Order of Worship for August 11th, 2024
Invitation // Psalm 45:1-2 (NIV)
Song // Come Thou Fount
Song // Build My Life by Housefires
Confession // Corporate & silent prayer & confession
Assurance // John 16:33 (NIV)
Song // Jesus Paid it All (Hymn)
Sermon // Exodus 1:8-22 (NIV)
Communion
Offering
Song // Run to the Father by Cody Carnes
Benediction
INVITATION
Psalm 45:1-2 (NIV)
1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme
as I recite my verses for the king;
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
2 You are the most excellent of men
and your lips have been anointed with grace,
since God has blessed you forever.
Come Thou Fount (HYMN)
VERSE
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
VERSE 2
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I've come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
VERSE 3
Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, oh take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Build My Life By housefires
VERSE
Worthy of every song we could ever sing
Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
We live for you
VERSE 2
Jesus, the name above every other name
Jesus, the only one who could save
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
We live for you
CHORUS
Holy, there is no one like you
There is none besides you
Open up my eyes in wonder
And show me who you are and fill me
With your heart and lead me
In your love to those around me
BRIDGE
And I will build my life upon your love, it is a firm foundation
And I will put my trust in you alone
And I will not be shaken
And I will build my life upon your love, it is a firm foundation
And I will put my trust in you alone
And I will not be shaken
Confession
The Lord who is in charge,
We are limited in knowledge, yet we have been critical.
We admit that we have sewn seeds of divisiveness.
We are often too distracted to tend to the oppressed.
We, too, have been mistreated, and have, in turn, mistreated others.
We have beaten down other people with our thoughts and words, and even deeds.
We have sometimes pretended to be righteously angry when we were simply boiling with hatred.
Yet because of your great love,
You forgive us.
Your mercy and kindness leads us to a better way.
You are prospering those who have been beaten-down.
You are healing the hurting.
You are healing the hurt within our souls.
Jesus, continue to awaken us to your heavenly power.
Give us peace as we remember:
You are in charge.
Assurance
John 16:33 (NIV)
33 I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
Jesus Paid it All (Hymn)
VERSE
I hear the savior say
Thy strength indeed is small
Child of weakness, watch and pray
Find in me thine all in all
CHORUS
Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
VERSE 2
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and thine alone
Can change the leper's spots
And melt the heart of stone
VERSE 3
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete
Jesus died my soul to save
My lips shall still repeat
Scripture
Exodus 1:8-22 (NIV)
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
Offering
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Run to the Father by Cody Carnes
VERSE
I've carried a burden
For too long on my own
I wasn't created
To bear it alone
I hear Your invitation
To let it all go
Yeah, I see it now
I'm laying it down
And I know that I need You
CHORUS
I run to the Father
I fall into grace
I'm done with the hiding
No reason to wait
My heart needs a surgeon
My soul needs a friend
So I'll run to the Father
Again and again
And again and again
VERSE 2
You saw my condition
Had a plan from the start
Your Son for redemption
The price for my heart
And I don't have a context
For that kind of love
I don't understand
I can't comprehend
All I know is I need You
BRIDGE
My heart has been in Your sights
Long before my first breath
Running into Your arms
Is running to life from death
And I feel this rush deep in my chest
Your mercy is calling out
Just as I am You pull me in
And I know I need You now