O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Charles Wesley, Lowell Mason

O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise
The glories of my God and King
The triumphs of His grace

My gracious Master and my God
Assist me to proclaim
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of Thy name

Jesus! the name that charms our fears
That bids our sorrows cease
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears
’Tis life and health and peace

He breaks the power of canceled sin
He sets the prisoner free
His blood can make the foulest clean
His blood availed for me

He speaks, and listening to His voice
New life the dead receive
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice
The humble poor believe

Glory to God, and praise and love
Be ever, ever given
By saints below and saints above
The church in earth and heaven

 

 

 


Call to Worship
Psalm 67:

The Lord reigns!  Let the earth be glad!  Let the distant shores rejoice!

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him.  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.  Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around.

His lightning lights up the world!  The earth sees and trembles.  The mountains melt like wax before the Lord of all the earth.

The heavens proclaim his righteousness.  His people see his glory, and rejoice.  They are glad, because of the Lord’s righteous judgments.

You, O Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.  You are exalted far above all gods.  You guard the lives of your faithful ones, and deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Light shines on the righteous, and joy on the upright in heart.  Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name!

 

 

 

 


How Firm a Foundation
R. Keene

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word
What more can He say than to you He hath said
To you, who for refuge, to Jesus have fled?

In every condition, in sickness, in health
In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth
At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea
As thy days may demand shall my strength ever be.

Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand
Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand

When through the deep waters I call thee to go
The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow
For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress

When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply
The flame shall not harm thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not, desert to his foes
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to break
I'll never, no never, no never forsake

 

 

 

 

Congregational Prayer
Based on Colossians 4:2

Heavenly Father,

Your Word exhorts us to continue steadfast in prayer, being watchful in it, with thanksgiving.  We are always lamenting how little we pray.  The very exhortation humbles us.

Forgive us for our prayerlessness, that signals how little we trust you, and how much we trust in our own strength and wisdom.

Help us to look to Christ, and His sufficiency, instead of ourselves.

In Jesus’ name.

Amen.

 

 

 

 


New City Catechism
Question 19

Is there any way to escape punishment and be brought back into God’s favor?

Yes, to satisfy his justice, God himself, out of mere mercy, reconciles us to himself and delivers us from sin and from the punishment for sin, by a Redeemer.

 

 

 

 

 

How Sweet and Aweful is the Place
Isaac Watts

How sweet and awful is the place
With Christ within the doors
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores

While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues
Lord, why was I a guest?

Why was I made to hear Thy voice
And enter while there's room
When thousands make a wretched choice
And rather starve than come?

'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in
Else we had still refused to taste
And perished in our sin

Pity the nations, O our God
Constrain the earth to come
Send Thy victorious Word abroad
And bring the strangers home

We long to see Thy churches full
That all the chosen race
May, with one voice and heart and soul
Sing Thy redeeming grace

 

 

 

 


Sermon
2 Timothy 3:10-15

10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

Come, Thou Found of Every Blessing
Robert Robinson

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the name! I’m fixed upon it
Name of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I've come
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

Oh to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart, oh take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

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