Evening Order of Worship – January 18th

WELCOME

SILENT PREPARATION

✝CALL TO WORSHIP

Psalm 147:1–11 (responsive)

✝PRAYER OF INVOCATION

✝WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG

How Great Thou Art

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN

Gracious God, we confess that we have longed too much for the comforts of this world. We have loved the gifts more than the giver. In your mercy, help us to see that all the things we pine for are shadows, but you are substance; that they are quicksands, but you are mountain; that they are shifting, but you are anchor. We plead your forgiveness on the merits of Jesus Christ. Accept his worthiness for our unworthiness, his sinlessness for our transgressions, his fullness for our emptiness, his glory for our shame, his righteousness for our dead works, his death for our life. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

SILENT CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Romans 8:38–39 “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

✝WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG

Psalm 105:1-11 (Immortal, Invisible)

✝CONFESSION OF FAITH

The Nicene’ Creed

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

WORSHIPING GOD IN THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS WORD

“Guarding and Guiding” Nehemiah 9:6-15 by Rev. John Downs

✝SONG OF RESPONSE

Come Thou Fount

✝BENEDICTION

✝DOXOLOGY

✝ Congregation standing, as you are able