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This Sunday at CMPC (August 25, 2024)

This Sunday morning, Pastor Rick will be preaching "God's Gift" from Ephesians 2:1-10 in the series "God's Ultimate Plan."
 
Then on Sunday evening at 6:30pm in the sanctuary, our Summer Mission Journey reports continue with a report from The Bulgaria Team.

This Sunday's Order of Worship

Announcements and Welcome
Dee Hammond
Pastor of Missions

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                            
Be Exalted, O God

I will give thanks to thee,  O Lord, among the people.
I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
For thy steadfast love is great,  is great to the heavens;
And thy faithfulness,  thy faithfulness to the clouds.
 
Be exalted, O God,--   above the heav-ens;
Let thy glory   be over all the earth.
Be exalted, O God,--   above the heav-ens;
Let thy glory   be over all the earth.
© 1977 Scripture In Song a div. of Integrity Music Inc.  ARR/UBP ccli184884
 
Call to Worship      
Isaiah 12:2-3

Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for the Lord God is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.
 
Invocation
 
Declaration of Truth                                    
Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 59 and 61

Leader:  What good does it do you, however, to believe all this?
 
All:  In Christ, I am right with God and heir to life everlasting.
 
Leader:  Why do you say that by faith alone you are right with God?
 
All:  It is not because of any value my faith has that God is pleased with me.  Only Christ’s satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness make me right with God. And I can receive this righteousness and make it mine in no other way than by faith alone.
 
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                              
Jesus Shall Reign

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does his successive journeys run
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore 'til suns shall rise and set no more
 
Blessings abound where'er he reigns the prisoner leaps to lose his chain
The weary find eternal rest and all the sons of want are blessed
 
To our King be highest praise rising through eternal days
Just and faithful he shall reign
Jesus shall reign
 
People and realms of every tongue dwell on His love with sweetest song
And infant voices shall proclaim their early praising of his name
 
To our King be highest praise rising through eternal days
Just and faithful he shall reign
Jesus shall reign
 
Let every creature rise and bring blessing and honor to our king
Angels descend with songs again and earth repeat the loud amen
 
To our King be highest praise rising through eternal days
Just and faithful he shall reign
Jesus shall reign
 
CMPC Mission and Family Life

Mission Moment                        
Brian and Megan Moore
MTW, Germany
 
The Sacrament of Covenant Baptism is given today to Aaron Shepherd Avery, son of Trae and Ailyn Avery, brother of Chloe, Christian, Ashur, Savanna, and Ryleigh.  (second service)
 
Pastoral Prayer
     
Our Gifts to God      
 
Receiving God’s Tithes and Our Offerings

The Gift of Music                                   Mercy                                                          
Choir
 
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                  
To God Be the Glory                                            

To God be the glory, great things he has done!
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
Who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
And opened the life gate that we may go in.
 
Refrain:
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the earth hear his voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
And give him the glory, great things he has done!
 
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood!
To ev'ry believer the promise of God;
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus forgiveness receives.
 
Great things he has taught us, great things he has done,
And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;
But purer, and higher, and greater will be
Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
 
Proclaiming the Word of God
 
Reading of God’s Word                
Ephesians 2:1-10                      
All: The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:8

Prayer of Illumination
 
Sermon                                                
“God’s Gift”                        
Series: God’s Ultimate Plan
Pastor Rick Holmes

Our Response
 
Prayer of Application
 
Hymn of Response          
The Church’s One Foundation                                    

The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord;
she is his new creation  by water and the Word.
From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died.
 
Elect from every nation, yet one o'er all the earth;
her charter of salvation, one Lord, one faith, one birth;
one holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses, with every grace endued.
 
Though with a scornful wonder men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,  by heresies distressed,
yet saints their watch are keeping;  their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping  shall be the morn of song.
 
The church shall never perish! Her dear Lord to defend,
To guide, sustain and cherish Is with her to the end;
Though there be those that hate her, And false sons in her pale,
Against or foe or traitor She ever shall prevail.
 
Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation of peace forevermore;
till, with the vision glorious, her longing eyes are blest,
and the great church victorious  shall be the church at rest.
 
Yet she on earth hath union with God the Three in One,
and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we
like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with thee.
 
The Benediction and Threefold Amen

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