A SERVICE OF WORSHIP FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
January 28, 2024
WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION
PRELUDE
*CALL TO WORSHIP – from Psalm 111
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. Praise the Lord!
Your work is full of honor and majesty,
and your righteousness endures forever.
The works of your hands are faithful and just;
all your precepts are trustworthy.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who practice it have good understanding.
*PRAYER OF THE DAY
*HYMN 634 To God Be the Glory
PRAYER OF CONFESSION – Psalm 51:1, 10-12
Have mercy on us, O God, in your loving-kindness. In your great compassion, cleanse us from our sin. Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within us. Do not cast us from your presence, or take your Holy Spirit from us. Restore to us the joy of your salvation and sustain us with your bountiful Spirit...
Silent Prayers of Confession
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS – Romans 6:22-23
Now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Friends, believe the good news.
In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.
*GLORIA PATRI “Glory Be to the Father” #581
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE LESSONS:
Deuteronomy 18:15-20; James 2:14-19; Mark 1:21-34
SERMON “What Demons Know” Rev. Barrett Ingram
Text: “Jesus also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak,
because they knew who he was.” – Mark 1:34
*HYMN 441 Hear the Good News of Salvation
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH The Apostles’ Creed Page 35
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic* Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
OFFERTORY ANTHEM “Ubi Caritas” Becki Slagle Mayo
RECEIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OFFERINGS
*DOXOLOGY – Hymn 606
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
*HYMN 442 Just as I Am, without One Plea
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE
*Those who are able are invited to stand.