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.)

July 26, 2026

CALL TO WORSHIP & INVOCATION

HYMN OF PRAISE O For a Thousand Tongues - Reawaken

THE WISDOM KEEPING +     Deacon Tanya Norwood

A time of sharing biblical wisdom with our children

THE RESPONSIVE READING * The Heidelberg Catechism  (20-23)

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

Leader: Are all saved by Christ just as they perished through Adam

People: No. Only those are saved who by a true faith are grafted into Christ and accept all His benefits.1 

1 Mt 7:14; Jn 1:12; 3:16, 18, 36; Rom 11:16-21.
 

Leader: What is true faith

People:  Faith is a sure knowledge whereby I accept as true all that God has revealed to us in His Word.1 At the same time it is a firm confidence2 that not only to others, but also to me,3 God has granted forgiveness of sins, everlasting righteousness, and salvation,4 out of mere grace, only for the sake of Christ's merits.5 This faith the Holy Spirit works in my heart by the gospel.6 

1 Jn 17:3, 17; Heb 11:1-3; Jas 2:19. 2 Rom 4:18-21; 5:1; 10:10; 

Heb 4:16. 3 Gal 2:20. 4 Rom 1:17; Heb 10:10. 5 Rom 3:20-26; Gal 2:16; Eph 2:8-10. 6 

Acts 16:14; Rom 1:16; 10:17; 1 Cor 1:21.
 

Leader: What, then, must a Christian believe

People: All that is promised us in the gospel,1 which the articles of our catholic and undoubted Christian faith teach us in a summary. 

1 Mt 28:19; Jn 20:30, 31.
 

Leader: What are these articles

People: I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son, our Lord; He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell. On the third day He arose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; I believe a holy catholic Christian church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

PRAYER - (adapted from “The Broken Heart” athttps://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional/july-22/    used with permission)

O LORD, No day of my life has passed that has not proved me guilty in thy sight. Prayers have been uttered from a prayerless heart; Praise has been often praiseless sound; My best services are filthy rags. Blessed Jesus, let me find a covert in thy appeasing wounds. Though my sins rise to heaven thy merits soar above them; Though unrighteousness weighs me down to hell, thy righteousness exalts me to thy throne. All things in me call for my rejection, All things in thee plead my acceptance. I appeal from the throne of perfect justice to thy throne of boundless grace. Grant me to hear thy voice assuring me: that by thy stripes I am healed, that thou wast bruised for my iniquities, that thou hast been made sin for me that I might be righteous in thee, that my grievous sins, my manifold sins, are all forgiven, buried in the ocean of thy concealing blood. I am guilty, but pardoned, lost, but saved, wandering, but found, sinning, but cleansed. Give me perpetual broken-heartedness, Keep me always clinging to thy cross, Flood me every moment with descending grace, Open to me the springs of divine knowledge, sparkling like crystal, flowing clear and unsullied through my wilderness of life. Amen

MINISTRY OF MUSIC   O How I Love Jesus - Bishop Leonard Scott

THE SERMON  The Rev. Dr. J. R. Norwood,  “The Spirit of Glory Rests Upon Us”

Sermon Focal Text -  1 Peter 4:12-14 (ESV)

A CALL TO REPENTANCE 

BLESSING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS 

 

CLOSING BLESSING (2 Peter 1:2) “Grace and peace be yours in abundance, through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.”

Lead Me to Calvary - The Soul Stirrers

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AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY DAILY BIBLE READING GUIDE 2026

GOD’S SURPRISING WORD

https://www.americanbible.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DBRG-2026-English-Panels.pdf 

Next Sunday’s Children’s Bible Memory Verse

I John 4:8