Starling Avenue Baptist Church Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 18, 2022 ╬ 11:00 a.m.
The Worship of God Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 18, 2022 ╬ 11:00 a.m. (We strongly suggest wearing a mask due to increased Covid numbers.) *We invite you to stand as you are able.
Gathering at God’s Invitation Call to Worship
1 Corinthians 3:11 NIV
Dr. Joe Bryant
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. Prelude
Glorious Is Thy Name
Welcome
Dr. Joe Bryant
Life of the Community
*Hymn #282
B. B. McKinney
Kathy Long Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
The Church at Prayer & The Lord’s Prayer
Franz J. Haydn, 1797
Kathy Long
Remembering in Prayer: Susan Dawson family (Carol Merchant’s sister), David & Carol Hill on the loss of their son (friends of Pat McKinster), Lowell Roberts, Betsy Ivey, Dana Sharon (Shirley Simmons’s daughter), Tony & Debbie Craddock, Virginia Finley, Faye Sullivan (Anne Stultz’s friend’s sister), Lois Vaughn (neighbor of Anne & Dwight Stultz), J. G. McMillan, Charles Dameron, Robert Sherwood, Susanne Travis, Pete Mabry, Garry & Violet Nelson, Lois Johnson, Jeanette Draper, Linda Harris, Christy Mattox, David Tollison, Freddie Donavant, Regina Carter & Judy Hubbard; Our Country; 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 #383
Near to the Heart of God
Giving our Tithes and Offerings Offertory Prayer Offertory
Cleland B. McAfee, 1903
Frances Stegall
*Doxology (Hymn #706) 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
Choir accompanied by Margaret Caldwell
Hearing God’s Word Old Testament Reading
Isaiah 28:16 KJV
Dr. Joe Bryant
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
*New Testament Reading
Philippians 3:12-14 KJV
Dr. Joe Bryant
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Sermon
“The Spiritual Foundation”
Dr. Joe Bryant
Responding to God’s Word *Hymn #494
Take My Life, Lead Me, Lord
R. Maines Rawls, 1968
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 Corinthians 3:16 KJV
Dr. Joe Bryant
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Postlude
Take My Life and Let It Be Consecrated
Frances Havergal & Henri Malan