Worship 6.12.22

Starling Avenue Baptist Church Trinity Sunday

June 12, 2022 ╬ 11:00 a.m.

The Worship of God Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022 ╬ 11:00 a.m.

(Masks are optional, but social distancing should still be observed.)

*We invite you to stand as you are able.

Gathering at God’s Invitation Call to Worship

John 6:37 NIV

Dr. Joe Bryant

All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

Prelude

God of Grace & God of Glory/Thy Word

CWM RHONDDA/ Michael W. Smith

Welcome

Dr. Joe Bryant

Life of the Community

Tommy Wells

*Hymn #235

Breathe on Me, Breath of God

The Church at Prayer & The Lord’s Prayer

Robert Jackson

Tommy Wells

Remembering in Prayer: Reed Finley, Sam Docherty (Spencer), Pete Mabry, Violet Nelson, Lois Johnson, Jeanette Draper, Linda Harris, Roy Harrell, Christy Mattox, Phillip Collins, David Tollison, Freddie Donavant, Regina Carter, Lowell Roberts & Judy Hubbard; All Those Affected by War & Violence; Our Homebound Members 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

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 #319

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Stralsund Gesangbuch

Giving our Tithes and Offerings Offertory Prayer Offertory O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

*Doxology (Hymn #706)

Jim McMillan Albert L. Peace arr. Donna Williams

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below; praise Him above, ye heavenly host, praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Anthem

O Breath of Life

Conway A. Bolt

(Choir accompanied by Fern Kanode)

Hearing God’s Word Old Testament Reading

Isaiah 53:1 KJV

Dr. Joe Bryant

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

*New Testament Reading

Colossians 2:8-9 NIV

Dr. Joe Bryant

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, Sermon

Series: “Life’s Toughest Questions”

Today’s Message: “The Question of Religion & Beliefs”

Dr. Joe Bryant

Responding to God’s Word *Hymn #501

I Am Resolved

James H. Fillmore

If you sense God calling you today, we invite you to respond during this time of invitation.

If God is calling you to follow Jesus for the first time, to rededicate yourself as a Christ-follower, or as a faithful Christian, to join the fellowship of our church, we encourage you to come forward to speak to our pastor during this closing hymn.

Sending Into God’s World Benediction

1 John 5:13 NIV

Dr. Joe Bryant

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Postlude

Thine Is the Glory

Geo. Frederick Handel