Worship Online
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Worshiping in homes throughout the Quad Cities and beyond
The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Giving of Tithes and Offerings
You are able to give online, through the mail, or through your bank’s bill pay service.
Book Recommendations
Here are a few resources to help you along on your journey of faith. Some are available digitally and/or on audio.
Click here: Book Recommendations
Supplementary Study for Pastor Steve’s Series on Philippians
Click here to access a study guide on Philippians from Crossway and The Gospel Coalition.
Links for Worship
There are two links for you to click for worship, and each one will take you to a combined video. The complete order is below.
Prelude You Do Not Walk Alone
May you see God's light on the path ahead
when the road you walk is dark.
May you always hear even in your hour of sorrow
the gentle singing of the lark.
When times are hard
may hardness never turn your heart to stone.
May you always remember when the shadows fall–
You do not walk alone.
-traditional Irish blessing, original music by Elaine Hagenberg
Welcome & Prayer
Jim Sanderlin
Call to Worship
Our thanksgiving and praise are not dependent on our circumstances. Even in difficult times, we thank and praise God because He is God, because He is faithful, and because we are His people redeemed through His Son and sealed by His Spirit. As David prayed before the people in I Chronicles 29,
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. 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.
hymns of praise
Now Thank We All Our God
Jesus Saves
confession and assurance
Call to Confession
Corporate Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, we find ourselves in circumstances we have not chosen, and we scurry to find any sense of normalcy. We know that You are the Rock, yet we lean on other foundations;
We know that You are sovereign, but we seek security in our own control;
We know that You give comfort, but we elevate comforts of our own design;
We know that You satisfy, but we keep scrolling;
We know that You set us free, but addictions grip us tightly;
We know that You call us to rest, but we keep struggling.
By grace, forgive us.
In mercy, meet us.
By Your Holy Spirit, equip us to walk in the newness of life-with-Christ.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
-Isaiah 43:25
OLD Testament Reading
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NIV June Kalemkarian
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord.
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
Congregational Prayer
George Kalemkarian
New Testament Reading
Philippians 1:1-11 NIV George Kalemkarian
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,
To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
Sermon
Study guide on Philippians from Crossway and The Gospel Coalition
Philippians 1:1-11
“Thankfulness and Prayer”
Dr. Steve Miller
hymn of response
Oh, How Good It Is
Benediction
CCLI 206793