Unity ARP

The Lord’s Day ~ June 29, 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 96:9-10 “Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns; the world also is firmly established, it shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples righteously.”

*Psalm of Praise - Psalm 96

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 2 (vv.1-4)
(O Worship the King)

The Responsive Reading - Shorter Catechism 100-101, p.877

The Confession of Sin

The Call to Repentance - Hebrews 9:24-28

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another– He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

The Prayer of Confession (after silent confession)

All: O LORD our God, when we sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with us and deliver us to the enemy, teach us to return to You with all our heart and with all our soul. We repent and make supplication to You in our captivity. We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have committed wickedness. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place our prayer and our supplications, and maintain our cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You. Now, O God, we pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place. In Jesus’ Name. Amen. (2 Chronicles 6:36-40)
The Assurance of Pardon - Psalm 32:1,2 “Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit.”

*The Hymn of Gratitude - Hymn 591
(Jesus Calls Us)

The Means of Grace

The Pastoral Prayer

The Worship of Giving

*The Doxology - Hymn 731

The Prayer of Illumination

The Scripture - Genesis 18:1-15

The Sermon - Too Hard for the Lord?

The Response and Blessing

*The Hymn of Consecration - Hymn 34, (vv.1-4)
(The God of Abraham Praise)

*The Benediction

* Congregation Standing

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