Blended Worship
Our worship style is a blended mix of traditional with some contemporary music mixed in with a lot of bluegrass and county influence. If you play an instrument and wish to join in, then come to our 8:30 musician’s practice on Sunday Morning. We also have a choir that that you are welcome to join. They practice on Wednesday at 8:00 PM following our 7:00 PM prayer service
We have intercessory prayer where you can bring your prayer request or your friends needs before the congregation. We always close with the Lord’s prayer.
Expect to hear a lot of Scripture Readings read by one of our Ruling Elders during the service.
We serve communion on the first Sunday of each month. All confessing Christians of any denomination in good standing are invited to the table.
Most importantly, expect to be greeted by some of the most loving people you have ever met.
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SERVICE OF WORSHIP, JANUARY 19, 2025
“Knowing Christ and Making Him Known”
Welcome and good morning!
We begin this new year as we resume our sermon series on the life of Abraham, as reminded in our memory verse Genesis 19:29, “When God destroyed the cities in the valley. God remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the disaster.” (CEB).
Welcome and Announcements
WE WORSHIP THE GOD WHO REMEMBERS US
Prelude: Caroline Cleaveland
Choral Call to Worship “Standing on the Solid Rock” with “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”
Scripture Call to Worship: From Psalm 25:1-7, 20-22 (NKJ)
L: “To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
ALL: O my God, I trust in You; Let me not be ashamed; Let not my enemies triumph over me.
L: Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.
ALL: Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths.
L: Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.
ALL: Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.
L: Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your goodness’ sake, O LORD….”
ALL: “Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.
L: Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
ALL: Redeem Israel, O God, Out of all their troubles!”
Chorus of Worship # 583 “You are My All in All”
Prayer of Confession and Invocation
Assurance of Pardon from Colossians 2:13b (NKJ)
“He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses”
Confession of Faith from the Larger Catechism Q. 79.
- May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?
Answer: True believers, by reason of the unchangeable love of God,1 and his decree and covenant to give them perseverance,2 their inseparable union with Christ,3 his continual intercession for them,4 and the Spirit and seed of God abiding in them,5 can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace,6 but are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.7
Citing 1 Jer. 31:3 2 2 Tim. 2:19; Heb. 13:20-21; 2 Sam. 23:5 3 1 Cor. 1:8-9 4 Heb. 7:25; Luke 22:32 5 1 John 3:9; 1 John 2:27 6 Jer. 32:40; John 10:28 7 1 Pet. 1:5
Hymn of Worship # 12 “Praise Him, Praise Him”
WE PRAY TO THE GOD WHO REMEMBERS US
Prayer for newly installed WIC Officers for 2025
Sharing of Praises and Prayer Requests
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6:9–13 (KJV)
“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.”
WE LISTEN TO THE GOD WHO REMEMBERS US
Memory Verse for today, Genesis 19:29 (CEB)
“When God destroyed the cities in the valley,
God remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the disaster.”
Memory Verse for next Sunday, January 29 [from Cory],
Scripture Reading From 2 Peter 2:4-9, The Bible’s last word on Lot
“If God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;5 and did spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)– 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.” (NKJ)
Song of Praise: # 572 “Blessed Assurance”
Tithes and Offerings
WE LEARN FROM THE GOD WHO REMEMBERS US
Children’s Bible Chat
Children 7 and under are invited to attend the Children’s Church
Sermon on Genesis 19:27-30, “What Will get you Through to the End?”
“And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. 30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.”
Context: Abraham is notified by the Lord of the impending judgment on Sodom (Chapter 18) and his nephew Lot is rescued by angels (19:1-26), but what Lot does next makes us wonder if anyone will “persevere to the end and be saved” (Mark 13:13).
[1] The Believer will end standing before the Lord (Gen 19:27)
- “Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD”
- The believer stands before the Lord by divine grace (Rom 5:2), so is grace your stand? (1 Peter 5:12)
[2] The Believer will end with God’s perspective on the world (v. 28)
A. Abraham saw that his world around him was perishing
A. Abraham saw that his world around him was perishing
- The believer’s perspective is to use this world without being used by it (1 Cor 7:31)
[3] The Believer will end with rescue from judgment (Gen 19:29)
- God rescued as He “remembered Abraham and sent Lot out” (29)
- Likewise, God “remembers” believers (Luke 23:42) and “brings out” His own (John 10:4)
[4] The Believer might end with a descent into fear (Gen 19:30 )
` A. Lot descends into a life of being “afraid” and it results in very bad choices (31-38)
- While the believer is fear God (1 Peter 2:17), we are not to fear threats or troubles (1 Peter 3:14)
Concluding application: Don’t depend on your own will to get you through to the end but resolve to “stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.” (Col 4:12)
WE COMMIT TO THE GOD WHO DELIVERS US
Hymn of Commitment # 719 “Children of the Heavenly Father”
PROVERB FOR REFLECTION: Proverbs 12:7 (NKJ)
” The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
But the house of the righteous will stand.”
BENEDICTION FROM JUDE 1:24-25 (NET)
“Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence, to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.”
Chorus of Parting # 426 Blest be the Tie
As you depart, greet others around you with the peace of Christ (Eph 6:23)
Announcements:
The Pastor has started a Newcomer’s class for anyone interested in membership, but it’s not too late to jump in. It will meet in the library during the Sunday School hour, so ask the pastor for a class manual.
The Digging Deeper Bible study will resume on the 4th Sunday evening in January. We will be studying B. B. Warfield’s classic work, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, which Pastor DeYoung of Christ Covenant Church calls “the most important influential book written on the doctrine of Scripture in the past 150 years.” It is available for a free download at https://www.monergism.com/
and we will cover the first chapter, “The Biblical Idea of Revelation,” so start reading! The Pastor is considering meeting in a different home every so often, so if you would be willing to host it, let him know.
This morning we install the 2025 officers for the Women in the Church (WIC), as follows: President: Margy Nance; Vice President: Gina Compton; Secretary: Bailey Martin; Treasurer: Kristin Wing; MTW: Jean Whatley; MNA: Heather Hager, Spiritual Growth: Tiffany Haddock; Mercy & Hospitality: Cassidy Martin & Bailey Martin; Community Outreach/CPC & Christian Mission: Heather Hager & Robin Riggs ; Flowers: Sissy Farrington; Historian: Jane Biggerstaff; Bereavement: Marlene Stout & Annette Hinson; Social Media: Michelle Page
Circle Presidents: April Pruitt (New Light), Mildred Yost & Linda Tevepaugh (Janie Farr), Anna Arnold (Nancy Petrea).
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Sermon on Genesis 18:16-33,
What Does God reveal about His Justice?
Context: The Lord renews His covenant promise to Abraham (18:1-15), but before his heir can occupy the land, the wicked must first be judged, and so Abrham questions the Lord’s fairness of His judgment as the Lord sets off to examine the sin of Sodom.
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