June 15, 2025
Call to Worship from Psalm 122
Pastor: I was glad when they said to
me, “Let us go to the
house of the Lord!”
People: Our feet have been standing
within your gates, built
as a city that is bound firmly
together.
Pastor: There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of
the house of David.
People: “May they be secure who
love you!”
Pastor: “Peace be within your walls
and security within your
towers!”
People: For my brothers and
companions' sake I will say,
“Peace be within you!”
Pastor: For the sake of the house of
the Lord our God, I will
seek your good.
All: It is good to be in the house
of the Lord. Amen.◆
PRAYER of INVOCATION from Isaiah 55:10-11
SONG of ADORATION “Only a Holy God”
Who else commands all the hosts of heaven?
Who else could make every king bow down?
Who else can whisper and darkness trembles?
Only a Holy God!
What other beauty demands such praises?
What other splendor outshines the sun?
What other majesty rules with justice?
Only a Holy God!
Come and behold Him: the One and the Only
Cry out, sing holy,
Forever a Holy God!
Come and worship the Holy God!
What other glory consumes like fire?
What other power can raise the dead?
What other name remains undefeated?
Only a Holy God!
Chorus x 2
Who else could rescue me from my failing?
Who else would offer His only Son?
Who else invites me to call Him Father?
Only a Holy God; Only my Holy God!
Chorus x 2
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Confession and Assurance
READING of GOD’S LAW
Hear God’s Law, His Will for Your Life, from Deut. 10:12-22
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods which have not benefited those devoted to them . . .
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
PRAYER of CONFESSION Genevan Psalter (1542)
All: O Lord, eternal and
almighty God, we
acknowledge and confess
before Your holy
majesty that we are poor
sinners, conceived and
born in guilt and
corruption, prone to do
evil, unable of ourselves to
do any good.
Pastor: We transgress Your holy
commandments without
ceasing, and in doing so, we
bring upon ourselves
just condemnation.
` All: But, Lord, with heartfelt
sorrow we repent and turn
away from all our offenses.
We condemn ourselves and
our evil ways, asking that
Your grace may deliver us
from our distress.
Be pleased, then, to have
compassion on us,
O most gracious God and
Father, for the sake of Your
Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ,
Pastor: And in removing our guilt
and pollution, grant us
the daily increase of Your
Holy Spirit, that we—
recognizing our sin more
and more--may be moved
to true repentance, and that
this repentance may
bear fruit in a life wholly
given to Your service.
All: Through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen. ◆
ASSURANCE of PARDON John Calvin
God, in His mercy, promises to forgive all those who,
with sincere hearts, turn to Him,
put their faith in His Son, and walk in newness of life
by the power of His Holy Spirit.
To all who believe in His name,
He gives the right to become children of God.
Therefore, in the name of Jesus Christ,
and by the authority of His holy Word,
be assured that your sins are forgiven.
Walk now in the peace of the Lord,
and bear the fruit of your redemption
to the glory of His holy name. Amen.◆
SONG of RESPONSE “God of Grace and . . . Glory” CH #435
Life of Worship
PROFESSION of FAITH From I Cor 15:3-5, Phil 2:6-11
We believe the Truth of the Gospel, these things being of first importance:
That Christ, though in His very essence God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; He was buried; He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Christ died. Christ is Risen. Christ will come again.
Amen. ◆
OFFERING
DOXOLOGY CH#815
PRAYER of DEDICATION
CHILDREN’S CATECHISM
Q44: What is baptism?
A: Baptism is the washing with water in the name of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
From The New City Catechism for Kids, ©2018 Crossway Books. Used with permission
PASSING of the PEACE
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,
For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, forever.
Amen.
