Leader: We believe in one GodALL: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.Leader: He is the true and living God,ALL: Worthy to receive glory and honor and power.Leader: He created all things,ALL: And by his will they existed and were created. Leader: We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ;ALL: He is the image of the invisible God, …
Heavenly Father, we gather today as a people who, with an ear to hear what the Spirit says (Rev 2:11) have heard your call by the power of your Holy Spirit, and have believed the gospel of Jesus, who is (as John tells us) ‘the first and the last, who died and came to life.” …
Leader: Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit …
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against …
Exhortation: Our call to worship today is from Psalm 103. It is a beautiful and emotive passage of scripture where we hear the Psalmist rehearsing all the reasons he has to worship the Lord. In particular, I want us to focus specifically on the verses pertaining to our relationship to God. The Psalmist describes a …
Leader: Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.ALL: According to the riches of his glory may the Father grant us to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in our …
And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to …
Leader: Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.ALL: He is the first and the last, and the living one. He died, and is alive forevermore, having the keys of Death and …
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart;I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.I will be glad and exult in you;I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. (Psalm 9:1–2 ESV) Exhortation:Psalm 9 contains not merely a description of the Psalmist’s intentions to worship the Lord, but also a …
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20–21 ESV)