WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Guest Speaker, Michael Strickland

May 18, 2025

10:45 AM

OUR GOD HEARS

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Prelude                                             

Greeting

Announcements

Preparation for Worship      (Silent Prayer)

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Call to Worship

Praise the Lord, all nations!
Extol him, all peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!

Psalm 117:1-2

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Prayer of Adoration and Invocation - Lord’s Prayer

*Gloria Patri (No. 734)

*Hymn No. 7             From All That Dwell Below the Skies

Call to Confession:    Ephesians 5:8-11

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Let us confess our sins

Prayer of Confession (unison)

O GOD OF THE OPEN EAR Teach us to live by prayer as well as by providence, for ourselves, soul, body, children, family, and church. Give us a heart frameable to your will so we might live in prayer and honor you. Keep us from evil, known and unknown. Help us to see the sin that accompanies all we do and the good we can take from everything. Let us know that the work of prayer is to bring our will to yours. Forgive us for neglecting this beautiful means of grace to commune with you. Thank you for Jesus who allows us to approach you with full confidence. Amen

Private Confession

Assurance of Forgiveness:   Colossians 1:14-14

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Congregation:  Thanks Be to God!

*Hymn No. 252                     When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Offertory                   

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

*Hymn No. 498                     Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners!

Prayer of Supplication and Intercession

Scripture                                Colossians 4:2-6

Message                                                                 Michael Strickland

*Hymn No. 644                     May the Mind of Christ My Savior

*Benediction

*Response:                              Threefold Amen

Postlude                                       

*Standing

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