Judges 7

Links to the scriptures and hymns used during this service are provided below.  Click on the hymn title to be taken to a page with sheet music.

Order of Service 

Call to Worship: Psalm 148

Hymns:

#110 Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah

#111 This Is My Father's World

Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness: adapted from The Valley of Vision

Lord Jesus, give us to die with you that we may rise to new life, for we wish to be dead and buried to sin, selfishness, and the world. O Lord, there is much ill about us - crucify it, much of the flesh within us - mortify it. Let us reckon our old lives dead because of the crucifixion. Never let us wander from the path of obedience to your will. Help us to be holy. Grant us more and more of the resurrection life: may it rule us, may we walk in its power, and be strengthened through its influence. Now, as we quiet ourselves to confess our faults, visit us by your Spirit that we might be free from every wrong desire.

Hymn: #690 I Know That My Redeemer Lives

Scripture Readings:

John 1:9-18

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles' Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit; born of the virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate: was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended to the dead; the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; whence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy catholic* church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

*Small-c catholic refers to the church universal—God’s people in all times and places—not the capital-C Roman Catholic church.

Pastoral Prayer

Hymn: #679 Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

Sermon: Judges 7

Closing Hymn: #731 Doxology