2023-10-22

The New Beginning

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
    • Oct 29 @ 1pm – Trunk or Treat
    • Nov 10 @ 11am – Veterans’ Luncheon
    • Nov 12 – Operation Christmas Child shoebox deadline
    • Nov 18 @ 9am – Christmas Sale
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Isaiah 65:17-19 HCSB
    • 17 “For I will create a new heaven and a new earth; the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
    • 18 Then be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
    • 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people. The sound of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
  • Worship Hymns
    • Here I Am To Worship – © 2000 Thankyou Music
    • UMH 140 – Great Is Thy Faithfulness
    • UMH 367 – He Touched Me
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 171 – There’s Something About That Name
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “The New Beginning” – [Revelation 21:1-8 ESV]
    • 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
    • 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
    • 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
    • 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
    • 5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
    • 6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
    • 7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
    • 8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 672 – God Be With You
  • Benediction
  • Postlude