May 17, 2020
To all who are spiritually weary and seek rest;
to all who mourn and long for comfort;
to all who struggle and desire victory;
to all who sin and need a Savior;
to all who are strangers and want fellowship;
to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness;
and to whoever will come—
this church opens wide her doors
and offers her welcome in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Reflections for Worship
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes...
— Romans 1:16
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say “Mine.”
— Abraham Kuyper
The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world she invariably attracts it.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Order of Worship
Valley Presbyterian Church in Madison
May 17, 2020
Prelude
Hymn of Praise Wholly Yours D. Crowder (2005)
Call to Worship Psalm 113
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, you his servants; praise the name of the Lord.
Let the name of the Lord be praised, both now and forevermore.
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the name of the Lord is to be praised.
The Lord is exalted over all the nations,
his glory above the heavens.
Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,
who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes, with the princes of his people.
He settles the childless woman in her home
as a happy mother of children.
Praise the Lord.
Hymn of Praise His Mercy is More Boswell & Papa (2016)
Hymn of Praise Hold to the Hope K. Gibson (2018)
Affirmation of Faith From Romans 8
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Congregational Prayer
Scripture Reading
Sermon Rev. William Plott Luke 17:1-6
Benediction
Doxology
Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard
Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.
Used by permission. All rights reserved. ~ CCLI # 3123964
Lyrics Sheet
Wholly Yours
I am full of earth. You are heaven's worth.
I am stained with dirt, Prone to depravity
You are everything, That is bright and clean
The antonym for me, You are divinity
But a certain sign of grace is this
From the broken earth
Flowers come up
Pushing through the dirt
You are holy, holy, holy.
All heaven cries, "Holy, holy God."
You are holy, holy, holy.
I want to be holy like You are.
You are everything, That is bright and clean
And You're covering me, With Your majesty
And the truest sign of grace was this:
From wounded hands
Redemption fell down
Liberating man
chorus
But the harder I try, The more clearly can I
Feel the depth of our fall, And the weight of it all.
And so this might could be, The most impossible thing:
Your grandness in me making me clean.
Glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
chorus
His Mercy is More
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient, all knowing, He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Praise the Lord, His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness, new every morn
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father, so tender, is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
chorus
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
chorus
Hold to the Hope
Who is this man, hanging on a cross?
He is innocent bloody and torn.
That’s where I should hang, I’m the guilty one.
Why does he take my place?
Hold to the hope; he is the Christ
the Lamb of God who died
Hold to the hope; he takes away the sin of the world
Hold to the hope; its not the end
He is alive again,
Hold to the hope; we are alive in him!
The blood of Christ in the heavenly heights
Speaks a better word than death.
Cries, “Forgiven, free, justified, redeemed!”
Over those who will believe.
chorus
Though the earth give way
and the mountains fall to the sea
Though the waters crash and roar.
We have sure hope
An anchor for the soul
Jesus Christ, the Son of God
Chorus 1st half, then whole chorus
