2021-09-19

Philippians – The Best of News for Troubling Times

  • Prelude
  • Welcome | Announcements
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – UMH 602
      • Blessed Lord, you have caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning. Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever.
      • All: Amen.
  • Reading – [Philippians 3:1-11 ESV]
      • 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
      • 2 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
      • 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh–
      • 4 though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
      • 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
      • 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
      • 7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
      • 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
      • 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
      • 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
      • 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
  • Worship Hymns
      • Open the Eyes of My Heart by Michael W. Smith
      • TFWS 2173 – Shine, Jesus, Shine
      • TFWS 404 – People Need the Lord
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
      • UMH 420 – Breathe on Me, Breath of God
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “The Best of News for Troubling Times” – Philippians 3:1-11
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
      • TFWS 2272 – Holy Ground
  • Benediction
  • Postlude