Order of Worship — May 25

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Psalm 147:1-11
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG
How Firm A Foundation
Psalm 115
CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN
O Lord, no day of our life has passed that has not proved us guilty in Your sight. Prayers have been uttered from a prayerless heart; praise has been often praiseless sound; our best services are filthy rags. Blessed Jesus, let us find a refuge in Your appeasing wounds. Though our sins rise to heaven Your merits soar above them; though unrighteousness weighs us down to hell, Your righteousness exalts us to Your throne. All things in us call for our rejection, all things in You plead our acceptance. We appeal from the throne of perfect justice to Your throne of boundless grace, grant us to hear Your assuring voice; that by Your stripes we are healed, that You were bruised for our iniquities, that You have been made sin for us that we might be righteous in You, that our grievous sins, our manifold sins, are all forgiven, buried in the ocean of Your concealing blood. Keep us always clinging to Your cross, flood us every moment with descending grace. In Your merciful name we pray. Amen.
SILENT CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG
Jesus, I Come
CONFESSION OF FAITH
Westminster Shorter Catechism #88 and #98, Elder Brian Riedel
WORSHIPING GOD IN OUR GIVING
Rock Of Ages (When The Day Seems Long)
PASTORAL PRAYER
Elder Brian Riedel
WORSHIPING GOD IN THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS WORD
“Assurances of Life” 1 John 5:13-21 by Rev. John Downs
WORSHIPING GOD AROUND THE LORD’S TABLE IN THE SACRAMENT OF COMMUNION
SONG OF RESPONSE
Blessed Assurance
BENEDICTION
DOXOLOGY