Online Worship

ORDER OF WORSHIP

(This Online Worship will be updated each Sunday by the afternoon. This is offered for those who may be shut-ins or for those who are unable to physically attend an in-person worship or as a supplemental blessing... but is not a replacement for regularly attending congregational worship service.)

DECEMBER 7, 2025

CALL TO WORSHIP & INVOCATION

 

HYMN OF PRAISE Holy, Holy, Holy - Audrey Assad

THE WISDOM KEEPING +         Deacon Tanya Norwood

A time of sharing biblical wisdom with our children

THE RESPONSIVE READING * The Westminster Shorter Catechism  (29-32)

(A Summary of Biblical Teachings in a Question and Answer Format… scripture verses are provided for further study) 

Leader:  How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

People:   We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit [a]. 

[a]. Titus 3:4-7 

Leader:  How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?

People:   The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us [a], and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling [b]. 

[a]. Rom. 10:17; ICor. 2:12-16; Eph. 2:8; Phil. 1:29; [b]. John 15:5; ICor. 1:9; Eph. 3:17 

Leader:  What is effectual calling?

People:   Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ [a], and renewing our wills [b], he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ [c], freely offered to us in the gospel [d]. 

[a]. Acts 26:18; ICor. 2:10, 12; II Cor. 4:6; Eph. 1:17-18; [b]. Deut. 30:6; Ezk. 36:26-27; John 3:5; Titus 3:5; [c]. John 6:44-45; Acts 16:14; [d]. Isa.   45:22; Matt. 11:28-30; Rev. 22:17 

Leader:  What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?

People: They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them [a]. 

[a]. Rom. 8:30; ICor. 1:30; 6:11; Eph. 1:5 

PRAYER - (Modified from “The Gift Of Gifts” at  https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional/december-03/    used with permission

O SOURCE OF ALL GOOD, What shall I render to thee for the gift of gifts, thine own dear Son, begotten, not created, my Redeemer, proxy, surety, substitute, his self-emptying incomprehensible, his infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp. Herein is wonder of wonders: he came below to raise me above, was born like me that I might become like him. Herein is love; when I cannot rise to him he draws near on wings of grace, to raise me to himself. Herein is power; when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart he united them in indissoluble unity, the uncreated and the created. Herein is wisdom; when I was undone, with no will to return to him, and no intellect to devise recovery, he came, God-incarnate, to save me to the uttermost, as man to die my death, to shed satisfying blood on my behalf, to work out a perfect righteousness for me. O God, take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds, and enlarge my mind; let me hear good tidings of great joy, and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore, my conscience bathed in an ocean of repose, my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father; place me with ox, ass, camel, goat, to look with them upon my Redeemer’s face, and in him account myself delivered from sin; let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart, embrace him with undying faith, exulting that he is mine and I am his. In him thou hast given me so much that heaven can give no more. Amen.

MINISTRY OF MUSIC  Revive Us Again - Gaither Vocal Band

THE SERMON  The Rev. Dr. J. R. Norwood,  “Walk in the Light”

Sermon Focal Text -  Isaiah 9:2 (ESV)

A CALL TO REPENTANCE 

BLESSING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS 

CLOSING BLESSING (Romans 1:7) “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”

 

It Is Well With My Soul - Audrey Assad

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This Week's Devotional Scripture Readings

December’s Theme: “Singing for Joy”

Sunday: Jeremiah 33:1–11

Monday: Jeremiah 33:12–26

Tuesday: Isaiah 2:1–5

Wednesday: Isaiah 9:1b–7

Thursday: Isaiah 11:1–9

Friday: Isaiah 11:10–16

Saturday: Isaiah 12:1–6

Next Sunday’s Children’s Bible Memory Verse

Mark 1:17