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THE LORD'S DAY

April 21, 2002 - 10:30 A.M.

Worship Theme: Our Covenant-Keeping God


	PRELUDE	Mrs. Sue Senzig


	MINUTE FOR MINISTRY	Deacons' Fund


	ACTIVITIES & CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH


	PREPARING IN STILLNESS


	WELCOMING THE ASSEMBLY
	PASTOR: The Lord be with you! PEOPLE: And also with you!


	CHORAL PRAYER	Choir

Create in Me a Clean Heart

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from Thy Holy Presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation. And uphold me with Thy free Spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto Thee.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.


•	CONFESSING OUR SINS
	ALL: Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.


•	CONFESSING OUR SINS PRIVATELY


•	ASSURANCE OF PARDON	Romans 6:22-23
	PASTOR: Hear the promises of God to those who truly repent of their sins and trust in Christ: Now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Now, lift up your hearts! PEOPLE: We lift them up to the Lord!

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DRAWING NEAR TO WORSHIP

Ensemble & Congregation

Firm Foundation

Jesus, You’re my firm foundation, I know I can stand secure;
Jesus, you’re my firm foundation, I put my hope in Your Holy Word,
I put my hope in Your Holy Word.

Men: I have a living hope, (Ladies: I have a living hope,)
Men: I have a future; (Ladies: I have a future;)
Men: God has a plan for me, (Ladies: God has a plan for me,)
All: Of this I’m sure, of this I’m sure.

Repeat Chorus

Men: Your Word is faithful, (Ladies: Your Word is faithful,)
Men: Mighty with power; (Ladies: Mighty with power;)
Men: God will deliver me, (Ladies: God will deliver me,)
All: Of this I’m sure, of this I’m sure.

Repeat Chorus

Nancy Gordon & Jamie Harvill * 1993 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music & Integrity’s Praise! Music. Used by permission. CCLI #89178

We Sing Your Mercies

We sing your mercies, we sing your endless praises,
We sing your everlasting love.
We sing your mercies, we sing your endless praises,
Sovereign One who died, Sovereign One who died for us.

Should He who made the stars be hung upon a tree? And should the hands that healed be driven through for me? Should He who gave us bread be made to swallow gall, Should He who gave us breath and life be slaughtered for us all?

Repeat Chorus

Should He who is the light be cast into the dark?
And should the Lord of love be pierced through His own heart?
Should He who called us friends be deserted by us all,
Should He who lived a sinless life be punished for our fall?

Repeat Chorus

Mark Altrogge * 1997 PDI Praise, a division of PDI Music. Used by Permission. CCLI #89178


•	CONFESSING OUR FAITH	Heidelberg Catechism, 57-58
	PASTOR: What comfort does the resurrection of the body offer you? PEOPLE: Not only shall my soul after this life immediately be taken up to Christ, my Head, but also this my flesh, raised by the power of Christ, shall be reunited with my soul and made like Christ’s glorious body. PASTOR: What comfort do you receive from the article in our creeds about the “life everlasting”? PEOPLE: Since I now already feel in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, I shall after this life possess perfect blessedness, such as no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived— a blessedness in which to praise God forever.


•	RESPONDING IN SONG	Hymn 457
	Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing


•	THANKING GOD FOR HIS PRESENCE
	PASTOR: We give thanks to you, Lord, for you are good. ALL: Your love endures forever. Amen.


	PRAYING TOGETHER FOR GOD'S PEOPLE	Pastor Dave Clelland


	WORSHIPPING BY GIVING	(Sign, pass & return Friendship Pad)
	• Westminster Shorter Catechism, 106	Hymnal, page 877
	• Prayer - The pastor and another church elder will be available in the front to pray personally with anyone during the offertory. • Offertory - Mrs. Sue Senzig


•	PRAISING OUR GOD	Doxology (Old Hundredth)
	Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below, Praise him above, ye heav’nly host: Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.


•	DEDICATING OUR LIVES & GIFTS
	Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.


•	HEARING SCRIPTURE - Colossians 2:9-15	Elder Craig Jeffery
	READER: This is the Word of the Lord. CONGREGATION: Thanks be to God!


•	GREETING ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE
	• Children ages 4-5 dismissed to Children's Church in Rooms M1 & M3.

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PREPARING TO HEAR GOD'S WORD

Ensemble & Congregation

Your Love Is Better Than Life

O Lord, You are my Lord, Your ways are higher than mine.
I’ve seen the broken restored; Your love is better than life.

We thirst in a dry weary land, we hunger for Thee.
Lord, rain down as we lift up our hands, your love is better than life.

O God, I stand amazed, how high, how deep, how wide.
My lips offer You praise, “Your love is better than life.”

I stand in the shade of Your wing, my soul clings to Thee.
In the joy of the Lord, will I sing, “Your love is better than life.
Lord, Your love is better than life.”

O Lord, You are my Lord, Your ways are higher than mine.
I’ve seen the broken restored; Your love is better than life,
Your love is better than life. Lord, Your love is better than life.

Matt Huesmann, David Hampton, and Grant Cunningham * 1999 Matt Huesmann Music/Imagine This Music/River Oaks Music and Miss Bug Music (admin. By CMI). Used by Permission. CCLI #89178

Give Thanks to the Lord

Give thanks to the Lord, for the works of his hand,
For a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
Give thanks to the Lord for we all now can stand
And fear not of being forsaken.

Give thanks to the Lord for His righteousness.
Give thanks to the Lord for His love.
Let us worship his name and his holiness: give thanks to the Lord;
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, give thanks.

Give thanks to the Father for sending his Son.
Give thanks to the Son for the Spirit.
Now lift up your voices to God, three in One,
And shout so the whole world can hear it.

Repeat Chorus Twice

Brad Smith * 1996 Brad Smith Music BMI. Used by permission. CCLI #89178


	APPLYING GOD'S WORD	Pastor Mark Balthrop
	*A Badge of Remembrance* - Genesis 17:1-14 (Text and Outline will be included on Sunday)


•	RESPONDING IN SONG	Hymn 34
	The God of Abraham Praise


•	RECEIVING GOD'S BLESSING	2 Peter 1:10-11; 1 Timothy 1:17
	PASTOR: Brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisi-ble, the only God, be honor and glory. ALL: *The Lord is King forever! Hallelujah! Amen.*


	POSTLUDE	Mrs. Jami Calatozzo