Welcome & announcements 

Prelude 

Coming into the presence of the living God  

*Receiving the Lord’s call to come to him in worship – Psalm 47:1-2 

Pastor: Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!  

Congregation: For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.  

*Lifting our hearts to the Lord in humble adoration and praise 

Pastor: O Lord God, King of kings, you are due all honor and praise, today and always. Work in our hearts that we might wholeheartedly rejoice in your majesty and glory today, and no less in the majesty and glory of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. We ask this, believing also in the Holy Spirit and his power to do immeasurably more than we ask or think in us, and for this reason we pray with confidence the prayer our Savior taught his disciples:… 

 Congregation: Our Father… 

*Singing the praise of our triune God 

“Holy, Holy, Holy” Trinity Hymnal 100 

Hearing the Word of God from the New Testament  

Matthew 25:1-13 

Approaching the living God in confession 

Hearing God’s assurance of pardon 

Hearing the Word of God from the Old Testament 

Psalm 98 

*Rejoicing in the grace of our triune God 

“Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord” (Psalm 98) Trinity Hymnal 16:1,2,4 

Bringing our supplications to God 

*Confessing our faith together 

Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter XXXIII (p.867 in Trinity Hymnal) 

*Praising the Lord with a doxology  

“Book Three Doxology” (Psalm 89:52) (Book of Psalms for Worship 89H):  

Now to the LORD all blessings be ascribed forever then; 

Forevermore, so let it be! Amen, and yes, Amen! 

*Bringing our tithes and offerings to the Lord with prayer  

Asking God to bless our hearing of his Word 

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

Giving heed to the Word of God 

1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 

Like a Thief in the Night - Rev. Nicholas Davelaar 

*Responding with joy in the Son of God 

“Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending” Trinity Hymnal 318 

*Being sent out into the world with the Lord’s benediction