This Sunday at CMPC (July 7, 2024)

Pastor Ben will be preaching "Overcoming Fear In Ephesus and Chestnut Mountain" in the series "God's Ultimate Plan" from 2 Timothy 1:3-14.

Reminder that there are no Sunday or Wednesday evening services in July. Find more information here.

Ben Phillips
Pastor of Ministries

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                        
Crown Him King Of Kings

Crown Him King of kings;   Crown Him Lord of lords.
Wonderful, - -  Counselor, - -  the Mighty God;   -  -  -  -
- Emmanuel,    God  is  wi - th  us,
And He shall reign,  He shall reign,
He shall reign forevermore.
©1991 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music. ARR/ UBP CCLI #184884
 
Call to Worship        
Psalm 34:3-4

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.
 
Invocation
 
Declaration of Truth                                                                      
The Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic* church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
 
This creed traditionally dates back to the early 2nd century.
The word “catholic” means “universal”, meaning the one true church made
up of all believers in Jesus Christ from every tribe, language, people and nation
 
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              
God, All Nature Sings Thy Glory                            

God, all nature sings thy glory, and thy works proclaim thy might;
Ordered vastness in the heavens, ordered course of day and night;
Beauty in the changing seasons, beauty in the storming sea;
All the changing moods of nature praise the changeless Trinity
 
Clearer still we see thy hand in man whom though hast made for thee
Ruler of creation’s glory, image of thy majesty
Music, art, the fruitful garden, all the labor of his days,
Are the calling of his maker to the harvest feast of praise
 
But our sins have spoiled thine image; nature, conscience only serve
As unceasing, grim reminders of the wrath which we deserve.
Yet thy grace and saving mercy in thy Word of truth revealed
Claim the praise of all who know thee, in the blood of Jesus sealed.
 
God of glory, power, mercy, all creation praises thee;
We, thy creatures, would adore thee now and through eternity.
Saved to magnify thy goodness, grant us strength to do thy will;
With our acts as with our voices thy commandments to fulfill
 
CMPC Mission and Family Life
 
Mission Moment          
Commissioning the Batusic Family
 
Pastoral Prayer
     
Our Gifts to God                    
 
Receiving God’s Tithes and Our Offerings
 
The Gift of Music                      
 
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        
I Know Whom I Have Believed                              

I know not why God’s wondrous grace
To me he hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for his own.
 
Refrain:
But “I know whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that he is able
To keep that which I’ve committed
Unto him against that day.”
 
I know not how this saving faith
To me he did impart,
Nor how believing in his Word
Wrought peace within my heart.
 
I know not how the Spirit moves,
Convincing men of sin,
Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in him.
 
I know not what of good or ill
May be reserved for me,
Of weary ways or golden days,
Before his face I see.
 
I know not when my Lord may come,
At night or noonday fair,
Nor if I walk the vale with him,
Or meet him in the air.
 
Proclaiming the Word of God
 
Reading of God’s Word                  
2 Timothy 1:3-14                      
All: The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:8

Prayer of Illumination
 
Sermon                
“Overcoming Fear in Ephesus and Chestnut Mountain”              
Pastor Ben Phillips
 
Our Response
 
Prayer of Application
 
Hymn of Response                      
Like A River Glorious                                    

Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace,
over all victorious in its bright increase;
perfect, yet it floweth  fuller ev'ry day,
perfect, yet it groweth  deeper all the way.
 
Refrain:
Stayed upon Jehovah,  hearts are fully blest,
finding, as he promised,  perfect peace and rest.
 
Hidden in the hollow of his blessed hand,
never foe can follow, never traitor stand;
not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,
not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.
 
Ev'ry joy or trial falleth from above,
traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love.
We may trust him fully all for us to do;
they who trust him wholly find him wholly true.
 
The Benediction and Threefold Amen