Palm Sunday 2022
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: Zechariah 9:9
Hymns:
#235 All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness: adapted from The Valley of Vision
Through our faith in Christ you have clothed us with a bridegroom’s robe and decked us with jewels of holiness. But in our Christian walk we are still in rags; our best prayers are stained with sin; our tears of remorse are so much impurity. In the name of Jesus, our Savior, we come into your presence to have your holiness confront our sinfulness.
In your kindness, lead us to repentance, true repentance, that we might learn to love your will. Grant us never to lose sight of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the exceeding righteousness of salvation, the exceeding glory of Christ, the exceeding beauty of holiness, the exceeding wonder of grace.
Hymn: #182 My Song Is Love Unknown
Scripture Readings:
Genesis 49:8-12
Revelation 19:11-16
Affirmation of Faith: from The Baptist Catechism
Q27. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A. Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in His state of humiliation and exaltation.
Q28. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by this Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
Q29. How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
A. Christ executes the office of a priest, in His once offering up of Himself, a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.
Q30. How does Christ execute the office of a king?
A. Christ executes the office of a king, in subduing us to Himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.
Pastoral Prayer
Hymn: #731 Doxology
Sermon: Judges 6
Closing Hymn: #237 Ride On, Ride On in Majesty!