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This Sunday at CMPC (May 5, 2024)

Sunday morning, Pastor Rick will be preaching on "A Test of Loyalty" from Daniel 3.

Sunday evening, Pastor Ben will look at Luke 22:14-30 in our ongoing series from Luke: Becoming Certain About the Story.

This Sunday's Order of Worship

Announcements and Welcome                                                                        
Travis Brown
Pastor to Youth

Adoration of God
                                               
The Song of Ascent                      
God’s people sang together as they gathered and traveled together up to Jerusalem to worship God.
 
Congregation                    
Blessed Be the Lord God Almighty

Father in heaven, how we love You,
We lift Your name in all the earth.
May Your kingdom be established in our praises,
As Your people declare Your mighty works.
Blessed be the Lord God  almighty,
Who was, and is, and is to come;
Blessed be the Lord God almighty,
Who reigns forevermore.
©1984 Scripture in Song (admin. by Maranatha! Music)  ARR/UBP #184884
 
Call to Worship          
Romans 11:33 & 36

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
 
Invocation
 
Declaration of Truth                                                                  
Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 28

Leader:  How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?
 
All:  We can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that nothing will separate us form his love. All creatures are so completely in his hand that without his will they can neither move nor be moved.
 
Gloria Patri
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
 
The Gloria Patri’s first line was sung in the church as early as the 2nd century to affirm that God is Triune. The second line was added in the 4th century to emphasize the eternal Deity of Jesus, refuting the Arian heresy that Jesus was not eternally God.

Hymn of Praise                    
O Father You are Sovereign

O Father, You are sovereign   In all the worlds You made;
Your mighty Word was spoken,  And light and life obeyed.
Your voice commands the seasons  And bounds the ocean’s shore,
Sets stars within their courses  And stills the tempests’ roar.
 
O Father, You are sovereign  In all affairs of man;
No powers of death or darkness   Can thwart Your perfect plan.
All chance and change transcending,  Supreme in time and space,
You hold your trusting children  Secure in Your embrace.
 
O Father, You are sovereign  The Lord of human pain,
Transmuting earthly sorrows  To gold of heavenly gain,
All evil overruling,  As none but Conqueror could,
Your love pursues its purpose—  Our souls’ eternal good.
 
O Father, You are sovereign!  We see You dimly now,
But soon before Your triumph  Earth’s every knee shall bow.
With this glad hope before us  Our faith springs up anew:
Our Sovereign Lord and Savior,  We trust and worship You!
 
CMPC Mission and Family Life
 
Mission Moment                  
Honoring 2024 Graduates
 
Pastoral Prayer
     
Our Gifts to God                    
 
Receiving God’s Tithes and Our Offerings
 
The Gift of Music                            
Holy, Holy, Holy                                      
Orchestra
 
The Doxology and Prayer
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him,  all creatures here below.
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host.   Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
 
Hymn of Testimony        
All The Way My Savior Leads Me                                

All the way my Savior leads me   What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy,  Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,   Here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know, whate’er befall me,  Jesus doeth all things well;
For I know, whate’er befall me,   Jesus doeth all things well.
 
All the way my Savior leads me,  Cheers each winding path I tread,
Gives me grace for every trial,   Feeds me with the living Bread.
Though my weary steps may falter  And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,  Lo! A spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,  Lo! A spring of joy I see.
 
All the way my Savior leads me,  Oh, the fullness of His love!
Perfect rest to me is promised  In my Father’s house above.
When my spirit, clothed immortal,  Wings its flight to realms of day
This my song through endless ages:   Jesus led me all the way;
This my song through endless ages:    Jesus led me all the way.
 
Proclaiming the Word of God
 
Reading of God’s Word                  
Daniel 3:1-30                          
All: The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God will stand forever.
 
Prayer of Illumination
 
Sermon                          
“A Test of Loyalty”                  
Series: Living As Exiles
Pastor Rick Holmes
 
Our Response
 
Prayer of Application
 
Hymn of Response                  
What E'er My God Ordains is Right

What e'er my God ordains is right:   his holy will abideth;
I will be still what e'er he doth,  and follow where he guideth.
He is my God: though dark my road,  he holds me that I shall not fall:
and so to him I leave it all, he holds me that I shall not fall:

Wha te'er my God ordains is right:  he never will deceive me;
he leads me by the proper path;  I know he will not leave me.
I take, content, what he hath sent;  his hand can turn my griefs away,
and patiently, I wait his day, his hand can turn my griefs away

What e'er my God ordains is right:  though now this cup, I’m drinking,
may bitter seem to my faint heart,  I take it, all unshrinking.
My God is true; each morn anew  sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart,
and pain and sorrow shall depart, sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart.

What e'er my God ordains is right:  here shall my stand be taken;
though sorrow, need, or death be mine,  yet am I not forsaken.
My Father's care is round me there;  he holds me that I shall not fall:
and so to him, I leave it all,  he holds me that I shall not fall.
 
He is my God, though dark my road, he holds me that I shall not fall:
and so to him, I leave it all, he holds me that I shall not fall.
 
The Benediction and Threefold Amen

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