Worship Online
Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020
Worshiping in homes throughout the Quad Cities and beyond
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine! -Abraham Kuyper
Links for Worship
There are two links for you to click for worship, and each one will take you to a combined video. The complete order is below.
Giving of Tithes and Offerings
You are able to give online, through the mail, or through your bank’s bill pay service. In this time of need, your financial support is greatly appreciated.
Book Recommendations
Here are a few resources to help you along on your journey of faith. Some are available digitally and/or on audio.
Click here: Book Recommendations
Supplementary Study on Philippians
Click here to access a study guide on Philippians from Crossway and The Gospel Coalition.
Order of Worship
Prelude Breathe on Me, Breath of God
Welcome & Prayer
Call to Worship
We praise the Everlasting God this Pentecost Sunday! According to the promise of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit came upon the whole church, that the gospel should be preached among all people to bring them out of darkness into the clear light of His truth.
So with angels and archangels and the whole company of heaven, we worship and adore the Triune God.
Come, Almighty King!
Come, Incarnate Word!
Come, Holy Comforter!
Make Your home with us and
help us to sing Your praise!
hymn of praise
Come, Thou Almighty King
hymn to the SPIRIT
Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God
confession and assurance
Prayer of Confession
Almighty God, you poured your Spirit upon gathered disciples creating bold tongues, open ears, and a new community of faith. We confess that we often stifle the Spirit’s among us. We do not listen for your word of grace, we do not speak the good news of your love, or live as a people made one in Christ. Have mercy on us, O God. Transform our timid lives by the power of your Spirit, and fill us with a flaming desire to be your faithful people, doing your will for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Silence for personal confession
Assurance of Pardon
Brothers and sisters in Christ, the Holy Spirit did not leave us after that first Pentecost. He is still with us, filling us and empowering us to do what God has commanded. In this Spirit, and because of Christ's finished work on the cross, we proclaim the Good News:
We are forgiven. Alleluia! Amen.
hymn of COMMITMENT
By Faith
OLD Testament Reading
Isaiah 45:14-25 Amy Curtiss
14 Thus says the Lord:
“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you and be yours;
they shall follow you;
they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
no god besides him.’”
15 Truly, you are a God who hides himself,
O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 All of them are put to shame and confounded;
the makers of idols go in confusion together.
17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
with everlasting salvation;
you shall not be put to shame or confounded
to all eternity.
18 For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
(he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
(he established it;
he did not create it empty,
he formed it to be inhabited!):
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 I did not speak in secret,
in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
‘Seek me in vain.’
I the Lord speak the truth;
I declare what is right.
20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge
who carry about their wooden idols,
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
21 Declare and present your case;
let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
there is none besides me.
22 “Turn to me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn;
from my mouth has gone out in righteousness
a word that shall not return:
‘To me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear allegiance.’
24 “Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
are righteousness and strength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
all who were incensed against him.
25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall be justified and shall glory.”
Congregational Prayer
Stuart Neagle
Sermon
Study guide on Philippians from Crossway and The Gospel Coalition
Philippians 2:1-11
“We Were Just One”
Jim Sanderlin
1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
hymn of response
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
Benediction
Matthew 28:18-20
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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