Morning Order of Worship – August 16th

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE

✝CALL TO WORSHIP

Psalm 95:1-11

✝PRAYER OF INVOCATION

✝WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG

Come Thou Fount

How Firm A Foundation

CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN

O Living God, Our sin is to look on our faults and be discouraged, or to look on our good and be puffed up. We fall short of thy glory every day by spending hours unprofitably, by thinking that the things we do are good, when they are not done to thy end, nor spring from the rules of thy Word. Our sin is to fear what never will be; we forget to submit to thy will, and fail to be quiet there. But Scripture teaches us that thy active will reveals a steadfast purpose on our behalf, and this quiets our souls, and makes us love thee. Keep us always in the understanding that saints mourn more for sin than other men, for when they see how great is thy wrath against sin, and how Christ’s death alone pacifies that wrath, that makes them mourn the more. Help us to see that although we are in the wilderness it is not all briars and barrenness. We have bread from heaven, streams from the rock, light by day, fire by night, thy dwelling place and thy mercy seat. It’s through Jesus Christ our Lord that we pray this, Amen.

SILENT CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Romans 5:20–21 “Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

✝WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG

Psalm 63

✝CONFESSION OF FAITH

Westminster Shorter Catechism #23 and #24

WORSHIPING GOD IN OUR GIVING

I Will Praise You Again

PASTORAL PRAYER

WORSHIPING GOD IN THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS WORD

“Cast Down Yet Lifted Up” Psalm 42:1-11 by Rev. John Downs

WORSHIPING GOD AROUND THE LORD’S TABLE IN THE SACRAMENT OF COMMUNION

✝SONG OF RESPONSE

All I Have Is Christ

✝BENEDICTION

✝DOXOLOGY

✝ Congregation standing, as you are able