Psalm 22
BULLETIN 7.10.2022
WORSHIP PREPARATION GUIDE
PRELUDE
Please enter the sanctuary and prepare quietly for worship. Please silence all phones and devices.
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
§GREETING, SALUTATION, AND VOTUM
Our help is in the name of the Lord, maker of heaven and Earth. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
~WORSHIP IN PRAISE~
§CALL TO WORSHIP
Psalm 46:4-7
Minister:
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
All: Amen!
§PRAYER OF INVOCATION
§HYMN A Mighty Fortress is Our God #244
Based on Ps. 46
~WORSHIP IN CONFESSION~
SCRIPTURE LESSON Matthew 6:1-18
Mr. Chris Turner, Ruling Elder
Jesus teaches the Lord’s Prayer and insists that the disciplines of piety (giving, fasting, praying) must have as their aim pleasing God, not being seen by others, as He continues His Sermon on the Mount.
CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN
All: Grant, Almighty God, that we, as your redeemed people, purchased by the work and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, would learn to pray as he has taught us. Forgive us for our lack of diligence in this area. Forgive us for our prayerless prayers and our lost opportunities granted by you to pray and plead for the sake of our souls and that of others. Forgive us for not taking advantage of the many opportunities to commune with you in prayer. We know that your Word tells us that the fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes great things. Therefore, we pray that you would teach us to pray and give us an abundance of your Spirit as we pray. Thank you for forgiving us, and thank you for your promise to help us as we pray. These things we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Jeremiah 31:33-34
Minister:
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
All: Amen.
CONFESSION OF FAITH The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q98, 99
Mr. Chris Turner, Ruling Elder
Q. 98. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.
Q. 99. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
A. The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer, but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called, The Lord’s Prayer.
~WORSHIP IN GRATITUDE AND THANKSGIVING~
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Mr. Chris Turner, Ruling Elder
OFFERING
§DOXOLOGY
~WORSHIP AND THE MEANS OF GRACE~
PRAYER NEEDS OF THE PERSECUTED CHURCH
The Country of Tanzania
Dr. Lloyd Long, Ruling Elder
PASTORAL PRAYER AND LORD'S PRAYER
§HYMN Amazing Grace #433
THE PREACHING OF GOD'S WORD
Rev. William F. Hill, Jr., Pastor
Scripture Reading: Psalm 22
Sermon Title: The Lament of the Righteous (Part One)
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
§PSALTER My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me? #22A
§THE BENEDICTION 1 Kings 8:57-58
Minister:
May the Lord our God be with you, as he was with your fathers. May he not leave you or forsake you; may he incline your hearts to his, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes and his rules, from this day and forever.
All: Come quickly, Lord Jesus! Amen.
§THE GLORIA PATRIA #572
All: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
POSTLUDE