Sunday April 13, 2025

April 13, 2025

Morning Worship

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude                                     Hosanna in the Highest!

Call to Worship                      Psalm 118:24–29 

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD. The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar! You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you. Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever

Invocation

*Hymn No. 310                   Rejoice, the Lord Is King

*Confession of Faith           Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 1
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong - body and soul, in life and in death – to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.
He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to Him, Christ, by His Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.

*Hymn No. 242                          Not All the Blood of Beasts

Prayer of Confession           (pray silently along with the pastor)

Assurance of Pardon                              Romans 4:24–5:1
Jesus our Lord… was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.

Scripture Reading                                 1 Corinthians 1:18–31

Pastoral Prayer
(Please sign and pass the registration pad at the end of the row)

Musical Offering                                     Hosanna In Excelsis Deo!
Sanctuary Choir, Katheryn Rubio, piano

*Doxology No. 731
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.

Children’s Devotion
(Children return to their seats)

Sermon                      What Defiles a Person?                    Dr. Barry
Matthew 15:10–20

*Hymn No. 599                                   Savior, like a Shepherd Lead Us

*Benediction

*Benediction Response                                                  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.

 

*Please stand if you are able.

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Evening Worship

Welcome

Call to Worship                                              1 Chronicles 29:11–13
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all, And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Invocation

*Hymn No. 38                            Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Scripture Reading                                                      1 John 4:7–21

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and
whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone
who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In
this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent
his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In
this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen
God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is
perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has
given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father
has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses
that Jesus in the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for
us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and
God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we
may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so
also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love
casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever
fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved
us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar;
for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot
love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have
from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Prayer of Confession                 (pray silently along with the pastor)

Assurance of Pardon                                                          Isaiah 25:9
Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is
the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Pastoral Prayer

*Hymn No. 465                               Marvelous Grace of Our Loving Lord

Sermon         Esther’s Identity Finally Revealed      Pastor Moore
Esther 6:14–7:10

*Hymn No. 691                                                          It Is Well with My Soul

Benediction

*Please stand if you are able.

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Morning Worship

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Welcome & Announcements

Prelude                                     Hosanna in the Highest!

Call to Worship                      Psalm 118:24–29 

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD. The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar! You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you. Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever

Invocation

*Hymn No. 310                   Rejoice, the Lord Is King

*Confession of Faith           Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 1
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong - body and soul, in life and in death – to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.
He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to Him, Christ, by His Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.

*Hymn No. 242                          Not All the Blood of Beasts

Prayer of Confession           (pray silently along with the pastor)

Assurance of Pardon                              Romans 4:24–5:1
Jesus our Lord… was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.

Scripture Reading                                 1 Corinthians 1:18–31

Pastoral Prayer
(Please sign and pass the registration pad at the end of the row)

Musical Offering                                     Hosanna In Excelsis Deo!
Sanctuary Choir, Katheryn Rubio, piano

*Doxology No. 731
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.

Children’s Devotion
(Children return to their seats)

Sermon                      What Defiles a Person?                    Dr. Barry
Matthew 15:10–20

*Hymn No. 599                                   Savior, like a Shepherd Lead Us

*Benediction

*Benediction Response                                                  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.

 

*Please stand if you are able.

Evening Worship

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Welcome

Call to Worship                                              1 Chronicles 29:11–13
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all, And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Invocation

*Hymn No. 38                            Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Scripture Reading                                                      1 John 4:7–21

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and
whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone
who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In
this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent
his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In
this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen
God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is
perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has
given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father
has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses
that Jesus in the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for
us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and
God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we
may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so
also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love
casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever
fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved
us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar;
for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot
love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have
from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Prayer of Confession                 (pray silently along with the pastor)

Assurance of Pardon                                                          Isaiah 25:9
Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is
the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Pastoral Prayer

*Hymn No. 465                               Marvelous Grace of Our Loving Lord

Sermon         Esther’s Identity Finally Revealed      Pastor Moore
Esther 6:14–7:10

*Hymn No. 691                                                          It Is Well with My Soul

Benediction

*Please stand if you are able.

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