Call to Worship: From Psalm 47
Pastor: Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
People: For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
Pastor: Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
People: God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
All: For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
Prayer of Adoration:
Song: Wonderful, Merciful Savior – CCLI# 106879
Wonderful, merciful Savior, precious redeemer and friend
Who would have thought that a lamb could rescue the souls of men?
Oh you rescue the souls of men
Counselor, comforter, keeper, Spirit we long to embrace
You offer hope when our hearts have hopelessly lost their way
Oh we hopelessly lost the way
CHORUS: You are the One that we praise, you are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace our hearts always hunger for,
Oh our hearts always hunger for
Almighty infinite Father, faithfully loving your own
Here in our weakness you find us falling before your throne,
Oh we’re falling before your throne
The Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 68:1-5
Confession of Sin:
Our Heavenly Father, You have assured us that if we confess our sins, You are faithful and just to forgive us, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Gove us true contrition, and help us to truly believe on Your power and mercy. Cleanse our hearts and renew right spirits within us, and give us the peace and joy of Your forgiveness, as we look up most gratefully to You. This we ask in Jesus’ name.
Assurance of Pardon: Ephesians 2:14
For He Himself is our peace.
The New Testament Lesson: Acts 1:1-11
Confession of Faith: The Heidelberg Catechism
Q46. What do you confess when you say, He ascended into heaven?
A. That Christ, before the eyes of His disciples, was taken up from the earth into heaven, and that He is there for our benefit until He comes again to judge the living and the dead.
Prayer for the Church:
The Sermon: “The Gospel of Rest: Part One.” Hebrews 3:14-4:11; Psalm 95:11. Dr. Michael Calvert, Teaching Elder.
Song: All Things New – CCLI #5448157
Come Lord and tarry not; bring the long looked for day;
O why these years of waiting here, these ages of decay?
Come for thy saints still wait; daily ascends their sigh;
The Spirit and the Bride say “Come”, dost thou not hear the cry?
CHORUS:
O come and make all things new, come and make all things new
O come and make all things new, build up this ruined Earth,
Come and make all things new
Come for creation groans, impatient of thy stay
Worn out with these long years of ill, these ages of delay.
Come for love waxes cold, its steps are faint and slow;
Faith now is lost in unbelief, Hope’s lamp burns dim and low.
The Benediction: From 1 Kings 8:57-58
May the Lord be with you as he was with our fathers. May He never leave you or forsake you. May He incline your hearts to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments. Amen!