Pastor Derek Bouma
WE COME TO WORSHIP OUR GOD
Prelude:
Welcome and Call to Worship
Opening Song: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
God’s Greeting and Greeting One Another
WE ARE RENEWED IN GOD’S GRACE
Song: Call to Confession: The River
Prayer of Confession and Assurance of God’s Grace
Song of Response: His Mercy is More
WE RESPOND IN GRATITUDE
Announcements and Offerings
Sunday School children are dismissed
Prayers of the People
GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH HIS WORD
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 41 :8-10
Message: Upheld by the Lord
Song of Response: Awake O Israel
WE GO, LIVING AND SERVING IN GOD’S BLESSING
Testimony of Faith: Heidelberg Catechism #1
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?
A. 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.
Closing Song: Here I Am, Lord
God’s Blessing to His People
Postlude: Christ, Our Hope in Life and Death