Harmful to Faith: I Thought

April 23, 2023
Pastor Jacob Lee
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Service of Worship

Great is our God
Arr. Dale Wood
© 1993 Lorenz Publishing Corporation
Used by Permission. ONE LICENSE # A-401420

(Psalm 116)

Leader: Come! Lift your voices to the Lord who always hears us.
People: Listen, Lord. Hear our voices sing your praises.
Leader: Call on the Lord who bends low to hear us.
People: Listen, Lord. We lift our voices to you in praise.
Leader: Call on the name of the Lord, all people.
People: Listen, Lord. We call on your wonderful name. For you saved us, you raised us and turned our lives around. Let your name be praised in this congregation.

(Written by Kwasi I. Kena, in The Africana Worship Book Year A, Discipleship Resources)

Opening Hymn — #327 “Crown Him with Many Crowns”

1. Crown him with many crowns,
the Lamb upon his throne.
Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns
all music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing
of him who died for thee,
and hail him as thy matchless King
through all eternity.

2. Crown him the Lord of life,
who triumphed o’er the grave,
and rose victorious in the strife
for those he came to save.
His glories now we sing,
who died, and rose on high,
who died, eternal life to bring,
and lives that death may die.

3. Crown him the Lord of peace,
whose power a scepter sways
from pole to pole, that wars may cease,
and all be prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end,
and round his pierced feet
fair flowers of paradise extend
their fragrance ever sweet.

4. Crown him the Lord of love;
behold his hands and side,
those wounds, yet visible above,
in beauty glorified.
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
For thou hast died for me;
thy praise and glory shall not fail
throughout eternity.

Crown Him With Many Crowns (Diademata)
George Job Elvey | Godfrey Thring | Matthew Bridges
Public Domain

Technical Difficulties with the Children’s Time and Pastoral Prayer recordings

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Offertory – P.A.L.A.

Tell Me The Old Old Story (Evangel)
Arabella Katherine Hankey | William Howard Doane
Public Domain

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.

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Louis Bourgeois | Thomas Ken
Public Domain

Offertory Prayer

Creator of all we know and all we don’t know, as we bring our gifts this day, we ask you to help us trust you more. Forgive us when we entertain the thought that our future lies in bank balances and the accumulation of stuff. Remind us as Peter reminded the early followers that through Jesus, we “have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God” (1:21). May our lives reflect that trust to others. In the powerful name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

(1 Peter 1:17-23)

Scripture Readings

Genesis 3:8-10 (NRSV)

8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

2 Kings 5:8-14 (NRSV)

8 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.” 11 But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy! 12 Are not Abanaa and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?” He turned and went away in a rage. 13 But his servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14 So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.

Response
The Word of the Lord:
Thanks be to God.

Choral Anthem — Chancel Choir

Lift Him Up
Marta Keen | Phyllis Wolfe
© 1991 Triune Music, Inc. (Lorenz Corp.)
Used by Permission. ONE LICENSE # A-401420

Sermon — Rev. Jacob Lee
“Harmful to Faith: I Thought”

Closing Hymn — #133 “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”

1. What a fellowship,
what a joy divine,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
what a blessedness,
what a peace is mine,
leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain
Leaning, leaning,
safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning,
leaning on the everlasting arms.

2. O how sweet to walk
in this pilgrim way,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path
grows from day to day,
leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

3. What have I to dread,
what have I to fear,
leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace
with my Lord so near,
leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Anthony Johnson Showalter | Elisha Albright Hoffman
Public Domain

Benediction

Postlude – Hani