FAITH

Instructions for participating in at-home worship:
Readings and prayer are provided here as suggestions for your family to do together. Even though our church is not physically gathered together in one building, there is a unity in Christ that happens when we all read the same scriptures and say the same prayers separately in our homes. Know that as your family participates in this worship time in your home, you are joining many others doing exactly the same thing in their homes.
You may download and print this entire service BULLETIN as well as sermon NOTES for children from the Download Files section at the bottom of this page.

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Call to Worship
14 As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. 15 My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long—though I know not how to relate them all. 16 I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.
— Psalm 71:14-16 (NIV)

Praise


Read God's Word Together
19 Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, you who have done great things. Who is like you, God? 20 Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. 21 You will increase my honor and comfort me once more. 22 I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. 23 My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you—I whom you have delivered. 24 My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long.
— Psalm 71:19-24a (NIV)

Children's Message


Pray Together
(a prayer based on Psalm 146)
Praise the Lord! Our soul praises you, O Lord. We will sing praises to you as long as we live. We will not put our trust in our government or in influential people, for when they die, their influence and power are gone. We are blessed because we hope and trust in you, our God who created the world and everything in it. You were a faithful God to our spiritual fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and you remain unchanging and faithful to us in this century and on to the end of time. You uphold those of us who are weighed down with the cares of this world, and you feed those who are hungry with the bread of life. You set prisoners free with the assurance that their sins are forgiven and that you are in control of the events of their lives. You give sight of understanding to those who are blind in their sin. You lift up those who are bowed down, and you love those who are righteous. You watch over us strangers in a sinful world, and you are a father to the orphaned and a comforter to the widowed. You do not allow the plans of the wicked to flourish or to come to completion. You will reign forever and for all generations. Praise the Lord! Amen.

Message and Response of Praise

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Audio only of message