the Word.
From heaven he came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.
Elect from every nation,
yet one over all the earth;
her charter of salvation,
one Lord, one faith, on birth;
One holy name she blesses;
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.
Though with a scornful wonder
men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed
Yet saints their watch are keeping;
their cry goes up, “how long?”
and soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song.
The church shall never perish,
her dear Lord to defend
to guide, sustain and cherish,
is with her to the end.
Though there be those that hate her,
and false sons in her pale,
against both foe and traitor
she ever shall prevail.
Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace forevermore
‘Til, with the vision glorious,
her longing eyes are blessed,
and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest.
Yet she on earth hath union
with God the Three in One,
and mystic sweet communion
with those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
like them, the meek and lowly,
on high may dwell with thee.
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Samuel Stone | Samuel Wesley
Benediction
Hebrews 13:20-21 (ESV)
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Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.