Welcome & Announcements 

Prelude  

*Receiving the Lord’s Invitation to Come to Him in Worship – Psalm 111:1-3  

Pastor: Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. 

Congregation: Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. 

*Lifting Our Hearts to the Lord in Humble Adoration & Praise 

Pastor: O Lord our God, we praise you and give thanks to you with our whole hearts! We praise you in the company of your saints, rejoicing in the salvation that you have given to us in Christ. We praise you for all your great works for they are full of splendor and majesty. Father in heaven, we praise you that your righteousness endures forever. Glorify your name as we come to worship you, remembering that you have fulfilled your covenant by sending the Lord Jesus into the world to redeem all your people from our sins, and we pray together the prayer he taught us…  

Congregation: Our Father… 

*Praising God in Song 

“O Worship the King” Trinity Hymnal 2  

Hearing the Word of God from the Old Testament 

Zephaniah 3:14-20 (p.    in pew Bible) 

Hearing the Word of God from the New Testament 

Colossians 3:1-17 (p.    in pew Bible) 

We Bring our Prayers before the Throne of Grace  

Responding with Gratitude for the Work of Christ on Our Behalf 

“We Come, O Christ, to You” Trinity Hymnal 181  

*Confessing Our Faith Together 

Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter XIII, Paragraph I & II (p.856 in Trinity Hymnal) 

*Praising the Lord with the Doxology 

“Doxology” (Trinity Hymnal 731): 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; 

praise him above, ye heav’nly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.  

Bringing our Tithes and Offerings to the Lord with Prayer 

(Children age 4 through K may be dismissed to Children’s Church)  

Giving Heed to the Word of God 

1 Thessalonians 1:2-3  

“The Transforming Power of the Gospel in the Lives of Believers” - Rev. John Peoples 

As Members of the Church of Christ: 

We Pursue the Work of Faith – v.3 

We Pursue the Labor of Love – v.3 

We Pursue the Steadfastness of Hope – v.3 

*Responding to the Living God in Thankful Praise 

“Be Thou My Vision” Trinity Hymnal 642  

*The Lord Sends Us Out into the World with His Benediction