Sunday, August 18, 2024
Morning Worship in the Great Auditorium at 10:30 AM
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Please silence cell phones
* During items marked with an asterisk, those who are able will please stand
PRELUDE
“Awake! A Voice is Calling”
J.S. Bach
“Be Thou my Vision”
Irish tune arr. G. Turk
RINGING OF THE BELL
CHORAL INTROIT
“Christ is Alive”
B. Wren / Psalmodia Evangelica
CALL TO WORSHIP
Kelly Mooij
Trustee, OGCMA
Inspired by Galatians 1 & Romans 16
Leader:
Grace to you, and peace from God the Father
and our Lord Jesus!
People:
To Him who is able to establish us according to the
Gospel and preaching of the Messiah.
Leader:
According to the revelation of the mystery kept secret
since the world began.
People:
Now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures
made known to all nations.
Leader:
According to the commandment of the everlasting God,
for obedience to the faith.
People:
Faith in Christ, who gave Himself for our sins!
Leader:
That He might deliver us from this present evil age!
People:
According to the will of our God and Father
to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen and Amen!
*HYMN
“To God Be the Glory”
Crosby/Doane
To God be the glory, great things He hath done!
So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,
Who yielded His life an atonement for sin,
And opened the life-gate that all may go in.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father, thro' Jesus the Son,
And give Him the glory,
great things He hath done!
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
To every believer the promise of God,
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father, thro' Jesus the Son,
And give Him the glory,
great things He hath done!
Great things He hath taught us,
great things He hath done,
And great our rejoicing
through Jesus the Son;
But purer, and higher and greater will be
Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father, thro' Jesus the Son,
And give Him the glory,
great things He hath done!
*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, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day He arose from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick 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
PRAYER AND LORD’S PRAYER
Mr. Daniel Kenna
Finance Committee, OGCMA
GREETING
Kelly Mooij
Trustee, OGCMA
OFFERTORY
Ronald Naldi
Tenor
“Oh, I Never Shall Forget the Day”
Carmichael
*USHERS’ MARCH and 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
Please remain standing for the singing of the hymn
*HYMN
“It is Well with My Soul”
Spafford / Bliss
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
“It is well, it is well with my soul.”
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet,
though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And has shed His own blood for my soul.
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
My sin — O the bliss of this glorious thought,
My sin — not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, O my soul!
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
And, Lord, haste the day
when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound
and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
ANTHEM
“Jesus Shall Reign”
Carl Nygard, Jr.
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
doth its successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
till moons shall wax and wane no more.
People and realms of ev’ry tongue
dwell on his love with sweetest song,
And infant voices shall proclaim
their early blessings on His name.
Blessings abound where’er he reigns,
the pris’ner leaps to lose his chains,
The weary find eternal rest
and all the sons of want are blest.
Let every creature rise and bring
honors peculiar to our king,
As holy angels descend
with songs again
and each repeat the loud amen.
Amen.
SCRIPTURE
Acts 18: 24-28
SERMON
Dr. David Ashcraft
“The Advantage”
*CLOSING HYMN
“Wonderful Words of Life”
Philip P. Bliss
Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life,
Let me more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life.
Words of life and beauty, teach me faith and duty.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life;
beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Christ, the blessed One, gives to all wonderful words of life,
Sinner, list to the loving call, wonderful words of life.
All so freely given, wooing us to heaven —
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life;
beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Sweetly echo the gospel call, wonderful words of life,
Offer pardon and peace to all, wonderful words of life.
Jesus, only Savior, sanctify forever.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life;
beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
BENEDICTION
Amen
Nygard
POSTLUDE
Postlude — Fugue in G (Gigue)
J.S. Bach
After- Service Prayer:
You are welcome to come to the altar rail for prayer
