Worship Guide
July 19, 2026
Call to Worship
Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle! Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory!
Psalm 24:7-10 (ESV)
Worshiping God by Singing
Jesus!
The King of all creation
set aside His crown
A servant to the Father's love,
descended from His throne above
Author of salvation,
Giver of new life
Crucified to pay for sin;
our righteousness is in the name of
Jesus,
every heart and tongue confess
Your name above all names
All things of this earth belong to You,
forever you will reign
God of resurrection,
Conqueror of death
Ruler over everything,
the Lord of lords and King of kings is
Jesus,
every heart and tongue confess
Your name above all names
All things of this earth belong to You,
forever you will reign
Highly exalted is the name of Jesus Christ
Heaven and earth declare all praise to Jesus Christ
Highly exalted is the name of Jesus Christ
Heaven and earth declare all praise to
Jesus,
every heart and tongue confess
Your name above all names
All things of this earth belong to You,
forever you will reign
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Brian Eichelberger | Zach Bolen
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Worshiping God by Confessing Our Sins
Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned. We confess the sins that no one knows and the sins that everyone knows. We confess the sins that are a burden to us and the sins that do not bother us because we have grown used to them. We confess we have not lived in a manner worthy of the grace you have given us in Christ. Forgive us, cleanse us, and give us the power to live as you have called us to live through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Worshiping God by Confessing Our Hope
Leader: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Congregation: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-10
Worshiping God by Singing
There Is Hope
There is hope in grace unceasing
You withhold your wrath from me
Poured it out upon my Savior
On the cross of Calvary
There is hope now for the hopeless
There is victory all can know
For the tomb lies bare and broken
And death’s pow’r is overthrown
Jesus Christ, my hope forever
Hope unlike the world can bring
Your steadfast love beyond all measure
There is hope in Christ my King
There is hope for sons and daughters
Who have wandered on their own
Hear the songs of joy from heaven
As the lost are welcomed home
Jesus Christ, my hope forever
Hope unlike the world can bring
Your steadfast love beyond all measure
There is hope in Christ my King
Hallelujah! Hope of heaven
Precious treasure of my life
All my joy is in your presence
I am yours and you are mine
I will wait until I see him
Though the twilight turns to night
For my hope is not defeated
It will greet His dawning light
Jesus Christ, my hope forever
Hope unlike the world can bring
Your steadfast love beyond all measure
There is hope in Christ my King
There is hope in Christ my King
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Niki Shepherd, Paris Shepherd
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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
Prayer
Missionary of the Week: Paul and Kristin
Overseas Missions
Community Church of the Week: Crosspoint Baptist Church
Rev. Tim Simpson
Presbytery Church of the Week: Grace Presbyterian Church
Rev. Kyle Brent
Worshiping God by Hearing His Word
Series: Walk the Line
Sermon: The Essence of True Faith
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe-- and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”-- and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
James 2:14-26
Faithfulness to Jesus looks like a “____________ ____________.”
The essence of “____________ ____________” is ____________ ____________.
If we ____________ ____________ Jesus, our faith in him will be ____________ by ____________.
This means true faith is much more than ____________ ____________ or ____________.
The good news is the faith God ____________, he also _____________ ____________.
Let’s continually ask the Spirit for “____________ ____________” - a faith that ____________ ____________ ____________.
Worshiping God by Singing
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, thou fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unchanging love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God:
He, to rescue me from danger
interposed his precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be;
let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander Lord, I feel it
prone to leave the God I love:
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.
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Benediction
May our God make you worthy of his calling and fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
from 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12