Psalm 4
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 57:9-11
Hymns:
Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness: adapted from The Valley of Vision
Holy God, your name is excellent, your glory high, your compassion unfailing, your condescension wonderful, your mercy tender. We bless you for your promises of the gospel, for in them is pardon for rebels, liberty for captives, health for sick, salvation for the lost. May your approval be our only aim, your Word our only rule. In many things we have offended, in all come short of your glory; pardon our iniquity, for it is great. This we ask in the name of Jesus, our Savior and Mediator.
Hymn: O Savior, Precious Savior
Scripture Readings:
John 10:22-30
Philippians 4:4-9
Affirmation of Faith: from Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q. 45. Which is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is: You shall have no other gods before me.
Q. 46. What is required in the first commandment?
A. The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.
Q. 47. What is forbidden in the first commandment?
A. The first commandment forbids the denial of, or failure to worship and glorify, the true God as God and our God; and it forbids giving that worship and glory to any other which is due to God alone.
Pastoral Prayer
Hymn: Wonderful Words of Life
Sermon: Psalm 4
Closing Hymn: Doxology