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This Sunday at CMPC (September 22, 2024)

This Sunday morning at 8:30am and 11:00am, Pastor Rick will be preaching "Strengthened" from Ephesians 3:14-21 in the series "God's Ultimate Plan."
 
Then on Sunday evening at 6:30pm in the sanctuary, Steven Clark will be preaching "Second Chances and Sackcloths" from Jonah 3, continuing our series "The Pursuit of Grace: The Book of Jonah."

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                                  
My Savior’s Love

I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus, the Nazarene,
And wonder how he could love me,  a sinner, condemned, unclean.
 
Refrain:
How marvelous, How wonderful!  And my song shall ever be:
How marvelous, How wonderful!  Is my Savior’s love for me!
 
When with the ransomed in glory his face I at last shall see,
‘Twill be my joy thro’ the ages to sing of his love for me.
 
Call to Worship  
Psalm 68:35
Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!
 
Invocation
 
Declaration of Truth                                                
Westminster Confession of Faith
Larger Catechism Question 7

Leader: What is God?
 
All:  God is a Spirit, in and of himself, infinite in being, glory, blessedness, and perfection; all-sufficient, eternal, unchangeable, incomprehensible, everywhere present, almighty, knowing all things, most wise, most holy, most just, most merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
 
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                              
And Can It Be?

And can it be, that I should gain an interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain for me, who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be that thou, my God, should die for me?
 
Refrain: Amazing love! how can it be
That thou, my God, should die for me?

'Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies: who can explore his strange design?
In vain the first-born seraph tries to sound the depths of love divine.
'Tis mercy all! let earth adore, let angel minds inquire no more.

He left his Father's throne above, so free, so infinite his grace,
Humbled himself so great his love, and bled for all his chosen race:
'Tis mercy all, immense and free; for, O my God, it found out me!

Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth and followed thee.

No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in him, is mine!
Alive in him, my living Head, and clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach the eternal throne, and claim the crown, through Christ my own.
                     
CMPC Mission and Family Life

Ministry Minute                                
Andy Jobson
The Ministry of the Session

Pastoral Prayer
     
Our Gifts to God      
 
Receiving God’s Tithes and Our Offerings
 
The Gift of Music                          
Be My Church                                                    
Choir
(Words: Pamela Stewart based on Romans 12:9-18 Music: David Lantz III)

Rejoice with the rejoicing, and weep with those who mourn.
Be patient and forgiving repair what has been torn.
Remember the forgotten; invite the stranger in.
Serve each other faithfully until I come again.
 
Love as I have loved you. Serve as I have served.
Give as I have given. Be my church.
Be my hands and body moving in the world.
Live your life in blessing. Be my church.
 
The outcast, the beloved; the powerful, the weak;
The ones caught up in battle and those who sleep in peace;
The thriving and the struggling; the greatest to the least:
My child, they are my children, so love each one of these.
 
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        
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us

How deep the Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure,
That he should give his only Son to make a wretch his treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss the Father turns his face away,
As wounds which mar the Chosen One bring many sons to glory.
 
Behold the man upon a cross, my sin upon his shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held him there until it was accomplished;
his dying breath has brought me life -  I know that it is finished.
 
I will not boast in anything, no gifts, no power, no wisdom;
But I will boast in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection.
Why should I gain from his reward?  I cannot give an answer;
But this I know with all my heart -  his wounds have paid my ransom.
Stuart Townend Copyright © 1995 Thankyou Music ARR/UBP ccli#184884
 
Proclaiming the Word of God
 
Prayer of Illumination
 
Reading of God’s Word                    
Ephesians 3:14-21                  
All: The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:8
 
Sermon                                              
“Strengthened”                    
Series: God’s Ultimate Plan
Pastor Rick Holmes
                 
Our Response    
             
Prayer of Application
 
Hymn of Response        
May the Mind of Christ My Savior

May the mind of Christ, my Savior, live in me from day to day,
by his love and pow'r controlling all I do and say.
 
May the word of God dwell richly in my heart from hour to hour,
so that all may see I triumph only through his pow'r.
 
May the peace of God, my Father, rule my life in everything,
that I may be calm to comfort sick and sorrowing.
 
May the love of Jesus fill me as the waters fill the sea.
Him exalting, self abasing:  this is victory.
 
May his beauty rest upon me as I seek the lost to win,
and may they forget the channel, seeing only him.
                     
The Benediction and Threefold Amen

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