Worship for Sunday, March 22, 2020

Below is the liturgy for our online “gathered” worship.

There are several video/audio segments throughout. They should start to play when you point and click your computer mouse on the arrow in the box/video.

Here is our first video:

GOD IS HOLY

DOXOLOGY: All Creatures of Our God and King

Let all things their Creator bless,

and worship him in humbleness,

O praise him, alleluia!

Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,

and praise the Spirit, three in one, 

O praise him, O praise him, 

alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

PRAYER OF PREPARATION: Merciful Lord, you sent your Son to be our peace. Help all who suffer pain or grief to find in him strength and peace, so that their trust in your promises may be renewed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (from Occasional Services, A Companion to Lutheran Book of Worship)

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 20:7; 124:8; 95:6-7

Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

    but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

Our help is in the name of the Lord,

    who made heaven and earth.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

For he is our God,

   and we are the people of his pasture,

    and the sheep of his hand.

PRAYER OF ADORATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.


OPENING HYMN: All Glory Be to Christ

Should nothing of our efforts stand, no legacy survive

Unless the Lord does raise this house in vain its builders strive

To you who boast tomorrow's gain Tell me what is your life

A mist that vanishes at dawn, all glory be to Christ


All glory be to Christ our King, all glory be to Christ

His rule and reign we’ll ever sing, all glory be to Christ

 

His will be done, His kingdom come On earth as is above

Who is Himself our daily bread Praise Him the Lord of love

Let living water satisfy the thirsty without price

We’ll take a cup of kindness yet, all glory be to Christ

 

All glory be to Christ our King, all glory be to Christ

His rule and reign we’ll ever sing, all glory be to Christ

 

When on that day the Great I am, The faithful and the true

The Lamb who was for sinners slain Is making all things new

Behold our God shall live with us And be our steadfast light

And we shall e're His people be, all glory be to Christ

 

All glory be to Christ our King, all glory be to Christ

His rule and reign we’ll ever sing, all glory be to Christ

WE HAVE SINNED

CORPORATE PRAYER OF CONFESSION (adapted from The Worship Sourcebook)

Merciful Lord, we confess that with us there is an abundance of sin, 

but in you there is the fullness of righteousness and abundance of mercy. 

We are spiritually poor, but you are rich and in Jesus Christ came to be merciful to the poor. 

Strengthen our faith and trust in you. 

We are empty vessels that need to be filled; fill us. 

We are weak in faith; strengthen us. 

We are cold in love; warm us, and make our hearts fervent for you

that our love may go out to one another and to our neighbors. 

Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


PERSONAL PRAYER OF CONFESSION

JESUS RECONCILES US

Gospel of Christ: Romans 5:1-5

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Believe in Jesus Christ, you are free from the guilt and power of sin and death.

People: Thanks be to God.

ASSURANCE HYMN: Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee;

Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed,

Be of sin the double cure; Save from wrath and make me pure.


Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill Thy law’s commands;

Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow,

All for sin could not atone; Thou must save, and Thou alone.


Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling;

Naked, come to Thee for dress; Helpless look to Thee for grace;

Foul, I to the fountain fly; Wash me, Savior, or I die.


While I draw this fleeting breath, When mine eyes shall close in death,

When I soar to worlds unknown, See Thee on Thy judgment throne,

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.

THE PEACE OF GOD

Jude 1:1b-2

To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

And also with you.

We are God's people, the chosen of the Lord,

Born of His Spirit, established by His Word;

Our cornerstone is Christ alone, And strong in Him we stand:

O let us live transparently And walk heart to heart and hand in hand.

We are the Body of which the Lord is Head,

Called to obey Him, now risen from the dead;

He wills us be a family, Diverse yet truly one:

O let us give our gifts to God, And so shall his work on earth be done.

You can click here to give online if you so desire. It will say: for Debruin, Troy - Proclamation PC, Mount Joy, PA. All giving online is tithe to Proclamation (not to Troy!). His name is listed simply to distinguish and clarify the giving (there is another church in the PCA with same church name).

Alternatively, you can mail in your offering to: Proclamation PCA, PO BOX 526, Mount Joy, PA, 17552.

Please take a moment to pray for those in need:

From the 1928 Book of Common Prayer

In Time of Great Sickness and Mortality:

O MOST mighty and merciful God, in this time of grievous sickness, we flee unto you for comfort and help. Deliver us, we pray, from our peril; give strength and skill to all those who minister to the sick; prosper the means made use of for their cure; and grant that, perceiving how frail and uncertain our life is, we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wisdom which leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.

Refrain:
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace;
in ev'ry high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]

His oath, his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]

When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found,
dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]

JESUS SENDS US WITH HIS SPIRIT

Confession of Faith: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 1, 26-28 

What is your only comfort in life and in death? 

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.

What do you believe when you say: I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?

That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth

and all that is in them, and who still upholds and governs them by His eternal counsel and providence,

is, for the sake of Christ His Son, my God and my Father.

In Him I trust so completely as to have no doubt that He will provide me with all things necessary

for body and soul, and will also turn to my good whatever adversity He sends me in this life of sorrow.

He is able to do so as almighty God, and willing also as a faithful Father.

What do you understand by the providence of God?

God's providence is His almighty and ever present power, whereby, as with His hand,

He still upholds heaven and earth and all creatures, and so governs them

that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and drink, health and sickness,

riches and poverty, indeed, all things, come not by chance but by His fatherly hand.

What does it benefit us to know that God has created all things and still upholds them by His providence?

We can be patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and with a view to the future

we can have a firm confidence in our faithful God and Father that no creature shall separate us from His love;

for all creatures are so completely in His hand that without His will they cannot so much as move.

THANKSGIVING HYMN: GIVE PRAISE TO GOD

Creation, life, salvation too, and all things else both good and true,

come from and through our God always, and fill our hearts with grateful praise.

Come, lift our voice to heav'n's high throne, and glory give to God alone!

SENDING

Let us prayerfully go forth as one body, empowered by the Spirit, to praise God, love people, and proclaim the risen Christ until he comes.

People Thanks be to God.


Benediction: Numbers 6:24-26

The Lord bless you and keep you;

the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.