WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

September 28, 2025

10:45 AM

GOD GIVES JOY

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Prelude                                   

Greeting

Announcements

Introduction of New Members

Preparation for Worship      (Silent Prayer)

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Call to Worship

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
with the lyre and the sound of melody!
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!

Psalm 98:4-6

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Prayer of Adoration and Invocation - Lord’s Prayer

*Gloria Patri (No. 734)

*Hymn No. 100             Holy, Holy, Holy!

Call to Confession:    Isaiah 6:5

“Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” 

Let us confess our sins

Prayer of Confession (unison)

Almighty God, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus; We acknowledge that we are unworthy of Your redeeming grace.  We have not believed Your promises; Nor trusted in our living Lord.  Through disappointment of mind and dejection of spirit; Our hearts have not burned within us as we have heard His Word.  We have not trusted in His redeeming power; And have been overcome of evil.  We have forgotten the glad tidings of His victory over death; And have not known the things that belong to our peace.  But now in penitence we come to You; Beseeching Your forgiveness.  Mercifully grant us absolution from all our sins; And restore unto us the joy of Your salvation; For Jesus Christ’s sake, our only Mediator and Advocate.  Amen.

Private Confession

Assurance of Forgiveness:     Acts 13:38-39

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. 

Congregation:  Thanks Be to God!

Sacrament of Baptism

Offertory                    

*The Doxology (No. 731) and Prayer of Thanksgiving

Prayer of Supplication and Intercession

*Hymn No. 460                    Amazing Grace!

*Scripture Lesson:                  John 16:17-24

Message                                                                 Reverend McIntyre

*Hymn No. 164                     O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing

*Benediction

*Response:                              Threefold Amen

Postlude                                

*Standing

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Welcome visitors, please complete the Welcome card found on the back of the pew and place in offering box located in the sanctuary entrance.