Worship 9/18/22

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