Sunday Celebration (02/23/2025)

Feb 22, 2025

Call to Worship

1 John 4:7-10
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 

Worship in Song

How Deep The Father’s Love For Us

Here Is Love

Build My Life

 

Corporate Recitation – John Wetzel

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin, Mary;
suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into Hades;
the third day He rose from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven,
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit;
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints;
the forgiveness of sins;
the resurrection of the body;
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

 

Community Prayer – John Wetzel

 

Public Reading of Scripture – John Wetzel

Old Testament Reading: Leviticus 19:17-18

New Testament Reading: 1 Peter 1:22-25 (Primary Passage)

 

Preaching of God’s Word

Sermon Series: Faithfully Enduring with Joy

Sermon Title: Holy Born Again to Love

Passage: 1 Peter 1:22-25

Preacher: Pastor Shawn Powers

 

The Lord’s Table

Led by Pastor Shawn Powers

 

Assurance of Pardon

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35, 37-39

Bread: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. – John 3:16–17

Cup: God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8

 

Response Song

The Gospel Song

God Is Love

 

Doxology

 

Benediction

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. – 2 Corinthians 13:14

 

Sunday Announcements

1) Giving

2) Stay for the Family Meeting – 15 Minute Break