Order of Worship

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July Scripture Memory

Colossians 1:12–14

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Reflection Quote

“Besides understanding the significance of Christ’s death and resurrection for our lives, Colossians 2 demands two things of us: that we continue to live in Christ and that we abound in thanksgiving.  If the truth of what Christ’s death and resurrection mean sinks into the core of our being, we will live with more thanksgiving, and it will expel all our fears and worries over any unknown, unseen, or seemingly implacable forces.  Failure to grasp this great truth, however, will only breed anxiety and dissatisfaction with life and make us susceptible to all manner of fraudulent promise.”
—David E. Garland, The NIV Application Commentary: Colossians

Welcome & Greetings

ROMANS 15:7

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Announcements

Opening Prayer

Call to Worship

Psalm 34:1–8, 16, 18, 22 

Elder: I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

Congregation: Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together! I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. 

Elder: This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them. 

Congregation: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him have no lack! 

Elder: The face of the Lord is against those who do evil. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. 

All: The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder

1. Let us love and sing and wonder,
   let us praise the Savior's name!
   He has hushed the law's loud thunder,
   he has quenched Mount Sinai's flame;
   he has washed us with his blood,
   he has brought us nigh to God.

2. Let us love the Lord who bought us,
   pitied us when enemies,
   called us by his grace, and taught us,
   gave us ears and gave us eyes:
   he has washed us with his blood,
   he presents our souls to God.

3. Let us sing, though fierce temptation
   threaten hard to bear us down!
   For the Lord, our strong salvation,
   holds in view the conqu'ror's crown;
   he who washed us with his blood,
   soon will bring us home to God.

4. Let us wonder; grace and justice
   join, and point to mercy's store;
   when through grace in Christ our trust is,
   justice smiles, and asks no more:
   he who washed us with his blood,
   has secured our way to God.

5. Let us praise, and join the chorus
   of the saints enthroned on high;
   here they trusted him before us,
   now their praises fill the sky:
   "You have washed us with your blood;
   You are worthy, Lamb of God!"

Affirmation of Faith

The Westminster Shorter Catechism

88. Q. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
    A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, are his ordinances, especially the word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.
89. Q. How is the word made effectual to salvation?
    A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.
90. Q. How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
    A. That the word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.

Corporate Prayer of Confession

Father in Heaven, you are kind and gracious to give us the means of prayer and the Word.  You reveal how perfect and majestic you are through them and how personal and near you are to your people.  

We confess that we neglect and misuse these very gifts that you have for us.  We fail to see the power of your word; the light that it gives to our path, the sweetness that proves greater than anything else, and the revealing of your Son, Jesus.  

Merciful Father, break the power of sin in our hearts that teaches us to trust ourselves rather than you.  Use your word, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to transform our minds, our hearts, our emotions, and wills.  Allow your word to help us see Jesus and only him.

In Jesus’ name, Amen!

Silent Confession

Assurance of Pardon

Romans 8:31–33

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

All: Thanks be to God

I Will Glory in My Redeemer

1. I will glory in my Redeemer
   Whose priceless blood has ransomed me
   Mine was the sin that drove the bitter nails
   And hung Him on that judgment tree
   I will glory in my Redeemer
   Who crushed the power of sin and death
   My only Savior before the holy Judge
   The Lamb who is my righteousness
   The Lamb who is my righteousness

2. I will glory in my Redeemer
   My life He bought, my love He owns
   I have no longings for another
   I’m satisfied in Him alone
   I will glory in my Redeemer
   His faithfulness my standing place
   Though foes are mighty and rush upon me
   My feet are firm, held by His grace
   My feet are firm, held by His grace

3. I will glory in my Redeemer
   Who carries me on eagles’ wings
   He crowns my life with lovingkindness
   His triumph song I’ll ever sing
   I will glory in my Redeemer
   Who waits for me at gates of gold
   And when He calls me, it will be paradise
   His face forever to behold
   His face forever to behold

Pastoral Prayer

IPC FAMILY

Dale Longstreth
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Neighbors in our Community

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Nations

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We Praise You, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator

1. We praise you, O God, our Redeemer, Creator,
   in grateful devotion our tribute we bring.
   We lay it before you, we kneel and adore you;
   we bless your holy name, glad praises we sing.

2. We worship you, God of our fathers, we bless you;
   through life's storm and tempest our Guide you have been.
   When perils o'ertake us, escape you will make us,
   and with your help, O Lord, our battles we win.

3. With voices united our praises we offer,
   to you, great Jehovah, glad anthems we raise.
   Your strong arm will guide us, our God is beside us,
   to you, our great Redeemer, forever be praise.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

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Reflection & Preparation

Doxology 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host:
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Reading of Sermon Text

Colossians 2:6–15

6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord, 
Congregation: thanks be to God.

Prayer

Sermon

Continue in the Lordship of Christ
Rev. Tim Weldon

1. Introduction

2. Center on His Lordship

3. Being Filled

4. A Union that Frees

5. Conclusion

In Christ Alone

1. In Christ alone my hope is found,
   He is my light, my strength, my song;
   This Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
   Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
   What heights of love, what depths of peace,
   When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
   My Comforter, my All in All,
   Here in the love of Christ I stand.

2. In Christ alone! – who took on flesh,
   Fullness of God in helpless babe.
   This gift of love and righteousness,
   Scorned by the ones He came to save:
   Till on that cross as Jesus died,
   The wrath of God was satisfied –
   For every sin on Him was laid;
   Here in the death of Christ I live.

3. There in the ground His body lay,
   Light of the world by darkness slain:
   Then bursting forth in glorious day
   Up from the grave He rose again!
   And as He stands in victory
   Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
   For I am His and He is mine –
   Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

4. No guilt in life, no fear in death,
   This is the power of Christ in me;
   From life’s first cry to final breath,
   Jesus commands my destiny.
   No power of hell, no scheme of man,
   Can ever pluck me from His hand:
   Till He returns or calls me home,
   Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.

Benediction

Be Thou My Vision

1. Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
   naught be all else to me, save that thou art
   thou my best thought, by day or by night,
   waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

2. Be thou my battle shield, sword for my fight;
   be thou my dignity, thou my delight,
   thou my soul's shelter, thou my high tow'r;
   raise thou me heav'n-ward, O pow'r of my pow'r.

Postlude