Unity ARP

The Lord’s Day ~ May 11, 2008

The Preparation for Worship

Let us prepare our hearts for the worship of God.

“When they saw Him, they worshiped Him.” (Matthew 28:17)
Prelude

Silent Prayer

Welcome and Announcements

The Adoration of God

Call to Worship: Psalm 92:4-5 “For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands. O LORD, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.”

*Psalm of Praise - Hymn 92

Speaker: Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
All: For His mercy endures forever. (Ps.136:1)

*The Invocation and Lord’s Prayer

*The Hymn of Exaltation - Hymn 38
(Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise)

The Responsive Reading - Shorter Catechism 85-87, p.875

The Confession of Sin

The Call to Repentance - Hebrews 5:9-14

And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

The Prayer of Confession (after silent confession)

All: LORD God, our iniquities have made a separation between us and You, and our sins have hidden Your face from us so that You do not hear. Our hands and fingers are defiled with iniquity; our lips have spoken falsehood, and our tongues mutter wickedness. Our feet run to evil; our thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities: transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from our God. Redeem us, O LORD, and turn us from our transgression. In Jesus’ name, AMEN. (Isaiah 59)
The Assurance of Pardon - Titus 3:5,6 “He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

*The Hymn of Gratitude - Hymn 500
(Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me)

The Means of Grace

The Pastoral Prayer

The Worship of Giving

*The Doxology - Hymn 731

The Prayer of Illumination

The Scripture - Genesis 15:12-21

The Sermon - The Abrahamic Covenant (cont.)

The Response and Blessing

*The Hymn of Consecration - Hymn 521
(My Hope is Built on Nothing Less)

*The Benediction
* Congregation Standing

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