Sunday, January 12, 2025

For Reflection and Preparation  

   And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
  For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

                                                                                    John 1:14, 16

   We are receiving now already the salvation of our souls. But this all issues ultimately in a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead into an inheritance that, for us too, can never perish, spoil, or fade... For believers the confidence, the joy, the anticipation, the hope is tied absolutely to their confidence that Jesus rose from the dead after having offered himself to pay for their sins. And the cross and the resurrection tie together as the turning point of the ages on which all of history swings with the new age already dawning now and ready to be brought to consummation when the master himself returns in all of his glorified, resurrected existence on the last day.                          D. A. Carson

Call to Worship                               Revelation 1:4-8

Music of Praise and Worship

Glorious Day

Prayer of Confession & Intercession                              

Assurance of God’s Grace                             Colossians 1:19-20

  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.                                       

 Hymn of Praise

The Solid Rock                                                               #215     

Confessing Our Faith                   The Nicene Creed       

WE BELIEVE in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.  He suffered and was buried, and the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.  And He shall come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And WE BELIEVE in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father  and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

And WE BELIEVE in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. AMEN.

Message from the Word     I Thessalonians 4:13-18

Hymn of Testimony

When the Roll Is Called up Yonder   #514

Benediction

All songs used by permission; CCLI #332045  Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Tuesday 10:30am Ladies Bible Study

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  6:00pm Grace Group

    @ TJ & Barb Neely’s

Wednesday 10:30am RCC Bible Study

  5:30pm Fellowship Supper

  6:00pm Pioneer Club 

                6:30pm Grace Choir Practice

Saturday   8:00am Men’s Group

Sunday   9:00am Pray for Our Church

  9:30am Sunday School  

 10:30am Worship Service

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