Leader:Lift up your heads, O gates!And be lifted up, O ancient doors,that the King of glory may come in.Who is this King of glory?ALL:The Lord, strong and mighty,the Lord, mighty in battle! Leader:Lift up your heads, O gates!And lift them up, O ancient doors,that the King of glory may come in.Who is this King of …
Leader: Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,ALL: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our Godthe Almighty reigns.Let us rejoice and exultand give him the glory,for the marriage of the Lamb has come,and his …
Leader: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;ALL: for his steadfast love endures forever!Leader: Let Israel say,ALL: “His steadfast love endures forever.”Leader: Let the house of Aaron say,ALL: “His steadfast love endures forever.”Leader: Let those who fear the Lord say,ALL: “His steadfast love endures forever.” (Psalm 118:1–4 ESV)
Leader: The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything,ALL: since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. Leader: And he made from one …
Welcome Welcome, and Happy New Year! The turning of a new year invites us not only to look back and contemplate the paths that the Lord has led us on thus far but also to look forward with the expectation that the Lord will guide us into the future as we face new experiences, new …
Exhortation: Our call to worship today is Psalm 130, which we’ll hear in its entirety. One of the benefits of the Psalms is that, in addition to teaching propositional truths, the Psalms demonstrate the experiential, emotional life of the believer that accompanies those truths. We’re not just heads, we’re heads attached to hearts. We have …
Leader: Jesus said, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart …
Leader: God will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;ALL: but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Leader: None is righteous, …
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ALL: As we come to him,a living stone rejected by menbut in the sight of God chosen and precious,we like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood,to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Leader: For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in …
This is the day that the LORD has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 118:24 The “day that the Lord has made” in Psalm 118:24 is not just any day. The psalmist is not saying “God has made today, just like he did yesterday, and every day that God makes is reason to …