August 31, 2025
PRELUDE
Call to Worship from Psalm 47:6–9 and Rev 1:5–6
Pastor: Sing praises to God, sing
praises!
People: Sing praises to our King,
sing praises!
Pastor: For God is the King of all the
earth; sing praises with a
psalm!
People: The Lord reigns over the
nations; our God sits on
his holy throne.
Pastor: To Him who loves us and has
freed us from our sins
by his blood and made us a
kingdom, priests to his
God and Father,
People: To Him be glory forever and
ever.
Pastor: The princes of the peoples
gather as the people of
the God of Abraham. For the
shields of the earth belong
to God; he is highly exalted!
All: The Lord on high is mighty!
Amen. ◆
PRAYER of INVOCATION From Psalm 8:3-4
SONG of ADORATION “Holy Forever”
A thousand generations, falling down in worship
To sing the song of ages to the Lamb
And all who've gone before us and all who will believe
Will sing the song of ages to the Lamb
Your name is the highest; Your name is the greatest
Your name stands above them all
All thrones and dominions, All powers and positions
Your name stands above them all
And the angels cry, Holy; All creation cries, Holy
You are lifted high, Holy; Holy forever!
If you've been forgiven and if you've been redeemed
Sing the song forever to the Lamb
If you walk in freedom and if you bear His name
Sing the song forever to the Lamb
We'll sing the song forever and amen!
And the angels cry, Holy; All creation cries, Holy
You are lifted high, Holy; Holy forever!
Hear Your people sing, Holy; to the King of Kings, Holy
You will always be, Holy; Holy forever!
And the angels cry, Holy; All creation cries, Holy
You are lifted high, Holy; Holy forever!
Ingram / Tomlin / Wickham © 2022 S.D.G. Publishing, Be Essential Songs CCLI #3071858
Confession and Assurance
READING of GOD’S LAW
Hear God’s Law, His Will for Your Life, from Deut 6 & Matt 22
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates . . .
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind; this is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God. ◆
PRAYER of CONFESSION Strasbourg Liturgy (1545)
O Lord God, eternal and almighty Father, we confess and sincerely acknowledge before Your holy Majesty that we are poor sinners, conceived and born in iniquity and corruption, prone to do evil, incapable of any good.
In our depravity, we transgress Your holy commandments without end or ceasing. Therefore, we purchase for our-selves, through Your righteous judgment, our ruin and perdition.
Nevertheless, O Lord, we are grieved that we have offended You, and we condemn ourselves and our sins with true repentance, pleading for Your grace to relieve our distress.
O God and Father, most gracious and full of compassion, have mercy upon us in the name of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. And as You do, blot out our sins and stains;
Magnify and increase in us day by day the grace of Your Holy Spirit; that as we acknowledge our unrighteousness with all our heart,
And that we may be moved by that sorrow which brings forth true repentance in us, to mortify all our sins and produce in us the fruits of righteousness and innocence which are pleasing to You, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.◆
ASSURANCE of PARDON
Let each of us truly acknowledge, “I am a sinner” humble ourselves before God, and believe that the heavenly Father wills to be gracious unto him in Jesus Christ.
To all who repent in this way, and look to Jesus Christ for their salvation, be assured that your sins are no more. They are washed away and canceled by the blood of Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. And having been cleansed and forgiven much, let us love much—loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Amen.◆
SONG of RESPONSE “Lamb of God” CH#302
Life of Worship
PROFESSION of FAITH The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended into hell.
On the third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there shall he come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Church universal,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen. ◆
OFFERING
DOXOLOGY CH#815
PRAYER of DEDICATION
MOMENT for MISSIONS
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
PASSING of the PEACE
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION
OUR LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,
For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, forever. Amen. ◆
Ministry of the Word
SONG “Rejoice, the Lord Is King” CH #370
PRAYER for ILLUMINATION Charles Spurgeon
King of Kings, before we partake of this heavenly food, we pray that You strengthen our eyes to look into the eternal light of Scripture. As the priests washed their feet at the laver before they went to their holy work, cleanse the eyes of our souls. Awaken our spirits, reminding us that in these pages we are coming very near to God, who sits in the Word like a crowned monarch in his halls. Wake up the glory within us, that we might be stirred up to praise. Form us, quicken us, and fill us with Your Holy Word. Amen.◆
SCRIPTURE READING John 6:14-15 p. 1059
When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, "This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!" 15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
SERMON “King of Kings” Pastor Zach
SONG of DEPARTURE “Glory Be to the Father”
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
