First United Presbyterian Church
Outdoor Worship
10:00am Sunday, August 2, 2020
Bailey Retreat
10600 95th Street
Coal Valley, Illinois
Since printed bulletins will not be provided today, you are encouraged to print the order of service at home and bring it with you to the Bailey retreat, or access this page with your smartphone during the service.
For those who cannot join us at Bailey Retreat, we understand. We love you and miss you. The sermon will be shared with you via email and posted online.
Giving of Tithes and Offerings
An offering will not be taken during the worship service today. You are able to give online, through the mail, or through your bank’s bill pay service. In this time of need, your financial support is greatly appreciated.
Prelude
Welcome & Prayer
Jim Sanderlin, Director of Worship
Call to Worship
hymn of praise
All Creatures of Our God and King
words: Francis of Assisi (vs. 1,2); Jonathan Baird & Ryan Baird (vs. 3,4)
music: 17th century German
©2013 Sovereign Grace Worship
All creatures of our God and King,
Lift up your voice and with us sing.
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Thou, burning sun with golden beam,
Thou, silver moon with softer gleam:
O praise Him! O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
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!
All the redeemed washed by His blood,
Come and rejoice in His great love.
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Christ has defeated every sin.
Cast all your burdens now on Him.
O praise Him! O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
He shall return in pow’r to reign.
Heaven and earth will join to say:
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Then who shall fall on bended knee?
All creatures of our God and King.
O praise Him! O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Forgiven
by Kate DeGraide, Rebecca Elliott, and Brittany Kauflin
©2017 Sovereign Grace Worship
Lord, forgive us for our pride
When our faith becomes a show;
Dressed in righteous deeds to hide
All the stains below.
We have judged Your sons and daughters
For the sin that is our own;
May we now forgive each other
And lay down our stones.
Forgiven, forgiven;
Through the blood of Christ
We are forgiven.
Lord, forgive us for our love
Of the things we wish to own;
We forsake the feast above
For all the crumbs below.
Though You’ve made us sons and daughters
We do not the world disown;
May we find our greatest treasure
Is in You alone.
Lord, forgive us for our shame
When we can’t release the past,
When we’re quick to take the blame
But forget we’re free at last.
We avoid Your sons and daughters
For the fear we don’t belong;
Give us eyes to see each other
Through Your only Son.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
This assurance belongs to those who truly repent:
We have redemption through the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. Believe the good news: through the blood of Christ you are forgiven.
HYMN OF ASSURANCE
Because He Lives (Amen)
by Matt Maher & Chris Tomlin
©2014 Alletrop Music
I believe in the Son,
I believe in the risen One,
I believe I overcome
By the power of His blood.
Amen, Amen.
I'm alive, I'm alive
Because He lives.
Amen, Amen.
Let my song join the one that never ends
Because He lives.
I was dead in the grave,
I was covered in sin and shame.
I heard mercy call my name:
He rolled the stone away.
Amen, Amen.
I'm alive, I'm alive
Because He lives.
Amen, Amen.
Let my song join the one that never ends
Because He lives.
Because He lives
I can face tomorrow.
Because He lives
Every fear is gone.
I know He holds my life, my future in His hands.
Amen, Amen.
I'm alive, I'm alive
Because He lives.
Amen, Amen.
Let my song join the one that never ends.
Amen, Amen
I'm alive, I'm alive
Because He lives.
Amen, Amen
Let my song join the one that never ends
Because He lives,
Because He lives.
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
Invitation Bob Dontje
Words of Institution
Prayer
Communion
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Affirmation of Faith
The Nicene Creed
We believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth;
and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of his Father before all worlds:
God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God,
begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father,
by whom all things were made:
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven,
and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary,
and was made man;
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and was buried;
and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures,
and ascended into heaven,
and sits on the right hand of the Father.
And he shall come again with glory
to judge both the living and the dead
whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit,
The Lord, and Giver of Life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son
together is worshiped and glorified;
who spoke by the prophets.
And we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
And we look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.
Amen.
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
OLD Testament Reading
Psalm 136:1-9 Jo Cahill
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods,
for his steadfast love endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
4 to him who alone does great wonders,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
5 to him who by understanding made the heavens,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
6 to him who spread out the earth above the waters,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
7 to him who made the great lights,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
8 the sun to rule over the day,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
9 the moon and stars to rule over the night,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
Congregational Prayer and the lord’s prayer
George Kalemkarian
Sermon
Act in Love
I Corinthians 13; I Peter 4:8
Jack Wheeler
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
hymn of response
The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Psalm 23)
words: Henry W. Baker
music: traditional Irish
The King of love my shepherd is,
whose goodness faileth never.
I nothing lack if I am his,
and he is mine forever.
Where streams of living water flow,
my ransomed soul he leadeth;
and where the verdant pastures grow,
with food celestial feedeth.
Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed,
but yet in love he sought me;
and on his shoulder gently laid,
and home, rejoicing, brought me.
In death's dark vale I fear no ill,
with thee, dear Lord, beside me;
thy rod and staff my comfort still,
thy cross before to guide me.
And so through all the length of days,
thy goodness faileth never;
Good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise
within thy house forever.
Benediction
CCLI 206793