MORE PEOPLE MORE LIKE CHRIST
9:00AM/10:30AM Services
March 30, 2025
PRELUDE
WORDS OF WELCOME
MINUTE FOR MISSION
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Sunday, March 30, 2025 9:00AM & 10:30AM
PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.
GATHERING
Leupp Weekend (April 26 & 27) Chuck Starnes
*CALL TO WORSHIP (based on Luke 3:4-6)
Leader: Behold a voice crying out in the desert, People: Prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight His path! Leader: Let every valley be filled, every hill made low, and the crooked made straight. People: Let the rough ways be made smooth, that all flesh may see the salvation of God. Leader: In prayer let us prepare our hearts to welcome the Lord.
*PRAYER OF INVOCATION & # # 4 4
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*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Apostles’ Creed)
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, The holy catholic church, The communion of saints, The forgiveness of sins, The resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.
*GLORY BE TO THE FATHER
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Lord Jesus, forgive and correct the wrong we have done. We have permitted pride to blind and anger to burn, and we have failed to live the new life You have given to us. Help us forgive others, that we may live as brothers and sisters. Help us to forgive ourselves that we might experience a newness of life. In Your name we pray. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON (1 John 1:9)
Leader: If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Therefore, let us assure one another of God’s pardon. All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God.
Praise God, Who, by the Law
Praise God, who, by the Law restricts The harm we’d do each other; By state and conscience God protects The weaker from the stronger. Without its constant moral beat, The strong would steal, the cunning cheat— God’s Law is our protection!
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
Stephen P. Folkemer
Mark W. Oldenburg
Praise God, who, by the Law restricts The harm we’d do each other; By state and conscience God protects The weaker from the stronger. Without its constant moral beat, The strong would steal, the cunning cheat— God’s Law is our protection!
All praise to you, who, by your Law, Directs our adoration; Who, by its guidance, shows us how To play out our salvation. We find delight in hon’ring you And loving your creation too— God’s Law is our great pleasure!
Spirit of God, speak once again through the Words of Scripture that our listening ears may hear Your voice. Help us to place Your Word in our minds, treasure it in our hearts, choose it with our wills, and live it through our bodies. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
SCRIPTURE
Leader: This is the word of the Lord. All: Thanks be to God!
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Romans 7:7-25
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CARING
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.
*HYMN Take Time to Be Holy
OFFERTORY
Kevin Weingartner, trumpet OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE
*DOXOLOGY OLD HUNDREDTH
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SCRIPTURE
SERMON
Romans 8:1-16
“The Struggle Is Real”
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GOING
*BENEDICTION & RESPONSE Now unto Him *POSTLUDE
